At last, the fight everybody never realized they felt they "could take or leave, really". This is, oddly, the fourth time in a row it has been scheduled in the past year alone. Previously conceived as part of various undercards (García vs. Lipinets, then Spence vs. Ocampo, and then García vs. Easter, Jr.) it will now headline a PBC show on Fox at Nassau Coliseum on August 4th. Both men tangled with some of the cream of the crop of the last decade at 140 & 147lb and yet never quite broke into that elite stratosphere themselves; both held world titles in an overlapping period from 2009-2011 (and neither since); and both have fought shot basketcase Victor Ortiz during his comeback within the last couple of years (Berto knocking him out in their April 2016 rematch; Alexander drawing with him this February). Co-main event will be a battle of the MW hypejobs from 2010-2014 (when both were undefeated and generating buzz) whose momentum has flagged since each was exposed with a loss and draw respectively: Peter Quillin vs. J'Leon Love, namely.
A entertaining old timers fight with no real ramifications. Hearing there tryna feed the winner to spence... Which is sad...and dont wanna see devon or andre end up like lamont peterson (a wayy past prime fighter fed to a lion for the sake of padding his record with a name)
why the Nassau coliseum? not really a known fight venue and neither is based in the ny market I plan on going to the kovalev fight maybe I'll go to this one too
Berto has been stopped exactly twice: in his last outing last year and before that six fights ago in 2013. You seem a little unclear on what the phrases "MO" and "these days" mean..
Mike? Really? That's one hell of a middle name. Devon is getting to that age where his iron chin out of nowhere inexplicably gives way, Berto by KO. For the record, Ortiz deserved that draw, Virgil Hunter ws dickriding Devon like a fiend and biased most of the viewers.
I heard Bam Bam and Vicious Victor was also going to fight that night I think Berto pulls off a wide UD
Stylistically this might've favored Devon in their primes (which mutually concluded - or at least jumped the half-life shark and then floated a little farther - sometime in the last half-dozen years) but at this point it becomes about how eroded the reflexes are, how easily you're getting hit...and Berto is the bigger, stronger man and power is the last to go.
Prime for prime I think DA was CLEARLY the better and more skilled of the two and don't this k it would have even been close if they fought in their primes. Actually, I think DA didn't even realize the remaining 1/4 of his potential before addiction wreck ed him, but I'm certain what he had was plenty to tune up Berto and probably even stop him. Its funny....... But it's not -- when I was growing up Berto and Andre Dirrell, along with Chad Dawson developed into THE rockstars of Jr. US amateur boxing by the time we were all graduating high school. All three seemingly unanimously hailed and destined for boxing royalty and greatness. Dirrell and Berto even had a couple of WARS back then at welter and if my memory serves it was Berto who ended up staging two furious rallies and clipping Dirrell both times after being badly hurt and behind in both contests.