Comments Thread For: After Upsetting Subriel Matias, Liam Paro Declares He Is 'The Captain' Of The Junior Welterweights

[uppercut510]

It takes some pop too. Paro was peppering Matias and loading up to the body. I heard a couple different interviews from Matias alluding to feeling out his opponents power before he opens up. Even with Haneys stiff Jab, I doubt thatd be enough.

Both coming off losses, I'd favor Matias > Haney.

i got dev, but after his loss to ryan we will need to see how he reacts to getting hit

[richardt]

I like putting Catterall and Sandor Martin and Sean McComb in the tricky, slick, and what they call as a boxing term, cuties group. They have either beat favorites or came close. Not a lot of power but skills are certain. Fighting each other may not be very exciting but they can spoil the party of a favorite. The Hitchinson and Haney types are kind of similar. They would be the straight up boxer group. Probably 4-5 categories for all the 140 pound fighters with such different styles. Though different in ways, Russell, Cruz, and Matias, the pressure front foot swarmer's.

[Brother Mouzone]

Everybody , next stop: off the Matias meat train.

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WAR Matias !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[richardt]

Right now there are 4 captains, there has to be at least 2 unifications for a captain to emerge. And Matias needs to calm his arrogance down 98%, find his core and work on somethings and re-enter to picture. He shouldn't have read his own headlines, he got a big head from that. A fun fight would be him vs Cruz or vs Russell.

[Mammoth]

I've been impressed the last 3 times I've seen Paro. I think he's got a decent ring iq and solid all around. Didn't seem like a fluke win to me.

[famicommander]

Teofimo Lopez has the lineal, TBRB, Ring, and WBO world championship. Paro had a great win but he's just the IBF titlist.

Catterall by all rights should've been the undisputed champion but he got robbed against Taylor, then Taylor got stripped of most of his belts, then Lopez beat him in the ring for the lineal championship. So at present the IBF, WBC, and WBA straps are just trinkets at 140.

Lopez vs Catterall is the real championship fight right now. Lopez is the champion, Catterall is the uncrowned champion. Paro, Cruz, and Haney are just belt holders.

[richardt]

Teofimo Lopez has the lineal, TBRB, Ring, and WBO world championship. Paro had a great win but he's just the IBF titlist.

Catterall by all rights should've been the undisputed champion but he got robbed against Taylor, then Taylor got stripped of most of his belts, then Lopez beat him in the ring for the lineal championship. So at present the IBF, WBC, and WBA straps are just trinkets at 140.

Lopez vs Catterall is the real championship fight right now. Lopez is the champion, Catterall is the uncrowned champion. Paro, Cruz, and Haney are just belt holders.

That's a good set of observations. I hope we get some great fights, champions and title holders going at it and contenders making some noise too.

[richardt]

This is in no particular order at all.....But I don't remember a better set of 140 pounders in a long time. But this may take a while for these guys to siphon out into just a few stars:
Teofimo Lopez
Sandor Martin
Devin Haney
Jack Catterall
Liam Paro
Gustavo Lemos
Isaac Cruz
Elvis Presley Rodriguez
Alberto Puello
Gary Russell
Kenneth Sims
Ismael Barroso
Sean McComb
Subriel Matias
Jose Carlos Ramirez
Lindolfo Delgado
Richardson Hitchins
Arnold Barboza Jr.
Josh Taylor
Michelle Rivera

I did not include the limited Romero, the worn Prograis, or the disengaged Jermain Ortiz

[Gary Coleman]

I am not off, that home fight was too distracting and they were looking past Paro which I said before he is a good fighter. Now will Matias get any opportunities again?

Same here. I don't believe all is lost for him, but now with no belt, nobody has a reason to fight him.

[Sid-Knee]

Paro has got his work cut out for him now that he got the "win" so lets see how it goes from here. Mati will learn from this also-- sometimes a loss can be a win if you see your style for what it is and make some adjustments without trying to be somethng you are not.................

What do you mean, "Win"?

Paro clearly won that.