Comments Thread For: Trout Warns Charlo: You Have Awoken a Sleeping Giant!

[Rbjr77]

Dang some of y'all treat Trout like a wet goldfish with a tight little ass. He's gonna be fine. He damm sure ain't punked out no fight

[lex_fugitive]

Trout's only losses were to Canelo, Lara, Jermall Charlo, and Hurd. Quite possibly the four best jmw's of the past decade. He is a seasoned vet, a risky fight for anyone. Trout is without a doubt the toughest opponent of Jermell's career.

Jermell seems to be the lesser half of the Charlo twins. His twin already beat Trout and J-Rock, and just had an impressive ko at 160 (albeit to an opponent who was there to make him look good). Time to see how good Jermell really is. With all that being said, I still expect Jermell to win, but it is definitely no sure-fire victory. Trout is a live body, he is not just another opponent designed to make someone look good.

[Elroy The Great]

a prideful ex gatekeeper......

[Dramacyde]

Trout is Haymon's official gatekeeper

[5000boxing]

I like em both.. this is bitter sweet for me!!! But at the end.. I hope both men can go home to their families afterwards. If trout went to 147 he would be deadly and highly avoided.

[nycsmooth]

when the word gatekeeper keeps cropping up you know they've once very good fighter has taken a step or two back and that is what has happened to Trout... a very good stylist when he was at his best but if you could have just had a punch it would have made things easier for him...

[landotter]

Legit test for Charlo. Charlo in 10 after a good early fight.

[TyrantT316]

Nothing wrong with a gatekeeper who isn't exactly being concussed with his head bouncing off of the canvas every loss. He's making money and seems to still have his wits about him. But I think that if he suffers any sort of horribly non-competitive/blowout/knock out defeat, he should start planning his exit from Boxing so that doesn't become his norm.

Trout is a good guy, seems like him and his wife had that "power couple" thing going on, nice looking family and with kids. He seems blessed, was a champ, got some big fights vs name guys, a defining win and upset vs Cotto, etc. In other words, not everyone is an Ali, Leonard, Duran...not everyone is a May or Pac..not everyone is a DLH, Trinidad, Mosley...not everyone is a Cotto, Hamed...however if those are considered like top 4 "tiers/levels-to-this" in Boxing history...Trout can proudly look back on his career as one of those in the 5th tier as a former champion with a big win that happened to be an upset...he can show his kids that big win and moment...if he makes an appearance and they need a video of some highlights, he can show the highlights of him beating a future HOFer in Cotto, raising that belt high, etc...

I think he's fighting right now for love of the sport and this is what he does. Giving himself a chance at another big moment to add "multi-time" champion to his leger isn't a bad thing. As long as he isn't taking a huge amount of punishment in non-competitive fights, he'll probably be encouraged to fight on. The Hurd loss was rough, so he might be on that path, but I don't think he should be discouraged from trying.

[Eff Pandas]

The fact Trout admits he's been sleeping says everything about him & his chances vs Charlo.

To me he's been done or half ass into boxing for years now.

I mean lets just look at his record since the back to back Canelo & Lara L's.

8mos off
"Live Body" fight W10
4mos off
"Live Body" fight KO7
5mos off
BS opponent fight KO6
4mos off
"Live Body" fight KO6
8mos off
Charlo L12
1yr, 5mos off
Hurd KO by 10
4mos off
BS opponent fight
4mos off
Charlo ???

He's fighting live body's or below & losing or just losing vs legit guys.