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In the past three years, we’ve had three championship matches in which the best fought the best and it ended in an upset victory for the challenger. The last upset produced the first undisputed champion that the division has ever seen in decades. And just when I was giving up hope on seeing Davis vs. Garcia happening, it then finally comes to fruition without needing to dangle any belts in front of their faces to make it happen. The amount of revenue it pulled in was more than 6x higher than the winner’s second highest-selling ppv bout.
Compare that to Welterweight, where the talent is there but the will is most certainly not. We are so goddamn close having an undisputed champ, all it would take is one fight between two of the best p4p boxers on the planet. And those guys just won’t settle on any sensible agreement even with the chance to be undisputed champ and the potentially massive revenues of cash for incentives. Instead of 12 rounds of them in the ring together, they force us to find excitement where there is none by teasing us with news of whatever’s going on at the negotiating table. And then there’s Jaron Ennis squandering his talent on dudes that nobody cares about instead of fighting top 10 ranked opponents. Same with Ortiz Jr. Good luck getting a fight between those two in our lifetimes.
Edit: I forgot to mention that next we’re about to see Loma challenge Haney for all the belts too. Out of all the glamour divisions, there truly is none that are more active than lightweight is right now
Compare that to Welterweight, where the talent is there but the will is most certainly not. We are so goddamn close having an undisputed champ, all it would take is one fight between two of the best p4p boxers on the planet. And those guys just won’t settle on any sensible agreement even with the chance to be undisputed champ and the potentially massive revenues of cash for incentives. Instead of 12 rounds of them in the ring together, they force us to find excitement where there is none by teasing us with news of whatever’s going on at the negotiating table. And then there’s Jaron Ennis squandering his talent on dudes that nobody cares about instead of fighting top 10 ranked opponents. Same with Ortiz Jr. Good luck getting a fight between those two in our lifetimes.
Edit: I forgot to mention that next we’re about to see Loma challenge Haney for all the belts too. Out of all the glamour divisions, there truly is none that are more active than lightweight is right now
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