Yeah 140 looks good, but are Arum and Haymon going to let their fighters in, don't see it. Take them out and it starts to go downhill quick
No Mikey that's for sure
after Crawford unified 140 and left the division, many players want to establish themselves as the new leader and none of those guys are household names which makes it more easy to entice them to participate in the tournament.
Ramirez, prograis, baranchyk, Garcia, postol, relikh, Taylor, lipinets and troyanowsky is a good line-up.
Yeah 140 looks good, but are Arum and Haymon going to let their fighters in, don't see it. Take them out and it starts to go downhill quick
decent divisions. you have to take into account that they won't do a tournament in divisions that are problematic due to boxing politics.
after Crawford unified 140 and left the division, many players want to establish themselves as the new leader and none of those guys are household names which makes it more easy to entice them to participate in the tournament.
Ramirez, prograis, baranchyk, Garcia, postol, relikh, Taylor, lipinets and troyanowsky is a good line-up.
118 is decent. Burnett, payano, zhakayinov, inoue, tete and Rodriguez fighting against each other are quality fights.
my favourite division for the tournament would have been 175 though.
kovalev, stevenson, bivol, gvozdyk, beterbiev, Barrera, Alvarez and Jack would be crazy.
Aren't there two vacant titles at bantamweight?
Butler is fighting Rodriguez for the IBF on May 5th, don't see the winner of that having a problem in joining. Burnett, Tete and Inoue have been said to be involved. WBC is vacant, should be Chitpattana vs Oubaali, don't see the winner of that not being involved.
Not really any promoter issues, 140 is riddled with promoter issues.
Think it's also going to be Euro/Asian centric, so don't expect many, if any, American contenders in it this year
How many Americans fight at Bantamweight anyways?
but if it continues to grow the sport, I can't complain.
Similar to this years in theory, Bantamweight will be like Cruserweight, should have every champion involved.
140 like 168 this year, you could get a very good tournament if you had the top 8, but I dont sse everyone participating. Drop off after the top guys is pretty bad.
Aren't there two vacant titles at bantamweight?
Similar to this years in theory, Bantamweight will be like Cruserweight, should have every champion involved.
140 like 168 this year, you could get a very good tournament if you had the top 8, but I dont sse everyone participating. Drop off after the top guys is pretty bad.