not bad...that july 9th card is shaping up to be a good watch
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not bad...that july 9th card is shaping up to be a good watch
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No more PAWGs, PLEASE??!!!??
Damn. I wasn't close to breh, but he's one of the names I think off when I think of The Ring.Unfortunately yes
R.I.P.
malbaker86
Gators
I can't help but think of how things would have been had GGG moved to SMW around say 2016ish and have a chance to fight:
DeGale
Jack
Gilberto Ramirez
Groves
Dirrell brothers
Callum Smith
DeGale
Jack
Gilberto Ramirez
Groves
Dirrell brothers
Callum Smith
i think he did spar groves and i think broke his ribs lol
Get Onboard the Inoue-Fulton Train: Weekend Afterthoughts
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BY CLIFF ROLD
Published Wed Jun 08, 2022, 10:22 AM EDT
We’re not there yet.
We got closer from Saturday night to Tuesday morning.
There’s a showdown brewing and this is one of those times where having a fight or two more won’t hurt a thing. Naoya Inoue wants to finish his collection of straps at bantamweight. He has one to go. Stephen Fulton can add the two straps he doesn’t have at Jr. featherweight in one night. Fulton’s would be the tougher assignment.
If they keep clearing obstacles, boxing could be looking at the sort of generational clash that gives this era a night like Julio Cesar Chavez-Meldrick Taylor.
Fulton went first over the last few days and showed off what makes him such an impressive talent on Saturday. In battles with Angelo Leo and Brandon Figueroa, Fulton used his feet and boxing ability but he also hung in the trenches. Against Daniel Roman, Fulton used his edges in length, speed, and elusiveness to contain the most accomplished opponent of his career.
Fulton had the ability to make a hard fight easy and he used it. It was Fulton’s third straight win against a fighter ranked in the top ten of his class by both TBRB and Ring Magazine. No one else has a streak longer than four. Fulton retained the WBO belt for the second time and the WBC strap for the first. Tantalizing for fans, Fulton has elevated his game at each stage of his development from knocking off undefeated prospects to undefeated young contenders and now a veteran former unified titlist.
Inoue long ago showed he can elevate at each level. He started elevating in only his fourth pro fight, winning a decision over more experienced future unified Jr. flyweight titlist Ryoichi Taguchi. Inoue elevated more in 2014, winning belts at 108 and 115 lbs. He’s been about as high as a fighter can get since arriving at bantamweight.
Tuesday, Inoue made short work of his rematch with Nonito Donaire. There were shades of Joe Louis-Max Schmeling II in the efficiency with which he handled the only man who had ever really pushed Inoue. The short right hand he dropped Donaire with in the first traveled inches, a reminder of the accuracy and technical acumen of the “Monster.”
Donaire was battered with the left and right in the second. The veteran tried to find a home for his own legendary left but Inoue was more defensively responsible in the rematch and guarded it perfectly. It was an almost perfect performance from a fighter with a few of them in his career.
Consider this: Inoue is now 10-0 against fighters ranked in their division by TBRB or Ring. Eight of those wins are by knockout. Among active professionals, only Saul Alvarez, Terence Crawford, Donaire, Gennadiy Golovkin, and Roman Gonzalez have more similarly ranked wins. Inoue’s ten wins have come in just 23 professional starts, giving him one of the highest concentrations of ranked wins to total fights in the sport (Vasyl Lomachenko is highest at nine wins in 18 starts).
While there are always lots of guys who can populate the imagination pushing confines of pound-for-pound lists, when Inoue fights like he did Tuesday it’s hard not to see the best fighter in the world. No one in boxing combines his speed, skill, and power quite the same way. He’s electric in a way no fighter has been since Roy Jones Jr. in his days at middleweight and super middleweight. In his two fights with Donaire, we learned he has a chin, unreal grit in fighting through a broken orbital bone, and now the ability to adapt and lethally end a rematch.
This is a special fighter in his prime.
Inoue has made clear he’s moving to Jr. featherweight in the near future. It’s time to start thinking seriously about what can happen when he gets there.
Futures: If there is a criticism of Inoue, it is that he missed all of the hardcore four at 115 lbs., leaving the division just as that round robin caught fire. Even now, opponents like Roman Gonzalez and Juan Francisco Estrada would likely be far more difficult tasks than WBO bantamweight titlist Paul Butler even if Inoue would be highly favored regardless. In a perfect world, Inoue would face Butler before the end of September and secure one of the 115 lb. staples for a divisional farewell before moving up.
If Inoue can’t do that, he will arrive at Jr. featherweight in a moment where they are very much in the midst of the sort of talent rush Inoue missed at Jr. bantamweight. For fight fans who want to see a showdown, and their numbers will swell, the hope should be for a Fulton-Murodjon Akhmadaliev unification to happen first. Fulton holding all the belts would drive Inoue toward him. If Inoue somehow got to Akhmadaliev first, it could potentially make it harder to make the fight.
Fulton would have no guarantees against Akhmadaliev and it may end up that we’re looking at a different showdown. So be it. Fulton, Akhmadaliev, and Inoue are all still in their 20s. The potential is there for an all-undisputed showdown between the kings of two weight classes, undefeated and in the full flush of youth and prime. This is the stuff legends are made of.
It wasn’t the only big development over the last few days.
Fulton washes them both
competitive but figueroa had him moonwalking too many times for me to think he can take monster's power like that
Morell was talking all that shyt..saying he was stalking Benavidez. Wanted him next and that Benavidez won't speak his name but now they are begging Morell to fight David in November or December. Rumors are Morell is BACKING DOWN? I need more info
Man if this is true its disappointing as fxck. I hope Morell ultimately tells Ronnie Shields to stop being a bytch.
Man wtf for real this is annoying. As a trainer you should be sending your stud phenom towards the top comp not coddling him and steering him away from tough fights. Hes in the perfect position to build his profile up. A win over DB will make him the next big thing and the man to beat....Talkin bout moving him up already?? Man I hate this shyt.
You got young guys like Boots Ennis who are doing EVERYTHING they possibly can to get people to stop avoiding them. Guys like Haney who had the entire fxcking division, boxers, promoters, and sanctioning bodies conspiring against him to try and make sure he wouldnt get his shot. Morell has a top guy in the division and Interim champion calling him out and you tell him to run away and go hide??
ChocolateGiddyUp
Superstar
Believe the Flabavidez family brehs 
Morrell N em ALREADY tried to make the fight once N Flabavidez shockingly needed a tune up … but yea Now Morrell is scary
Morrell N em ALREADY tried to make the fight once N Flabavidez shockingly needed a tune up … but yea Now Morrell is scary
Believe the Flabavidez family brehs
Morrell N em ALREADY tried to make the fight once N Flabavidez shockingly needed a tune up … but yea Now Morrell is scary
Did you not watch the video? Ronnie Shields, as in Morells trainer, recently said out his own mouth that Morell aint ready for him.
Of course No one would believe whatever tf Benavidezs Sr was poppin off about if it was just him saying it.