Comments Thread For: Joe Smith's Promoter Hopeful Fight With Alvarez Is Rescheduled For Late August

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Joe Smith's promoter hopes to learn soon the exact date of the light heavyweight contender's rescheduled fight against Eleider Alvarez. Smith and Alvarez were supposed to headline an ESPN show July 16 from MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Their fight was postponed late in June because Alvarez suffered an injury to his right shoulder while training.
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[57Blues]

Joe Smith Jr. fight would be a good fight as would the rest of the set up for the Light Heavy Divison nothing is solid right now to my way of looking at it but its fights that would lead to fights. Lot of noise starting to be made about several fights now some names some match ups. If they have any real desire to get the fans back to the sport they got to put up some real fights. ESPN is a not much of nothing but filler on top of a filler this Summer. Make it happen. Like I said something that is new nope not at all.

[PunchyPotorff]

Any solid boxer (like Alvarez) is going to be a handful for Joe. Hopefully he can get some better training/sparring in for this one. He'll always have the power to lean on, but catching Alvarez is never easy. Solid puncher Kovalev was able to figure out a good formula to beat Alvarez, so maybe Smith can follow in Sergey's footsteps. Speaking of, IMO a Smith/Kovalev fight would be great.

[57Blues]

It would not take much for Jr. to be more then a one sided fighter but he has never shown any interest in doing that. Why? I do not know. I still enjoy his fights but I do agree he relies too much on one side and does very little to change up inbetween fights or during a fight. He is not alone in that department. Impossible to get up for any fights right now. It is too much talk and a whole lotta cancellations. But I do agree if he added something changed up a bit the power would still follow.