Jorge Linares is Good but not Great!

[Madison Boxing]

People who have been taken in by Sky sports gushing over him.

yeah, guilty. guess when i think about it hes not actually beaten anyone whos any good.

[FinitoxDinamita]

Linares beats Lomachenko

[tokon]

Linares has fantastic Elite Skills but i'm afriad to say when it comes to showing them off in a Boxing Ring, we only see it for a round or two and then he goes back to just being a Good rather then Great Boxer.

A great Boxer will Dominate his opponent once he has them beat, the problem with Linares is that he seemed too impressed by his work and just goes into auto pilot mode which allows his opponent back into the fight and even allow's them a chance at KO'ing him.

We saw that last night against Campbell, a fight he should have won easily and also against Crolla in the first fight and to an extent the second one too.

Same thing happened versus Antonio Demarco.

He also doesn't have any Great wins...Crolla and Campbell are just Top 15 guys, nothing special. Same with Cano, Mitchell and Prieto.

His best win is still his first World Title fight against Oscar Larios and that was 10 Years ago back in 2007

I'm a fan but i just don't think he'd do that well against Elite guys in or around 135lbs Lightweight like Gervonta Davis, Mikey Garcia, Robert Easter Jr, Miguel Berchelt and Lomachenko

I also would give Orlando Salido, Terry Flanagan, Richard Commey and Raymundo Beltran a very good chance against him.

Good appraisal.

[Derranged]

i thought linares would beat him quite easy tbh. Combination of maybe me overrating linares based on beating recent, limited opposition, and thinking campbell is worse than he is. But thinking about it, linares was probably quite a nice, technical style for campbell to fight against. I think if he fought another pressure fighter with good pop, he'd get stopped again. Said before the fight that hes similar to khan and i stand by that, frail vulnerable fighter with good skills.

That didn't look too easy to me. He clearly won but it was a tough fight.

[Madison Boxing]

That didn't look too easy to me. He clearly won but it was a tough fight.

yeah, as in i thought he would win easy as a prediction before the fight, but he didnt.

[Mexican_Puppet]

I don't know why people expected him to beat Campbell 'easily'.

Campbell is a pretty normal fighter.

And Linares won easy 7 or 8 rounds clearly

[Derranged]

yeah, as in i thought he would win easy as a prediction before the fight, but he didnt.

I misread what you wrote. I'm a little buzzed.

[flipbjefrox]

I rank Linares along with Brian Viloria, Oscar Larios, Estrada where they're not first ballot HOF but they have a good enough resume in addition to being 2-3 times division champions where they can still be in the HOF

[Sparked_26]

i thought linares would beat him quite easy tbh. Combination of maybe me overrating linares based on beating recent, limited opposition, and thinking campbell is worse than he is. But thinking about it, linares was probably quite a nice, technical style for campbell to fight against. I think if he fought another pressure fighter with good pop, he'd get stopped again. Said before the fight that hes similar to khan and i stand by that, frail vulnerable fighter with good skills.

Yeah nice match up for a 'stylist' like Campbell.

He's a solid top 10 sort of guy. He should rematch Mendy again that would tell us more about his limitations. Mendy was strong, tough, and fit but very basic if he can win based of those variables then Campbell will likely never really be able to win a world title. Same with Terry Flanagan in that he's tough, fit, strong and consistent.

[Madison Boxing]

I misread what you wrote. I'm a little buzzed.

aha, no worries, easily done.