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How come Mikey never calls out Easter? Just Linares and Lomachenko? I would love to see Lomachenko-Mikey but realistically Lomachenko has already moved up from 126, so he's not a big 130 like Charlo was a big 154 who can fight the biggest guys in his first fight at the new weight class. Loma is a natural 130, and Mikey is big enough to be talking about fighting at 147, so he's going to fight that guy the first fight at 135?
What would be much more logical is to have Mikey fight Easter in December, Loma fight Linares in December (Linares isn't as big as Mikey), and then the winners can fight in April to unify three belts, and maybe by then Verdejo has the fourth belt, so if Mikey beats Loma, they can make a Mexican vs PR fight for all four belts which should do decent business. Or Loma-Verdejo which is a rematch from the amateurs.
Why not do that?
Or yeah, Loma could fight Easter, and Mikey could fight Linares, and then the winners fight. The problem with that is Loma is with Arum, Easter is with Haymon. Mikey works with Haymon though so that's why he should be calling out Easter, because he can actually get that fight. Loma-Linares is Top Rank and Golden Boy, which works. Mikey-Easter is two Haymon affiliated guys, so that works. But so far Mikey keeps only calling out Top Rank guys (Loma, Crawford) and Golden Boy guys (Linares), two promoters that almost never work with Haymon.
That makes me wonder if he isn't frontin'. If he's not only calling out guys he can't fight on purpose to make it seem like he wants the best. Of course, he does call out Haymon welterweights...
Maybe that's the plan? Front about wanting to fight the best TR and GBP guys at 135 to build your name, but in reality the plan all along is to just jump up to 147 instead and make bigger money fighting Haymon welterweights?
If that's the case you can't complain, those are good fights, but I would definitely like to see Mikey vs Lomachenko first. But Lomachenko needs at least one fight to grow into 135, if not multiple. Ward took almost two years moving up 7 pounds, which is su****ious because he was able to add almost that much weight in just muscle in seven months between the first fight and the rematch LOL, but anyway, Ward took almost two years to move up, but Loma is supposed to do it in less than four months after having to weigh in at 130??? And face a way bigger lightweight than the light heavyweight Ward fought, relatively speaking?
Come on... it should be Loma-Linares, Mikey-Easter, winners fight.
What would be much more logical is to have Mikey fight Easter in December, Loma fight Linares in December (Linares isn't as big as Mikey), and then the winners can fight in April to unify three belts, and maybe by then Verdejo has the fourth belt, so if Mikey beats Loma, they can make a Mexican vs PR fight for all four belts which should do decent business. Or Loma-Verdejo which is a rematch from the amateurs.
Why not do that?
Or yeah, Loma could fight Easter, and Mikey could fight Linares, and then the winners fight. The problem with that is Loma is with Arum, Easter is with Haymon. Mikey works with Haymon though so that's why he should be calling out Easter, because he can actually get that fight. Loma-Linares is Top Rank and Golden Boy, which works. Mikey-Easter is two Haymon affiliated guys, so that works. But so far Mikey keeps only calling out Top Rank guys (Loma, Crawford) and Golden Boy guys (Linares), two promoters that almost never work with Haymon.
That makes me wonder if he isn't frontin'. If he's not only calling out guys he can't fight on purpose to make it seem like he wants the best. Of course, he does call out Haymon welterweights...
Maybe that's the plan? Front about wanting to fight the best TR and GBP guys at 135 to build your name, but in reality the plan all along is to just jump up to 147 instead and make bigger money fighting Haymon welterweights?
If that's the case you can't complain, those are good fights, but I would definitely like to see Mikey vs Lomachenko first. But Lomachenko needs at least one fight to grow into 135, if not multiple. Ward took almost two years moving up 7 pounds, which is su****ious because he was able to add almost that much weight in just muscle in seven months between the first fight and the rematch LOL, but anyway, Ward took almost two years to move up, but Loma is supposed to do it in less than four months after having to weigh in at 130??? And face a way bigger lightweight than the light heavyweight Ward fought, relatively speaking?
Come on... it should be Loma-Linares, Mikey-Easter, winners fight.
He is going to walk through everyone at 140. After he destroyed Joel Dias Jr back on June 9th, he called out Terence Crawford and Adrien Broner. This dude is a very intelligent, slick southpaw that has a lot of skills. He has everything a fighter needs to be champion. Charisma, heart, chin and sublime boxing skills, plus he likes to mix it up.
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