Euros taking over the welterweight division???

Are you talking about Kell Brook:huh Im surprised you even give him a chance against Cotto.:huh

 

I didnt know you were habitual Crack Smokeratsch Go back to the Lounge:bart

 

I was being generous...Kell is physically talented I just don't think he has the ring smarts to get far.

 

He smokes Kells pipe not crack

 

Kell has not been tested at all as the best welters fight in North America. In the land of the blind the One Eyed man is king.

 

Cotto might be faded but he is far from a steppingstone, i still think he only loses to the elite welters. I think he might even beat the bigger Yuri Foreman at JM.

 

And my opinion of Cotto as an elite fighter isn't particularly high. That said, he didn't make his name winning belts, he made his name beating guys like Mosley and Judah and Clottey.

 

After 20 fights you'd think he might have seen to it that someone better was put in front of him, yea? You act as if a boxer and his promoter have no say in who the boxer fights. If he was really intent on storming the world he might have stopped fighting bums in his own backyard and matched up against an internationally recognized prospect or gatekeeper.

 

On the other hand there are thousands and thousands of utterly unheralded and ordinary fighters who fight a bunch of bums and then never go on to do anything whatsoever.

Every time someone points out that this kid hasn't fought anyone that would prove that he's even a B-class fighter, to say nothing of world class, you point to some EXCEPTIONAL case and imply that Brook is in some way their equal. Boxing is full of regional fighters who get beaten when they step up in class. It's NOT full of guys Chavez or Monson. Simple odds are that your boy falls into the former class.

And seriously, fighting a title eliminator at 23, after 20 fights, is not exactly being brought along briskly. It's a pretty average pace, and he hasn't managed to beat anyone even in the top 40 of the welterweight division in the process.