BJS'S career?

His days are few and far between though. The Lemieux performance was excellent but the PED stuff even puts a mark next to that

 

This. I've said this before but BJS clearly made a decision early on in his career to take the above approach and Warren seemingly backed it. It annoys me when people talk about this guy in reverence with bated breath, like we're just expected to believe all the talk about him definitely being the best MW in world from all these gym buddies. Fukin prove it then.

The boat has sailed chaps, he's 30 this year in a lacklustre division now and with a proven history of reneging on fights.

 

Maybe Warren but BJS? Not sure.

 

Harsh OP. I don't see how you can say he only fights for vacant titles when he won his world title against a legitimate world champion. Half the title shots out there are for vacant titles and all those other belts become insignificant when you beat a world champion and become a world champion. He defended the WBO belt too and never lost it in the ring.

The latest title shot is just a loophole in boxing that can't be blamed on a fighter. BJS has taken the fight his promoter wants him to take, that's the way the sport goes unfortunately. Take it up with Warren.

His resume isn't great but it isn't bad. Eubank JR, Munroe, Lee and Lemeiux are all good wins, especially the latter two. Middleweight has been a weak division for most of BJS's career. Canelo and GGG have 100% avoided him. Granted he made those comments about Golovkin but he said those things when he was a young man. He's still very young. If anything those comments were wise and honest. He has since been open to fight the top two and neither want anything to do with him after his Lemeiux masterclass!

BJS is an idiot and he messed up the Andrade fight. Although it's conveniently forgetten he took the fight in the first place as an extremely hard voluntary defence. His promoter has since advised him not to take the fight again on the new terms. Bad for boxing, bad from Warren but I doubt he gave BJS much of a choice.

 

Thats a fair point mate but I'm outlining the fact that Canelo still basically used Fielding as an easy way to pick up a strap.

 

Not a chance it’s Warrens fault. BJS has let Warren down constantly. “Injuries” now failing a drug test. Warren has done well by him as you can see by this latest WBO title shot.

 

He's clearly targeting the winner of Eubank/DeGale. What a waste..

 

Canelo fought fodder like Fielding, but his next fight is back at middleweight in a unification fight against Jacobs. Let's see who Billy Joe fights next after he wins his super middleweight title, then we'll see if the two situations are comparable.

 

Remember not long ago he called out Khan too!

 

He is too risk adverse on the risk/reward matrix when selecting opponents.

He likes to take no risk for the maximum reward. Him jumping up to wait for the De Gale vs Eubank winner is typical behaviour by him.

His stand out win is Lemieux as that was more risk than he is usually prepared to take.

Followers of the sport want to see the best face the best. When his career is over he won’t get the respect he expects, because we know when cherry picking is going on and don’t look on it kindly.

 

I love the idea of Golovkin watching Saunders beat Lemieux and thinking 'I want absolutely nothing to do with this' despite the fact he himself was even more dominant against the same guy.

Also, that fight is held up by Saunders fans a supposed exception that somehow proves the rule. I don't get it. He was awful against Akavov, fairly average against Monroe, scraped past Eubank and Lee in close fights. He's not useless but Christ almighty he gets overrated by some.

 

I agree with most of your post but Andrade Wernt a voluntary it was a mandatory and he was getting hansomly paid for it.

 

I stand corrected.

 

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