Comments Thread For: Murat Gassiev Suffers Arm Injury, Withdraws From Rudenko Fight

[landotter]

I had high hopes Gassiev being able to transition to HW effectively. I truly thought he would make an even better HW than he was a CW. It just seems he is snake bit at this point, unable to get any forward motion. He still could have 8-10 years on his career, so at this point just coming back completely healthy is the goal. He will certainly have to rebuild his career. But if he has anymore set backs, he may be done.

[BustedKnuckles]

Maybe taking a 3 year layoff at 24 years old killing your prime time and moving up in weight did that.
It is a pity he dropped boxing due mental loss after losing belts to Usyk. Maybe politics was also involved. He just had to stay busy even if it is beating tomato cans.

No, but literally, how? Breaking an arm from punching? Getting punched in the arm? I understand broken hands and faces, but arms, that's new to me.

[BustedKnuckles]

It probably doesn't. Maybe tickets just weren't selling well for this event. Remember how many times they delayed Lopez vs Kambosos and it still didn't sell many tickets a year later? Remember how many false starts they had with Canelo vs Plant, and Canelo "moved on" to Bivol, but then back to Plant, which ended up making it a bigger event? Remember Cotto vs Kirkland was supposed to happen but no one was buying Cotto tickets after he lost to Canelo, and it got canceled completely but they gave some other reason? Remember it seems like every boxer alive testing positive for covid at some point while meanwhile in your real life you know maybe 1 out of 1,000 people who had a positive test come back?

What is in the news is not necessarily what actually happens in real life, and that includes boxingscene "news." In fact, it may be much more often that it is not what actually happens in real life than it is.

It's hard to fake a broken arm, tho. I can see, "Oh, I had covid, don't get too close (cough cough)." Maybe even a phony detached retina (not saying it was fake, just saying it could be faked). Broken arm is a whole nother level of excuse tho.