This is my point. I don't think Rigo or Lara fight exactly like Mayweather, but I feel they are like Broner in a sense that you could say that Broner,Lara, and Rigo all use Mayweather's fighting style as a foundation for there own (Broner more deliberately, Lara and Rigo due to Cuban amateur style of boxing). Broner chooses to be a little more aggressive offensively than Mayweather which makes him more open to being hit, while Rigo and Lara use the Mayweather foundation but choose to use there legs instead of the shoulder roll defense which makes them slightly more defensive minded in their fights and slightly less exciting than Mayweather. Trout is another one with that style as well. Overall it's not really Lara or Rigo's fought, Most people just think pure boxers are boring, and only love fighters like Brandon Rios or Lucas. But when you match pure boxers with pressure fighters you get good fights like the one we got Saturday. Its like how fun would it be watching a Matador without the mean Bull charging him?
Bradley blocked a ton of Pac's shots that Compubox gave him credit for. Pac probably landed like 120 punches on Bradley the entire fight.
^^^^This is the way I've been feeling. Could it be possible that the 3 judges ringside that night didn't really see Pac-Man legitimately landing that much, and the HBO commentators, the crowd roaring when Pac-Man would throw anything, Compubox, and Pac-Man's overall popularity fooled everyone into thinking this was a landslide victory and a complete robbery. I read a lot about psychology, and most times we aren't aware we getting mind-phucked.
Maybe Manny didn't land as clean. Bradley was ducking and dodgin anyway he could against Pacquiao, so the harder shots could have rolled off more. With Ruslan he stood toe to toe and took everything Provod could dish out
I can ride with that. That's an acceptable theory.
I'm not ready to say Danny will win, but he will look to counter Lucas with that left and he's going to swing it like its no tomorrow. So if Lucas gets too confident he could go to sleep early. Danny knows he can't win trying to outbox Lucas so he's going to try and counter Lucas, so don't be surprised if it ends like Marquez vs. Pac 4. One fighter getting beat down until.... one well placed punch lands and a star is born.
I agree with the post! They shouldn't be hard to promote at all. Aside from the fact that Rigo and Lara don't speak english, I don't feel that there fighting styles are that much different than Mayweather (The richest boxer ever). I'll go out on the limb here and say that Mayweather is the Greatest Salesman of all time in boxing, but he fights very much like a Cuban. Which isn't a bad thing at all btw. He's 44-0 Sweet Science. I majored in marketing in college, and I would sell them the same way Money May sells himself: Boxing's Rubix Cube. 44 have tried to crack the code, 44 have failed. Rigo is like a professor in the ring, Lara may have actually helped his stock by being dropped twice by Angulo, maybe Cotto feels he may be able to the same.
People make a huge deal about weight but Garcia is big for 140lb as many other JWs are, probably the same size as floyd in muscle. I rather see Mayweather vs. Garcia than Mayweather vs. A drained Canelo at 147lb. The only advantage Canelo has is size, if they fight at 147 he gets outclassed worse than the ghost. I feel Alexander matches up better with Floyd but, I think Garcia is more marketable than Alexander as far as PPV buys. Just my opinion though.
Peterson is a B+ fighter with huge cajones for the way he called out Lucas. But besides that, he has benefited from careful match making the way his brother has as well (check out Anthony peterson's record and you'll think he's ready for Broner). His biggest win is highly desputable and he was dropped by a very good, but featherfisted Timothy Bradley. It didn't surprise me that the hardest puncher in the division knocked him out in 3. He's chinny, and he isn't really hard to find. He's the 140 version of Alexander from a skill perspective. He's very good, but not elite because he's chinny but his cajones are too big for him to back down. He has heart like Josesito. Alexander and Judah are no better than Petey, but they were smart enough to not trade with Lucas, and they also benefited from fighting a slightly less aggressive Lucas.
I like Ward, but this is a cherry pick. Golovkin may not represent the money that JCC Jr. does but, when is the last time you saw a P4P fighter calling out a C+ fighter for a payday. Even Canelo had to stalk Mayweather for that fight, not the other way around. If he wants respect, fight Golovkin at 168 and outclass him. It should be easy for a top 2 P4P fighter to beat a guy coming up from 160lb. Think of this as Mayweather fighting Lucas and that being Lucas's first fight at 147. Sure it will be competitive due to punching power, but the superior boxer should win.
Not really,it's boxing..If you don't believe the thought of losing passes through every fighters mind then you don't know shhit..I'd even have to question if you've ever been in a fight..
Oh and make no mistake..Many love to say that quote,yet never talk what it was in reference too..It was about Shaw!!!and the scary possibility of being stuck with him should he have lost..
Yet none of the(so-called)know it all's like to mention it..Why??Cause then it sheds light that Khan fought a D level fighter instead of Bradley..Signed contracts(safety net)then was ready to go..Bradley had other plans,that involved millions..See how that works,it's a thing called business..Khan thought he was smarter then the average bear..Look where both careers are at today..
Very true words boss. Numbers don't lie. People say Tim should've signed with Golden boy, but he's made 7-8 million in 3 fights with Top Rank, and is about to make another 3-5 against Marquez. With Golden boy you'd have to win the Mayweather lottery twice to make that kind of paper. If he beats Marquez easily, we need to push for Bradley vs. Mayweather regardless of Bob's agenda. Either way once his contract is up, he'll be financially secure enough to go to Golden Boy, or call his own shots.
I think Dawson is more of mental midget than actually being physically shot. He makes poor career decisions. Dropping down to a weight class that you haven't fought at in years to fight the number 1 guy in that weight class and also P4P #2 is stupid. Oh yeah and he fought in Ward's back yard. People say he has balls, I call the Ward fight stupid. Then like Pascal said, fighting Adonis Stevenson, the true definition of a punchers chance. A High Risk, Low Reward type of fight. He shouldve fought Cleverly or Shumenov and unified. In boxing the same fans that praise you for taking a risky fight, will be the ones laughing at you and making GIFs of your knockout reel. So as a boxer you have to make decisions that best suit you, your team, and your family.
I believe it....Whether Broner has a lot to prove or not isn't important to the success of this fight. This fight would sell like hot cakes simply because both fighters know how to sell themselves outside the ring. You throw in the lil bro fighting big bro for the keys to the kingdom dynamic and you get an easy 1+ Million PPVs. Although I do agree to make it a more meaningful fight Broner would need to take out a decent named fighter like Khan, Garcia, or Lucas. They both have 147lb belts so hypothetically if Broner was to fight Alexander and snatch his IBF 147lb and unify the division at the age of 23 or 24 that adds all the legitimacy this fights needs on the boxing level. Casual fans will tune in regardless to see who can out do who in and outside the ring.
I will say this not in defense of Bradley but Provodnikov. Yes he fought on ESPN FNF because he wasn't a big name, but Provodnikov was not a fight Bradley should have took. High risk, low reward. Think about Adonis Stevenson vs. Dawson. Bradley had the same mindset as Dawson (unknown guy coming up in weight to fight me? He doesn't stand a chance) But we see what happened to Dawson. So don't rag on Tim, because for 1) Provodnikov would give a lot of people besides Floyd trouble at 147lb, and 2)Bradley underestimated his opponent because he wasn't known and came out to prove a point. Tim Bradley has the heart of a Lion, that's why he didn't end up like Dawson, no matter how close it came.
I agree homie, and being that Rios is A Fat dude, I expect him to bring his power up to 147lb easy. The guy rehydrated to 161lb in his last fight with Alvarado so he could be much stronger come fight night. He knows if he pulls off the upset he's a star, so I would say he's definitely got the hunger more than Pac.
Khan was losing his mental faculties man, When Bayless asked him "are you ok"? He looked out of it, not like when most fighters get knocked down and enthusiastly say "Im fine with their arms stretched out to the ref. Btw it's ironic that I was just watching this fight this morning. I agree he probably should've been allowed to fight, but he could've easily ended up like Magomed the way Garcia was starting to get to him.
A lot of people fail to realize that Danny Garcia stopped 2 fighters that Maidana was not able to. Amir Khan, and Erik Morales. Which means that Garcia's Power is on par with if not better than Maidana's, and that Maidana has a lot of cab drivers in Argentina that drive up his KO ratio. But to be clear, Maidana has power, just not the power his KO ratio would indicate.
I'm down for it, If you look at the mayweather vs. ghost faceoff you can tell mayweather is really a 140lber. He's not any bigger than Lucas, peterson, or garcia. And all of those guys have pretty decent chins for the move up in weight.
I didn't take what Teddy said as a knock to ruslan, but if it was I think its unfair to assume Ruslan may be on drugs, sometimes when people move up to a weight that they should already be at they're much more powerful. Khan said himself that he feels more powerful when he's up in weight around 150lb during training, its just in his case his chin isn't ready for the weightclass but his power would be up to par.
Bradley haters:
Bradley boxes, uses movement = "He's boring and runs"
Bradley stands toe-to-toe = "He is a ***** and almost got knocked out"
The truth if i've ever seen it this^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I agree, I think bradley beats JMM and the Ghost in close decisions. I think what happened to Tim on Saturday night is similar to what happens in football when Team A beats the best team in their division, then loses two weeks later to a
sub 500 team. He didn't respect Ruslan, before the match he said "This guy doesn't deserve to be in the ring with me". I never like hearing a boxer say that, because I feel they taking their opponent lightly(K9 said the same thing about Ishe Smith). Mayweather says the same, but it's for the cameras wit him...He knows the ghost is going to bring it and he's not taking him lightly, but Bradley truly believed Ruslan wasn't a formidable opponent and it almost cost him.
Khan is a far superior fighter to Bradley.
He'd win a lot more convincingly than Bradley did. If Bradley even won that fight at all[/QUOTE
All things considered Khan is about to fight a journeyman at a catchweight, and before that he fought an unranked lightweight...So I understand you're a fan and all but there's a fine line between loyalty and blind ignorance. You just crossed it.
Khan is a far superior fighter to Bradley.
He'd win a lot more convincingly than Bradley did. If Bradley even won that fight at all
All things considered Khan is about to fight a journeyman at a catchweight, and before that he fought an unranked lightweight...So I understand you're a fan and all but there's a fine line between loyalty and blind ignorance. You just crossed it.