Parker showed he had no real power when he got taunted by that Romanian punchbag for 12 rounds

I'd be pretty shocked if Hughie puts up a decent fight against Parker.

Malignaggi/McGregor - shots fired.

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.

Que?

Loma has nobody to step up to. He is the top guy in the lower weights! Rigo needs Loma more than Loma needs Rigo.

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Rigo is at 122, Loma at 130. The only reasonable step up for Loma is 135 and Mikey. After that, he's just so Damn small..

Bummer for Loma.

No doubt #1 p4p. He'll have to go to 140 at some point to build his legacy

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.

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).

supposedly cotto might fight lemieux in december. if that actually happens at 160 then that is a scary fight for cotto this late in his career but i kind of doubt it will happen (esp at 160...and everyone will rightfully complain if at 157) but i would watch. some podcast was mentioning a washed pacquiao/cotto rematch. might not be a bad idea at all for both guys to go out in a big payday with relatively little risk that either suffers permanent damage and the promoters can pretend they are both big names in their primes

i don't understand why we can't get jacobs-lemieux or jacobs-canelo if canelo loses to GGG though. i want to see more of jacobs. it's entirely possible he deserves some credit for being a fringe top 10 p4p guy depending no how GGG looks v canelo. if ggg crushes canelo jacobs close loss deserves even more credit

jacobs-charlo? i'd watch the hell out of that. jacobs needs another big win as i never rated quillin much and 1st round knockouts can be written off as kinda fluky

in other news badou jack only -200 to beat cleverly seems like a good bet. i don't rate cleverly very much

It would be a superfight at least.

Cleverly is a very entertaining fighter. His fight against Fonfara was insane.

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Yeah he just hasn't actually been any good at all since kovalev stole his soul unlike jack who has beaten groves direll bute and drawing with degale

Cannot see how he ever beats jack short of a miracle shot

Floyd's odds gettin longer

Rosh/anyone - do you know if there is a particular reason for that?

move towards conor coincides with the release of this video

You jest, but have you tried that? It's not as easy as it looks man.

I bet on PBF at 1.22, if it gets better than I may have to pile in again. We'll be kicking ourselves if we miss out on gifts like that, right?

LOL

Maybe all the crap with Paulie. An edited 12th round sparring clip showing him looking like chit probably inspired loadsa cash to b piled on by the UFC guys.

I wonder Floyd n co would ever fix this for him to lose, to cash in on a rematch. I think not. His legacy for too valuable for that but then again another $100m cud do it

Haha, I like my shoulders firmly in their sockets. Wud never try it

Yeah, I got 1.23 but it's starting to deal at 1.26 so might have to dump a bit more

I agree re the second bit. I mean, it is only the corruption in the sport that is preventing me selling my offspring and a kidney and getting everything on Floyd. 1.25 just sounds like an absurdly good price.

1.27/1.28 now

Jesus how much more can the odds on Floyd lengthen? My dick is lengthening to match.

Does anyone else think Floyd throws the fight for more money?

He doesn't have any big boxing matches available. He could rematch Canelo or Paq but I don't think the $$$ interest is huge for either of those fights.

If he takes a dive vs Conor they can rematch, and make a stupid amount of money.
It might even outsell the first fight.

Win this fight = $200mill, lose this fight = $200mill + $200-300mill.

I would throw a fight for an extra $200mill.

These two are so far apart in boxing terms, Floyd could throw the fight and still win.