Anyone depressed after last nights fights?

Might be completely unrelated circumstances as to why I feel this way. But... I was left feeling dreary after watching most of last nights fights. Yet another iron chinned, fragile skinned Mexican warrior who can fight as well as anyone but loses his title, at least in part, due to via awful facial injuries.

You could see it coming a mile away, Israel Vasquez style. Every few years we get a fighter just like Francisco Vargas, and facial damage is always a severe fight interfering, potentially career ruining issue. Antonio Margarito, Vasquez, Fernando Vargas, Francisco Vargas, Jorge Arce. All fighters careers who are haunted and sometimes expedited to an end by paper thin skin.

This is a current theme, you wanna go right back in time where no one will know what I'm talking about..... look at Jorge Vaca, Ruben Olivares, Bazooka Limon, Victor Rabanaels, Marcos Villasana, Jose Luis Lopez. All iron chinned (or close) warriors who could take a punch and fight as well by anyone, but all of their fights having the constant of their faces eventually, or even constantly, smashed to pieces.

For christs sake, Irsael Vasquez just had is entire eye removed I believe, because it was basically dead and causing him health issues. It's just so damned disheartening and frustrating having to see blood and guts warriors have to go through that.

Anyway, just a night full of good fights with disappointing facets, some about the reality of boxing. Yay woo Frampton and Cruz went another 12 in a high end ESPN "classic". We all knew it was going to be carbon copy of the first fight, we all know Cruz would be favored, and was was, to the almost exact tee of how Frampton was the first time. Just how competitive can a fight be when there are such known, extreme variables that are such commonly known? When you know the true money match, the only match that matters to either fighter, or either promoter, or anyone making a single god damned dollar from this from the the huge third fight, preferably in the UK.

In the meantime, while watching the lower weight fight last night, I remembered that we have the likes of Rigondeaux, who on a strictly ability level might belong among the top 25 most skilled fighters of all time.... is being frozen out in a manner that hasn't been done since the mob controlled boxing the 1950's.

We could be routinely watching a true, a "full potential" Zab Judah (Pernell Whitaker with power, thanks Max!) P4P master, one of the greatest amateurs of all time who could have one of the greatest careers of all time considering the depth around his weight class. Showing his Lomochenko like potential when he rarely gets the chance to fight.

So I should be happy good matches (none the less cards) aren't made for several months of the calendar year, and then we get a good ESPN level scrap between Leo and Frampon as some kind of "This is it, the fight of the year!" In a fight that the script was already leaked and known by all weeks before it ever happened? That's good for the sport?

I don't know. Color me a ***** if that's your perception. Last night did not leave a good taste in my mouth.

 

Another facet to a night that left a bad taste in my mouth, last minute pull outs ruined TWO fights yesterday. Somehow one fighter got Hepatitis and a legit world champion was **** out a fighter. Good for us.

Then Tureno Johnson, an underrated fighter who would have a win over Curtis Stevens if he wasn't a ******, also has a fight fall through. He was on his way back to title contention, and being active again.

 

Do you think the paydays are relative to the quality of his performances, his ability?

Why shouldn't he routinely receive paydays like he did against Donaire, since that's the level he's shown he's able to operate on?

Should he have to bend one damn bit considering what he's already proven? If he isn't being given big chances, like he has proven he deserves, which I am certain he has been in at least several cases denies... does that make boxing fair? It just makes it more bull**** than any other organization of sports and they're all crooked to begin with.