Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Saul Alvarez-Terence Crawford, 'Boots' Ennis, great chins, and more

[Smash]

relative to their talent levels - then yes - I get that some say Boots ducked Bud and/or Ortiz but mostly he has been avoided by guys who could get him exposure - ie top 15 guys - only Stanionis had the balls to come and get it. But I do also blame Bozy Ennis for not getting his son signed directly with PBC or one of the other big promoters from the get go.

if boots wanted bud he could got him easy, just become his mando he had plenty of time since bud only had 1 belt i think, no effort made whatsoever, all smoke and mirrors

[Smash]

Moton gets almost no hype - he's not going to be doing his own shows for quite some time yet - and any hype he does get is because he's with Floyd - but he is 3 times the fighter that Walsh is

https://ringmagazine.com/en/news/richard-schaefer-generational-talent-curmel-moton-can-claim-world-title-within-two-years

'Generational Talent' Curmel Moton Can Claim World Title Within Two Years

Former champion Danny Garcia, who was the event promoter, gave the young boxer high marks. “Curmel is the future of boxing"

Google his name hes got pages of stuff for a young guy with loads of people even saying he is a future p4p no1

u dont call that hype?

[Smash]

Callum Walsh - his name just came back to me - he's a ticket seller because the Irish root for their own - so promoters give him 'a push' meaning hype him

calum walsh is 24 years of age and noone has ever heard of him, maybe within his community he is popular but outside of that looks like nada, when he starts contending for a world title level he will start making headlines which is normal

[Tag, You're Hit]

These mailbags get increasingly tedious to read, too many of these questions of them focus on social media shenanigans and hypothetical matchups instead of what actually happens in the ring. Is this to blame on Edwards on those who write some of these very silly questions?

Bread can only answer the questions sent in. I've written in a few times and will do so again soon. Join in, lilacp, and help the mailbag be better.

[Smash]

I guess good black fighters get less a lot less hype than above average western white fighters and good latin fighters get more hype than good black fighters.
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you see as well the sport of boxing is chocablock full of african american and latino fighters, they make up the bulk of the sport, so u have a bunch of irish guys for example in the american north east and there is 1 fighter who may or may not be any good in the future, who are they supposed to support and try to get behind, its like a feast of a famine, u cant compare the two scenarios to each other whatsoever

[SouthpawRight]

"Both Terence Crawford and Jaron Ennis have both been overlooked throughout the years. I believe if both had been another race they would’ve been superstars earlier in their careers"

im trying to get my head around this statement, i mean even top guys of other races like ggg & loma for example cant sell a ppv on their own lol, bit of a bizarre statement given u have the popularity of guys like tank davis as well

as for jaron ennis the term superstar should not even be close lol, hes only a superstar in avoiding people, ive never seen someone so hyped as him & he wont take on the challenges to proven people right or wrong

if anything being an elite black is an advantage in boxing

elite blacks are fast twitch fighters

it's more fun to watch fast fighters than guys who are not

[Smash]

if anything being an elite black is an advantage in boxing

elite blacks are fast twitch fighters

it's more fun to watch fast fighters than guys who are not

if u are faster than your opponent that can be a major advantage

[B_Murphington]

Crawford couldn't overpower Porter, I don't see how he's going to overpower Canelo. But I guess we'll see soon.

Bro what? Not only did he knockdown Porter twice, it was bad enough to where Porters own father threw in the towel for him.

It didn’t look like Porter was super hurt or anything, but it was only going to get worse from that point on. Mr Porter saw it, recognized it, and threw in the towel to save Shawn from himself cuz he was about to get run over by Crawford.

And that was Porters last bout.

[The D3vil]

"I think this is the worst era of boxing overall since I started watching boxing"

huh the top p4p list is full of very good boxers and excellent top boxers, go take a look at the list over various times in the past, it was far worse that what u see now

He's talking about the health of the sport itself, not the talent in it.

[tokon]

Tank v Paul - a fight with a possibly 50lb-ish weight difference between fighters - should not be sanctioned unless under full "exhibition" rules eg 16oz gloves, headgear etc.