Comments Thread For: Cotto vs. Kamegai Set For August 26, With Golden Boy, on HBO
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Many choose to recognize it as a world championship and equal to the big 3 (I don't).
As for Cotto going 3-3 in his last 6 fights...that's happened to a lot of great fighters at the end of their career. Ali was 3-3 in his last 6, SRL was 3-2-1 (though it really should have been 3-3). Each of these guys has at least one embarrassing loss in the last six too. They are all greats.
Ali was not ranked #1 after going 3-3 in his last six fights.Comment
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Many choose to recognize it as a world championship and equal to the big 3 (I don't).
Not saying Cotto isn't an all time great. I'm saying that ranking him #1 at junior middleweight when he's 1-2 at the weight in the last five years, hasn't won in the division in four years, and is 3-3 in his last six fights, is ridiculous.
Ali was not ranked #1 after going 3-3 in his last six fights.
As for the WBO...well, I'm still struggling to accept the IBF, and it's been around since Holmes was still champ...I believe.Comment
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I give Cotto a pass in this case. By the time the fight happens he will have been out of the ring for 21 months. Pretty much two years. I wouldn't expect even a top notch fighter to jump into a fight against a top notch boxer after being out that long.
We'll see who he fights next.
I don't think it's so much the opponent,for being out almost two years it's ok,but that it's for a world title against kamegai and especially after two years when the other ranked fighters should be getting that opportunity is what looks bad,,i think he's ranked number one,and I don't know how a fighter stays at number one after being so inactive,thats organizations workComment
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I don't think it's so much the opponent,for being out almost two years it's ok,but that it's for a world title against kamegai and especially after two years when the other ranked fighters should be getting that opportunity is what looks bad,,i think he's ranked number one,and I don't know how a fighter stays at number one after being so inactive,thats organizations work
Yeah, I mentionted this point in a response post.
I don't mind the opponent.
But this is not a World Title fight. That's what I don't like.Comment
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Think a few fighters at 154 would be a little p***ed this is happening, Kamegai hasn't done a lot to earn the shot but it's Cotto so I guess that is justified.Comment
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Miguel Cotto is 3-3 in his last six fights.
Miguel Cotto hasn't won a junior middleweight fight in four years.
Miguel Cotto is 1-2 in junior middleweight fights in the last five years.
What justification is there for ranking him #1? What justification is there for ranking his opponent #5? What justification is there for allowing #1 to face #5 for the vacant title when there are available fighters ranked higher than #5?
Obviously the only thing the WBO cares about is the money, but they don't even have plausible deniability on this one.
I agree I don't think this fight should be a Title fight.
As for the rankings, Cotto is #1
#2 is Liam Williams who is scheduled to rematch Liam Smith
#3 Dennis Hogan (Oh my, he has a laughable record)
#4 Stepan Horvath (Another laughable record)
#5 Yoshihiro Kamegai
I can defintely understand putting Kamegai in above the other guys in their title fight.
But it shouldn't be a title fight. It is what it is unfortunately.Last edited by The Time; 05-24-2017, 08:22 PM.Comment
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