alfonso gomez vs kamegai

[knockoutkid]

whats the deal with this fight, who is the A side? kamegai doesnt seem good enough for golden boy to want to keep him, gomez is the better guy? also ive noticed kamegai doesnt do well in long distance fights he could get outboxed by the veteran.

[No bueno]

Pretty good fight imo.

[SilverMiles]

whats the deal with this fight, who is the A side? kamegai doesnt seem good enough for golden boy to want to keep him, gomez is the better guy? also ive noticed kamegai doesnt do well in long distance fights he could get outboxed by the veteran.

I think it's a good entertaining fight. I don't think either man is suppose to be an "A" and a "B" side. Just a good fun fight where either man is capable of winning.

[HitBattousai]

As SilverMiles indicates, neither guy is really a definitive A side on this one, it's a solid matchup between two Welterweight/Light Middleweight contenders that are roughly regarded on the same level and that come to fight every time out. If I had to hazard a guess, I imagine Golden Boy would probably prefer Kamegai to win because he's kind of the flavor of the moment coming off of his FotY contender war against Guerrero last year. And some of the oddsmakers are imo ridiculously in his favor for this fight. However, I think Gomez will pull out the decision in a competitive fight because he has underrated boxing ability and more experience at the world level. Kamegai is a warrior but he has very little ranged boxing ability and his pressure(while constant) is more of a following type of pressure, he doesn't cut the ring off well. If you look at the first round of the Guerrero fight and the Jorge Silva fight, his limitations are pretty clearly exposed, and compared to Gomez his level of opposition in general is poor.