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Originally posted by Rick Reeno
Ruiz needs his belt in order to get any market value. Golota has fans that will follow him no matter what he does, how many times he loses or even if he quits, just look at his fights with Tyson, Grant and Lewis. King knows this.
If Ruiz had no belt, no other heavyweights would want to fight him and King would be unable to market him as even Latino fans cant stand him. King can still get a Golota-Klitschko bout, with or without beating Ruiz. Golota told me that he never wanted to fight Ruiz, he was forced into the fight because the winner woule get the winner of Byrd-McCline.
How many times do you see a fighter not want to fight another fighter who who holds a recognized strap? The problem with Ruiz-Golota is that there were so many coin flip rounds that depending on what you like or what you were looking at, many rounds could have gone either way.
About 70% of the sites I went to had Golota up by 1-2 points or had the fight a draw. When you have a close fight like this fought at close range with the Ruiz hug and tug gameplan, many rounds will be so hard to score that judges will not know what to do. It's sad that none of those round were even rounds on any of the official cards, I had at least 2-3 rounds scored even because neither fighter did anything.
If Ruiz had no belt, no other heavyweights would want to fight him and King would be unable to market him as even Latino fans cant stand him. King can still get a Golota-Klitschko bout, with or without beating Ruiz. Golota told me that he never wanted to fight Ruiz, he was forced into the fight because the winner woule get the winner of Byrd-McCline.
How many times do you see a fighter not want to fight another fighter who who holds a recognized strap? The problem with Ruiz-Golota is that there were so many coin flip rounds that depending on what you like or what you were looking at, many rounds could have gone either way.
About 70% of the sites I went to had Golota up by 1-2 points or had the fight a draw. When you have a close fight like this fought at close range with the Ruiz hug and tug gameplan, many rounds will be so hard to score that judges will not know what to do. It's sad that none of those round were even rounds on any of the official cards, I had at least 2-3 rounds scored even because neither fighter did anything.
Well said. I perfectly agree!!!
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