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by Cliff Rold - The fights are happening.
Already this year, we’ve seen Peter Quillin-Andy Lee, Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux, and Miguel Cotto-Saul Alvarez. Next year, we might see Golovkin-Alvarez and Lee versus Billy Joe Saunders is only two weeks away.
This week, we get Quillin facing down with Brooklyn rival Daniel Jacobs.
We are getting a series of top ten clashes in the middleweight division. This field might not make anyone forget the reigns of Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins. It probably won’t ever compare to the deep reservoir of talent at 160 between those two titans featuring James Toney, Julian Jackson, Mike McCallum, Chris Eubank, and Nigel Benn.
It doesn’t have to.
In order for this era to carve its space, it simply has to makes the fights, the memories, amongst each other that it can. Whether or not the bridge can be crossed between the various promotional factions to eventually have a truly culminating showdown remains to be seen. For now, Jacobs-Quillin is one of those fights that can increase that demand. [Click Here To Read More]
Already this year, we’ve seen Peter Quillin-Andy Lee, Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux, and Miguel Cotto-Saul Alvarez. Next year, we might see Golovkin-Alvarez and Lee versus Billy Joe Saunders is only two weeks away.
This week, we get Quillin facing down with Brooklyn rival Daniel Jacobs.
We are getting a series of top ten clashes in the middleweight division. This field might not make anyone forget the reigns of Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins. It probably won’t ever compare to the deep reservoir of talent at 160 between those two titans featuring James Toney, Julian Jackson, Mike McCallum, Chris Eubank, and Nigel Benn.
It doesn’t have to.
In order for this era to carve its space, it simply has to makes the fights, the memories, amongst each other that it can. Whether or not the bridge can be crossed between the various promotional factions to eventually have a truly culminating showdown remains to be seen. For now, Jacobs-Quillin is one of those fights that can increase that demand. [Click Here To Read More]
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