I'm just not buying the roman gonzalez hype

This midget could take on any grown man on the streets though.....

 

1. Gonzalez is a talented champion in a division filled with talented fighters.
2. Arguello taught him how to box.
3. Forza should stick to discussing fighters of Italian descent.

 

What the ****?

 

You mean like malignaggi?

 

The Gonzalez-Carbajal fights were big fights with the 2 earning big paydays, 1 mil in 1993, 1.6 mil in 2016. Gonzalez-Inoue, Gonzalez-Nietes, or Gonzalez-Estrada 2 would create alot of interest.

 

lol

 

the 3 types of fighter recognised on esb:

hypejob - good fighter on the way up
ducker - proven good fighter who hasn't fought every single guy within 3 weight classes
bum - everyone else

 

Nothing to do with the topic, and most grown men (anyone really) are mostly total pansies that couldn't throw a punch to save their lives

 

atsch

 

You can make the shallow talent pool argument for straw and maybe junior fly, but González is now a 3 division champion, 14-0 (10) in world title bouts, and has spent over three years entrenched in a very stacked division where he is firmly established as 'the man'. He also has looked stellar both times he dipped his toes in the water at super flyweight, granted against low-tier opposition in Barrera & León but with no apparent degradation of his base speed, power, or reflexes. It stands to reason that he will eventually hold a world title at that weight and either reign for a while to clean out and unify it, or possibly even climb to bantamweight and conceivably become a 5-weight champion. In fact, most knowledgeable boxing people would handicap this outcome as the betting favorite.

...but yeah, okay, don't buy the hype. :roll:

 

González is no Omar Narváez; he is in his prime and actually has the firepower to answer back and possibly force Inoue to retreat. (and then we can find out how well he fights on the backfoot - something we already know the fluid counter-punching González can do)

FOTD, anyway. :good