Comments Thread For: Castano Captures WBA Gold, Maidana Continues Making Noise

[Dean_Razorback]

i'm from La Matanza, i couldn't be happier. vamos Brian!

[Dean_Razorback]

Me too. Couldn't help but think he looks better than the early version of Chino ! (quite a lot better !)

If he's got his big bro's skills though, maybe no surprise as he'll be getting the training Chino wish he had in the early days.

Don't forget too Chino got a lot better around the time he faced Broner - whatever Chino learned around that time will be drilled into little bro right now 'hey, took me n frigging fights before I learned this-and-this, you get it into your head NOW...'.

Should be interesting to see how far he goes. Looks like he carries some pop like big bro did too.

Just hope he doesn't have dinner with big bro too often....

if i'm not mistaken fabian has a better amateur background, he is a bronze medalist in the youth olympics of 2010. he looks more technical than chino did when he had 11 fights as a pro

[giacomino]

Thought Castano looked pretty good and very strong, but he got hit a bit. De Jesus wasn't the walkover I thought he'd be based on who he'd fought. Wonder if Sauerland will get Castano to come to Germany to fight Culcay now that they are backing away from the Andrade fight. Castano might hit too hard.

[John Locke]

Why not? They get paid and don't use headgear don't they?

They're only 5 round fights

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

They're only 5 round fights

So? How many rounds do you think fighters fight early in their 'real pro career'?

[John Locke]

So? How many rounds do you think fighters fight early in their 'real pro career'?

Quite a few differences. In the WSB you're fighting top competition non-stop, whereas your first few fights as a pro are against journeyman with more losses than wins, so it's much harder to accumulate an impressive looking record in the WSB. Also gloves have slightly more padding, so it's a bit easier to take punches, harder to get KOs.

Really the whole set-up has an amateur feel to it, fighters who jump from WSB to pro fighting don't even acknowledge their WSB record as a part of their pro record. I specifically remember Lomachenko saying this when he first turned pro.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Quite a few differences. In the WSB you're fighting top competition non-stop, whereas your first few fights as a pro are against journeyman with more losses than wins, so it's much harder to accumulate an impressive looking record in the WSB. Also gloves have slightly more padding, so it's a bit easier to take punches, harder to get KOs.

Really the whole set-up has an amateur feel to it, fighters who jump from WSB to pro fighting don't even acknowledge their WSB record as a part of their pro record. I specifically remember Lomachenko saying this when he first turned pro.

It really doesn't matter what the set up is or how it feels though

By definition, a professional is a person engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.

[John Locke]

It really doesn't matter what the set up is or how it feels though

By definition, a professional is a person engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.

It does matter depending on whose opinion it is, that's besides the point though.

Like I said, on paper you could say they're pro fights, but in reality, the majority of people, including the fighters themselves, don't consider them professional bouts.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

It does matter depending on whose opinion it is, that's besides the point though.

Like I said, on paper you could say they're pro fights, but in reality, the majority of people, including the fighters themselves, don't consider them professional bouts.

Professional - a person engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.

They fight for a living, they get paid. Therefore they are professional fights.

[Dr Rumack]

Professional - a person engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.

They fight for a living, they get paid. Therefore they are professional fights.

Technically, but not in the sense normally used in boxing. You can call them pro fights if you want, but you can't put them side by side with a regular pro bout and say they are the same thing.