Comments Thread For: Jaron Ennis Promoter Reflects on Fighter's Bright, if Uncertain, Future and the Politics of Boxing

[Oregonian]

Yeah I pretty much agree with all you've said. He was so underrated. The GGG fight was a big mistake. He was actually doing well against him until GGG just imposed his size. But I never wanted to see him take that fight. I thought even against Crawford, he was in the fight until he got caught. It annoys me how Porter was supposedly Crawford's first real WW test, when Brook was showing he can box at that level, but punch resistance is probably the issue now. I've always thought Brook will beat Khan and I still believe that, although I think Khan has a better chance now than, back when it should have happened. I hope Brook wins also. Khan has ran from this fight for too long, and is probably only taking it believing Brook is damaged goods. When Brook wasn't damaged, Khan wanted no part of him.

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I don’t know who advises these guys to make the choices they make. Mikey Garcia is another one - going up two weight classes to fight Spence. Look at him now. Another gate keeper

[Rodtang]

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I don’t know who advises these guys to make the choices they make. Mikey Garcia is another one - going up two weight classes to fight Spence. Look at him now. Another gate keeper

Mikey Garcia was chasing legacy trying to become a 5 weight champion. That's a record for Mexican boxing. That's why Canelo was considering fighting at cruiser. But Mikey doesn't belong there. With Brook,he was in the right place at the wrong time. Hearn was trying to make the fight between GGG and Eubank Jr. That was almost done when Eubank snr started interfering and moved the goalposts at the last minute, and the deal fell apart. Literally right after that Hearn was with Brook to discuss his future and was venting about it and Brook said he'd fight him. Big mistake in my opinion. But look, the eye socket may have went in the next fight or 2 with welterweights anyway. We'll never know I guess.