Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
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Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
Dude is the truth. If I don't believe and you make me a believer, then you get a TON of respect from me. Doesn't matter where Naoya fights, he is the truth and 1a as pound for pound the best fighter in the world.
UpAndComing
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Are those quotes of Crawford saying I don't want to fight Boots after December 2022 ?
That's my point. He gave Boots that chance, now that chance is over. Just think, if you were Crawford and Boots denied/ducked you, would you:
1. Continue to pursue Boots or fight Spence for the Undisputed 147 title?
2. Continue to pursue Boots or go up to 154 to chase a 3 time Undisputed title?
Common sense. Like I said people on this board ask disingenuous questions, knowing any other fighter would do what Crawford is doing now. Crawford ain't gonna chase a fighter with an emailed IBF belt just to satisfy Spence fans who want to live vicariously through Boots after Spence lost. Not how it works lol
UpAndComing
Veteran
Love Sweet Pea, nothing better than a great counter puncher
Just wish he threw more punches in that fight like Jim Lampely was saying. Those judges/Top Rank were on Oscar's side. Judges didn't respect Whittaker making Oscar miss
UpAndComing
Veteran
He can get away with it cause of the division he is in
If he moves up to 126, that may change
Who at 126 in America is going to dictate terms to Monster?
UpAndComing
Veteran
It's more of the amount of Boxers with American name recognition that will put on the pressure
Luis Alberto Lopez, Robeisy Rameriz, Ray Ford, Bruce Carrington
reservoirdogs
Superstar
I like Porter but that was an uninformed take, acting like we’re in the 90s.
Boxing got more global in the last decade and there are divisions where the US market doesn’t dictate.
Inoue is a star in Japan, if it wouldn’t be lucrative enough to fight there he wouldn’t meet the likes of Fulton and Nery in Japan but in the US. Besides, he HAS fought in the US before. He doesn’t have to do anything to become a star, he already is, it’s just Porter is looking at it from a very US centric view, he might not even notice it cause it’s that natural to him. Not a star in his world = not a star.
And I don’t think that anything changes if he goes to 126. Nobody is bigger in the US or UK @ 126 than Inoue in Japan. He’d have to go to 135 to actually find opponents who would be more lucrative to fight in the States but that’s too far even for Inoue.
its more than that..they gotta get their weight up too...lopez is the only one that has his weight up now..but he would prolly be a underdog still lol
I remember 8 or 9 years ago, Thurman constantly curving Spence. Basically saying he wasn't ready and he needed to get his weight up and for the most part, the boxing world kinda agreed.
This is the same thing to me. One of these Ennis fans needs to tell me what the fukk has Jaron Ennis done at 147 to demand the attention of the pound for pound 1 or 2 fighter in the world?
Go defend that funky as title that the IBF handed to him because after 63 years of Spence holding on to it and not defending it, they finally decided to implement their rules and unify at 147 over time.
Tanahashi Coates
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UpAndComing
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chunky_mcdaniels
All Star
Yeah nah.
Some ol mandatory thing, I think that's what they call it?
It's got nothing to do with Ennis earning shyt tbh, it's all about Crawford saying he didn't want to fight Ennis. That's it. fukk the rest.
Crawford is one of my favourites, but you cheerleading weirdos get in your feelings when confronted with him admitting on tape a few times that he didn't want to fight the kid.