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that canelo vs berlanga is such horseshyt i dont even want to bet on anything on it...but after watching this
..something is telling me to bet on the jobber rolly is facing..it could be worth my while
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Good lord the potential for stupidity here is nuts
Oh this definitely has to be must see TV
nah he wasn’t robbed in the traditional sense, his balance was poor but he arguably outboxed Vasquez EVERY round
“I outboxed Vasquez. I slipped so much they gave him five knockdowns, and at least three of them were slips. But he didn't hit me on the chin or ever hurt me. The last two in the last round, I was just tired and he pushed me down. That was my first time going twelve rounds."
If someone goes down FIVE times how you get scores of 113-110 and 114-110? The media scores were closer than that. lol. Pretty much outboxed him every round. Keep in mind he never went down again until his last fight against Quillin where he came off 3 year layoff and he was washed by that time. Winky was a SUPER underrated fighter.
Shout out to Glengoffe Johnson too. Now talk about getting robbed. I remember Daniel Judah picked him up at the end of the fight because he know he was robbed lol. That man beat Clinton Woods, Roy Jones, and Antonio Tarver in the same year! who has done something like that in recent memory?
He is not that good though. I was never impressed with his boxing. Doesn’t have the movement or defense. He is an elite athlete but that’s about it. Makes you appreciate how good Wilder actually is. Even if he was better Bakole was a stylistic nightmare.
I feel that Boots team about to fukk his career up. With the current landscape Boots should be focused on NOTHING but unifications or big names if it’s 147. Don’t waste time with unknowns if they don’t have no belt. If they can’t get Barrios I like Benn.
unfortunately dude is his mando..if the ibf calls for it he either has to take the fight or get stripped...something the IBF will absolutely do
Former IBF champ Joseph Agbeko officially retires from boxing
By Bernard Neequaye
Published Wed Aug 14, 2024, 03:30 AM EDT
After four years of hibernation, Joseph “King Kong” Agbeko has called it quits from the sport that made him a household name in Ghana.
Agbeko, 44, announced his retirement from boxing in an interview with BoxingScene.
“Yes, I’m retired. I decided to quit boxing long ago, but I’m yet to make it official,” Agbeko said. “Boxing is a sport where nobody has to retire you. You have to retire yourself, because it’s a sport that you either give or take. When you begin to feel the pain of punches, then you’ve to know that your body can’t take it anymore. So you’ve to get away from it, because it’s better to retire and live a healthy life than to put yourself in the ring and get hurt.”
Agbeko’s retirement announcement comes four years after his last ring outing, against Albert Commey in 2020. Commey lost a fifth-round TKO to the Ghanaian boxing legend in his native Accra, Ghana.
Ghana’s Agbeko became the country’s fifth world champion, in 2007, after David Kotei, Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey and Alfred Kotey. At 27, Agbeko retired Nicaragua’s Luis Alberto Perez in seven rounds to become the IBF bantamweight titleholder – a belt he defended twice before losing to Colombia’s Yonnhy Perez two years later.
Agbeko exercised a rematch clause to regain his title 14 months later. However, he would go on to lose the IBF belt again to Mexico’s Abner Mares in 2011. That defeat ended his reign as world titlist after he failed to reclaim the title in a rematch four months later.
Agbeko faced many great fighters at 118 during his heyday, including in a 12-round unanimous decision defeat to Cuba’s Guillermo Rigondeaux in 2013. Since then, Agbeko only came close to another world title again in 2021, when he won and defended the WBO Africa bantamweight title three times.
When a world championship fight failed to materialize, Agbeko blamed the WBO for deliberately frustrating his career despite his being rated in the top three by the sanctioning body. Now, Agbeko has turned his attention to mentoring the next generation of Ghanaian fighters to reach their full potential.
He is currently focused on nurturing the careers of Theophilus Allotey and amateur fighter Benedict Badu.
“I’m into mentorship of young boxers,” he said. “Guiding young, juvenile and amateur boxers into reaching their full potential and making sure that they’re able to achieve their dreams so that they can be successful in whatever they do.
“So far, I have two boxers under my mentorship. There is Theophilus Allotey, who was a member of the Black Bombers [Ghana’s national amateur boxing team.] He’s turned pro and already has three fights to his credit and he’s picking up. Also, Benedict Badu, who is a light heavyweight at the amateur ranks, will also have his pro debut before the close of the year, so I’m working on the two of them for now.”
first FOTY candidate that PBC aired
Benns a good name. Can probably get a good gate in England..