Comments Thread For: BoxingScene's Midweek Mailbag: What's next for Bakhram Murtazaliev, Tim Tszyu and the IBHOF

[Brittney1229]

Unfortunately, in today's boxing, all the big names are gonna avoid Murtazaliev like the plague! Like Boots, he's too good and too dangerous, but brings no money.

[crimsonfalcon07]

I appreciate the agreement to disagree, even though we otherwise seemed mostly in agreement. =)

I'd like to see Estrada at least beat the likes of Santiago to earn his stripes at 118. Takuma is still one of the best at the weight class, and frankly, I rewatched the fight that he lost on slow, and that's a dubious win in my books. He was landing the cleaner, better shots through 7 and defending most of what came at him. There was an sequence in which Tsutsumi threw probably over 100 punches across 2 mins, and landed basically nothing, while Inoue landed 7 clean shots. That was a really strange KD in 10. Looked like Inoue slipped and got caught but wasn't hurt at all. Ropes held him up and there was a punch landed, but I think there's a strong argument that Inoue could have won 8 rounds of that fight under different judges that remember that defense is a judging criteria. Inoue landed the cleaner and more effective punches IMO all fight, Tsutsumi looked like he'd been beaten up and Inoue didn't, and that aggression was only effective insofar as it got Inoue to change his gameplan. If Inoue had the power his big bro has, that wouldn't have gone past 6. Compubox gave Tsutsumi a lot more credit than it looked like to me, watching it on slow speed. He gets 5, 8-10, but Inoue defended the majority of that aggression and it sure didn't look effective to me. The judges obviously disagreed, but I still think Inoue is one of the best at the weight class.

And while Nasukawa is early in his boxing career, he's likely the best kickboxer in Japanese history, with wins over the likes of Takeru, Rodtang, Wanchalong PK Saenchaigym, and IBF champ Amnat Ruenrong, Taiki Naito, and more. He's not exactly inexperienced (44-0 kickboxing, 4-0 MMA, 5-0 boxing), and he's probably a bigger star in Japan than Takuma, and maybe even Nakatani. I don't know that he's ready for Nakatani, but it's not like he's not a credible opponent, especially for those of us who followed his kickboxing career.

[Left Hook Louie]

I personaly never heard of him but I assumed he was some famous singer in the US or something like that, he's not?

Sun Ra was a jazz pianist and avante garde 'afrofuturist' composer and band leader from the the 1950's. The Sun Ra Arkestra is still touring but Sun Ra died in the early 90s or thereabouts. It's an esoteric and experimental genre and sound. You can find YouTube clips.

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

Sun Ra was a jazz pianist and avante garde 'afrofuturist' composer and band leader from the the 1950's. The Sun Ra Arkestra is still touring but Sun Ra died in the early 90s or thereabouts. It's an esoteric and experimental genre and sound. You can find YouTube clips.

Also the brother of Moon Ra , jazz drummer famous for playing with no pants on , and father of Ra Ra , a singer and composer of cheers used in sporting events.

[The D3vil]

I personaly never heard of him but I assumed he was some famous singer in the US or something like that, he's not?

One of the greatest geniuses of 20th century music

[Mark Elding]

Bernard Hopkins is an indisputable all time great but James Toney isn’t!?

Erik Raskin, you’ve been gaslit.

[Mr. David]

Also the brother of Moon Ra , jazz drummer famous for playing with no pants on , and father of Ra Ra , a singer and composer of cheers used in sporting events.

Don't forget Ra Ra's sister who played under her married name, Sis Boom Bah.