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Originally Posted by Onlydo2days
no one cares about belts in boxing anyway
If people didn't care way too much about random belts we wouldn't have a million different organizations with the main purpose of collecting sanctioning fees.
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Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52
Ryan kind of reminds me of Charlie Sheen at this point. Seems to be heading in that direction. Wondering a bit how not making the weight, not for the title, if that affected the champ at all, and how much being heavier helped Garcia. Great win. I used to like the guy.
Garcia was basically between weight classes, 147lbs would have been the next one already. What probably helped more than those 3.2 pounds was the fact that he didn't have to try to loose them and that they didn't have a rehydration clause for fight night. Hindsight is always 20-20 but that obviously was a huge mistake from the Haney camp, probably because they were overconfident. I don't think there's any way Ryan wins that fight if he can't weight >150 lbs before stepping into the ring.
FWIW, I feel like the way Ryan used the Philly shell is borderline illegal. The far he turned might have crossed the line between unsportsmanlike and leading with your back. The latter is obviously not OK. If you employ the stance like Mayweather to counter off of it, that's perfectly fine. Trying to make sure your opponent isn't able to hit any part of your body legally is not.