the guy has dominated his divisions for a decade made countless defences - proved himself top world class fighter, he should be near p4p lists if he was a black american hed be the greatest thing since Jeff Lacy
He was fought absolutely no one of note. Typical protected belt holder. Pretty talented though but one of the lesser Argie stylists there has been. Santos Laciar would've pushed his **** in.
Maybe if he showed an ounce of balls in the Donaire fight he might be. But he ran and ran and ran, no major network is ever going to give him a major fight because of the way he fought. He's nowhere near a P4P list and won't be ever.
Nonito was a beast at bantamweight and he was fighting at lighter divisions. Not shame on losing a UD against Nonito. If he jad fought a different fight he would have been knocked out.
He showed some balls by getting in the ring, when will fans learn to stop calling on fighters to "grow some balls"?
Is he of an age where it would be worth FW giving him a purse to lure him to the Echo Arena against Butler?
It's a figure of speech of course it takes balls to get in the ring with Nonito Donaire, but hell if I was paid millions for one fight I'd do (And get knocked out with the first punch) but this is a talented sportsman, one who like you said has been 'on top' of his division, if he is going to take a fight like that he needs to have AMBITIONS of winning it! He's not a journeyman so he shouldn't fight like one, but sadly on that occasion he just wanted to survive. He lost his chance of another major payday by doing that.
Underrated only by morons who a) judge him by only the Donaire performance as it's probably their only time ever having seen him and/or b) prejudge by a glance at his Boxrec page that he was protected or a paper titlist simply because he made the majority of his defenses at home, as is often assumed in snap judgment by those who feel entitled to comment on the international scene and/or lower weight divisions despite being totally ignorant of them and relying strictly on Boxrec info rather than actually watching matches to appraise talent. Same thing you get with Chris John. Much the same as with John, his reign wasn't ideal when held up to a unifying/traveling champion's standards but they both are/were enormous talents with HOF credentials based on not only longevity but consistency of quality in their performances against solid if not great opposition spanning many years and title defenses aplenty.
I don't think so. Are you pretty well acquainted with the crop of 112 and 115lb division contenders over the last decade? His challengers weren't all studs or even terribly deserving of a world title stab by any means, but he certainly fought and decisively repelled enough very good ones to support his quantity of defenses with ample quality to not be called a paper run.
:yep I know you specialize in the classic scene surrounding fly and its neighbors, just wasn't sure if you've kept up on the modern stuff. Defenses against: Lazarte (like him or not, he went on to become IBF champ, the filthy *******), Sarritzu (went on to reign twice as Euro champ and challenged Mthalane for the IBF belt) x2, Makhmutov (Olympian, former 2-time European champ), Inom (unbeaten, went on to become Euro champ), Asloum (went on to become WBA champ), Tamara (went on to become IBF champ), Whitfield (unbeaten, posted victories over Tamara & super-gatekeeper Chango Vargas, who in turn gave Chocolatito hell several years - and defeats - later), Seda (recently gave LSC a heck of a spirited argument - IMO certain to grab a belt someday if he sticks around), Urina (big puncher, org ranking fixture), Garcia (ugly record at first glance but several very nice W's), Orucuta (highly regarded, many expected him to dethrone the aging Narvaez...) ...none of that does anything for you? :think Sure, there is a heck of a lot of at best ordinary stuff mixed in with all that, but consider that he made a lot of the names on that list - all top 15 contenders when he fought them, a few of them former/future titlists - look absolutely foolish and lost very few rounds (enumerable perhaps on two hands) over 26 world title bouts, comprising about 60% of his career.
Is there a more boring and insufferable **** than IntentionalButt on this forums? Me excluded, of course.
