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Originally Posted by Ra_Z_Boy
Ward is #1 p4p because he stepped up in weight and beat a fellow contender for top p4p twice in a row. At a heavier weight class where it's more difficult to do so. Lomachenko will be up there when he steps up and fights Rigo or someone.
He was a very large 168lber, he may not even be able to fight at that weight anymore. I think he weighed the same as Kovalev, a fairly large 175er.
And most thought Kovalev won the first fight. Judges aside (honestly consensus > judges, do you really feel Floyd MD Canelo or did he dominate him?), you can't put Ward any better than equal with Kovalev after fight 1. Fight 2 clearly had some significant low blows that were ignored and ended the fight, so even if you consider Ward getting the best of him there (like I do), if you have Ward #1 and Kovalev #8 or something like so many of the "experts" it's a bit off imo. It's hard to justify them being more than 2-3 places away at most.
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
How does Burns keep getting on main cards? He ****ing sucks.
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Big name/seller in UK. Like Broner in the US, he'll get more big fights and big paydays. JCC is the same, though Burns isn't the bum those guys are, so we can compare him to someone like Paulie or Bellew, guys that are bigger names than their performances justify (Cotto is another, plenty of guys with similar track records will never make HOF, but Cotto will be a shoe in).