Comments Thread For: Arnold Barboza Jr To Face Sean McComb In Co-Main For Haney-Garcia

[kiaba360]

Honestly, this isn't a strong enough co-main. This is basically a stay-busy for Barboza.

[DJrabit]

It’s not a garbage card . You all will see . It surely not a PPV card . Garcia is not a top 10 fighter.

[BlackRobb]

Read "Stacked card" and then went back to see who wrote the article. "Press Release"...

Lmaooooo

[BlackRobb]

This card is trash. It should have been on the Left Coast. No one out East gives AF about Devin or Cryin Ryan. Barbosa is a very good boxer, but he's 31 and still fighting imported soda cans. It's sad.

[MrMORENO]

Good Card I'll be Watchin

[boxingitis]

This card is trash. It should have been on the Left Coast. No one out East gives AF about Devin or Cryin Ryan. Barbosa is a very good boxer, but he's 31 and still fighting imported soda cans. It's sad.

Take Boring Shakur back to the east Coast and keep getting ready for thecOlympics and take Teo back as well, can't cut the ring for his life. They made Vegas boring.

[Bronx2245]

Take Boring Shakur back to the east Coast and keep getting ready for thecOlympics and take Teo back as well, can't cut the ring for his life. They made Vegas boring.

What happened to Oscar calling Arum to make Shakur vs. Zepeda??? Zepeda still scared???

Bob Arum calls out Oscar De La Hoya for being a hypocrite on Shakur Stevenson vs William Zepeda
It appears De La Hoya spoke out of turn, and Arum didn't like it.

The boxing industry is cruel and tough, especially for promoters who have to deal with everyone and everything in order to make the fights they want happen.
As Golden Boy Boxing CEO, Oscar De La Hoya is always looking out for his top fighters. He wants to make big fights happen, so it was not much of a surprise to see him call for Shakur Stevenson to be William Zepeda's next opponent following the Mexican's recent victory over Maxi Hughes.

William Zepeda's team doesn't believe he's ready for Shakur Stevenson

But according to Stevenson's promoter, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum, De La Hoya is full of it.

"When Zepeda won his fight, it was Oscar who said, 'bring on Shakur'. We called them and said, 'everybody heard Oscar, Shakur's ready to fight your guy.' It was, 'Ah, he's not ready yet,' and all that s***... We contacted [Golden Boy] and the Zepeda people said they're not ready for Shakur. Which, I don't think they are."

Arum is adamant that "nobody can beat Shakur". Zepeda would certainly qualify as the arguably toughest fight of Stevenson's career to date, but Arum believes fighting Stevenson is like a death sentence.

"El Camaron" is 30-0 and has been making extremely quick work of his opponents as he hits his prime. None of his last three fights have made it past the 6th round. That said, he hasn't fought a boxer of Stevenson's caliber yet.

While Arum and De La Hoya sort their stuff out, it appears that Stevenson is gearing up to fight Artem Harutyunyan next.

https://www.marca.com/en/boxing/2024...c8d8b457f.html

[PRchamp]

Golden Boy Promotions sucks, they can’t even host a big mega fight like Haney-Garcia in LA or Vegas because they don’t want to risk losing $$$. All these promoters are all talk when they have the networks doing all the heavy lifting and picking up the tab.

[Bronx2245]

Haney vs Garcia PPV undercard revealed: Grading the fights featuring Barboza, Melikuziev, more
The pay-per-view will be five fights in total.
By Scott Christ@scblh1 Apr 3, 2024, 3:04pm EDT

The pay-per-view undercard for the Devin Haney vs Ryan Garcia show on April 20 has been officially announced. There will be four fights on the PPV undercard in total. Here’s the quick rundown, and as you might expect for an official undercard announcement on April 3 for a show in 17 days, it’s nothing that’s going to knock anyone’s socks off.

• Arnold Barboza Jr vs Sean McComb in a 10-round super lightweight bout. Barboza had been previously announced for the show, and it has also been speculated that he’s waiting in the wings if either Haney or Garcia pull out of the main event for whatever reason.
• Bektemir Melikuziev will take on Pierre Dibombe in a 10-round super middleweight fight.
• John “Scrappy” Ramirez will face David Jimenez in a 12-rounder for the WBA interim flyweight title.
• Charles Conwell will make his debut with Golden Boy in a 10-round fight against Nathaniel Gallimore.

Barboza (29-0, 11 KO) made his own debut with Golden Boy in January after coming over from Top Rank, stopping Xolisani Ndongeni after eight rounds. The 32-year-old is a solid contender who has just not gotten a crack at top level, and frankly that’s not going to change against McComb (18-1, 5 KO), a 31-year-old southpaw from Belfast who’s on a seven-fight win streak after losing to Gavin Gwynne in 2021. Grade: C. It’s a ****-average fight for where Barboza is, but again, there is thought to be a major alternate reason he’s on this show. You don’t want to overpay for an opponent if you might be sliding Barboza into the main event.

Melikuziev (13-1, 10 KO) has won six straight since getting one-shotted by Gabe Rosado in 2021, including a cautious 10-round decision rematch win over Rosado about a year ago. Dibombe (22-0-1, 12 KO) is a 32-year-old from France who doesn’t break BoxRec’s super middleweight top 100 at the moment. Most of his career has been fought in his home country, though his last two — one in 2022 and one in 2023 — have been in Canada and the United States, though not against formidable foes. Grade: D+. Being honest, it’s sort of a guessing game for whether or not Dibombe has any hope of being competitive here, but if you’ve seen enough matchups like this in boxing, your gut feeling is going to lead you to the pessimist take.

Ramirez (13-0, 9 KO) is a guy Golden Boy really want to get behind, sort of a mini-Blair Cobbs but not as old. The 27-year-old has had struggles in fights and sometimes been brutally unappealing to watch, but other nights he shows you that he can live up to his “Scrappy” nickname, too. Last time out, he scored a nice stoppage over Ronal Batista. Jimenez, 31, has operated at higher level, with a close win over Ricardo Sandoval in 2022 and a close loss to WBA titlist Artem Dalakian in 2023. He’s taken three fights since that, all at lower level but staying active, including two already this year. Grade: B+. Two guys quite arguably in the legit top 10 at flyweight, well-matched on paper as Ramirez tries to prove he really belongs in the upper ranks, and Jimenez tries to get another title crack. Can’t hate on this one, this is the sort of thing you want on a PPV undercard.

Conwell (18-0, 13 KO) has seen his career sitting stagnant for years now. He really seemed to be closing in on being a legit contender after solid wins against Madiyar Ashkeyev and Wendy Toussaint late in 2020, and then he had another good one over Juan Carlos Rubio in 2021. But he hasn’t fought since late 2022 and he looked iffy in that one, though he did win. The 35-year-old Gallimore (22-7-1, 17 KO) has some power and can be dangerous, but generally speaking he loses to guys who have real talent. Conwell does have talent. Grade: C. We’ll go slightly positive for this one because it’s good to see Conwell fighting, and to get a promising, still-young fighter active again, Golden Boy could have done worse than a tough veteran. If Conwell is what we’ve thought he can be, he should cruise here.

https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/4/3...xing-news-2024

[kiaba360]

Haney vs Garcia PPV undercard revealed: Grading the fights featuring Barboza, Melikuziev, more
The pay-per-view will be five fights in total.
By Scott Christ@scblh1 Apr 3, 2024, 3:04pm EDT

The pay-per-view undercard for the Devin Haney vs Ryan Garcia show on April 20 has been officially announced. There will be four fights on the PPV undercard in total. Here’s the quick rundown, and as you might expect for an official undercard announcement on April 3 for a show in 17 days, it’s nothing that’s going to knock anyone’s socks off.

• Arnold Barboza Jr vs Sean McComb in a 10-round super lightweight bout. Barboza had been previously announced for the show, and it has also been speculated that he’s waiting in the wings if either Haney or Garcia pull out of the main event for whatever reason.
• Bektemir Melikuziev will take on Pierre Dibombe in a 10-round super middleweight fight.
• John “Scrappy” Ramirez will face David Jimenez in a 12-rounder for the WBA interim flyweight title.
• Charles Conwell will make his debut with Golden Boy in a 10-round fight against Nathaniel Gallimore.

Barboza (29-0, 11 KO) made his own debut with Golden Boy in January after coming over from Top Rank, stopping Xolisani Ndongeni after eight rounds. The 32-year-old is a solid contender who has just not gotten a crack at top level, and frankly that’s not going to change against McComb (18-1, 5 KO), a 31-year-old southpaw from Belfast who’s on a seven-fight win streak after losing to Gavin Gwynne in 2021. Grade: C. It’s a ****-average fight for where Barboza is, but again, there is thought to be a major alternate reason he’s on this show. You don’t want to overpay for an opponent if you might be sliding Barboza into the main event.

Melikuziev (13-1, 10 KO) has won six straight since getting one-shotted by Gabe Rosado in 2021, including a cautious 10-round decision rematch win over Rosado about a year ago. Dibombe (22-0-1, 12 KO) is a 32-year-old from France who doesn’t break BoxRec’s super middleweight top 100 at the moment. Most of his career has been fought in his home country, though his last two — one in 2022 and one in 2023 — have been in Canada and the United States, though not against formidable foes. Grade: D+. Being honest, it’s sort of a guessing game for whether or not Dibombe has any hope of being competitive here, but if you’ve seen enough matchups like this in boxing, your gut feeling is going to lead you to the pessimist take.

Ramirez (13-0, 9 KO) is a guy Golden Boy really want to get behind, sort of a mini-Blair Cobbs but not as old. The 27-year-old has had struggles in fights and sometimes been brutally unappealing to watch, but other nights he shows you that he can live up to his “Scrappy” nickname, too. Last time out, he scored a nice stoppage over Ronal Batista. Jimenez, 31, has operated at higher level, with a close win over Ricardo Sandoval in 2022 and a close loss to WBA titlist Artem Dalakian in 2023. He’s taken three fights since that, all at lower level but staying active, including two already this year. Grade: B+. Two guys quite arguably in the legit top 10 at flyweight, well-matched on paper as Ramirez tries to prove he really belongs in the upper ranks, and Jimenez tries to get another title crack. Can’t hate on this one, this is the sort of thing you want on a PPV undercard.

Conwell (18-0, 13 KO) has seen his career sitting stagnant for years now. He really seemed to be closing in on being a legit contender after solid wins against Madiyar Ashkeyev and Wendy Toussaint late in 2020, and then he had another good one over Juan Carlos Rubio in 2021. But he hasn’t fought since late 2022 and he looked iffy in that one, though he did win. The 35-year-old Gallimore (22-7-1, 17 KO) has some power and can be dangerous, but generally speaking he loses to guys who have real talent. Conwell does have talent. Grade: C. We’ll go slightly positive for this one because it’s good to see Conwell fighting, and to get a promising, still-young fighter active again, Golden Boy could have done worse than a tough veteran. If Conwell is what we’ve thought he can be, he should cruise here.

https://www.badlefthook.com/2024/4/3...xing-news-2024

Is that really the best they could get for Bek? WTF?? This might go down as one of the worst PPVs of the year.