Comments Thread For: Modern Lightweight Princes Wake Up Echoes of Yesterday's Kings

[Bob]

Great piece Lyle, i couldn't agree more.

[Cyborg Fangerloo]

Pretty darn unanimous here - nobody thinks they are kings because they don’t fight each other. Maybe they are each kings of their own household? In that sense, there are now 5 and I am one!!!

[Hot Shyt]

Kambosos wasnt considered one of the new Kings.. it was Teo.

And I think Kambosos and Haney are the two that are actually willing to fight anybody without much fuss.

[SteveM]

Not sure why they keep trying to make this 4 kings thing work, it's complete nonsense. It can only be a thing after careers are done. It's interesting their trying to push 4 Iightweights together, but the original lot were from, lightweight, welterweight and middleweight. Maybe a 4 kings scenario can happen, but it could be any 4 fighters spanning multiple divisions. You can't just look at 4 lightweghts and say "what about those 4". Interesting that its 4 Americans. It may well prove to be other nationalities. And at the moment the next realistic 4 kings is Juan Estrada, Roman Gonzalez, Sor Rungvisai and Carlos Cuadras. Their in a proper 4 kings scenario right now. Why no mention? Because their not American?

Too right about the Jr. bantamweights/superflys.

assuming things progress as expected I could see Ennis, Ortiz, plus Crawford/Jermell (if they stick around) being in some great fights

If the winner of AJ/Usyk fights Wilder and Fury that'll be a great 3-way battle.

[Rodtang]

Too right about the Jr. bantamweights/superflys.

assuming things progress as expected I could see Ennis, Ortiz, plus Crawford/Jermell (if they stick around) being in some great fights

If the winner of AJ/Usyk fights Wilder and Fury that'll be a great 3-way battle.

Yeah, there can be so many possibilities. Only time will tell. Someday we may look back at 4 guys and say Wow. That's how it's happened the first time, and if it happens again it's really the only way it can happen. Let's hope so.

[Rodtang]

I am also sick of the 4 kings crap. One just lost, the other ones, apart from Loma don't show any interest in fighting each other....Ryan Garcia has issues, Kambosos has the look of a capable, nothing special guy.

Teo fighting Josh Taylor is a bad idea for him.

Just because one just lost, doesn't me he can't be one. If you look at the original lot, someone lost the first fight there too. The difference is no one was talking about 4 king back then. That's because it can only be done on hindsight. That's why your correct that it is crap, and we're all sick of this talk. But maybe someday we'll have something to talk about. But again, hindsight will provide the answers, not crystal balls. And it might not have any of these supposed kings involved.

[Rodtang]

Maybe on Twitter. They can become the 4 pings.

[harry-greb]

Forget these Instagram posers, chocolatito, estrada and sor rungvisai are the modern Kings!!!

[El_Mero]

Echoes of yesterdays KINGS my @ss. This group, minus Loma are jokes for the most part. Teo tried then got beat, regardless of his med diagnosis. Haney looked meh. Davis looked like sh.it, regardless of his excuse too. The Kings fought to prove they were the best, these guys barely fight and when they do its not vs the right people. Unfortunately its damn near boxing as a whole.

[Liondw]

Rather not call them the new four kings, but some other term. They first have to actually fight each other, and they don't seem to be anywhere on the level of the past legends.

Still, very good fights and tough victories for Davis and Haney over Cruz and Diaz. Cruz is deserving of a rematch.

Rreferring to the greats that fought, don't forget Hearns was robbed in that rematch with Leonard.

But yes; I guess you could debate about Leonard or Hagler topping that series, although Hagler was only at middleweight, but what a great fighter.