Golden Boy's Gomez Shocked With Jorge Linares Loss

[MidnightSpecial]

Linares is still a good fighter. He was just brought to reality. You can get beat by anyone if you let your guard down. Hopefully he will have some heart and come back stronger and more focused. Golden Boy definently needs to help this kids confidence and back him just as strongly as they did before he lost which im not sure they will do. I guarantee you this kid has more heart than victor ortiz. Ortiz is the fighter that golden boy needs to worry about not Linares. Linares will be a big timer if he has heart and comes back hungry.

[Roger Mellie]

Linares is the new Amir Khan!

[niceguy45]

barrera left golden boy and went to Don King ???? ok where is barrera now......

[topssantino]

i think its now safe to change jorge linares' nick from El Nino de Oro to El nino Barbilla Cristal.

[!! Shawn]

Holy **** I wasn't even aware that he lost until this very second. Damn! That's a surprise. Some folks here were calling him the best young fighter in the sport by a mile......saying he'd blow out Robert Guerrero and so on.

Linares should bounce back. He needs to start fighting more often however. I'm tired of these young cats only fighting 2 times a year.

I wonder if this was just a fluke or if this Salgado fella is legit.

It was a fluke, and Linares still is the best young fighter by a mile. Anyone can be knocked out by a perfect punch, especially early in the fight before you adrenaline kicks in, it just happened to Linares, he will be back, as good as ever.

[FeFist]

People are saying Golden Boy is cursed, I say Boxing is cursed for the last few years most the prospects have been losing. Golden Boy should sign Salgado now imo, you can't build stars you have to let the best fight the best and it will all settle itself on it's own.

It's not a curse it's money. The prospects have the attitude they have because things are too easy for them. Aspirations are titles and money, things that are now easier for them to obtain.

So many fighters who main event I personally think they should be undercards, they're like a candle blazing bright.

[nozorok]

It was a fluke, and Linares still is the best young fighter by a mile. Anyone can be knocked out by a perfect punch, especially early in the fight before you adrenaline kicks in, it just happened to Linares, he will be back, as good as ever.

There's some irony at work here as everyone thought Linares was the second coming including the majority of sports writers. Everyone is half expecting someone like Valero to get iced because of his wild style but it ends up being Linares. The icing on the cake is JuanMa Lopez pretty much got exposed recently as well. All the young prospects are dropping like flies.

Guys like Gamboa and Valero need to take notice and keep those hands up.

[DC Fight Fan]

Eric Gomez is the worst matchmaker in the business.

[Iceta]

I can't say I'm not glad that Linares got beat. The dude was hyped up as a pound for pound star by Kellerman, and it was way unwarranted.

[Pullcounter]

When Golden Boy Promotions signed Jorge Linares of Venezuela to a promotional contract last month, it seemed like a sweet signing. But it turned sour over the weekend when Linares was decked twice and stopped in the first round by Mexico's Juan Carlos Salgado in Tokyo, Japan. Linares (27-1) suffered his first loss, and he lost his super featherweight world title. [details]

was it just me or did linares have his gloves up when salgado landed that punch?