Leftover Scraps

[Randall Cunning]

Is Ortiz/Rios still happening? Hearn wanted one of those 2 for Josh Kelly's next fight

[Scopedog]

It is pretty ridiculous how far most of these guys have fallen, but at least those fights are at least, on paper, competitive (except maybe Angulo-Rosado at this point in time.) If they've fallen to that level together it's appropriate for them to fight, so long as each of these fights doesn't get billing as the fight of the century or whatever.

[just the facts]

Haymon is tearing things up in 2018. I just wanna thank al for bringing us all these great match ups

Again if Haymon was Caucasian, you'd be claiming PBC as the best thing that ever happened to boxing

[soul_survivor]

That's a great point.

I don't know man. So many dudes sit on the shelf these days, doe. Once or twice a year is normal even for mid-carders. I've never seen boxing be so slow. But what can you do?

Exactly. There was a time when only the truly biggest stars (Pac, May, Oscar, Cotto) could fight once or twice a year, even then they fought twice a year if not 3 times.

Now complete unknowns or guys looking to build a career are barely fighting twice a year. It is a shambles.

[GhostofDempsey]

I don't mind the first two fights. I think they are evenly matched and can turn out to be competitive fights that may lead to a bigger fight I have no interest in the Angelo and Jennings fights.

I think Haymon will eventually lose interest in boxing now that he has "saved" the sport. It will be an opportunity to pass his inventory of fighters on to TMT and throw Floyd one last bone. Not sure who in their right mind would sign with him given the recent surge of unhappy TMT fighters.

[Clegg]

Worst thing about fights like this is the winner is considered a reasonable opponent for an elite fighter and the loser can say 'I only lost to a name guy so I can have another fight vs another shot guy'. Hope we don't get Spence-Alexander and Rios-Berto after this. Khan, Brook, Thurman are likely eyeing these shot corpses as well.

[Archie_Leach]

Unlike casuals I enjoy b and c level fights with names I recognize and used to be fans of.

It's not like any of them are title fights so big whoop.

Yep
REAL fans don't give a f uck......

[Archie_Leach]

Devon alexander and kill should never be in the same sentence. Alexanders style is an eye sore...Pitty Pat 1-2 over and over just like lara except alexander does an annoying screeching sound every punch. Berto got this one

Make no mistake. I can't stand that scrub Devon....

But he is tough.
Berto for all his heart isn't....

[Zaryu]

Those should be entertaining fights, too many boxing fans of today are the worse...

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Worst thing about fights like this is the winner is considered a reasonable opponent for an elite fighter and the loser can say 'I only lost to a name guy so I can have another fight vs another shot guy'. Hope we don't get Spence-Alexander and Rios-Berto after this. Khan, Brook, Thurman are likely eyeing these shot corpses as well.

Sadly, I can see those fights happening...