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ChocolateGiddyUp
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Eddie so dumb if he feeds Ryder to Morrell 
If he can’t get Andrade a Ryder fight atleast
If he can’t get Andrade a Ryder fight atleast
Hopefully it gets made, they were headed to a purse bid last time around before Hearn/Ryder pulled out
The days when a welter prospect came on the scene and you can immediately tell that they were the truth
bigbadbossup2012
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Jose Santa Cruz: I Want My Son To Fight At 126; He Doesn't Have The Punch For 130 Or 135
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BY KEITH IDEC
Published Sun Feb 13, 2022, 12:05 PM EST
LAS VEGAS – Jose Santa Cruz doesn’t want his son to fight at the 130-pound limit again.
Leo Santa Cruz requested another 130-pound fight against Keenan Carbajal last Saturday night because his long layoff worried the former four-division champion. Fifteen months passed between his devastating defeat to Gervonta Davis and his return to the ring on the Keith Thurman-Mario Barrios undercard at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s Michelob ULTRA Arena, enough time for Santa Cruz to have reached 154 pounds prior to the start of camp early in November for the Carbajal clash.
That was the most the 33-year-old Santa Cruz weighed in his entire life. To ensure that he wouldn’t have any issues making weight for his 10-round fight with Carbajal, Santa Cruz (38-2-1, 19 KOs) gave himself four additional pounds, even though the Rosemead, California, native unequivocally considers himself a featherweight.
His father, who is also Leo’s head trainer, definitely doesn’t want his son to fight at the junior lightweight limit of 130 pounds again. Jose Santa Cruz is certain his son is best suited to fight at the featherweight maximum of 126 pounds, at which fights against newly crowned WBC champ Mark Magsayo (24-0, 16 KOs) and WBO champ Emanuel Navarrete (35-1, 29 KOs) are appealing to him.
“I want my son to fight at 126,” Jose Santa Cruz said during a post-fight press conference late Saturday night. “I don’t want him fighting at higher weight classes. He doesn’t have the punch for 130 or 135 pounds. Those aren’t good fights for him. [The featherweight limit] is perfect for him.”
Baltimore’s Davis (26-0, 24 KOs) savagely knocked Santa Cruz unconscious with a left uppercut in the sixth round of their 130-pound championship match in October 2020 at Alamodome in San Antonio. That brutal loss stands as the only knockout defeat of Santa Cruz’s 15-year, 41-fight pro career.
His only other loss was a 12-round, majority-decision defeat to Northern Ireland’s Carl Frampton in July 2016 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Santa Cruz avenged that defeat by winning a 12-round majority decision in their immediate rematch almost six months later at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Santa Cruz comfortably defeated Phoenix’s Carbajal (23-3-1, 15 KOs), who took a gargantuan step up in competition in the co-feature of a four-fight FOX Sports Pay-Per-View show. All three judges scored their fight a shutout, 100-90, for Santa Cruz, who ended Carbajal’s 18-fight winning streak.
truthfully LSC hasnt show any real pop like that since his 118 and 122 days
Idk how a guy like him not have power at that wieght, he’s not a small guy.
Feels too maga from me, from the fans I meet, the commentators, the promoter, and the fighters.
some fighter's power just doesn't carry as they go up in weight
KingOFKings
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Also realizing the talent level is just not there. Most of these guys start off in their 20s. It’s not high level chess with 2 guys that have had a passion for the sport since growing up like boxing.
Casuals don’t get that though, yet I can’t blame them, the UFC does an amazing job in having this perception that the “best fight the best”…even if they recycle the same fights and 4-5 guys in every division. They can market it easily like a league because the fighters are all licensed with no individual rights. Advertisers know they just have to go to the “UFC” as a league. They know how to market.
Even when they introduce someone as a “prospect” or “up and comer” the guy is already in his late 20s/early 30s. It’s just a watered down sport that lacks depth. I used to like it, but without the rawness all of this just becomes too obvious.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
Ok if that's true I take back everything I said about Smith and his team wanting to duck the Beterbiev fade in favor of fighting Jacobs. Those were the rumors at the time.
My only gripe with this is why it gotta be so late, but I guess maybe it's because of Beterbiev's injury...
And it's great to see 2 top guys in a division that's in Canelo's range mixing up with each other instead of waiting till they are next in the queue for the payday
reservoirdogs
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Don't have anything against psychedelics but if he has to do this to finally decide it might already be decided
Wilder even more so than some other punchers built his whole persona on being the supremely confident warlord kind of guy who knocks everyone out and nobody can stop him. He could somehow convince himself after the Fury rematch with those conspiracy theories, repeated so much that finally he probably believed them too, even fired his trainer but ultimately when he lost the rubber match the excuses dried up and he had to swallow the bitter pill that there's at least one fighter in the world that can beat him.
That was probably a true reckoning to him and it could very well be a career-ender to a guy that really believed he is some kind of a demigod until he lost and is already in his mid-30s and already made a fortune in boxing.
Doesn't sound like someone that gonna go on but we'll see, a high enough payday might change his mind.