Comments Thread For: Ruthless Francisco Rodriguez beats up Galal Yafai to earn shot at Kenshiro Teraji

[famicommander]

You generalize too much bud. Junto Nakatani, Kazuto Ioka, Donnie Nietes, and Chocolatito all have beat scores of people, and you think everyone remembers all their fights and the names of everyone they beat? I for one have followed Chocolatito his whole career and didn’t remember Rodriguez. However the point I made about Rodriguez having been underestimated still stands.

Rodriguez is not just some random name on those guys' resumes. He had already been unified champion by the time he fought Ioka, Nietes, and Nakatani. He was chosen for those fights because he was a credible contender and well known name in the lower weight divisions.

The overwhelming majority of people straight up scored the Ioka fight in Rodriguez's favor. A world title robbery. If you had been watching that fight you'd remember that one.

The Nakatani fight was only two years ago and it was on the undercard of a major event that also featured Hiroto Kyoguchi, Kenshiro Teraji, Jonathan Gonzalez, and Shokichi Iwata. Two world title fights. And Rodriguez was Nakatani's highest profile opponent of his career so far to that point; he beat Yabuki and Akui before they were famous.

You're literally still trying to argue that a former unified champ with 10 other world champs (and 5 wins against those guys) on his resume was an unknown. He had fought in six countries and four weight divisions across 46 fights and won two world titles. Just admit you spoke out of ignorance, it's not that big of a deal.

[JonDP]

Rodriguez is not just some random name on those guys' resumes. He had already been unified champion by the time he fought Ioka, Nietes, and Nakatani. He was chosen for those fights because he was a credible contender and well known name in the lower weight divisions.

The overwhelming majority of people straight up scored the Ioka fight in Rodriguez's favor. A world title robbery. If you had been watching that fight you'd remember that one.

The Nakatani fight was only two years ago and it was on the undercard of a major event that also featured Hiroto Kyoguchi, Kenshiro Teraji, Jonathan Gonzalez, and Shokichi Iwata. Two world title fights. And Rodriguez was Nakatani's highest profile opponent of his career so far to that point; he beat Yabuki and Akui before they were famous.

You're literally still trying to argue that a former unified champ with 10 other world champs (and 5 wins against those guys) on his resume was an unknown. He had fought in six countries and four weight divisions across 46 fights and won two world titles. Just admit you spoke out of ignorance, it's not that big of a deal.

You sure would like for other people to be ignorant so you can feel better about yourself huh? You must be irresistible to the ladies. I’m not ignorant, I just didn’t spend 3 minutes online brushing up on Rodriguez before the fight because I wasn’t planning to watch it, and I didn’t remember him. Ever occurred to you other people who enjoy boxing might have people to meet and places to be and can’t watch every single undercard fight? Or perhaps, like I said before, you’re probably just a boxrec warrior.

[famicommander]

You sure would like for other people to be ignorant so you can feel better about yourself huh? You must be irresistible to the ladies. I’m not ignorant, I just didn’t spend 3 minutes online to brush up about on Rodriguez before the fight because I wasn’t planning to watch it and I didn’t remember him. Ever occurred to you other people who enjoy boxing might have people to meet and places to be and can’t watch every single undercard fight? Or perhaps, like I said before, you’re probably just a boxrec warrior.

So, once again, you don't have time to watch boxing but you do have time to come here and have three day arguments about how a former unified champion was an unknown.

Got it.