Coming soon, WBC final eliminator. Don King and Mayweather Promotions agreed Tuesday morning on terms. Victor gets the spoils of challenging Jermell "Iron Man" Charlo.
Smith despite his reputation for boring fights can actually produce some nice stuff with the right dance partner, and he ran Martirosyan unexpectedly close. Without the knockdowns it would've been a draw on most people's cards on here.
I always found Ishe to be slightly more relevant to the scene than people give credit. Good fight here. Winner of this becomes a worthy enough challenger and a good scalp for whoever fights/beats them next... Def think Vanes takes it on points, though.
Martirosyan gets overlooked a lot, but hes only ever lost to Lara, Charlo and Andrade and none of them were convincing. On his dat, he could probably beat anyone at 154. He beats Smith again.
One of the knockdowns Vanes scored on Ishe was a pretty hard one. He should have put his foot on the gas when he had the chance.
Vanes the great gatekeeper. He's one of those guys that can beat on 98 percent of the division. He gives the top 5 guys in the division tough fights, just can't get over the hump. I see Andrade, Lara, Jermell Charlo beating him. Vanes vs Hurd or Lubin would be better fights
Don't forget, they were hardly on different levels the last time. Smith had a surge in the mid-rounds and had Martirosyan running late.
I think ls time to put Vanes against Lubin, so we can see if Lubin has a breaktrough win over a guy that has never been dominated.
hopefully Maciej Sulecki, Brian Castano, Magomed Kurbanov, Alexander Besputin, Liam Williams, etc can bring the division back to life.
