Getting sick of Canelo's weak opponents. I understand about building a fighter, but once you have the belt that goes out the window and you should be fighting the best.
Fine Kirkland turned it down, fine Ortiz fell apart, but fight Lara. Fight the best - people are forking out their hard earned cash for this.
Getting sick of Canelo's weak opponents. I understand about building a fighter, but once you have the belt that goes out the window and you should be fighting the best.
Fine Kirkland turned it down, fine Ortiz fell apart, but fight Lara. Fight the best - people are forking out their hard earned cash for this.
Who can blame him?
24 years old
unbeaten record
finally getting into better shape
improving with each fight
He should be in no rush, fight the klitschko's if they are around in his peak, if not, fight lesser opponents for world titles. Boxing is a business and these guys need to make as much money as they can in a 10-15 year career.
Given Canelo has a history of missing weight, and the importance of weight to this fight (hence the catch weight) I would imagine there are huge financial penalties per pound over the weight missed (e.g 40pc of Canelo's purse per pound).
I like George, as a fighter and a person. He has good pop and is deceptively quick. I thought he showed an excellent defence against deGale. BUT ...
George needs to step it up and get a new promoter.
DeGale is going to be on Channel 5, and fighting 4-5 times this year in front of 2million television audiences. George only got out twice last year, and is stuck on BoxNation which has thousands of viewers. Even though George is better, deGale will be the household name.
I'd like to see him fight someone live next. Not another faded over-the-hill former contender. He is better than this now. He is world ranked, and needs to be fighting live, relevant fighters guys accordingly.
If GGG is in good shape (and looks like he is), he will destroy Rosado. He's not in GGG's league.
GGG won't get the fights that should be made, both for himself and the fans.
Everyone will try to avoid him, claiming "who has he beat?".
Their avoiding him is all you need to know.
The guy beat Dirrell in the Olympics and stopped Bute in the world amateur championships. He hits like a horses kick, is very quick, skilful and has never been down in over 400 amateur and professional fights. How can you think he is a hype job?
He completely took apart and dominated Prozka for 5 rounds, who everyone claimed was the second coming of Sergio Martinez, having run through Sebastian Sylvester.
He is a world class fighter who will be unearthed to the US audience in 2013.
I wouldn't give up on him because it seems like he's been in the gym this whole time, so maybe he comes back as a repackaged fighter. Promotional wise he will be, so he better come out gunning. Right now I look at him kinda like Robert Guerrero in that he's had some setbacks, but has the built-in skills to make a strong run during the 2nd half of his career because he's still pretty fresh. Obviously I'm not as confident in his mental toughness as I am with Robert's, but he still has some upside I think. If he's really serious then he'll probably have to take some risks to make up for lost time and he'll be back in a fight where he has to dig deep, if he does then he's back.
We always see every 6 months a news story on BS along the lines of "Dirrell in the gym training hard" with some pictures.
Training hard for what?
Why isn't he fighting? Doesn't he need money?
Does Broner make money off this music? Are they big in Cinci?
who's the guy in the blue t-shirt at 8 seconds? he's at at all the big boxing events in someone or anothers corner.
Fury has improved tremendously over the last three years and is still a young man. However, I can see Cunningham winning rounds with speed and elusiveness, getting in and getting out.
Hennesey needs Channel 5, and I think they will be pushing hard for a Klitschko fight for Fury.
Haven't seen anything of Parodi, but if Frampton doesn't re-match Kiko Martinez / Mathuleba or Scott Quigg in his next fight i'll be hugely disappointed.
Vitali
Wladimir
Haye
Povetkin
Chisora
I'd like to see a serious Odlanier Solis and Chris Arreola run and how Seth Mitchell develops over the next 12 months, but they are my top 5 with Helenius just falling short.
To be honest anyone you've listed would be a very good fight on paper except Peterson who he's convincingly beat. I'd throw Khan in there too - that would be the best fight right now.
Cleverly wants Hopkins, because Hopkins doesn't have the power to trouble him and Nathan's best attribute is his stamina, work rate and punches thrown per round. It is difficult to take rounds off him, and he obviously feels he could outpoint Hopkins in Cardiff, where tight rounds may go to Clev.
As stated fighting Hopkins would fill a stadium. Fighting Dawson wouldn't.
Only when Cleverly becomes a UK superstar, he will fill stadiums, he needs other people's names to do that first.
Realistically it has to be someone who can make the weight safely and is willing to fight on 2 weeks notice against a well prepped AK.
Chop Chop Corley is a decent shout. Or a player at 135lb.
Im a Jnr fan, and probably would have paid if the undercard wasn't free to air (couple of potentially entertaining fights on there), but given it's just for the main event, i'll keep my money and watch on youtube.
However PPV should just be for big fights or mega stacked cards (in the case of AJ)
if ITV were smart i'd have had Jnr on there for a few fights to build his profile on free to air TV (could easily achieve 2m+ views - i think that's what Channel 5 used to do) then do a PPV for a bigger fight
Cotto isn't really a 160lber though. He's 154 coming up from 147 - so a number of those fights kind of make sense.
There are no viable 160lb opponents available for a May / June fight. Lemeiux, Lee, Quillin and Jacobs are all tied up, and we all know Golovkin is a no-go.
Lara would be a great opponent but is all wrong for Cotto. Andrade isnt a big enough name.
Rios, as much as a mis-match would be an entertaining war.
DeGale should fight on this one. He could be involved in a PPV fight in the next three years and is well known. Less of a case for Selby, as the money is probably a lot better in the US, but there is the big fight in the works against Warrington so probably makes sense for him to be on the London card.
Not a bad card if Macklin Rose and a couple of other good fights make it on, but clearly not as deep as the May or December one.