I certainly won't complain about Boots fighting Stanionis as that's certainly a reason for not moving up to fight Virgil. When is that fight scheduled to take place?
Yeah, some big names for an eliminator, but a question that leaves me perplexed, the more I think about it is, "how do these eliminator bouts help Boots unify 147?". We know Turki offered Boots good money to fight Virgil at 154, but an argument can be made that Boots decided not to fight Virgil because Boots wanted to unify 147(Boots' words, not mine) as well as Virgil having no belt at 154 to fight for.
Fighting Teo, Ryan or Devin doesn't bring Boots one step closer to unifying 147. I'm still intrigued by the eliminator bouts, but can't help but think that fighting these guys that are coming from 140 is not really a challenge for Boots, considering Boots has been at 147 for about 10 years and none of these guys I mentioned hold any titles at 147.
I wanna see Boots stay busy and fight guys that will challenge him and bring out the best in him or guys at 147 that are champs so he can unify. I just don't think these guys are much of a challenge nor do they put him in a position to unify 147..
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