Comments Thread For: Joshua Buatsi Blasts Out a Very Game Ricards Bolotniks in Eleventh

[Zaryu]

Anyone else chuckling at the irony of Claudio "Grande" being dwarfed by Price? The fact his trunk say Grande

[Tatabanya]

Next time I'll think twice before wasting a twenty-fiver on an unknown Mexican if I don't have access to footage prior to betting. Castillo can barely fight.

[BigZ44]

Rd 1 to Price, he looks huge for this weight, but I haven't been overly impressed with him in any of his fights yet

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

has Cordina had a meaningful fight yet?

Hearn hasn’t done a great job with those fighters who turned over from Rio. Maybe none of them are world beaters but still, all their careers seemed to stall for long periods of time. Apart from Okolie and even then they basically bought a belt in a fight from a washed up fighter.

Apart from that, The biggest fight any of them have had just be Josh Kelly when he got battered for the Euro title. The rest are just treading water, fighting for interim belts against nobodies mostly.

I guess Fowler v Smith is ok, but even then Eddie is probably just cashing them both out.

He’s done a terrible job, aside from Okollie who they matched excellently. I give them full credit with that one tbf aside from being a vacant world title but he still went British, Commonwealth, European, World which I’m a big advocate of.

But the other guys have been matched terribly:

Buatsi- not progressed past domestic level, treading water
Cordina- not progressed past domestic level, treading water
Fowler- hasn’t even won an Area or English title
Kelly- stop start career, then got stopped at European level
Ashfaq- hasn’t even won an Area or English title.

Out of five Olympians none have even won the European title, hell only one of the five has won the British. It’s shocking. Tokyo class take note…

[BigZ44]

2-0 Price, landing some big, straight lefts

[gingerbreadman]

has Cordina had a meaningful fight yet?

Hearn hasn’t done a great job with those fighters who turned over from Rio. Maybe none of them are world beaters but still, all their careers seemed to stall for long periods of time. Apart from Okolie and even then they basically bought a belt in a fight from a washed up fighter.

Apart from that, The biggest fight any of them have had just be Josh Kelly when he got battered for the Euro title. The rest are just treading water, fighting for interim belts against nobodies mostly.

I guess Fowler v Smith is ok, but even then Eddie is probably just cashing them both out.

Not sure that's massively fair given how they all turned over in 2017 IIRC and the pandemic happened 3 years afterwards, four years seems to be the minimum speed for UK Olympic fighters to take the title route. Okolie's got a belt in a high risk/low reward division and his style isn't good to watch, which probably makes him harder to match, Joyce is knocking on the door of the top 10 at heavy if not there already, and Buatsi looks like the goods but is being moved a bit more slowly. Rest of them don't look up to snuff at world level, not as good as the 2012 crop, or maybe the 2008 crop, but not as awful as all that.

Edit: Thought this was commenting on the entire crop, rather than specifically Matchroom fighters, in which case comment is much more fair; I think the reduced amount of shows is probably affecting things too.

[deathofaclown]

Hopey Price is a good prospect. Should go to a better trainer though. I don’t rate Coldwell at all.

[BigZ44]

Gave the 3rd to Grande, 2-1 Price

[Mammoth]

Hopey is a super dumb name

[ShoulderRoll]

So once Golden Boy Promotions leaves at the end of the year DAZN is going to consist of mostly British domestic and showcase fights?

Not going to be a big selling point for Americans I reckon.