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[paulf]

Very easy fight for Fundora. Xayas has no power and is easy to hit. Fundora bulldozes him.

[paulf]

Ah so the issue is actually you just don't like Floyd. Got it....

[paulf]

Nah, boxers do that **** all the time. Garcia just did it to Haney.

Marquez could have walked. Instead, he took the money.

Murray took the money (against Brandon Rios).

Ioka took the money (against Franco).

Curtis Stevens took the money (against Lemeiux)....

[paulf]

Catchweight arguments are the most low-IQ thing in all of boxing.

Each time a fight is negotiated, a weight is agreed to. Sometimes it's within the established weight classes, sometimes it isn't. Both fighters have agree to it - no one is forced to do anything in boxing.

Nearly...

[paulf]

You mean that time he got hit with a picture-perfect left hook from Josesito, didn't go down, and won the fight?

How good was the guy who dropped Tszyu cleanly, Wade Ryan? The guy was 14-5 with 3 big KO's when Tszyu fought him.

Tszyu got dropped by a pillow-fisted...

[paulf]

Uh, no. UFC became the "major league" of MMA by beating out its competitors. That's the opposite of a monopoly.

Anyone can get some investors together and start a combat sports league. Which is what One Championship and PFL did.

In a monopoly, there would be some...

[paulf]

That's good - getting back to a league model is good.

I say "back to" because boxing used to have a major league - it was "go to America and fight on HBO." If you didn't come to American and fight on HBO, you weren't serious and no one took you seriously.

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[paulf]

I've never heard anyone say much of anything good about Cotto at 154. His prime was 140....

[paulf]

Jose was not a big puncher at 35 and is long in the tooth.

So.... no....

[paulf]

When was the last time Tim Tszyu moved his head off the center line?

Positively never.

What credible guys had Murtazaliev KOd before Tszyu? A long in the tooth Culcay? Come on.

Tim has a soft chin and doesn’t understand defense. And unlike Tszyu, Thurman...

[paulf]

Thurman is going to KO soft-chinned Tszyu. Period.

[paulf]

Has Torrez been secretly getting trained by Marcus Browne? Haven’t seen a guy just leap into another fighter every possible second like that in years...

[paulf]

Torrez digging deep, pulled out the last two rounds....

[paulf]

"Delivering a backpack", eh?

[paulf]

Turning down the Ugas fight was a greatest mistake he could have made.

Dude would have been handed that world title on a silver platter. Not sure if he priced himself out or wanted a bigger fight. Insane.

Now he's in Oz fighting Tszyu for a couple hundred k and no belt.