Great work Shakur. Hey, props to Teo for accepting the challenge. I think he still can beat anybody else at 140 not named Shakur. Would love to see Shakur fight Dev now or Conor Benn.
Boxing needs a better business model. Its trash. Russell fought one time last year after winning a title, correct??? Thats crazy!! And im not piling on Russell, talkim bout across the board, Bivol fought once last year. These guys rarely fight. I dont get it. Boxing is more like a gimmick or spectacle at this point.
Boxing loves selling us bs. If these guys were really bout that life, they wouldve fought years ago. I dont wanna hear anything about joshua v fury or aj vs wilder. They had the world in the palm of their fuggin hand and blew it. Now they want us to come back and save their “superfight”. Nothing “super” about that shid. Its almost as bad as jake paul vs aj or Jake vs anybody. Im not with it
That was an excellent break down of the welterweight eras. Not saying i agree with all you said but still excellent nonetheless. Now, if not for a mental lapse at the end of the first Sugar Ray fight, Hearns would be considered the greatest welter in the past 50 years. He was an absolute problem for any welter, in any era.
Shields is now doing what Mayweather did which is choosing the same location of her fights. Mayweather refuse to fight anywhere but Las Vegas because of the gloves if I remember correctly. How is Shields helping women boxing grow by fighting in the same city every time now? I wouldn't trash women for not having that KO artist because they quite simply don't possess the same type of upper body strength as men. I'll probably end up watching it because I care enough but it is kinda trashy. Personally, I would have preferred to see a newer face such as Shadasia Green or Sarah Seurich or whatever. If you're going fight a 38 year old as the main event then you really need to try to get a good undercard.
Womens boxing will go a long way if they make 3 mins the standard for a round in all fights. That would be a great start. May see more stoppages, maybe. It’ll never be what mens is BUT it can be more entertaining. And i wouldnt be mad at the Shadasia fight either.
Let’s be realistic here, I can’t say what’s worst Jake Paul trying to fool people with facing Gervonta “Tank” Davis a lightweight or Shields facing a good friend in Franchon “38 year old” Dezurn whom together over 9 years have 5 KO’s did I say together! Then you want to take advantage of Michigan folks to support this crap because it won’t fly anywhere else. The Flint folks will come to Detroit they will find some local cats to place on undercard due to not caring about taking advantage of people’s hard earned money for crap! Don’t get me wrong I support woman boxing and Shields but not this particular fight at all, it’s garbage!
Fugg are you talking about??? Folks spend their money where they wanna spend it. You dont like the fight, dont support it, simple as that but dont watch other peoples pockets. How they spend their money is none of your business. Your opinion is your opinion and it only matters to you.
Ive seen plenty of articles on this platform that get absolutely NO comments, ZERO, zip, zilch. The young ladies obviously move the needle a little bit, enough for folks to post their opinions. I know if i dont care about something or have no interest at all, im not posting. I’ll watch this fight because i know they gonna throw hands, both of them. No KO’s but they will throw for sure. Im a supporter of both Claressa and Franchon. You cant guilt me out of my support. Lol
Gotta love boxing fans. Pure trash!!! The worst of the worst. Bottom of the barrel. THE ULTIMATE keyboard WARRIORS. Great fight, either way I'm all for it.
Yall are so biased and blinded by hate. And im talkin to the so called fans. You only call out the guys you hate, but fail to call YOUR GUY out when he does the exact same thing. EVERYONE DUCKS at some point in their career, some more than others. Reasons for ducking dont matter either, duck is a duck. Million different things to hide behind in boxing. Different promoters, “building fights up”, “he hasnt fought anyone”, Sanctioning bodies that are paid to rank, etc etc. Remember the “franchise champion?? Yeah, thats exactly the kinda bullshiggety that makes this beautiful sport so hard to love, that and the fans, absolute trash. With almost 40 years of 4 belt era, how many times has a mf’ah even attempted to unify ALL the belts?? Not very many because they are ALL happy just taking on less than stellar challengers with much less risk involved. Hell its not often that guys even wanna fight for belts anymore, let alone unify. Absolute garbage. Peace
All I know is that Americans need to stop having like 3-4 guys in the 'top 10 p4p' lists where all 3-4 of the guys are in the same division and haven't faced each other. That's not how it's supposed to work.
P4p should be abolished all together.
First and foremost, p4p is absolute trash. Doesnt matter whose list it is. Second, the answer to your question is more about fans of boxers vs fans of the SPORT of boxing. Those are good wins for thurman AND good wins for spence. And its inactivity thats stalled thurman career, regardless of the reason for it.
I hate it when folks play the “he did too!” game. The article is about the ibf and some of the bullshiht theyve pulled lately. We all know the rest of them are just as corrupt and i just wish boxing could clean this crap up. The AJ/Dubois fight is interestimg enough without the ibf belt. And i wont be watching Boots/karen at all. Not even the least bit interested. Rankings for the alphabet bodies are the #1 problem in my book. Get the rankings together and the sport becomes major again.
Jake Donovan you are coming across terribly in your articles recently. They stink of PBC bias. Either a PBC fanboy who’s still raging Fury smashed Wilder yet again and dominated their rivalry unbeaten in 3 fights, or on the PBC payroll. Or maybe both. Sort it out and write more balanced, unbiased articles instead of trying to praise PBC at every turn. Maybe ask them to stop assisting Spence in ducking Crawford, charlo in ducking Andrade and Benavidez, and Tank in ducking everyone while you’re at it.
How about we ask eddie and matchroom or dazn to stop assisting ggg in ducking andrade, an in house fight that should be waaaay easier to make. F is wrong with yall??? Its always this f’n promoter over that promoter. You hate this one and love the other. FOH!! All these muh’fkin promoters are keeping fights from happening and have been doing it for decades now if not more. That goes for pbc, top rank, matchroom, gbp and whoever else you may hold in high regard. F the biz of boxing and get on with the fighting.
No problem with a rematch, if Alycia wants it. Would rather see undisputed for now though. Interestingly enough, Mikaela hasn’t given anyone a rematch. She certainly didnt blow everyone out. More like she just landed a few more punches. The women certainly need that extra min/rd to work. 3 is better then 2 mins.
I wish they quit calling Tank a 3 weight champ when he only got a real title at 130, or was it 126. He has power but a week ass resume. A kept fighter.
Like saying pacquiao’s an 8 division champ. Really hes only 6 div. But thats the bullsh!t boxing be on. Love boxing but i hate it at the same time.
You're defending drug cheat Canelo who over and over fights literal nobodies? Canelo is just as bad as these organizations..he pays them to make tomato cans as mandatories so he can fight them. It's disgusting.
And he couldnt do it without a fan base. So boxing fans are disgusting.
And Rungvisai has better wins than Bam or Crawford’s resume put together. What’s your point?
Inoue has a much better track record than Bam or anyone in the world right now. 22 world title fight wins in a row, with 20 KOs. Bam is not even remotely close. Dont be an ignorant fool.
Yeah against b and c class competition. Except Donaire of course. Dont you be an ignorant fool. Can poke holes in his as well as any other fighters resume today. Spouting off stats like world title fights is useless. Who the fugg did you fight. These guys arent fighting against the best comp. Go look at his resume and i dare you to give the one legacy fighter that he faced, besides Nonito. He couldve fought at least two more in estrada and chocolatito, but no. And i dont care why the fights dont happen, they dont.
Let’s see Bootsy vs bakram. That should’ve been Bootsys first fight at 154 as a champion of 147 petitioning. Let’s here how Bootsy lickers can weasel out of this one lol
Please name me Vergil’s 1st two opponents at 54. Dont worry i got you. Fredrick Lawson and Thomas Dulorme. Never ever ever heard of Lawson before that and Dulorme is a blown up 140 lb’er. Look it up. Yall gotta stop with the bullshiggity!! I get it, we wanna see boots vs tougher comp. Cool, but whats good for the goose is good for the gander. So by Ortiz’s standards, Boots next fight should be against a 140 lb guy but at 54. Foh!!!
Makes Jermall Charlo look bad for going life and death with Montiel.
Mall been looking bad with his selection of opponents. Derevyanchenko was respectable but other than that, man…need to fight andrade already OR adames. Those are two available at 160. Or move to 168 for some of that plant/ benavidez action. Damn do something!
Another bum for the almost 30 year old Ennis. LOL. Where are the same people giving Muguia sh.it for him fighting supposed bums at this stage in his career? Wait, I forgot, Muguia has the wrong skin tone, so he doesn't get a pass.
No. It’ll just be mostly people of your skin tone that will criticize Ennis. Let’s not act like boxing fans dont mostly support those that look like them. You are no different. LOL. Bro lets just root for a good fight and then a bigger challenge for whoever wins. Same with Canelo v Munguia. Hopefully the winner fights Benavidez. I actually celebrated Ryan beating Devin because it makes boxing better when these high profile guys fight each other, win or lose. And still would like to see Devin and Ryan vs others like Teo. Just fight the best, win or lose. Just Fight best!!! ✌
Good to see something actually happening. PBC has been dropping the ball lately. Also why the hell is Oubaali 34 years old with only 17 fights?
Stayed in the amateurs too long. Started in the pros in 2014.
Paul tooting his own accomplishments
That says a lot about what he’s really all about
Speaking of a title shot, Paul said, “That’s the goal, the only thing I haven’t accomplished after knockout of the year and most-watched fight in history . I neutralize my opponents with my footwork, movement and feints, and they can’t get past my jab.”
This ^^^^^^^^ almost made me vomit
Paul knows the minute he faces an ACTIVE fighter , chalk up another L
He will mos def have his pick of the litter. Any one of the champs would jump at a chance to fight him because of the bag Paul brings. But he may fight Badou Jack. Hes the least active of the 3 champs and the oldest at 41. Jake wont touch Zurdo or Opetai, both will use him as a mop, for sure. He may even skip over cruiser champs and fight a heavyweight but none of the champs at heavy.