Comments Thread For: Rios vs Barrera Could Be Next, Soto Fight Doubts

[Evil Abed]

He should fight the winner of the Vazquez-Zappavigna.

Ether guy is a tough fight.

[BritishBoxing92]

WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios is poised to face the winner of the upcoming WBC championship rematch between belt owner Humberto Soto and challenger Urbano Antillon. Soto-Antillon takes place on the May 7 pay-per-view undercard to Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas

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oh dear..why not fight the lineal champ JMM or even Soto? (not saying soto is a lineal champ just saying he is the wbc champ) instead they are interested in fighting an old barrera? i want to see a LW Unification fight nothing else..

[Iceta Lives]

I see people bashing Rios for calling out Barrera, but people won't bring up the fact that JMM hasn't mentioned Rios' name and that's the only fight in this division that makes any sense. Soto is a glorified gate keeper at this point and Rios would kill him.

And I'll tell you guys something else. What a bitch move on JMM's part if Barrera ends up fighting Rios while Morales is fighting Maidana at the same time. Really starting to turn my back on him as a fan because of all this.

[lefthook2daliva]

Barrera is going to get his a$$hole turned out.

^^^ Still-butthurt Naz fan.

[MXboxingfan]

he needs to build his name. not too many bigger names out there than barrera.

plus rios-barrera is better than morales-maidana.

at least there's not much size difference and barrera is not as shot.

I think Brandon Rios can build his name by fighting John Murray.

[mani1]

I think Brandon Rios can build his name by fighting John Murray.

John Murray is a nobody he would never fight Rios.

[isbj]

I see people bashing Rios for calling out Barrera, but people won't bring up the fact that JMM hasn't mentioned Rios' name and that's the only fight in this division that makes any sense. Soto is a glorified gate keeper at this point and Rios would kill him.

And I'll tell you guys something else. What a bitch move on JMM's part if Barrera ends up fighting Rios while Morales is fighting Maidana at the same time. Really starting to turn my back on him as a fan because of all this.

How is this a ***** move by JMM? Barrera is lucky to even get a shot at a "title", and Morales has no business with Maidana in the ring! All of these guys are fighting to be contenders to JMM's title. At this point there are no lightweights who have earned that shot. You don't earn a fight with the "lineal" champ by beating the Acostas, and washed up fighters.

[Left Hook Tua]

I see people bashing Rios for calling out Barrera, but people won't bring up the fact that JMM hasn't mentioned Rios' name and that's the only fight in this division that makes any sense. Soto is a glorified gate keeper at this point and Rios would kill him.

And I'll tell you guys something else. What a bitch move on JMM's part if Barrera ends up fighting Rios while Morales is fighting Maidana at the same time. Really starting to turn my back on him as a fan because of all this.

tbf to jmm..... he's angling for a pac fight.

i can't blame him.

once he can work something out with arum , he'll get his money fight.

i hope he does tbh.

not that pac-jmm 3 is great (at this point) but afterwards , we can see rios-jmm , soto-jmm , antillon-jmm.

some solid fights.

[SluggerFan]

oh dear..why not fight the lineal champ JMM or even Soto? (not saying soto is a lineal champ just saying he is the wbc champ) instead they are interested in fighting an old barrera? i want to see a LW Unification fight nothing else..

Soto already ducked Rios once and has a fight scheduled on May 7th, which is over two months away. If he can get a Barrera fight to happen in 3 months then that would occur around June which then would be the perfect time to fight the winner of Antillion vs. Soto. After such a rough fight, a fight with Barrera would be acceptable as long as his next fight is against a tough opponent. Plus, I think JMM is dead set on pursuing a third fight with Pacquiao, so he wouldn't jeapordize that opportunity against a tough outing like Rios (JMM would probably win however he would have to take some big shots to get it done)...