Is Chris Algieri an elite fighter or a bum?

oh yeah thurman the guy right behind pac , may and brook right so where is the shame in that

i will tell you something about gavin he as just took the fight khan ducked

tell me again why khan aint fought thurman or brook

 

and caged chris will never become a great

 

hes not that great

Good fighter not world level

 

this as to be one of your first sensible post you really have :shock: me

sense is prevailing

 

When have I talked up this fight

Its not that great of a fight and I've never said it was

 

thats why there giving the tickets away

but this would not be a first for a khan fight would it :hey

but he is adored in america

 

Hes not even adored in England ha ha

I think you've pegged me for a khan fan when I'm really not

 

I have just realised my error and you are in fact correct Jim, Frankie never held the European title (his fight with Leonard was for the vacant European title. A title I believed Gavin had won prior to his fight with Bundu)

I guess with me claiming him to be a European champ (when he wasn't) and you claiming that he was domestic level (when he had defended his Commonwealth title... We'll ignore the WBO Intercontinental belt) that makes us even.

 

Worth repeating the above. A word that shows to me a lack of respect for the sport in whole.

 

Hey Ducklerr mate, when I am wrong l find that it is best to admit my error (too many on here refuse to do so... And that is usually makes things worse).

How you doing buddy?

 

Algeri is a very good local draw. And a solid guy, he's fought for his wins.

 

I'm amazed no one has unwrapped this post yet. Allow me to be the first then.

First off, let's start with the simplest error. Kovalev does not fight from 160-168 I'm sure you are aware of this, no harm there. Now we have that out the way...I'm as big a GGG/Kovalev fan as you will find but if those 2 are elite and you are saying there are ZERO elite fighters from 100-154 besides Manny and Floyd then you must watch very little of the lower weight classes. Off the top of my head I'll go with...Rigo, Chocaltito, Inoue, Uchiyama, Miura, Yamanaka, Walters, maybe Crawford, Loma and I may be forgetting some. You may be waiting for some of these men to accomplish more (namely Loma, Inoue, Crawford)...but certainly Loma and Inoue, and maybe Crawford as well have proven as much in 5 and 8 fights respectively as GGG and Kova have in 32 and 28.

I don't know what your definition of A level is...but if Algieri is in it then you must have a lot of A level fighters. Every one of the guys I named plus many, many more are certainly more 'A level' than he is. He's a good fighter who takes a lot more flak than he deserves. But if he's A level then there's around 75-100 A level fighters in boxing.

I don't mean to rip you, that's just been itching at me since I read that post.

 

Haha I like to abide by the same principle. Though don't expect to receive similar acknowledgement of errors from other posters

I'm well mate! Just mugging about the office, making younger and smarter people do the work I ought to be doing. How bout yourself?

 

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