It’s anti-everyone-but-Matchroom now. Slates pretty every single fight that doesn’t have a Matchroom finger involved. How can you criticise Spence v Crawford ffs.
I'm not sure about the user, but what he's posted in this thread seems to be fair. Surely people should be taken seriously if they're making sense.
The amount of Matchroom fights he announces or says are rumoured that don’t happen and he just goes ‘oh they must have changed their plan’ Happens with Queensberry and it’s ‘they never had any intention’. Weird.
And I’m sure Yarde would like to fight Smith. It’s not just a case of 2 boxers picking who they want to fight, there’s countless things to factor in. Money, dates, promotion etc.
Makes sense to fight for the European Title. Disappointed Dos Santos is the opponent though - Buatsi knocked him out 2 years ago in an uncompetitive fight. Hopefully Yarde can fight the Buatsi Azeez winner or the Joe Smith Jr thing can happen next year.
I agree it’s a disappointing opponent but I think the issue is that outside of 2 scheduled fights (Beterbiev v Smith & Buatsi v Azeez) there’s nobody to fight except Bivol. The entire division outside of the top 5/6 is virtually unknown, so may as well go for a title. Joe Smith Jr’s brother was shot dead a month ago so he’s not training at the minute.
That explains things. I still would have preferred someone world ranked as I don't think Santos is ranked with any governing body. Hopefully the Smith Beterbiev winner fights Bivol, and then Yarde can fight the winner of Buatsi Azeez, but I don't think either happens unfortunately. Do you know what happened to the thread about the IFL show on August 13? Seems like it's been pulled from the forum. @TBC-ASAP I think you started it - you know what happened to it ? Imagine if Joshua loses to Whyte the night before - doubt Hearn turns up then to the IFL show.
good to see someone with less than a week on the forum knowing the rationale for why boxers take fights....