There was a fight years ago I always think of, it was Tim Austin vs Sergio Aguila and Austin was one of my favourites at the time but he got dropped terrible in one of the rounds and got up to stop Aguila late in the fight.
I really like Edner Cherry, he's probably one of my top 15 favourite fighters. But he has a certain level of guys who he can deal with and Garcia isn't one of them. I think it goes the distance but Garcia would drop him a once or twice and it wouldn't be close.
I think he'd have a good chance against Juanma though.
Despite pretty much every tangible quality being for the other guy, I think I'd go with Thompson. Unless he's fighting Wlad or Vitali, I'm done picking against him.
Now that's a good point. I didn't think of that. I'll just say that I have Scott soundly winning the fight.
Whether or not he can pry away the actual decision is another question.
Mikey moving up to 130. Cherry went 12 with Bradley at 140lbs. Now he's been fighting at 130lbs. I think he can take Mikey big shot. I think cherry out works him and just might hurt Mikey.
This is still Edner Cherry though. This is the guy who'll land a good shot early in a fight and then spend the rest of the fight looking for that shot again and get outpointed in the process. His best bet would be to land the Cherry bomb on Garcia and then finish him. But I don't think he would and I think he'd find a way to lose that fight.
That's a very, very good matchup.
I think Taylor would win the early part of the fight but I don't think he could hurt Mayweather and I think Mayweather would eventually walk him down. I'd have Mayweather KO 9.
Linares like everyone else, but also Berto and I know he's been a champ forever, but I was really convinced that Omar Narvaez had something for Donaire.
I'd also Kermit Cintron. I watched him come up and just crush people. He had crazy athletics and an unusual build for welterweight and I thought he was going to be a great fighter. But as soon as people started punching back hard, he fell apart.
I'd go with Cotto because I think that his all-around game was better. He certainly wouldn't do well standing in front of and brawling with Matthysse, but I don't think he'd even try to do that and from the outside I think he'd have faster hands and better boxing. He might have to get off the floor to do it and Matthysse might also from a body shot, but I'd take Cotto by decision.
I don't think this is his big money fight and I can't see them giving him a million for it. But he's negotiating and he knows that it plays it correctly then there's no reason he won't get the winner of Pac-Rios next year.
But I wouldn't pay him more than 750k for this fight.
I think:
Kubrat Pulev
Alexander Povetkin
Tyson Fury
Sergey Kovalev
George Groves
Vanes Martirosyan
Floyd Mayweather
Timothy Bradley
Danny Garcia
Will lose before the end of the year.
I'm not a fan of Klitschko's anymore, but I don't think Tyson could even make that a competitive fight. I think Wlad would win every round and stop him in about five or six rounds.
Tyson was awful against tall guys who leaned on him. Wlad would lean on him then knock him out by the 8th round
That's what I think too and I don't think Tyson fought a big man with Klitschko's arsenal outside of LL and I'd trust Wlad more to deal with a smaller man trying to get inside on him, even if he was really fast, more than Tyson dealing with a big man who posed as much of an immediate threat to him than he did to them.
He was a great entertainer, but I don't think he can be an atg as a fighter. I think that the best fighter that he beat was probably Vasquez who was 38 when they fought and he never beat Barrera or Morales or Marquez.
But he was very entertaining and I used to love to root against him when I was a kid. When I got older I started to appreciate him a bit more.
Williams is the goods. He's very well rounded.
Castano, Andrade and Williams are the best talents at 154 I think.
You've been that impressed by Castano?
If you can't stand up when no one is hitting you, you probably can't stand when someone is. I had no problem with that stoppage. It was Judah's own fault for getting up too early - he had been down before and knew better, but I think he was too embarrassed to take an 8 count on the floor - and it was his own fault for getting hit with the same right hand punch twice consecutively with absolutely no defense.
They can do this fight and then have the winner, Spence, fight Chaves and the winner of that gets the title shot...
Or they can just skip to Brook-Spence and that'll work out the same way.
Every time I see him fight, I find myself constantly looking for reasons that he isn't, but I'm slowly but surely coming around to the thinking that he may be. I'd love to see him in there with Sadam Ali, someone else who I have similar questions about.
Good for Tyson! He went out on his shield after having five opportunities to take a ten count which no one would have looked down on him for doing. A real warrior!
I'd go with Estrada right now, but that would definitely be one of the biggest fights I would look forward to seeing in 2016. Both of them are excellent and I think Estrada is just a bit more well rounded and would win a close decision 7-5, 8-4.
If you want to just point to the last portion of his career and say that he held too much, that's fine, I don't have an argument against that, but I don't historically consider Mayweather to be a clincher and I'm not his biggest fan. I look back at his career and say that he was a very good inside fighter and that's a large part of the reason that he was successful because he could stand right in front of people and make them miss. That was his defensive genius, not tying someone up every time they got close to him and as he aged and lost some of his physicality that's what he did to adjust. He stopped fighting out of clinches because he wasn't several steps ahead of the competition anymore and he started to initiate them more, as opposed to someone like Roy Jones who never really adjusted his game to deal with his age and suffered because of it. But that's literally been the last few fights and if you have almost fifty that shouldn't hang over them all imo.
I think of clinchers as people who did it excessively. Klitschko is a clincher. There was a fighter years ago who was really good named Frankie Liles, he was a clincher. Guys who literally had no interest in developing a game, defensive or offensive, which wasn't at straight arm's length. That's not Mayweather and even recently, he hasn't been that bad.
I have no problem with him moving up now. He's already beaten the best the division had to offer once, now that it's refreshed I won't hold it against him if he wanted to move up and make some big money.
Besides, I don't think anyone in that division wins more than three or four rounds against Ward in a fight at his best - not any of them.
I don't think so. DLH at his best was a welterweight and even if they met in the middle, DLH was never the best defensively and he'd either get caught and stopped at some point or he'd get caught enough to lose a decision.