In all honest whoever is in charge of the match making at GBP needs to be fired/replaced. While it's reasonable that the typical boxing fan may have been caught off guard by Pirog, it's a match makers responsibility to avoid putting inexperience and up and coming fighters against guys like that. That guys style was all wrong for Jacobs at this point in his career and this is as dumb as the decision to put Ortiz in with hard hitting Maidana (considering Ortiz had issues with his chin in various sparring sessions).
Now I'm not saying to duck these guys or even avoid them all together, rather you build guys up until they are actually ready for these type of opponents. This takes fully knowing what type of fighter you have and where he is at development wise and you just don't randomly pit him against any guy. This is why guys like Trampler and Goodman are the best in the business, and the guys at GBP are pretty much chumps when it comes to building fighters.
Now I'm not saying to duck these guys or even avoid them all together, rather you build guys up until they are actually ready for these type of opponents. This takes fully knowing what type of fighter you have and where he is at development wise and you just don't randomly pit him against any guy. This is why guys like Trampler and Goodman are the best in the business, and the guys at GBP are pretty much chumps when it comes to building fighters.
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