Comments Thread For: Jermell Charlo: Castano Fight Could Be The One That Put Me In The Hall Of Fame

[Combat Talk Radio]

........ What?........

What are you confused for?

He's saying that by unifying the division - something very few fighters have done - it's a HOF worthy accomplishment.

Why's that wrong when that's what Crawford said applies to him?

[Get em up]

Undisputed is a good start. It would be sad if he moves up and fights GGG and Andrade before Jarmall though.

I dont know if he will move up until his brother goes to 168.

[-Kev-]

Unless you’re Arturo Gatti I don’t think the HOF works that way. If only all fighters would get inducted based on having “wars” with decent to club level fighters. Everyone would get in. I mean it’s already really bad now with their standards.

And I mean relatively easy, probably the easiest of all sports due to their being 17 weight classes and 4 major belts per weight class, plus The Ring belt. Imagine MLB having 4 World Series’ in October, declaring 4 championship teams. Or 4 Super Bowls. Now multiply that by 17 weight classes. Lots of “champions”, lots of ways to get the titles and not necessarily beating someone good for it. Or imagine the Yankees emailing MLB commissioner Bud Selig to make them the World Series champions and Bud Selig grants it to them that. That is the joke known as professional boxing. Politics unknown to the outside world.

With that said, when I say easy I don’t mean you and I can go into boxing, be semi-successful, and make it to the IBHOF. I am saying once you are deemed an okay fighter, your HOF chances are 70-30 (70 not making it, 30 making it), which is pretty high. For comparison, in MLB, 1.5% of players have made it into the HOF. That means the baseball HOF is actually prestigious, and an actual huge feat.

In other sports, being okay to good, to even a great player, does not mean you make it in to the HOF. BWAA inducts steroid users into the HOF and admittedly have said they can’t have as stringent HOF standards as other sports (baseball) because then it would be difficult to induct fighters into it. Lol. So let’s just induct everyone. Everyone gets a trophy. And let’s pick and choose when we should elect everyone. Let’s have Barry McGuigan in but not Genaro Hernandez. Let’s induct Arturo Gatti but snub Chris Eubank and Ricky Hatton.

The IBHOF is just all over the place. No actual standards, just play Eeny, meeny, miny, moe with some retired fighter’s careers.

https://www.syracuse.com/sports/2010/06/should_links_to_steroids_keep.html

The whole point of a HOF should be to only have the absolute best there.

[famicommander]

I'm rooting for Castano to win and then go get his W against Lara. Lara got handed a gift draw in their first fight. Right now Lara has two fake belts (WBA Regular and IBO) so Castano could completely clear out the division of belt holders, real or fake. There are not any interim titlists at present.

[-Kev-]

If this is a fight that put him in the Hall of Fame than they should call it the Hall of Shame, because it’s week as hell!

The IBHOF doesn’t need Charlo to make it weak as hell. It already is extremely weak and has no standards.

Several writers from the BWAA get together once a year, retired names are written and crumbled in to pieces of paper, put in a bowl, and the writers pick a random piece of paper. Those fighters who were picked then get inducted into the IBHOF.

[Zodogg]

These comments are uncalled for. Why do people hate on him and his bro so much? There's ex fighters currently in the HOF with suspect resume. Why can't charlo make it if he wins Saturday, moves up to 160 and gets multiple belts there?

Most of these commenter are haters and they don't like the confidence of young brash African American fighters and so they downplay their ring accomplishments and put emphasis on who they fight when they know fighters don't make the decisions

[sicko]

Still only 31 and in his PRIME so still a lot left he can do but yeah becoming Undisputed puts you in the History Books

Boxing Hall Of Fame is just whatever! Rocky Balboa is in the Hall Of Fame and he not even real

[Jab jab boom]

I disagree about Gatti. Charlo has fought nobody. His best wins were against average guys. Gatti's best win was against Ruelas and Charlo has yet to beat anybody better than Ruelas. Gatti lost to some of the best, but Charlo has yet to fight the best. Plus, Gatti is in the HOF because he was a warrior. There are more ways to get in than just resume. I agree that Charlo thinking he is HOF material because of beating Castaņo is ridiculous.

so the same Ruelas who was stopped by Azumah Nelson a few fights before facing Gatti and lost 2 of his next 4 afterwards? Cmon now. Overall Charlo will have beaten better opposition than Gatti if he wins this fight and as of now, didn’t convincingly lose to someone like an Angel Manfredy or Ivan Robinson.

[Doubledagger]

What are you confused for?

He's saying that by unifying the division - something very few fighters have done - it's a HOF worthy accomplishment.

Why's that wrong when that's what Crawford said applies to him?

Nobody is history has been a four belt undisputed champ at 154lbs so its definitely hof worthy.

[_Rexy_]

It might get you on a Pound for Pound list. HOF? Keep dreaming.