Jalolov stagnates as a fighter.

His comfort zone is the amateurs.

 

Boxing is littered with highly skilled former amateur boxers who cannot get any promotional backing as a professional boxer, and end up rotting in the professional ranks.

Often they just end up never getting a title fight and retiring with a good record. In other cases the big promoters wait until they get old and unmotivated and then match them at short notice with a prospect to use their name.

Boxing is a business not just a sport, and these high level amateurs need to get the business side right otherwise not much point in wasting your time as a “professional” boxer. Especially if your opponents are taxi drivers, nightclub bouncers, and bin men.

Jalalov has zero backing and is wasting his time as professional. If you are an Eastern European fighter the major promoters are rarely interested, so he needs local backing from Eastern Europe. But 7 years into his professional career and he is still facing opponents you would be facing in year 1.

 

You should give it a watch ...he didn't merely go rounds with an undersized opponent, he gassed out halfway and got his ass kicked for the last four rounds (and should have been ruled down in the 5th). It was a draw on my scorecard even with a point deduction to Kudukhov.

 

I'm disappointed, I honestly thought he had higher upside than Hrgovic for the pros.

2016 olympic class (SHWs) was a disappointment, 2020 class is quickly following suit. 2024 medalists don't look very promising either, but I'll reserve judgement.

 

The Joyce fight in the amateurs showed the cracks in his game. He clearly aimed for double Olympic gold as peak career achievement (which is a phenomenal achievement, might I add) and shows little interest in progressing through the pros. Still an incredible amateur, but he doesn't have it as a pro. Audley Harrison looked unbelievable when he won gold in Sydney in 2000, and his pro career was a total anticlimax. Jalolov will probably fizzle away in a similar fashion.

 

At least A-Farce stepped up and fought at a higher level of competition as a professional. Yes he came unstuck, but at least the man tried.

Jalolov is still facing opponents in his 7th year in that you would not be expecting to face past your 1st year. The progression has been literally zero. He is wasting everyone's time including his, if this is the level he wants to fight at.

 

Jalolov may genuinely just simply fight part-timers until he retires, it clearly means a lot to him that he never ever makes the step up to a good level ever.

 

The likes of Jalolov, Majidov, Babanin, Romanov have shown that..

It you have serious aspirations for the pro game, you need to be turning pro MUCH earlier.

ESPECIALLY if you're from one of the ex Soviet Union nations, cause of the lack of dates/opportunities.

 

Jalolov still has a lot of talent, I wouldn't give up on him completely yet.

But last night he was fighting like the soviet Audley Harrison!

 

Guys like Jalalov just show that the am game is redundant after a certain point imo. Imagine if the guy went pro after his first medal? Or if he was moulded in a good pro gym from the begining?

I feel the same way about Loma. Imagine if he went pro after his first destructive gold medal performance? We could've seen him mix it up with John, Gamboa, prime Salido, Garcia, Penalosa etc. He could've had an amazing record potentially.

 

East European and Central Asian boxers usually receive poor promotion in the pros, and gradually decline due to inactivity, poor pay and meaningless opposition.

But Hrgovic declined due to inactivity. Dychko was never given a chance, Korobov, Jalolov and Mekhontsev were ruined by Top Rank.

Usyk survived without a powerful promoter, partly by always fighting on the road.

There are exceptions. Makhmudov has received excellent promotion in Canada, although he's not very good, as did Lucian Bute. Kostya Tszyu received very good promotion in Australia. My advice to talented East European boxers: immigrate to Australia or Canada.

 

I don't understand, is there genuinely no money in the sport in Eastern Europe? I thought they were no longer amateur only like Cuba.

There seems to be decent followings for boxing there, but it just can't be converted into cash to support the pro sport.

So these boxers have to go to western countries to make a pro career and try to build a following and promotion from scratch without the understanding or promotional nous and connections, or not even speaking English in a lot of cases.

 

I refuse to believe that a two time Olympic gold medalist cant get a decent promoter to back him.

 

Even if he does not have a good promoter, that does not explain the poor cardio? He should be able to sustain a decent pace for 10 rounds. Does the dude run around in the park or do any incline treadmill work? Does not seem like it.