Storylines in boxing never advance. It’s a problem.

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  • ShaneMosleySr
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    #1

    Storylines in boxing never advance. It’s a problem.

    Wilder and Joshua was a big fight everyone wanted to see.

    The storyline never advanced and no one cares now.

    Now it’s Fury and Joshua.

    It probably won’t happen and we eventually won’t care because one of them will lose.

    Everyone wants to see Beterbiev and Bivol. Reality is that it probably won’t happen and we eventually won’t care.

    Thats been the big fight everyone wanted to see at 175 since Sergey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson faded into irrelevancy. They did so without fighting each other, another storyline that never advanced.

    Did you think Golovkin and Canelo had unfinished business at 160? They’ll never settle it. Another storyline that never advanced.

    Did you wonder what those two could do against Demtrius Andrade and Jermall Charlo? Those are two undefeated champions who have fought in and around the same weight class as Golovkin and Canelo forever.

    Canelo and Golovkin will never fight Charlo or Andrade.

    Charlo and Andrade even have a rivalry storyline that’ll never advance. They both have titles and are undefeated. They don’t seem to like each other. They’ve been fighting at 154 and 160 forever.

    They’ll never fight.

    A fight between Errol Spence and Terence Crawford would the biggest storyline in the weight division since Pacquiao-Mayweather. It’ll never happen. That storyline will eventually die and we won’t care.

    Mikey Garcia and Vasyl Lomachenko was the fight that made everyone excited at 135.

    Another storyline that never advanced. No one cares about that fight anymore.

    Lomachenko eventually lost to Teofimo Lopez in a unification fight. Now everyone wants to see Lopez face Devin Haney to unify the WBC belts.

    It’ll never happen.

    When’s the last time two featherweight rivals actually went at it and advanced a storyline?

    Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton came close to doing so but that series finished 1-1 and the storyline didn’t advance. The storyline eventually died and no one cares now.

    Bantamweight? Hahahaha.

    The guy who lost to Inoue is getting shots at both of the other versions of the bantamweight title before Inoue is. The Inoue-Nery storyline dried up and died before it even started.

    At super flyweight, where everyone seems to fight everyone, we’ve only unified one set of titles! You have two champions who will float around, build giant records never unify with Estrada. Don’t forget Donnie Nietes is still out there and he hasn’t lost since 2004.

    Even Estrada has unfinished business with Sor Rung Visai! That rivalry is 1-1. They’ll probably never fight again.

    Don’t even get me started on 105-112, which probably hasn’t advanced a boxing storyline since the Ricardo Lopez days.

    it’s very frustrating to watch.
  • JakeTheBoxer
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    #2
    Just like Brook and Thurman were 2 undefeated welterweight champions and everybody wanted to see that fight. It never happened and nobody cares now.

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    • SplitSecond
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      #3
      In 2019 I thought I remember Hearn and Arum being in agreement that the Bivol-Beterbiev fight would be made after Beterbiev’s mandatory (which took forever to happen with injuries and covid). What’s the plan nowadays?

      I’ve read Joe Smith is currently in negotiations with Danny Jacobs. Not seeing what stops Beterbiev vs Bivol right now.

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      • sicko
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        #4
        Credit to you for making better threads lately and less trolling lol

        This is a GREAT POINT!

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        • buddyr
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          #5
          take the promoters and belts out of boxing(ESPECIALLY THE WBA) and more fights will be made.

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          • The Big Dunn
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            #6
            Originally posted by buddyr
            take the promoters and belts out of boxing(ESPECIALLY THE WBA) and more fights will be made.
            I say the promoters and the network exclusive deals. Let networks bid to make the fights. It’s in a networks best interest to put on the best fights.

            also would eliminate the biased announcing from these network employees. That is so nauseating.

            that would eliminate the high risk, low reward guy from getting a title fight.

            Also, reward winning. Mma does a great job of this. If you win you should get a bigger, more lucrative fight next up ( like back in the day on the boxing game in the arcade). It shouldn’t be guys like Rosado or Broner keep getting huge paydays just to get their ass kicked.

            If you lose, you should have to wait your turn in line. Mma also does a great job of this. He
            Last edited by The Big Dunn; 06-21-2021, 12:58 PM.

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            • KTFOKING
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              #7
              Originally posted by SplitSecond
              In 2019 I thought I remember Hearn and Arum being in agreement that the Bivol-Beterbiev fight would be made after Beterbiev’s mandatory (which took forever to happen with injuries and covid). What’s the plan nowadays?

              I’ve read Joe Smith is currently in negotiations with Danny Jacobs. Not seeing what stops Beterbiev vs Bivol right now.
              TR is targeting a unification bout between Smith and Beterbiev for later this year.

              Matchroom made an offer to Joe Smith for a Jacobs bout.

              I don't know if Smith is signed with TR or has another bout with them, but looks like he will have two nice fights for him if he wants them.

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              • LeOoze
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                #8
                Great thread OP, completely agree

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                • Citizen Koba
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                  #9
                  Shortsighted fools running (or ruining) the sport. All scrambling for a bigger slice of a smaller pie and unwilling or incapable of working together to make the pie bigger so there's more to go around for everyone.

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                  • LeOoze
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                    #10
                    Really good thread. Do you think Bivol vs Beterbiev will happen?

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