Am I the only one who thinks Tavoris Cloud needs to be more active?

Just out of curiosity. Why do I care? Because what's been happening with him illustrates a pet peeve of mine: fighters who aren't the finished product yet but fight so infrequently it's impossible for them to reach their potential. It's also impossible to build a following if people can't see you fight.

-After Gonzalez, he sits on his mandatory status for a year prior to facing Woods.
-Now that he's defeated Woods, it's been 4 months with no mention of when or who he's defending against. Does anyone know when/who he's fighting next?

The dude puts on an action packed fight, but the current matchmaking strategy kills his own buzz and takes money out of his own pocket because you've got to fight to get paid. I just don't get it. He's had 3 fights in 2 years when he should've had at at least twice for where he's at in his career.

/Rant over.

 

It looks like it.

The guy's name pops up from time to time when people are accusing other fighters of ducking him, so I start a thread just about him and the only noise coming back is crickets chirping. :rofl

 

I'm sorry Ripple, but it just doesn't compute to me that he's that serious about calling out Dawson and then turned down the HBO deal that would've gotten him there with just one warm-up fight.

When a fighter with essentially no name value turns down HBO, it makes me think one of two things: either a) the guy doesn't want to get paid, or b) his camp doesn't want to make that step up because they don't think their man's ready. We all know how likely option A is here.