Does Golden Boy have brilliant matchmaking, or are they just lucky?

[ShoulderRoll]

Golden Boy matches up their guys tough. And when you do that sometimes they are going to get beat.

Top Rank on the other hand tries to cherry pick for their stars and match them up carefully. Arum just admitted that in the case of Chavez Jr.

[ChiTown2Diego]

I think a lot of GBP matches are very intriguing.

Everybody forgot how they thought the only way Alexander would beat Maidana was by robbery. Instead, Alexander dominated Maidana pretty clearly. Look at Matthysse vs Soto, everybody thought Soto would outbox Matthysse, didn't happen. Ortiz vs Lopez is the FOTY IMO, now Garcia vs Khan happened. These are such great fights to watch. I can't complain.

GBP gets crap for making too good a fight, and putting their young guys in dangerous fights. But look what it results in.

I know you said IYO Ortiz Lopez is FOTY but no way does it trump JuanMa Salido II. That fight is still hands down FOTY along with two classic rds w the potential of also being ROTY.

[garfios]

Some of it is luck, but styles make fights and Golden Boy has had some great one's recently.
Personally, I give them a pass for Canelo-Lopez because the fact is that they attempted to put him in there with some challenging opponents but different things happened. At some point you have to have a fight in place so they decided just to keep Canelo active before moving him onto to bigger challanges.

A pass for Lopez-Canelo, Do you know that on fight night Canelo might have 20 pounds over Lopez and that could lead to tragedy in the ring? They are plenty of JMW around to make the fight interesting, he doesn't have faith in Canelo and we know that, its clear, but bringing a JWW to fight a big JMW it is criminal.
PS. Probably they not let Canelo weight the next day.