Each Thursday right here at Combat Hype, boxing followers collect round my bulbous, bulging sack in anticipation of an Ol’ Trustworthy cash shot of gooey, salty fact. This Thursday is not any completely different. So, put your goggles on and cinch up your plastic poncho, right here it comes. This week, we’ve got feedback/questions concerning Rolly-Ryan, Pitbull Cruz, DAZN Boxing, Winky Wright, and ESPN hypocrisy.
Rolly, Pitbull, DAZN
Hey Paul.
Hope this 2023 brings pleasure and success to you and your loved ones.
Shifting on to questions…
1- Simply examine Rolly [Romero] claiming he bought a contract to struggle Ryan in April, looks as if you had been proper all alongside, Tank and Ryan won’t struggle in April.
TBH, this can be a fairly good struggle which ought to have already occurred with all of the views of that notorious sparring session that occurred a few years in the past, this can be a very dangerous struggle for GBP. Ryan doesn’t have one of the best protection and he was dropped onerous by somebody who was not often known as a heavy puncher. I imply, even Jorge Linares, who by no means had an excellent chin, withstood Campbell´s pictures.
2- Simply learn your DAZN article and I’ve been saying for fairly a while, DAZN must get out of the way in which now as a result of the most important roadblock to the most important struggle these days are these networks contracts, If we had promoters coping with greatest bidder we might in all probability have the massive fights we wish. How a lot time left do you assume we must take care of DAZN?
3- Pitbull Cruz simply mentioned he’s keen to face Regis Prograis for the 140 lb WBC title. I’m not going to be that optimistic about it as a result of I give Prograis credit score, however I believe this is a wonderful struggle. Cruz will at all times have a puncher’s likelihood, however I’m conscious he’s a small man who will flip this right into a canine struggle…hopefully it occurs.
Greatest Regards
– Miguel
Hey Miguel.
Thanks for the well-wishes. Identical to you and yours. I’ll get proper to your questions.
1. I don’t know what to make of Rolly saying that he’s signed to struggle Ryan Garcia, with the winner going through Tank within the late summer time. Nevertheless it’s Rolly Romero, keep in mind. He might very properly be bullshitting only for laughs. Golden Boy lining up Rolly as a backup for Ryan, although, can be a reasonably sensible transfer. As issues look now, I believe everybody’s nonetheless targeted on making an attempt to get Tank-Garcia in April (and crossing their fingers, holding their breath till the opening bell).
2. If not for his or her Golden Boy deal and pleasant relationship with Canelo Alvarez, DAZN Boxing within the US can be all however useless. All they’d have are Matchroom Euro fights and the occasional tremendous flyweight tussle. With Golden Boy and Canelo nonetheless in tow, nevertheless, they’re nonetheless technically gamers. However as you intimated, they’re simply in the way in which now. They don’t have the numbers to be big-time gamers and so they not have the willingness to debt spend for giant fights. Even when they did discover huge fights for his or her Golden Boy fighters, they couldn’t have any of these huge fights solely “in home.” They’d must do like they’re doing with Ryan Garcia-Tank Davis– assume the position of B-side in a co-promotion association. Their existence simply complicates every part. My guess is that after the Golden Boy deal is finished, DAZN Boxing shall be all however carried out, at the least within the US.
3. It’s a bit puzzling that Pitbull’s people– and they’re very sensible boxing people– haven’t actually taken benefit of the big-time constructive buzz he produced in his bout with Gervonta Davis. Subsequent blowouts of Yuriorkis Gamboa and Eduardo Ramirez served solely to maintain him (and his title) energetic. Cruz is in want of an enormous struggle now, however I believe Prograis can be a tricky stylistic matchup and an unfavorable threat vs. reward pairing. He’d be higher suited ready on the winner of Tank-Garcia or Haney-Lomachenko, the place at the least an enormous payday would come together with the powerful stylistic process. Cruz versus Rolly Romero would even be an enormous struggle for Pitbull, and a winnable one.
No Props for Winky Wright?
What’s up P Magazine? Hope all is properly. I used to be wanting over the profession of Winky Wright and it appeared he did not get his flowers (i.e. that struggle that launched him to the moon). Even being undisputed champ at 154 did not do it after beating Mosley. What do you assume went improper in his profession?
– Robert Elmore
Hey Robert.
I believe Winky’s downside was that he ran afoul of sure media characters who buried him for being “boring.” He got here up within the relative infancy of the web boxing period, however properly earlier than there was “new media” and social media debate/affect. Again in these days, the media painted the image and followers both went with it or stored their dissent to themselves. Wright was continually belittled and diminished by many of those media voices and he simply by no means bought his simply due. He additionally didn’t do himself any favors along with his laid again ring fashion, which bought him losses towards Fernando Vargas and Harry Simon and a draw with Jermain Taylor that in all probability ought to’ve been wins.
ESPN Hypocrisy?
What up Magno!!! Simply wrote in about this for Teofimo Lopez vs Sandor Martin struggle…So, go forward and air out High Rank from high to backside on this hypocrisy, I am disgusted with how Tim [Bradley] and my man Dre [Andre Ward] had been protesting for assessment on the lower [in the Jonnie Rice and Guido Vianello fight last Saturday], however by no means uttered a phrase for Martin’s reputable knockdown that in all probability value him the win vs Lopez. Communicate on it!!!!
– FlintowntoAz
Hey “Flintown.”
What can I say? You realize what’s what. Teo is a reputation and a big-time funding. Even a man like Ward, who I consider to be an excellent boxing thoughts and a straight shooter, can’t assist however give the good thing about the doubt to the man in a struggle with the larger title. In an ideal world, there can be the identical degree of advocacy for justice in all fights, throughout the board and no matter who stands to lose with that advocacy for justice. However as everyone knows, boxing is much from being an ideal world. I want I may very well be extra up in arms about this type of stuff, however the sport generally beat the outrage out of respectable folks.
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