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How often do fighters move up in weight?? How often do champs fight another champ in a weight class above?? This is a bad thing now??

I agree wholeheartedly its exciting to see fighters dare to be great. Should be no issues for Tank to come back up to 140 then :mjgrin:
 

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Did you have this same energy when Bud was dragging up N fighting a murderers row of 135 at 140??
I dont know about him, but why would anyone have a problem with Crawford bringing anyone up when he became undisputed in the process while coming up from 135 himself.. Tank has only looked for the maximum reward vs a fighter with the minum risk.. He has never been willing to take a risk.. just let his handlers coddle and protect him
 

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This is why I constantly laugh at Haney stans who go overboard on Haney

Is he an upcoming star? Yes he is. But enough is enough trying to put him prematurely like he is a Top P4P #1 fighter when he is none of those things yet
He strategically picked the least talented credible opponent with a belt in Regis Prograis, and you got his stans shouting to the heavens on a decent win like he's the king of the hill

But when you bring up that he should be fighting Boots or Bud, then all of a sudden it's :whoa::whoa::whoa:. I thought he was too big for everyone in his weight class, why not fight people his size then?

Not even that, when you just suggest for him to fight tougher competition at 140 like Teo or Matias there's this run around and juelzin. Then the conversation immediately switches for him to fight Ryan Garcia :deadrose::deadrose:

And when he did up his level of competition and fought Loma, he left ALOT to be desired, and that is putting it very lightly
You're just spewing. Rolly has a belt and you really said a man that's a two time champion and 80% KO percentage is the least credible opponent at 140? Tank been at 135 for five years and you trying to put a man one fight removed from 135 in the ring with Boots and Bud, but won't push Tank to even fight for a belt. You claim to be a boxing fan, and have the audacity to act like we don't have video of Teo dancing in a mall with a stuffed duck on his head regarding ducking Devin. You can pull up video right now of Matias coach, Coach Panda, confirming that Team Haney has reached out to make a fight. Why be so disingenuous about everything? Devin the only one with a future HOF on his resume between him and Tank, and here you go whining about how he left alot to be desired. I clearly remember when Tank stepped up the level of competition and went to 140, we had Floyd running to his corner begging him to step it up and giving him a "I'm here for you" Lifetime movie speech in between rounds because he was losing. Was that ALOT or a little to be desired, sir?
 

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You're just spewing. Rolly has a belt and you really said a man that's a two time champion and 80% KO percentage is the least credible opponent at 140? Tank been at 135 for five years and you trying to put a man one fight removed from 135 in the ring with Boots and Bud, but won't push Tank to even fight for a belt. You claim to be a boxing fan, and have the audacity to act like we don't have video of Teo dancing in a mall with a stuffed duck on his head regarding ducking Devin. You can pull up video right now of Matias coach, Coach Panda, confirming that Team Haney has reached out to make a fight. Why be so disingenuous about everything? Devin the only one with a future HOF on his resume between him and Tank, and here you go whining about how he left alot to be desired. I clearly remember when Tank stepped up the level of competition and went to 140, we had Floyd running to his corner begging him to step it up and giving him a "I'm here for you" Lifetime movie speech in between rounds because he was losing. Was that ALOT or a little to be desired, sir?

im a tank fan, I went to the Ryan fight, barrios and Gambia fight. I clowned Devin for being insecure (asking lineares do I hit hard) and publically cuffing an ig thot. But 2023 Devin has really separated himself and him betting on himself taking that shytty top rank deal is starting to pay off. Devin needs to move on from tank as Ryan and Teo Will give him two solid pay days and teo is a legacy fight. If tank doesn’t fight shakur or at MINIMUM Frank Martin next yr he will start to get left behind. Tank knocking on 30 and Devin is 25, Devin has another decade easy and him being Muslim I put money the Saudi’s will go all in bankrolling him
 

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im a tank fan, I went to the Ryan fight, barrios and Gambia fight. I clowned Devin for being insecure (asking lineares do I hit hard) and publically cuffing an ig thot. But 2023 Devin has really separated himself and him betting on himself taking that shytty top rank deal is starting to pay off. Devin needs to move on from tank as Ryan and Teo Will give him two solid pay days and teo is a legacy fight. If tank doesn’t fight shakur or at MINIMUM Frank Martin next yr he will start to get left behind. Tank knocking on 30 and Devin is 25, Devin has another decade easy and him being Muslim I put money the Saudi’s will go all in bankrolling him
I dig it, but man you were harsh on Devin. At 21-22 it's ok to try and get constructive criticism from a vet like Linares. Cuffing an iG thot is a lot better than catching cases and choking your broad up at a packed basketball game.
 

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I dig it, but man you were harsh on Devin. At 21-22 it's ok to try and get constructive criticism from a vet like Linares. Cuffing an iG thot is a lot better than catching cases and choking your broad up at a packed basketball game.
I rocked with dev for a period but then during that period I was like dude lame and then he went from trend setter with the dapper Dan fits to typical gen z entertainer with the fashion stuff and ig thot wifing.

the clean cut, well spoken, disciplined (boxing wise and with Islam) is what made me rock with dev initially. Imo he needs to keep the momentum up. He should snatch rolly belt as even though it isn’t huge money there will be a ton of viral moments with the build up and then fight the teo/matias winner in fall or winter and then Ryan in 2025 to start the year.

if he succeeds he cements himself as best of his generation and like I mentioned he can be the saudis poster child and make his real money from them. After Ryan he can move to 147 and snatch 1-2 Belts and then 2026/27 aim for boots at 154. He would have done this all before 30 and after that he can be on his canelo shyt doing what he wants
 
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