Anybody remember seeing that little kid training at the Mayweather Boxing Club on episodes of 24/7 in the run-up to Floyd Mayweather's fights about 12-15 years ago (starting with, I believe, Mayweather vs. Mosley)? His appearances garnered lots of positive reactions online, ranging from "aww!" to "damn, young blood has some actual skills for his age!" with some wondering if he could be future world champion material. He was bestowed the nickname "Cashflow" by the very man that was then going by "Money" and ruling the p4p roost, seemingly blessed to eventually take up his mantle. Well, it's the future - and he is a professional boxer, and has been since 2021. Steady as she goes, still unbeaten. No real push toward contention yet. He makes for a fun little time capsule - I can't recall when else the boxing community has ever begun tracking a prospect from as young as six. This content is protected He debuted in the 9-10 y.o. bantamweight division in 2013, and lost his first two matches - and four of his first nine. He would turn it around, ultimately going 49-7 in the amateurs. He won some domestic tourneys and reached the finals of both the USA National Youth championships in Lake Charles and the Junior Nations Cup in Serbia in 2019, but fell just short and took a silver medal in both. A week from today he will have been a pro for exactly four years. Not much to show for it yet. To date his biggest step up has been Max Ornelas to claim the WBC Youth World bantamweight championship in November of 2023 - a title he never bothered to defend, now held by somebody else. I would have figured things would be moving a little faster, considering his favored status by TMT during his childhood and early amateur days, and currently being promoted by Top Rank. I think reasons are maybe twofold: waning influence in the sport of TMT during Mayweather's wind-down and retirement, as well as the fact that Díaz appears to be a bit of a feather-fist. Just three stoppages in his thirteen outings so far - and he never scored a single RSC victory in the amateurs. He scored a couple of quick left hook flash knockdowns early against Ornelas, but neither appeared to bother his fellow Las Vegas native and Díaz wound up barely scraping by with a SD.
Was he Roger´s son? Did Roger have a son of his own? But Diaz being a young American bantamweight with no power... well I am not surprised that TR are taking their sweet time with him.
Not a fan of Diaz in the slightest. Also that SD to Ornelas should have been a loss, Max won every second of that match he wasn't being dropped in.
