Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: The Heavyweight Landscape Post Joshua-Ngannou

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The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards giving his thoughts on what life looks like in the heavyweight division following Anthony Joshua's two-round destruction of Francis Ngannou, and looking ahead to the summer event featuring Mike Tyson and Jake Paul.
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[Mark Elding]

‘Modern concepts of matchmaking.’

Amen. Shout that from the rooftops. Past eras generally had it tougher and very few from this era are prepared to replicate that.

[SteveM]

"Being DISCIPLINED in this era is challenging, when lack of discipline is being disguised as free thinking and being intelligent. "

that is a great insight on modern society and youth

[Blackstarr]

I love Bread’s mailbag, but this man’s love for Wilder is too much. Fury I understand, but on what planet would Wilder have ever been the big favourite against AJ according to the bookmakers? And right now, post Wilder’s no-show against Parker and AJ’s resurgence, the odds are supposed to be very close with AJ only possibly being a favourite? Come on now..

[MusoMeanderings]

‘Modern concepts of matchmaking.’

Amen. Shout that from the rooftops. Past eras generally had it tougher and very few from this era are prepared to replicate that.

If any.

[Slip jab]

The write in about Floyd’s significance and GGGs historical standing stood out the most for me. Solid points on Floyd’s standing at 47

-but I would add that Crawford accomplished more if not equal at 47 as Floyd IMO.
-GGG assessment is dead on.
- AJs “resurgence “ is sham. A clever product of timing and matchmaking. The fighters since the usyk rematch are solid but don’t put him at 2,3

[Mark Elding]

If any.

There’s a few. Lomachenko’s been fighting naturally bigger guys for 6 years now, and past his peak. Usyk almost as long, and now faces the gargantuan Fury. Teofimo hasn’t shied away from stylistically tricky matchups. But there really isn’t many guys who proved they would fight anyone since the days of Shane Mosley and James Toney. Mosley went 6 fights in a row in his prime without a single convincing win. Said way more about the quality of his competition than anything else. Shane just didn’t give a **** about who he was matched with.

[Boxviewer]

I love Bread’s mailbag, but this man’s love for Wilder is too much. Fury I understand, but on what planet would Wilder have ever been the big favourite against AJ according to the bookmakers? And right now, post Wilder’s no-show against Parker and AJ’s resurgence, the odds are supposed to be very close with AJ only possibly being a favourite? Come on now..

It's typical American, they truly believe that they are the best in everything. Even a gatekeeper like Wilder is seen by them as an elite fighter. Then the question is, why did he refused a whooping $100M offer to fight AJ, an amount he couldn't even see in his wildest dream? Because he knew AJ would have destroyed him.

[wrecksracer]

There’s a few. Lomachenko’s been fighting naturally bigger guys for 6 years now, and past his peak. Usyk almost as long, and now faces the gargantuan Fury. Teofimo hasn’t shied away from stylistically tricky matchups. But there really isn’t many guys who proved they would fight anyone since the days of Shane Mosley and James Toney. Mosley went 6 fights in a row in his prime without a single convincing win. Said way more about the quality of his competition than anything else. Shane just didn’t give a **** about who he was matched with.

These days, I like Bam Rodriguez's attitude. He wants all the smoke

[Mark Elding]

These days, I like Bam Rodriguez's attitude. He wants all the smoke

Yeah, me too. So far so good with Rodriguez. Seems willing to really challenge himself but perhaps a little too early to say for sure whether he’s truly a breed apart from most of his peers. He probably caught Sor Rungvisai at the right time and may be doing the same with Estrada, but time will tell. I’m definitely a fan.