Kessler vs Glen Johnson lets make it happen

Haven't seen Kessler talking about a fight with Larson at all. Mogens Palle is another matter...

 

Answered your own question then, haven't you?

 

Erm, if you say so. Mads Larson, however, shows the consequences of that approach.

It's not like it's a unique situation. Bute ain't fighting any better opposition than Kessler (and was lined up to fight Larson himself before Larson turned it down). At middleweight Pavlik has had defences against Lockett and Rubio (probably worse than Hausler and Sartison in overall quality) and now his promoter is talking about putting him with Duddy not because anyone thinks it would be a competitive fight, but because it would get fans in in New York (exactly the same rationale as there would be for Kessler v Larson in Copenhagen). At light heavyweight, Dawson ignores what would be a reasonably competitive mandatory to instead fight two fights against an old guy off the movies, when the first fight was not competitive.

Common factor = ****y promoters.

 

What happened did Johnson call out Kessler?,Iturned it to Sho when the !0th was over
Would Johnson go down in weight?

 

I agree. Its pissing me off.

Make no mistake Mikkel is easily a world class fighter but he is severely pissing me off now. If this Larsen fight goes through, that has to be it, no more low-key fights, only biggies, and by that I grudgingly mean in America.

 

Conveniently ignored? Erm, only if I 'conveniently ignored' Kessler fighting Calzaghe, Andrade and Mundine as well. I compared their recent opposition and future mooted opposition outside of the defeat both suffered when stepping up in class.

Arum, by the way, was noticeably talking about almost everyone but Abraham in the aftermath of Pavlik/Rubio.

 

The paths are similar - upcoming, fought solid opponents, won titles, stepped up and lost, now fighting lesser opponents when there are legitimate challenges in their division that we would like to see them fighting.

It's not a difficult point to grasp.

If there was any logic in boxing, then Kessler would fight Bute and the winner of Froch v Taylor and Pavlik would fight Abraham and Sturm. But their isn't, and the interests of the promoters don't square with what I expect the desire of both fighters are, so they probably won't.

 

Really?

Kessler's last two and next two: Sartison, Haussler, Larsen, Perdomo (0 Top 10 fighters, 1 arguably Top 15 fighter)

Bute's last two and next two: Joppy, Andrade, Zuniga, Andrade (2 Top 5 fighters, 1 arguably Top 15 fighter)

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