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 feedback/questions relating to Keyshawn Davis’ flub, Canelo-Crawford on Netflix, revisiting Lomachenko’s legacy.
Keyshawn’s Non-Homecoming Celebration
Paul,
As a Norfolk native, I used to be excited for final week’s struggle. 757 is a proud space and we’ve generated some nice athletic and musical expertise over time. Throw within the army presence and it truly is a peculiar place. There’s no query, Keyshawn Davis is an elite stage expertise.
That mentioned, what occurred final week was a meltdown of epic proportions for Davis. I received’t go into element, everyone knows it on the floor. My essential 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 struggle 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 surprise if Davis even wished to struggle.
What’s your tackle happening 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 struggle 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 most likely the worst factor a rising star may’ve achieved as he builds and fortifies a base. IMO, coming in thus far over the restrict was a cynical calculation on his half. He figured on tossing some cash De Los Santos’ means, coming in contemporary, and wiping the mat along with his opponent for a spotlight reel second in entrance of his adoring hometown followers. I believe 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 received’t should pay a PPV payment and extra individuals will have the ability to see the struggle. I do know your emotions on Turki and Saudi Arabia and I agree along with your principled stance, however there’s no detrimental to any of this Canelo-Bud/Netflix association. I could or might not have paid the PPV worth for the struggle, however I’m comfortable to have the ability to see the struggle as a part of my Netflix subscription and never should firestick it.
– Sammy
Hey Sammy.
I’ll agree with you, no less than in regards to the plus-plus of getting the struggle on Netflix. I do have an issue, although, with Turki Alalshikh’s “We do not want massive fights on the undercard” proclamation the opposite day, flat-out telling the world that the undercard might be shit. If there are ever occasions the place good undercards are vital, it’s ones like this one, on an enormous mainstream platform the place plenty of individuals could be uncovered to high quality expertise and good fights. Jake Paul-Mike Tyson did that. Canelo-Crawford, apparently, is not going to.
However I received’t shit on the Netflix facet. That’s undoubtedly an excellent transfer for the followers (and, I could also be incorrect, however I don’t assume the buffering points that plagued Paul-Tyson might be as dangerous for Canelo-Crawford– principally as a result of I don’t assume as many individuals might be watching this struggle reside).
Nonetheless, the darkish clouds throughout this event– Turki, the Saudis, TKO Group, Dana White, and so forth.– make the one optimistic really feel like a pearl in a lake of uncooked sewage. Plus, there’s additionally the fact that Canelo-Crawford was a struggle that no one actually wished, no one was asking for, and one which represents the truth that higher, extra logical fights for the 2 (Benavidez, Boots) received’t be occurring.
Revisiting Lomachenko’s Legacy
What’s up Paul? Glorious piece on Lomachenko.
I simply wish 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 will be irresponsible if his legacy isn’t put into correct context.
He was an awesome 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 stage of greatness was the bottom tier attainable.
Bought to present him credit score for his extraordinary profession as an beginner and his willingness to leap proper into the ring with prime fighters early on in his skilled profession. He didn’t take half a dozen smooth 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 an enormous boxing agenda with Lomachenko headlined as their essential attraction. He failed miserably, in the event that they’d put Terence Crawford in the identical place they put Lomachenko ESPN most likely would nonetheless be within the enterprise of broadcasting boxing occasions.
He by no means actually regarded dominant at 135. He was a prime light-weight, however the sparks that have been promised have been all the time missing. He did not ship on the field workplace and was removed from the headline attraction that they made him out to be.
His finest victory on report at 135 was his struggle 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 received.
He spent most of his profession at 135. I can title quite a few fighters who had a greater run at 135 than Lomachenko. I received’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 prime 10, perhaps prime 25.
– Na’-il Rahman
Hey Na’-il.
It’s arduous to disagree with something you simply mentioned. Like with numerous these Japanese European fighters, the promise, the hype, and the fawning media protection didn’t match the black-and-white actuality. I believe the tales of Lomachenko and Gennadiy Golovkin are just about the identical. On the finish of the day, neither lived as much as the huge push they bought or the narratives that pushed them into ATG standing. Lomachenko’s physique of labor was better than Golovkin’s, but it surely positively didn’t reside as much as what was pushed down our throats, continuously, for years.
However, additionally like Golovkin, Lomachenko was an awesome fighter in his personal time and below the circumstances through which he competed. He’s not all-time Prime 10. I don’t do these rankings both, however I might say Prime 25 is likely to 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, once they’re competing.
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