ESPN: Raymundo Beltrán vs. Paulus Moses & Egidijus Kavaliauskas vs. David Avanesyan RBR.

I'll be following along, might be around for the business end of the card but hitting the gym in the meantime (got a free month trial for a boxing club membership for V-day from the gf...planning on taking full advantage to shake off as much of my considerable build-up of rust as possible...)

 

avanseyan got any chance at all of beating kava? I remember avanseyan being a decent prospect a couple years ago I think

 

"I didn't claim great. That isn't where the bar is set to beat a Charles Ellis. There's a middle ground there. I'm someone that could have turned pro and run up a record as good as his or better, IMO."

Get your ass in the gym if true. A lot of Gyms will let you train for free if you have that much potential

 

He's a 9/1 underdog, and you remember correctly, he's pretty decent and definitely a big step up for Kavaliauskas, but his best results are unanimous decisions (and not whitewashes either) against shot-to-bits Mosley and shot-to-bits Mabuza, plus a draw with Kozaev. His two losses are by UD as well, to Klimov & Peterson, nothing to be ashamed of but he's a rightful underdog provided Kavaliauskas is half as good as everyone thinks..

 

I'm 35 dude. If I want to make anything happen at this point it's going to be in spite of everyone, with nobody's blessing ahead of time. Even the last time I had a "regular" gym that I belonged to (and the last time I competed outside sparring, in a smoker a few years ago), I was already on the wrong side of 30 and the coaches pretty much saw me as a hunk of meat to use as fodder for whatever late-teens or early-20s kids they felt had promise. Nobody's going to just up and believe in me until/unless I force them to take notice. I'm not just walking in somewhere at my age and saying "hey I've been doing this off and on for 25 years and at various points have had different coaches say they saw something in me" and being handed the keys to the kingdom, certainly nobody in this economic climate is giving me a free club membership (these are small businesses, remember most of them struggling as boxing continues to become ever more niche, and most clubs cater to an upscale white-collar clientele most of whom never dream of ever competing and are happy to fork over triple-digits a month for conditioning classes, and most of them can still barely stay afloat), and it'll be a bitch of a time getting any managers or promoters to take any interest in what on paper is a non-starter...I know the score. I've got a LOT of work cut out for me in my Quixotic quest..

 

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Its hard to believe that Muralimov knocked out Durodola a few years ago...

 

Did the card started already?.

 

Not surprising... Akhor simply hasn't panned out as a pro and Jennings if anything has overachieved. Akhror really ought to have campaigned at CW or even LHW. Probably too late to make that jump and salvage his career.