Super Middleweight Tournament Officially Announced

[Mikhnienko]

This is amazing, can't ******** wait

That said, people need to shut the phuck up about Green

Only one person mentioned Balzsay

Yeah Bute Balzsay and Andrade would be the others if you truly wanted the best but i'm sure as hell not complaining

Also can't believe that Kessler is actually a free man, beautiful

[BetterCallSaul]

1) Froch
2) Kessler
3) Taylor
4) Abraham
5) Ward
6) Dirrell

[passey]

Whoever Taylor faces...he won't make past the first round. His stamina will be the main factor for his loss.

[joe strong]

Wow...this is sick...

by your avatar & signature you must be dreaming if rick rude leaning you over & kissing you! Do you wear rick rude underwear? I bet you sit in front of a mirror & do trunk rotations pretending to be the person in the crowd he picks out!on a boxing note froch takes the tourney & beats Abraham in the final.

[BetterCallSaul]

I can't believe Jermain got paired with Abraham of all people. Goddamit

Taylor beats Abraham easy.

AA is not a great fighter. He has looked very mediocre in his last few fights, and has only two decent wins, which were over Miranda. AA is very, very overrated.

For me it's out of Froch, Kessler, and Taylor. A close call.

[the_blueprint]

froch wont win i very much doubt, im actually starting to think one of the andres will win

[STEELHEAD]

I like this tourney. My only complaint is that Jermaine Taylor was already ko'd by Froch. Therefore I feel Allan Green should have been selected over JT.

Outside of that, I'm happy with this tourney. I've been waiting for boxing to step up to the plate and do something like this for awhile.

allen green is squirley.
he's fought no one on the world scene.
oh yes he did, edison miranda.

he should stay at the back of the line and work his way up.he don't deserve no gift mikey!

[-Hyperion-]

Kessler will destroy everyone......i predict a Taylor-Kessler finale.....

[Dave Rado]

If I was to bet on a reason why Bute isn't in the Tournament it would be because he doesn't fancy having to take on 3 of these guys, at the moment he seems happy taking on C-D level competition in front of massive crowds in Canada.

(a) Andrade and Bika are far from C-D level - they are both top 10 fighters. Even Zuniga is far from being a bum.

(b) If Bute was offered a place in the tourney and turned it down, then Showtime will make that crystal clear on Monday. If they don't, then you'll know he wasn't offered a place in it.

(c) Bute would not have got into negotiations for a fight with Froch immediately after Froch beat Taylor (which he did) if he was trying to avoid fighting the top Super Middleweights. Those negotiations broke down over money, apparently, but he wouldn't even have wasted his time negotiating if he wasn't interested in the fight.

Also seriously how can people find anyway to complain about this Tournament, it is the best thing to happen in boxing for a long while. If Sky Sports are showing all these fights live in the UK then this is the only thing that could get me to subscribe.

Because you can't call yourself the man in the division if you haven't beaten the #2, and there will be no Ring or lineal champion until the #1 and #2 fighters fight each other, and Bute is ranked #2. That makes excluding Bute a huge missed opportunity to have divisional clarity and a new lineal champion.

[Dave Rado]

Does anyone really believe this tournament will reach it's intended conclusion? because I sure don't.

These things never do. Either someone gets injured, moves up in weight, has a promotional entanglement or gets offered better money for another fight.

They will have a couple of fights and then it will implode like all the rest have.

All which rest? I can't think of any round robin tournaments like it in boxing history. And the Middleweight tourney with Hopkins, Trinidid, Joppy, Holmes, all went to plan, albeit over a much shorter timescale and with fewer fighters.