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[Dallas' 4 Eva]

He fell into the clinch and as Kavalaiuskas moved back with their arms locked he pulled him down a bit. Ref was right that he didn’t count imo. It wasn’t the best night of Bud but not because of this sequence

Crawford clinched him up cause that right hand was hurting his ass. Stop it bro, you don't start clinching cause the punches don't hurt.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Crawford clinched him up cause that right hand was hurting his ass. Stop it bro, you don't start clinching cause the punches don't hurt.

well unless your John Ruiz, but yeah point taken.

 

[patscorpio]

Maybe I remember the name from Zurdo N not PBC

Benavidez on the Zurdo Diet tho

honestly angulo maybe a tougher opponent for benavidez then you think..certainly tougher than truax...zurdo and sims were doing their best not to get touched by angulo...he punches hard...zurdo i remember really didnt like angulo's power lol...angulo is kinda slow foot speed wise but benavidez is a true mexican...dude may actually try to stay in the pocket with him

 

[desjardins]

He fell into the clinch and as Kavalaiuskas moved back with their arms locked he pulled him down a bit. Ref was right that he didn’t count imo. It wasn’t the best night of Bud but not because of this sequence

Looks like a balance issue honestly. Bud was low and at an awkward angle and Mean Machine momentum in that movement likely threw off his balance. Either way he beat the soul out that boy the rest of the way and looked way better afterward than Spence looked after going life and death with Porter

 

[patscorpio]

Sergey Kovalev back in action next month against Sullivan Barrera
By Dan Rafael
ESPN


Former three-time light heavyweight world titlist Sergey Kovalev will return to the ring on April 25 to fight for the first time since Canelo Alvarez brutally knocked him out and took his belt last fall.

Kovalev will face longtime light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera in a 12-round cruiserweight fight contracted at 180 pounds, five over the light heavyweight limit, in the main event of a stacked Golden Boy Promotions card on DAZN.

The card also will feature four world title bouts -- with boxers from four different continents -- at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California.

Kovalev wrote on social media on Wednesday that the fight had been signed and later said, "I am happy to get back in the ring and to be on my way back to world championship bouts. Barrera is a Cuban fighter and, even though I never faced any Cuban fighters as a professional, back in amateur days it was always Russian boxers competing with Cuban boxers, so I'm looking forward to remembering my amateur boxing. I'm very glad to be back and to bring my boxing to my fans on April 25."


Main Events CEO Kathy Duva, Kovalev's promoter and Barrera's former promoter, who is working with Golden Boy on the fight, added, "Because Sullivan Barrera spent most of his professional career with Main Events, a fight between Kovalev and Barrera is something that we naturally anticipated would happen for a very long time. And so here we are! This is a really solid fight between two action fighters who have never turned down a challenge."

On Nov. 2, Alvarez, who moved up two weight classes from middleweight, was locked in a very close fight with Kovalev before knocking him out in the 11th round. Part of Kovalev's deal for the fight with Alvarez was that in the event of a loss he would be guaranteed a seven-figure comeback fight by DAZN.

A win over Barrera will guarantee Kovalev a second and final comeback fight on DAZN.

Kovalev (34-4-1, 29 KOs), 36, a Russia native fighting out of Los Angeles, will go into the fight facing serious ongoing legal issues. He was arrested in June 2018 in connection with an incident at a party in Big Bear Lake, California, in which he allegedly punched a woman in the face, broke her nose, gave her a concussion and displaced a disk in her neck after she rejected his sexual advances. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted of a felony assault charge. He has pleaded not guilty, and his trial is scheduled to begin later this year.

Former world title challenger Barrera (22-3, 14 KOs), 38, a Cuban defector fighting out of Miami, is aiming to rebound from a 10-round decision loss to Jesse Hart last June. He got the fight with Kovalev over former light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson, who was also considered and had been approved by DAZN.

"This will be the most important fight of my career because I have always pursued a fight with Sergey Kovalev," Barrera said. "I know that he has to win this fight in order to continue with his career, but the case is the same with me. It is very important to win this fight, which for me would be like becoming a world champion. That's what it means for me to finally face Kovalev. I also want to thank Golden Boy for believing in me and my team, and for giving us the opportunity that we have always wanted, which is to fight Kovalev."

Beside the main event, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya said he was excited by the depth of the card.

"For this huge event, we'll have fighters from four different continents battling it out for world titles from all four sanctioning bodies," De La Hoya said. "Fans of professional boxing will be treated to a banquet of big fights headlined by Sergey Kovalev versus Sullivan Barrera, along with the returns of world champions such as Patrick Teixeira, Rene and Felix Alvarado, and Chayaphon Moonsri (also known as Wanheng Menayothin)."

In the co-feature, Teixeira (31-1, 22 KOs), 29, a southpaw from Brazil, will make the first defense of his junior middleweight world title against mandatory challenger Brian Castano (16-0-1, 12 KOs), 30, of Argentina.

"I am very happy and excited to defend my world title for the very first time," said Teixeira, who recently signed a contract extension with Golden Boy. "I worked very hard to become a world champion, and I won't let anyone take that away from me. I know that Castano, as my mandatory challenger, is tough and experienced, but my team and I are more than ready to go to war and deliver a great performance."

Teixeira won a vacant interim 154-pound world title by unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Carlos Adames on Nov. 30, in a tremendous action fight in which Teixeira overcame major trouble to drop Adames in the seventh round for what turned out to be the winning margin. The following week, Teixeira was elevated from interim titlist to the full titleholder when Jaime Munguia, as expected, vacated the title in order to move up to middleweight.

Castano is a former secondary junior middleweight world titlist who made two successful defenses. But last June he was stripped of the belt for not signing to face mandatory challenger Michel Soro.

Junior lightweight world titlist Rene Alvarado (32-8, 21 KOs), 31, of Nicaragua, and twin brother and junior flyweight world titlist Felix Alvarado (35-2, 30 KOs) will defend their titles on the same card. Rene Alvarado knocked out Andrew Cancio in the seventh round in November to win a 130-pound title and will make his first defense against Roger Gutierrez (24-3-1, 20 KOs), 24, of Venezuela, who has won five fights in a row.

Felix Alvarado, who signed with Golden Boy last month, will make the second defense of his 108-pound world title against former strawweight titlist DeeJay Kriel (16-1-1, 8 KOs), 24, of South Africa. Kriel won his strawweight belt in February 2018 by 12th-round knockout of Carlos Licona but never defended, instead vacating in order to move up in weight.

Menayothin (54-0, 18 KOs), 34, of Thailand, who boasts the longest active unbeaten streak in boxing, will defend his strawweight world title for the 13th time when he squares off with Marco John Rementizo (12-3, 9 KOs), 20, of the Philippines. Menayothin signed with Golden Boy late last year and the fight will be his first outside of Thailand.

Also on the card:

• Former junior lightweight world titlist Alberto Machado (22-2, 18 KOs), 29, of Puerto Rico, will face fellow southpaw Cristian Baez (18-1, 17 KOs), 28, of Venezuela, in a 10-round lightweight fight. Machado is seeking his second win in a row since moving up in weight after losing his title by knockout to Cancio and then getting knocked out again in the immediate rematch last June.

• Junior featherweight Diego De La Hoya (22-1, 10 KOs), 25, of Mexico, a first cousin of Oscar De La Hoya, will face Manuel "Tino" Avila (23-2-1, 8 KOs), 27, of Fairfield, California, in a 10-rounder.

• Middleweight Shane Mosley Jr. (15-3, 9 KOs), 29, of Pomona, California, the son of former three-division world champion and 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Shane Mosley Sr., will have his first fight since signing with Golden Boy last month. He will face Abraham Cordero (13-5-2, 7 KOs), 25, of Mexico, in an eight-rounder.

• Junior featherweight Hector Valdez (12-0, 8 KOs), 24, of Dallas, will face an opponent to be determined in an eight-round bout.

for the talent that GB has this is a pretty loaded ass card

shane Jr is still trying to do something in this boxing game...god bless him

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

well unless your John Ruiz, but yeah point taken.

But that was John Ruiz game. Kell Brook did that to Porter and tried to do it to Spence in they fight. Bud aint ever been a clinching ass nikka bro, he don't fight out the clinch like that.

 

[reservoirdogs]

Looks like a balance issue honestly. Bud was low and at an awkward angle and Mean Machine momentum in that movement likely threw off his balance. Either way he beat the soul out that boy the rest of the way and looked way better afterward than Spence looked after going life and death with Porter

True but I rate Porter higher than Kavalaiuskas. Though I also don't believe anybody who's not on the PBC's side of the pond at 147 are scrubs, it's true that their league is the A league at 147 with hte omission of Crawford.
We will see how guys like Mean Machine or Abdukhakorov will develop though and there are fresh faces on the grasp like Ortiz or Ennis

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

But that was John Ruiz game. Kell Brook did that to Porter and tried to do it to Spence in they fight. Bud aint ever been a clinching ass nikka bro, he don't fight out the clinch like that.

Exactly.. I seen Bud get his ass dropped just like you did.

 

[reservoirdogs]

Crawford clinched him up cause that right hand was hurting his ass. Stop it bro, you don't start clinching cause the punches don't hurt.

Fair enough

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

Exactly.. I seen Bud get his ass dropped just like you did.

Worst part about it was Bud did such a bad job clinching him up Mean Machine was still able to throw punches after he wrapped him up, BY HIS WAIST instead of his shoulders.

Aint no way you can sit here and tell me Bud wasn't hurt, Mean Machine kept catching him(and moving him) as well with that right hand repeatedly. Bud put his foot on the gas and basically made Mean Machine gas himself out to stop him, cause standing there in the pocket boxing Mean Machine was giving Bud hell bruh. It was not a good performance(honestly none of his 147 fights have been that impressive) at all bro.

 

[reservoirdogs]

Worst part about it was Bud did such a bad job clinching him up Mean Machine was still able to throw punches after he wrapped him up, BY HIS WAIST instead of his shoulders.

Aint no way you can sit here and tell me Bud wasn't hurt, Mean Machine kept catching him(and moving him) as well with that right hand repeatedly. Bud put his foot on the gas and basically made Mean Machine gas himself out to stop him, cause standing there in the pocket boxing Mean Machine was giving Bud hell bruh. It was not a good performance(honestly none of his 147 fights have been that impressive) at all bro.

You weren't impressed by how he beat Horn down? Horn gave Pacquiao a TOUGH fight whether you had him winning it or not. And you've seen how Pac is doing ever since. Crawford played with Horn and stopped him.
Also he made easy work of Khan, Khan didn't have his usual first 3-4 rounds in the basket like he usually does. If you wanna say beating Khan in 2019 is nothing spectacular I agree but it can't be said tha Bud didn't do what was expected there.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Worst part about it was Bud did such a bad job clinching him up Mean Machine was still able to throw punches after he wrapped him up, BY HIS WAIST instead of his shoulders.

Aint no way you can sit here and tell me Bud wasn't hurt, Mean Machine kept catching him(and moving him) as well with that right hand repeatedly. Bud put his foot on the gas and basically made Mean Machine gas himself out to stop him, cause standing there in the pocket boxing Mean Machine was giving Bud hell bruh. It was not a good performance(honestly none of his 147 fights have been that impressive) at all bro.

Facts

nikkas will say Horn was impressive, but that was Jeff fukking Horn. A fukking career mode nikka that won the robbery sweepstakes against Pac and has done fukk all since before or afterwards.

 

[reservoirdogs]

Facts

nikkas will say Horn was impressive, but that was Jeff fukking Horn. A fukking career mode nikka that won the robbery sweepstakes against Pac and has done fukk all since before or afterwards.

Compare how Crawford dealt with him with how Pac was struggling with him

 

[malbaker86]

Speaking of Craw....when the fukk is his next fight? Mean Machine was early December and I know Chris van Heerden was "rumored" as a canidate for Crawford, but any other word?

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

You weren't impressed by how he beat Horn down? Horn gave Pacquiao a TOUGH fight whether you had him winning it or not. And you've seen how Pac is doing ever since. Crawford played with Horn and stopped him.
Also he made easy work of Khan, Khan didn't have his usual first 3-4 rounds in the basket like he usually does. If you wanna say beating Khan in 2019 is nothing spectacular I agree but it can't be said tha Bud didn't do what was expected there.

Bud did what he was supposed to do, but he aint impressing me while doing it. You can win a fight and not look impressive(Spence vs Porter being one example, Josh Taylor vs Regis Prograis another one). I just see the flaws in Bud, which nobody seems to ever talk about, and it kinda makes me go , like do y'all not see the same shyt I be seeing. Maybe I puff too much loud bro idk.