Comments Thread For: Photos: Chris John Beats Fernando Saucedo in Jakarta

[chinoy]

John gave JMM hell and no, JMM would not want to fight John for $30,000

Why isn't JMM/John ever even discussed? Mentioned?

[puga]

john is easily the best skilled fighter in the fw division....if only the man can crack.....

[FloydTBE]

If I were a top 5 FW, I would not fight this guy. They'll sign a fight with John but it won't happen until like a year later because John will just keep injuring himself and postponing the fight.

lol, true....

[FloydTBE]

john vs lopez, john vs gamboa

[grayfist]

damn such a big talent got wasted over the last years...

So true. I was once skeptical but John kept making me eat crow and I just got tired of the taste. When he fought in the US twice in '09 (vs. Rocky Juarez), I thought that was the start of us seeing him more often vs. increasingly better competition and well up to matches against the elite in and around the weight class. But then he kept out of sight for a year!

The kid is 31 years old and if it is his aim to match or eclipse Eusebio Pedroza's division record of successful defenses, he's got a good shot at it, plying his trade only at home and around the neighborhood. But that can't be a test of true greatness when one has contemporaries named Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa.

He can even perhaps try to chase JMM and get the rematch at SuperFeather... He'll get reams of sports pages on that quest even if the rematch does not materialize, thus, improve his marketability, become part of the conversation when Gamboa's and Lopez's names are mentioned, improve his chances at getting fights against them and get quite a bit more money.

It's just a mystery how his handlers can't see the better road to take.

[super villa1n]

chris john= manny pacquiao of indonesia