Bakhodir Jalolov quits pro boxing

Jalolov will return to pro boxing after the Paris games. Stop being such a soy boy with your clickbait titles, Miniq.

 

I just don't think he fancied it. Sure US/UK fighters have an easier road than most, but if you're a good fighter and really want it the opportunities are there.

Mighty shame I really wanted to see if he lived up to the hype

 

I don't think he cares, which is sad

 

No no no. Joe Parker comes from a small country and he got fights. This guy just not into it.

 

In many cases olympic fighters earn more money than pro fighters. There are many countries where that's something common.

 

He hasn't quit pro boxing. He's focusing on the Olympics. His own country don't win many Olympic medals so this is a chance to win one for them. Not that hard to understand. What's surprising is that he had a pro fight scheduled only a few months out. Everyone else is trying to get a couple of Olympic-style tournaments in. Speaking of which, there's one in America from 15 to 20 April. I'm hearing America's Super Heavy, Joshua Edwards from H-Town, has been having a particularly hard time of it in sparring this week.

 

Let's be real, aside from getting money from the Saudi's, there isn't much interest in boxing anymore in the USA and it's been like for a long time.

 

Tiresome Fury has quit pro boxing more times than he's said the words Dosser or Sausage. Which is alot.

 

He's damn near 30 years old, needs to stop with the amateur BS. Massive waste of talent from a 6'6 southpaw with good skills. Most of the HW division today is wide open for a guy like him.

 

Not a good look to his pro career, he'll have been a pro for 6 years next month, his career has progressed at a truly glacial like pace.

Wilder was massively over protected during his career but at this stage of his pro career Wilder was already signed to fight for the WBC heavyweight title, while Jalolov is still dabbling with being a pro and years away from a title shot of any kind.

Hrgovic too had already beaten Zhang in the same period of time as a pro with the same number of fights. While Jalolov is still fighting journeymen and seems in no rush to even step up to even fight a gate keeper or even a name pro journeymen like a Helenius, Kuzmin or Lerena.

While I understand he's trying to win another gold medal one has to question his desire to even be a pro, it seems like an after thought to him. Arum is to blame in part for sure for not pushing him harder but then why push a fighter who seems indifferent to the idea of being a pro to begin with. I'm beginning to think we'll never see him fulfil his potential as a pro.

 

People are wasting a lot of tears over an unmotivated and marginally talented guy. He was basically a one-handed plodder who never even developed a good right jab to set up the straight left. Similar to a southpaw Deontay Wilder, from what I saw.

 

Or, a lot like Hrgovic by the looks of it, he's waiting for a Willy Wonka of boxing to come along with a golden ticket straight to the top.

And it doesn't usually work that way.

These guys have options..
1) Sit there waiting until someone finally takes pity on them enough to fight them on the cheap
Or sit there waiting, claim they're being ducked and get a few fans thinking they're special when they haven't proved anything... And carry on sitting there waiting for the world to give them what they're owed.

2) Earn the status they're demanding to be given for free.
Get fights made against the best that'll take it, take interesting fights on undercards and build a profile - get known by doing something - radical, I know.


It's nobodies fault that American and British audiences are more interested in their own Olympians and pro fighters - it's only natural, and since that's where the money is, they're going to get exposure... These audiences aren't opposed to watching fighters from other countries, but first they have to know who they are and see them doing impressive things (fighting against good fighters, preferably winning).

It's really not rocket science and (this isn't directed at you in particular - it applies to plenty of posters) I'm getting a bit fed up of people demanding that guys be spoonfed opportunities before they earn them.

 

In fairness... Zhang was a bit of a nobody when Hrgovic fought him - yes he had Olympic pedigree, but he had no top-200 wins and had drawn with Jerry Forrest.

He wasn't really proven to be much more than a journeyman himself at that point.

In hindsight it looks a lot better because of his wins over Joyce, but sometimes that's how it goes.


You're still right that Jalolov hasn't even taken on a remotely recognisable name, though.

 

That guy that smacked fury about cut him up and made the mandated date to not be the deadline he made
Jal seen the hands he laid on the guy that that cage fighter beat