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I know when the fight was first announced a lot of people thought:
"Joe picking an easy pay day against a shot RJJ"
"He should have fought Pavlik or Dawson"
"B-Hop should have got a rematch"
"Waste of time, Joe easily UD's this"
But the closer we get to it the more I think that it really was the best option....for everyone, it might be easy to say now Pavlik got beat but who else really is there who'd provide all the anticipation and the glamour which this fight now seems to have? Dawson? A young guy still relatively unknown outside of boxing? Who's really only made himself known in the past two fights?
No one give RJJ a chance in this when it was announced but seeing him recently train, he looks sharp and very quick and if I'm going to be honest if there's one realistic opponent out there Joe would lose to, it's RJJ....not Pavlik or Dawson or even B-Hop. RJJ might have had his best years but he's now got 3 wins under his belt going into one of his last biggest performances of his career.
So, how many of you actually respect this match up? And how many of you still think it's a waste of time?
Personally I think it's going to be a cracker and if there's one person I'd want Joe to lose to it is to Sir Roy.
"Joe picking an easy pay day against a shot RJJ"
"He should have fought Pavlik or Dawson"
"B-Hop should have got a rematch"
"Waste of time, Joe easily UD's this"
But the closer we get to it the more I think that it really was the best option....for everyone, it might be easy to say now Pavlik got beat but who else really is there who'd provide all the anticipation and the glamour which this fight now seems to have? Dawson? A young guy still relatively unknown outside of boxing? Who's really only made himself known in the past two fights?
No one give RJJ a chance in this when it was announced but seeing him recently train, he looks sharp and very quick and if I'm going to be honest if there's one realistic opponent out there Joe would lose to, it's RJJ....not Pavlik or Dawson or even B-Hop. RJJ might have had his best years but he's now got 3 wins under his belt going into one of his last biggest performances of his career.
So, how many of you actually respect this match up? And how many of you still think it's a waste of time?
Personally I think it's going to be a cracker and if there's one person I'd want Joe to lose to it is to Sir Roy.
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