Zurdos 168 run was HORRIBLE, & didnt fight Uzcategui or Benavidez or Callum Smith?

This is completely the wrong move for him. The Nail will hammer him. Bob is ruthless, does not care about his fighters careers.

 

He loses those fights. So Bob is taking a calculated risk in moving him up to 175. He'll likely lose those too but what the hell. He'll have squeezed what he wanted out of him.

 

No he whoops Uzi real bad and Benavidez is too green to be a threat atm.

Callum Smith would be a good fight, think Gilberto would probably lose that one

The Nail would be an easier fight than Smith actually. Smith would stop the nail.

 

He has a shot but I think he'd lose those fights. Especially Uzi. Arum wouldn't risk it either way.

 

Arum is protecting his stable, else all he will be left with are Crawford and Loma. Both Ramirez's are over rated, and protected. He kept the other one well away from Prograis.

 

Ramirez is settling into his physical prime and should start picking up the pace or will continue to fly under the radar.

 

I thought Ramírez was the 2nd best SMW after Smith who I decided was the 1st after beating groves. It’s a poor division and he should be unifying the titles there. I think he’ll be poor at 175 . I don’t know what he was doing rematching Hart - as others have said, poor matchmaking.

 

He would get obliterated by Beterbiev and Gvozodyk.

Hes barely beating scrubs in his own weight class and isn't particularly fast or powerful enough to negate their own power.

 

Totally agree,tried to give him a pass for not entering the tourney as I thought Arum was playing the long game with Zurdo which is fine so long as you do step up in time but clearly I was wrong in this and if anything that performance showed maybe why Arum was loathe to put him in against the likes of Groves,Callum Smith or even Eubank.
Another thing for his size Zurdo doesn’t seem to have any power to speak of and consistently ends up in boring decisions.........I’m definitely off the band wagon albeit I did try with him.

 

Says a lot that in this division we had two “top” guys who basically conned or flattered to deceive in the likes of Eubank Jnr and Zurdo.

 

Or just plain protected.

 

I like Valdez but he’s at risk of brain damage with the way he goes about things,it’s more about who can take the most punishment when he fights which ain’t very smart in a sport where you can win by other means.