Thursday’s, on this nook of the Universo Pugilistico, are all about my sack– my bulging, bulbous, aching sack– and the gooey, salty fact contained inside. So…sit again, shut your eyes, pull again your hair, and prepare for this week’s cash shot of knowledge. This week we’ve got feedback/questions relating to Keyshawn Davis’ flub, Canelo-Crawford on Netflix, revisiting Lomachenko’s legacy.
Keyshawn’s Non-Homecoming Get together
Paul,
As a Norfolk native, I used to be excited for final week’s combat. 757 is a proud space and we’ve generated some nice athletic and musical expertise over time. Throw within the navy presence and it truly is a peculiar place. There’s no query, Keyshawn Davis is an elite degree expertise.
That mentioned, what occurred final week was a meltdown of epic proportions for Davis. I gained’t go into element, everyone knows it on the floor. My predominant query is the place the hell was Prime Rank throughout all of this? Shouldn’t there be a contingency plan if Davis misses weight and agreements can’t be met? Being a small market combat at Scope, the followers have been left carrying the bag. Even when David discovered a D+ substitute fighter contemporary off the sofa, Norfolk would have liked it. Makes me marvel if Davis even wished to combat.
What’s your tackle occurring with an occasion if fighters miss weight? Kudos to Santos for not budging. It will have simply been good to nonetheless have some kind of combat for the hometown man; even when what he did was past unprofessional. What’s your tackle substitute fighters which are gimme fights?
– Greg
Hey Greg.
What Keyshawn did was in all probability the worst factor a rising star may’ve executed as he builds and fortifies a base. IMO, coming in to date over the restrict was a cynical calculation on his half. He figured on tossing some cash De Los Santos’ method, coming in contemporary, and wiping the mat along with his opponent for a spotlight reel second in entrance of his adoring hometown followers. I feel this was intentional. It backfired utterly when De Los Santos stood agency on the contracted weight. Good for him and good on the promotion for reportedly nonetheless paying him his full purse.
Netflix and Chill?
Hello Paul.
Canelo vs. Crawford on Netflix is all win for boxing followers. We gained’t must pay a PPV charge and extra folks will be capable of see the combat. I do know your emotions on Turki and Saudi Arabia and I agree along with your principled stance, however there’s no destructive to any of this Canelo-Bud/Netflix association. I’ll or could not have paid the PPV value for the combat, however I’m joyful to have the ability to see the combat as a part of my Netflix subscription and never must firestick it.
– Sammy
Hey Sammy.
I’ll agree with you, a minimum of in regards to the plus-plus of getting the combat on Netflix. I do have an issue, although, with Turki Alalshikh’s “We do not want large fights on the undercard” proclamation the opposite day, flat-out telling the world that the undercard will likely be shit. If there are ever occasions the place good undercards are necessary, it’s ones like this one, on an enormous mainstream platform the place numerous folks may be uncovered to high quality expertise and good fights. Jake Paul-Mike Tyson did that. Canelo-Crawford, apparently, is not going to.
However I gained’t shit on the Netflix facet. That’s undoubtedly a very good transfer for the followers (and, I could also be flawed, however I don’t suppose the buffering points that plagued Paul-Tyson will likely be as dangerous for Canelo-Crawford– largely as a result of I don’t suppose as many individuals will likely be watching this combat stay).
Nonetheless, the darkish clouds throughout this event– Turki, the Saudis, TKO Group, Dana White, and so forth.– make the one constructive really feel like a pearl in a lake of uncooked sewage. Plus, there’s additionally the truth that Canelo-Crawford was a combat that no person actually wished, no person was asking for, and one which represents the truth that higher, extra logical fights for the 2 (Benavidez, Boots) gained’t be occurring.
Revisiting Lomachenko’s Legacy
What’s up Paul? Wonderful piece on Lomachenko.
I simply need to chime in on my perspective. Loma’s legacy is bittersweet. He deserves his flowers and the credit score that he’s due. Nonetheless, it might be irresponsible if his legacy isn’t put into correct context.
He was an important fighter! How nice was he? He wasn’t as nice as the fashionable boxing media made him out to be. There’s ranges to greatness and Lomas degree of greatness was the bottom tier doable.
Received to present him credit score for his extraordinary profession as an newbie and his willingness to leap proper into the ring with high fighters early on in his skilled profession. He didn’t take half a dozen gentle touches earlier than he began competing. He jumped proper into the thick of it and commenced combating extremely ranked opponents.
When Prime Rank moved to ESPN they launched a large boxing agenda with Lomachenko headlined as their predominant attraction. He failed miserably, in the event that they’d put Terence Crawford in the identical place they put Lomachenko ESPN in all probability would nonetheless be within the enterprise of broadcasting boxing occasions.
He by no means actually seemed dominant at 135. He was a high light-weight, however the sparks that have been promised have been all the time missing. He didn’t ship on the field workplace and was removed from the headline attraction that they made him out to be.
His finest victory on document at 135 was his combat in opposition to Jorge Linares, he was getting beat badly and scored that late KO. Outdoors of that he misplaced to Teo Lopez and Devin Haney. The remainder of his fights have been fights that he ought to’ve gained.
He spent most of his profession at 135. I can identify quite a few fighters who had a greater run at 135 than Lomachenko. I gained’t do a listing, however everyone knows who they’re. The place do you rank Loma amongst the best lightweights of all time? To me he’s not even high 10, possibly high 25.
– Na’-il Rahman
Hey Na’-il.
It’s exhausting to disagree with something you simply mentioned. Like with a whole lot of these Jap European fighters, the promise, the hype, and the fawning media protection didn’t match the black-and-white actuality. I feel the tales of Lomachenko and Gennadiy Golovkin are just about the identical. On the finish of the day, neither lived as much as the large push they obtained or the narratives that pushed them into ATG standing. Lomachenko’s physique of labor was higher than Golovkin’s, but it surely positively didn’t stay as much as what was pushed down our throats, consistently, for years.
However, additionally like Golovkin, Lomachenko was an important fighter in his personal time and beneath the circumstances wherein he competed. He’s not all-time Prime 10. I don’t do these rankings both, however I’d say Prime 25 may be proper. However, then once more, light-weight has a really deep and wealthy historical past, so who is aware of.
My go-to assertion relating to fighter legacies and judging them in opposition to historical past is always– Cease. Simply benefit from the fighters for what they’re, after they’re competing.
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