The way y’all talked up Berchelt and downplayed Valdez, I would have thought Berchelt was like a 130 version of GGG. Never again am I going along with groupthink, cause I was going for Valdez but thought he had no chance in hell.
Group think and listening to the media will leave you with the I eat ass face. I only had two concerns for this fight: If Valdez could take Berchelt's punches and if Valdez's power would carry up to 130. Other than that it was obvious who the more skilled complete fighter was even before Reynoso got ahold of Valdez. A lot of people knock fighters for having tough fights against good competition where they had adversity (Valdez) and praise others for blowing out jobbers and no hopers(Berchelt) and then wonder why once the one who had been fighting no hopers finally steps in there with a battle tested guy he looks ordinary as fukk. In boxing the number one way to measure the quality of a fighter is THEIR LEVEL OF COMPETITION, more so than any other sport. We see how easy it is to get and collect belts in the vacant belt/3 or 4 belt per weight class era, and jump weight classes and pick and choose who you want to fight and avoid others. That's why I put more stock on guys who have cleaned up divisions or fought good competition than being a 3, 4, 5, 6 weight champion and shyt because usually when you jump that many weight classes you weren't fighting the absolute best you could have fought at every weight class.
Part of it is the Floyd effect, people think if you aren't 10-2 or 12-0 every fight younare a bad fighter, most of the time in the history of boxing when a good fighter fights another good fighter they usually win by like MD or something because at the top level you aren't just gonna run through other top level fighters. They made it to where they are for a reason, and it isn't because they suck.