2022: The Year Of The Pointless Rematch That No One Was Asking For.

Panya Pradabsri vs. Chayaphon Moonsri 2

Wanheng was unlucky to walk away with a loss in the first one according to most people, and he had 12 defenses prior to being beaten 113-115 on all official cards by Panya.

Kubrat Pulev vs. Dereck Chisora 2

This is basically old Chisora fighting ancient Pulev. It was pointless in the sense that Chisora would have his hand raised short of a beating on par with the first one.


No issue with anything else you said.

Also, Yabuki lost to Ken Shiro by KO 3 in their rematch, changing the result.

 

Let's suppose that Kambosos decided he didn't want to get slapped around again by Haney. What does he do going forward?

Will his next fight pay what dancing with Haney again pays? Could Kambosos at this stage in his career really change his game up enough to ever get to where he was a second time?

I guess to answer "Is the money really worth it?" question you have to know what each guy got into the sport to do. Did they come to create a legacy or make a lot of money as soon as humanly possible?

For Kambosos I think it was definitely worth it and Haney wasnt going to get the fight unless he agreed so...

We need to go down to Home Depot and rent a wood chipper, gas it up, get all the lawyers and boxing promoters together and throw them into it.

Then we can ban auto rematchroom style clauses if the scores are wide.

 

I scored the first one 118-110 and the second one 114-114, but I have no problem with scores for Chisora in the second one. I just remember that in certain areas I saw some fans scoring the second fight 118-110 Chisora, and of course they almost robbed Pulev in the first one. I just have a rather sour taste in my mouth about those fights due to the judges in the first fight and fan reaction in the second fight.

 

Check mate!

 

Quite a lot of guys on here were actually getting excited about this one, though, coming on as if there was a distinct possibility that it would provide some kind of definitive closure to the Canelo-Golovkin drama (which it didn't, of course, but only attached an epilogue of further rancor and dissatisfaction).

 

And Fury-Wilder 3 was only a couple of months before the turn of the year.

I suppose it's just another symptom of boxing eating itself. The "zero" seems to be becoming more important to some fighters than anything else, as if that and an easy payday are the only driving factors in matchmaking. Fights like Fury-Joshua, Crawford-Spence etc. seem increasingly hard to make when these fighters have an easier, less risky route to money. And what could be less risky than fighting either someone you've already handily beaten, or someone who's received a bus pass since you last fought them? There will always be a portion of the paying fanbase who will convince themselves that these fights are worth getting excited about. But it's disrespectful to fans, and while it may work out in the short term for the fighters involved, the long-term affect on boxing can only be to push it further towards irrelevance.

 

This wasn't a pointless rematch because Nonito went on to win the WBC title when he savagely destroyed and KO'd Oubaali. Not only did Nonito stand in the way of Inoue's goal of becoming undisputed, but Nonito put a fantastic account of himself in their first fight.

 

Joshua vs Usyk was far from pointless

 

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Damn I wanna argue with u but I strait up forgot half these fights even happened. So yeah pointless is probably the word.

 

There really were a lot this year. Haney-Kambo and Chisora-Pulev stand out as particularly egregious.

Boxing, like the movie industry, has realized that you can just feed people the same slop expending half the effort while retaining 80% of the profit.

Get ready for Wilder - Fury IV

 

Just saw online they're talking about AJ vs Whyte 2 too