Hopkins he did not win a round against and looked like an amateur, what is there to bring up? Taylor is arguably the most controversial and "OVERRATED" middlweight in recent times. This is not coming from myself, but from many followers of boxing. As an Arthur fan, he LOSES to Taylor at 160, I will not argue that, but at 168, Taylor does not last 9 or 10 against arthur. I have no comment on Bernard Hopkins, PROPS to Pavlik for taking that fight, unfortunately he thought it would be a cakewalk. Zuniga, Zertuch and Lockett, again, no comment. LOL at Rubio being a "step up", Rubio loses to Gevor, Miranda, Simon and most probably Marquez, don't know what you are talking about, Rubio LOL!
The ONLY reason you guys want to make Simon into the undiscovered jewel of Philidelphia is because Arthur looked like crap against an unknown club fighter. Ya, I guess you're right -- Zertuche was never any good. I guess that's how he made Mexico's Olympic team -- cuz he was always **** with gloves onatsch Put Simon or Maruez in the ring with 2005 Zuniga or 2007 Zertuche and they WOULD NOT finish on their feet. Simon was living of Bronco McKart's left overs, and Marquez had a very recent draw with McKart. That's Arthur Abraham's level, and I am sick to death of hearing about how Pavlik MUST fight this chump as if it would make or break his career. If the fight is so important, maybe Sauerland should do something besides matching AA with unknown guys who aren't even top 20.
To hell with Simon, the one that killed me was Ayala! I try not to comment much on unknown dudes, cause you sometimes can't tell. But AYALA!, that dude is regional to me. He's from Pennsyvania too, and his FIRST fight NOT in Pennsyvania was the Draw he fought to with S. Mora. Evidently that Draw is what earned his shot at the IBF Crown?
I am not making Simon an "undiscovered" anything, he came to fight, can't say the say for Rubio:rofl. And No he did not look like "crap", he did what he needed to do to win, ALL boxers have there off nights. A LOT of posters think Kelly had a shitty night against Rubio, I am not one of them, I saw a different tactic in Kelly I have never seen before, his defense and especially his head movement. As far as Zertuche and Zuniga, don't think they would cause arthur any problems at all. Zuniga is the aggresive come forward fighter, Colombians are known for, I see a miranda arthur kind of KO for arthur. Zertuche I have not seen much of, so I will respectfully not comment on him. From his fight against kelly, he seemed like a tough aggresive fighter that takes 5 shots to give one back, with weak defense. And as far as importance, YOU of all people don't even believe what you wrote, IT IS IMPORTANT, if not for the promoters, at least for us fans. Do you really "not" want to see aa kelly?
Who cares who made what Olympic team man. I mean obviously Zertuche has some level of skill to have made it this far as a pro but he's not very good. He's pretty shitty. Again resume discussions by the Pavfans and the Abrahamites are just silly. You're arguing between two buckets of **** people. Even if one smells better than another, it's STILL a **** pile.
Still though, no doubt that Zertuche WAS regarded much higher at that time, he was "hot". However, after being Pavlikated, he's done jack ****.:!: