Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Sorry I don’t understand, who is Parker fighting?

 

Parker is fighting Simon Kean

 

Oleg was hot/cold and chinny, but he was a good heavyweight at the end of the day.

 

Danny told me he sparred Oleg when they were both younger in their primes. In his own words “I dealt with him, BUT IT WAS TOUGH”.

 

https://x.com/spamBoxing/status/1702861668718407988

Badou looking to keep moving up it seems. Gotta give him credit for eventually vacating instead of holding up the division in case he loses his move to the bigger division.

Also it appears Lerena will be fighting for an interim Bridger title. They are dead set on making this a real division

 

What happened to the Pole?

 

Rozanski? He's still the Bridgerweight title holder. He was supposed to fight Lerena, who won an eliminator against Merhy, but Lerena agreed to step aside so he could fight Badou Jack. Seems the compromise also included Lerena fighting for an interim belt.

Jesus, now I'm talking like it's a serious weight class

 

What about Babic?!??! Where is he fitting back into this renowned weight division?

 

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Why would Badou vacate the belt for the bridgerweight one is beyond me. Makabu-Gevor is okay.

 

god damn it, i was hoping bridger would go away by now

 

what an amazing journey he had, that was a great win he had to take the belt from rahman

i like the best ive faced series but often times feel its plagued by less than honest answers

i liked maskaev's assessment and agree with him on his assessments of rahman and tua. It was interesting getting that insight on jefferson who was pretty dangerous and a guy like fields who i did not expect to come up

made me think about how a rahman vs mccall fight would go

interesting to mention sinan samil sam too who was in the WBC top 5 for a while and always in elimination bouts

 

Same exact tweet I posted but didn't show up for some reason. Nice to know the Twitter-X transition is going smoothly

Gevor-Makabu is pretty good, just a bit miffed that Makabu is getting another shot despite doing nothing to earn it since losing it. But hey, WBC gonna WBC.

 

So Jack may fight Rozanski?

 

Yeah that's what's being worked on right now. It got announced as a potential fight a couple months back at least but then it kinda went radio silent, at least as far as I saw. Him vacating the belt now though does seem to indicate he's planning on doing that still.

 

Really hard to see Simon Kean having a real chance here, as he hasn't beaten anybody truly good in the division and he's made a meal out of a couple of fighters who were over-the-hill (e.g. Liakhovich, Winters). I really don't know why Top Rank added Kean to their heavyweight stable.

I guess this gets Joseph Parker back in front of a N. American audience, though. Maybe a lead-in for a fight with Jared Anderson?