Comments Thread For: Claudio Squeo has only respect for Jai Opetaia, the man who broke his jaw in two places

[edpboxing]

if you consider you self a real boxing fan instead of a keyboard idiot you would have known that jai was going to fight the number 1 contender huseyin cinkara but he dropped out with an ankle injury and suqeo was the one who took the fight on short notice

The Cinkara fight was suppose to happen in January. And Cinkara was out three months and fought in April.

Squeo didn’t take this on short notice and Jai said it was a tune up fight himself, though all of his competition seems to be tune up level aside from Breidis, though some of that is partially the IBF’s fault.

[fast fists]

He had a list of possible names and picked the absolute worst one.

Huseyin is also a joke, but that's the IBF's fault and not his.

o sorry i didnt know you where involved in the negotiations for the fight

[famicommander]

o sorry i didnt know you where involved in the negotiations for the fight

I saw the list of IBF top 15 contenders. He picked the only one without either an independent (TBRB, ESPN, Ring) top 10 ranking or a world level win. The most untested guy they could find without getting stripped.

[NihonJim]

if you consider you self a real boxing fan instead of a keyboard idiot you would have known that jai was going to fight the number 1 contender huseyin cinkara but he dropped out with an ankle injury and suqeo was the one who took the fight on short notice

Postpone the fight date and get someone in the top 50 then.

"Number one pulled out so it's not my fault I have to fight number 487 now"

Don't make sense

And after the fight he had the cheek to say other top cruiserweights would struggle with that 4 foot bridge troll.

[kiaba360]

Postpone the fight date and get someone in the top 50 then.

"Number one pulled out so it's not my fault I have to fight number 487 now"

Don't make sense

And after the fight he had the cheek to say other top cruiserweights would struggle with that 4 foot bridge troll.

Even-though I didn't like the opponent choice, Squeo was IBF #14 so he was fair game. The sanctioning bodies set the table for mismatches to happen. It's a "don't hate the player, hate the game" situation. Opetaia has been having some bad luck recently with both Breidis/Cinkara getting injured before Opetaia being ordered to face them. I wish IBF would call more eliminators just in case Cinkara pulls out again. Of the current ranked contenders, it doesn't seem like they're fighting each other willingly.

As for Squeo's height, CBS went 12 with a shorter cruiserweight his last time out. It isn't abnormal for fighters to struggle a bit vs. much shorter fighters.