Young Contenders Don't Earn Title Shots Anymore

[Chadmazing]

I was thinking yesterday imagining if Pacquiao had fought Mike Jones or Kell Brook instead of Shane Mosley. Then thought... it's been a real long time in any division that a young fighter with talent has been mandatory for a star titleholder. It's either unproven bums or the titleholder vacating. Last one I can think of is Juanma VS Ponce. Hell, Andre Berto - an unproven prospect himself - blatantly ducked a clearly inferior Selcuk Aydin (so WTF? Easy win...) simply because he wasn't "known enough". How can anyone become a star when nobody fights anybody?

[vcvc]

Berto ducked aydin because of his glass jaw.

[kadyo's]

Read Wilfredo Benitez' boxing life story and see if it can happen again in your life time.

[Bushbaby]

I was thinking yesterday imagining if Pacquiao had fought Mike Jones or Kell Brook instead of Shane Mosley. Then thought... it's been a real long time in any division that a young fighter with talent has been mandatory for a star titleholder. It's either unproven bums or the titleholder vacating. Last one I can think of is Juanma VS Ponce. Hell, Andre Berto - an unproven prospect himself - blatantly ducked a clearly inferior Selcuk Aydin (so WTF? Easy win...) simply because he wasn't "known enough". How can anyone become a star when nobody fights anybody?

Well there is 1 such incident where an old star kinda cherrypicked a young star fighter in Canada.Also Martinez smacked up on 2 younger fighters in the Punisher & Pavlik.I'm praying that the rumors are true & Floyd is gonna fight Ortiz.The problem is that people are following the wrong fighters & are getting stuck buying bogus ppv fights.Keep an eye on the B-Hops,Martinez's & the Punisher's of the world.

[DET. IRONSIDE]

May/Pac era is stinking the joint out. Thats all.

[*Boss*]

Saul Alvarez..............

[mushahadeen]

Young Contenders Don't Earn Title Shots Anymore

neither do bicycle riding soccer playing vets like sergio martinez.

[Chadmazing]

neither do bicycle riding soccer playing vets like sergio martinez.

Oh, until the end of that sentence I wasn't sure who you were posting about.

[BattleAxePurist]

It's not about proving ur self it's about making money and who ur promoter has ties with in alphabet organizations so yes this is true alot of the time