He came up from 135lbs, Spence, the best rated welterweight in his prime, had a 10-KO streak going and Mikey didn't even go down or was ever actually hurt from any punch landed.
"Surviving" might not mean much to many armchair experts but it is in fact a big deal that a lightweight was able to come up two weight classes, lose every single round, had 1000+ punches thrown at him, an he never was even close to going down.
Mikey's stock dropped slightly, but once the smoke clears and Mikey goes down to 140 and dominates, his stock will rise back up. JMM suffered a similar loss to Mayweather and he went down to 140 to get a few wins then KO'ed Pacquiao as the underdog 3 years later and I also thought he beat Bradley, outlanding him in power punches in 9 out of 12 rounds.
"Surviving" might not mean much to many armchair experts but it is in fact a big deal that a lightweight was able to come up two weight classes, lose every single round, had 1000+ punches thrown at him, an he never was even close to going down.
Mikey's stock dropped slightly, but once the smoke clears and Mikey goes down to 140 and dominates, his stock will rise back up. JMM suffered a similar loss to Mayweather and he went down to 140 to get a few wins then KO'ed Pacquiao as the underdog 3 years later and I also thought he beat Bradley, outlanding him in power punches in 9 out of 12 rounds.
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