I like Chavez' lead right. It was deceptively quick. It had great timing too. Like Hopkins.
I picked Margarito to beat Cotto (heck, a 37 year-old Shane Mosley almost had Cotto, but was just too past-it to pull the trigger), Hopkins to...
Shane being ranked p4p #1 during that time imo didn't really have as much to do with whether he was a better fighter or not than RJJ (Roy is...
I've a feeling Roy Jones Jr. will pull the upset and win via decision. As past-it RJJ is, Calzaghe is still a good stylistic match-up for him....
At any rate, Pavlik's excuse is irrelevant. He just wasn't good enough, or, at the very least, possess the skill set to stylistically trouble...
Pavlik was a slow-as-molasses, sloppy and clumsy slob. And I'm glad he fought someone like Hopkins to make that fact even more glaring.
We've known it for years, Marquez really is grade-A technician. Guy has a great knack for adapting, and it showed. He has good pop in his...
Fascinating technical fight. JMM has a great knack for adapting.
It's not just mental. If Zab had the wind/physicality to take pressure and the durability to receive punishment, he wouldn't fold so easily in the...
It was a "Legendary Nights" type of fight.
Agreed. In a way, sudden, albeit decisive losses are actually easier to recover from than sustained, methodical and demoralizing beatings like...
Clottey via decision.
We won't know until we see him again in a comeback fight, but I've a feeling this loss may have damaged Cotto the same way Trinidad sent Vargas on...
Neither are frauds, but my beef with Cotto was that he was credited more for being at a level where he actually wasn't. Sure, Trinidad decisively...
What makes this even more humiliating for Cotto... ...is that Margarito is still unexceptional, average and fundamentally basic. This fight...
Margarito just vindicated the generation of Trinidad, DLH, Shane, Quartey, etc... Cotto would get KTFO by every one of them.
Cotto got beaten up by the unexceptional, average and basic Margarito. That says it all, really.
As unexceptional as he is, I think Margarito is very live here. He could trouble Cotto stylistically. Sure, his defense isn't great, but he has...
Margarito via decision or late stoppage.
I never thought much of Calzaghe. Never. And as diminished as Roy Jones is, I think he matches up well with Joe. It's a style thing. As puerto...
No. Floyd imo just doesn't have the competition to exceed Jones. The only truly A-level guy he met was DLH (and a faded one at that). As much as...
DLH's decline has been glaringly apparent mo. He exhibited friskiness and activity, yet it still betrayed his real form. Shitty legs mean...
It won't happen.
Totally agreed. And it's ridiculous how some could think he looked good tonight. DLH looked like an old man. And he was in there with a guy...
Mosley doesn't belong in that list. He belongs to same tier and generation Trinidad, De La Hoya, Quartey are in. All three would destroy...
Stylistically, Roy matches up well with Hopkins, much the same Toney suited him. It's that simple.
It's a shit fight and I certainly have no intentions of wasting money on it. But I'm actually indifferent to the outrage. DLH is diminished and...
Floyd Jr. via decisive UD, though a late stoppage wouldn't surprise me one bit.
I'd pick Shane over Oscar at 135, 140, 147 (a weight class where he already beat DLH decisively) and at 154 (though their second fight was...
^^^I qualified that with my second statement. If you give both Floyd and Shane a fresher, less faded version of Oscar, I've no doubt Mosley...
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