I could actually see a scenario where Taylor does better than expected. Quillin does not particularly like jabs and doesn't have the greatest...
Citing the farcical result of Martirosyan-Ouma does not help your case here.
Because very few guys who have already won belts either don't belong at the weight or aren't carrying the particular grudge associated with the...
See I think precisely the opposite. If we're talking in purely abstract, theoretically meritocratic terms (which of course do not actually exist...
Legitimacy is not the chief criterion and I never would pretend it is so (though in terms of the 154 belt discussion, Floyd's victories over 154...
The guy taking more of the risk should stay in his own division if he regards it as an excessive amount, or should move up and fight without a...
That same logic likewise can justify champs themselves demanding catchweights. This entire conversation has been about which is more acceptable....
Not particularly. I don't regard him as necessarily better than someone like Rigondeaux at the weight, at least in terms of resume. Morel was...
The little guy is in fact operating under the pretense that he's the man if he decides winning at a catchweight makes him deserving of the belt.
Of course the market does, but on principle, the champ has a greater right for demanding a catchweight since it's his belt on the line IMO. The...
Champions have more of a right to set terms for defenses than challengers, at least in terms of merit, especially unranked challengers only...
Utterly putrid matchmaking here.
Belt wasn't vacant; Foreman won it from Santos and there's a lineage that extends back over 10 years. Keep trying to equivocate.
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No, it was at 153. And you're not using the same rationale since Cotto actually beat a legit junior middleweight title holder to win his belt....
