Originally posted by buddyr
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Lightweight had another #1. vs. #2. in Vasily Lomachenko vs. Teofimo Lopez, even before that Lopez and the former 135 IBF champion Richard Commey had faced-off, then Lopez immediately followed with a unification.
I'll agree with you that welterweight is not delivering the goods, but on the bright side of things Errol Spence has unified and will likely pick up the WBA from Ugas, its not Crawford vs. Spence, but these are quality fights.
160 : had Canelo vs. Golovkin for the lineal championship, with Danny Jacobs fighting both of them. Since then, Saul Alvarez and Danny Jacobs moved up to 168, obviously its going to affect the weight class, and it takes time to sort who is the best when the top dogs move-out -- its only sensible and fair to factor these things for context before we judge.
168 :The winner of the WBSS Callum Smith who fought the WBA champ George Groves, met Canelo who just got done beating Sergay Kovalev for the WBO at 175, again Alvarez is moving/shaking these divisions, that has a impact on the weight-class, boxers moving up and down, finding more opportunities should factor when forming a opinion on boxing. But casuals dont follow or notice these things, all they care about is big names -- which are very few in boxing.
175 : before COVID-19, Artur Beterbiev fought the newly crowned lineal champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk, in a IBF-WBC unification, these two had less than 4 title defenses combined when they met.
I really look at the board, and not just the pieces when arriving at a conclusion. Boxing has very promising fights being scheduled, two lineal undisputed championships, and maybe a third with Fury and Joshua, bet the critics wont give boxing its props when those fights happen, and still be crying about welterweight, basing their argument that '' The best dont fight the best. '' over Crawford-Spence and ignore everything going on in the sport.
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