Today in Fat Boy Dan's Friday chat.
Dan Rafael, King Fight Freak (12:28 PM)
I thought even before he fought Lipinets. I spent a while hanging out with Robert Garcia at the fight hotel last night with a few people. I asked him about Mikey's future. He said he was not sure what his brother would do but that he thought Mikey and Loma would eventually fight. Meantime, his idea is for Mikey to go to 147 and try to fight Matthysse for his belt. He likes that match for his brother.
Mikey might not be fighting the best there is in each weight class, but he's still fighting decent fighters.
Not to mention, he's moving up in weight a lot. That's highly respectable. Even great fighters can look ordinary once they start moving up too much weight.
Mikey's weight career:
126 - basically up until 2013
130 - mid 2013 to early 2014
135 - cameback at 138 in 2016, fought for a title at 135 in 2017
140 - 2017-2018
Now he's eyeballing another weight class? He doesn't even look like a real 140 lber. That deserves credit.
Yeah I feel like him versus Relikh or Matthysse is a tougher match than him versus an Easter. So all the talk of unification is silly to me. I’d rather the tougher challenge.
Mikey might not be fighting the best there is in each weight class, but he's still fighting decent fighters.
Not to mention, he's moving up in weight a lot. That's highly respectable. Even great fighters can look ordinary once they start moving up too much weight.
Mikey's weight career:
126 - basically up until 2013
130 - mid 2013 to early 2014
135 - cameback at 138 in 2016, fought for a title at 135 in 2017
140 - 2017-2018
Now he's eyeballing another weight class? He doesn't even look like a real 140 lber. That deserves credit.
If he's gonna go for a belt at 147, now is probably the time to strike and Lucas is the guy to go after. He looked damn slow against Kiram. I love Lucas, but Mikey will easily out-box him at this stage, the question will be, if/when La Maquina lands, can Mikey take it?
I don't mind matthysee that's an entertaining fight. The issue is he will have won pretty empty belts at 135, 140 and now 147 without fighting any of the top guys at any of those weights. Linares was the man at 135, Crawford the man at 140. And Thurman or Spence is the man at 147. He will be accused of just cherry picking belts.
Rather see him unify some of these belts before he jumps to 147.
So WORLD CHAMPIONS are "Cherry Picks", Mikey has reached the another LEVEL.:boxing:
ps. NO ONE WITH ANY KIND OF BRAIN WOULD THINK: "Hey, lets find a way to get the toughest fight, someone that could beat me....yeah lets find that guy.........REALITY CHECK: It doesnt work that way in ANY SPORT OR LIFE SITUATION....:boxing::burnout:
Mikey is just a .obey fighter now. Gonna go just for the easiest fights that get him the most money.
Shame cause he's a real talent.
It's too bad he has no desire to unify a division and become undisputed at 135 or 140. I respect Crawford for taking care of business at 140 to be undisputed. Even if it was a weak division, he hung around to clean house and collect all he belts.
If Mikey is a bum then Lomachenko is the king of overrated bums.
What does Lomachenko have to do with what that poster said?
By the way, if Loma was doing and saying similar things that Mikey is currently doing you would be the first one calling Loma a duck.
I don't think Mikey is ducking anyone, but you have to understand why people are getting annoyed by him.
You can't blame Mikey's problems on Loma.
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