Peter Quillin to fight Michael Zerafa

[paulf]

[Hougigo]

lol. gtfoh with that bull****. Quillin fought in April, is setting up to fight Sept 12, and will likely be fighting again come November/December.

He's getting busy and, with Lee, Zerafa, and the assumed Jacobs fights, he'll actually end up putting in a year that would **** on any year Golovkin has ever had as a professional boxer.

Getting a draw with Andy Lee, fighting a Play boy bunny and fighting Jacobs is a great year?

Boy.....

[ИATAS]

Getting a draw with Andy Lee, fighting a Play boy bunny and fighting Jacobs is a great year?

Boy.....

Fighter of the Year potential

[The Gambler1981]

Getting a draw with Andy Lee, fighting a Play boy bunny and fighting Jacobs is a great year?

Boy.....

For Peter Quillin?

Yea that is a great year~

For most any other boxer............... acceptable.

[bigfo0t]

Quillin's scout

[Scipio2009]

Golovkin would KO each one of those guys within four rounds, probably even give Jacobs cancer again. Sorry, just not impressed with Peter getting a draw against Lee, fighting some bum to set up a Jacobs fight likely next year.

Golovkin may be able to one-punch American Pharoah, but until it actually happens, insinuating on it is foolish.

Golovkin's competition hasn't been that good, and his camp has actively avoided at least two fights that would've possibly been competitive fights, and likely others, to continue with the 40:1 can crushing. Disparage Lee and Jacobs all you want, they're better fighters than anyone Golovkin's ever fought.

[Chrismart]

Thanks Al.

[Hougigo]

Golovkin may be able to one-punch American Pharoah, but until it actually happens, insinuating on it is foolish.

Golovkin's competition hasn't been that good, and his camp has actively avoided at least two fights that would've possibly been competitive fights, and likely others, to continue with the 40:1 can crushing. Disparage Lee and Jacobs all you want, they're better fighters than anyone Golovkin's ever fought.

You still giving out that 100 bucks or were you lying?

[ИATAS]

Golovkin may be able to one-punch American Pharoah, but until it actually happens, insinuating on it is foolish.

Golovkin's competition hasn't been that good, and his camp has actively avoided at least two fights that would've possibly been competitive fights, and likely others, to continue with the 40:1 can crushing. Disparage Lee and Jacobs all you want, they're better fighters than anyone Golovkin's ever fought.

What has Jacobs done to make you believe he's better than guys like Murray, Geale and hell, even guys like Macklin? Got KO'd by Pirog, dropped by Sergio Mora and barely squeaked by Ishe Smith? I just don't see a very good fighter when I watch him fight and I've been watching him since he was just an up & comer, I keep waiting for him to improve but it just hasn't happened. He is what he is at this point.

Regarding Lee, Quillin didn't beat him! He got a draw in a fight where both fighters were terrified to throw any punches. Quillin doesn't get much credit for earning a draw against the guy.

[Scipio2009]

I mentioned in another thread that I felt James De La Rosa is a equally beatable opponent, but has the Angulo win & Mexicanness to drum up more ratings & just a more intriguing matchup than a unknown Aussie who got 100% owned in his first & only legit fight. I'm sure there are others, but didn't delve into it too hard tbh.

I think putting big name cats in with completely anonymous opponents is a legit problem PBC is having even as one of the big supporters of PBC. They need to put a little more effort into fight selection, matchmaking & venue location. Those areas could be greatly improved & I suspect they will be when Richard S. takes the helm (or I suspect he will take the helm & he would improve those things anyway, maybe I'm wrong), but right now doing dumb **** like Quillin fighting some unknown when he's a peer to GGG to some degree still, having the battle of Ohio in Las Vegas & just throwing together so many whatever fights vs unknowns for their name guys is hurting their PR a great deal. My assumption is PBC is trying to create a whole new wave of boxing fans & they know you & I will be watching if Wilder defends vs the cashier at my local grocery store so they aren't trying to sell to us at all right now necessarily, but just build up their names into names for the people who weren't really paying attention to boxing. I think they can throw together better cards at more sensible locations involving more competitive fights where "their guy" still wins is I guess my major issue with this fight & some other ones. If this was just an infrequent thing I doubt I'd have a problem with it either cuz every power broker in the sport is guilty of it sometimes, but it seems like its happening far too often with PBC.

The audience tuning in for Quillin's fight wouldn't know the difference De La Rosa and Zerafa and, frankly, I'm not all that sure the actual fights would be all that different either (haven't seen the actual fight but De La Rosa losing his last fight by KO, according to BoxRec, doesn't much help the expectations).

Also, for all the talk of the "Battle for Ohio", people didn't notice that Shawn Porter has never had an actual professional fight in the state of Ohio, with Broner only having 3 of his last 11 fights in Ohio (13 of his 32 total fights in Ohio).

PBC has defnitely been losing the PR war, especially online and in the old HBO/Top Rank-led orbits (having Schaefer attached to the effort, as "the public face for the PBC" if you will, would definitely help clear a lot of that up).

Would definitely like to continue to see bigger and bigger fights (Quillin-Jacobs, Fonfara-Cleverly, Quillin-Jacobs, Thurman-Porter, possibly Garcia-Khan II, and a host of other intriguing fights are being discussed for the coming Fall), but I think the doom-and-gloom is a bit excessive (even the Frampton debut in Texas made sense to me, as you'd be positioning Frampton to debut at a reasonable TV air time in Northern Ireland on a stage where he was basically guaranteed a quality crowd, thanks to fighting a Mexican in a Mexican border town on the same night and at the same venue as one of Mexico's biggest star fighters).

There's a conversation to be had, and I'm glad to have that conversation.