Marcos Rene Maidana is sparring with Stevie 2lb Forbes to prep for Adrien Broner

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Immediately after the close loss to Brewer in the Contender season 2 finale (and remember that Stevie is a natural super feather/lightweight and Brewer is a career middleweight, let that sink in) he took Bernard's nephew D-Hop to school and should have taken his cherry but got robbed by judges Forbes' camp had protested but Golden Boy forced on them. He then upset former wunderkind Panchito Bojado, and went on to ironically make a fortune courtesy of GBP (perhaps their way of apologizing for the Hopkins decision) when ODLH used him as preparatory tune-up for a Mayweather rematch that never happened. Now, since then he is 2-6 but at least two of the losses are generally considered horrible decisions and the other four came to major prospect/contenders (Berto, Jo Jo Dan, Mayfield & Vargas) of whom three were unbeaten and he was respectably competitive with all of them.

For someone whose super featherweight championship heyday was over a decade ago he is doing remarkably well into his late thirties holding it down all the way up at welter. His career never 'fell apart'. He is essentially a gatekeeper now, but one that consistently gets matched tough while acquitting himself well - and his income from boxing from 2008-present likely dwarfs what he made in more than double that span from 1996-2007.

 

~Three quarters of a million when Oscar cherry picked him for essentially a public friendly spar (which Stevie at least took seriously and in which, lest we forget, he did manage to bust Oscar's face up a bit...) and probably substantially less in every outing since but each has probably still been more than or at least as much as what he made in the Contender finale. :good

 

:nod Consummate pro, and hard worker any time he steps in the ring whether it counts toward his record or not.

Also a very decent guy, quite involved with fans on social media. (and is a huge fan and student of the sport himself)

 

Here, you can see Perez vs. Forbes and judge for yourself (both the fairness of the verdict, and what Forbes has left...keeping in perspective that Perez only has one loss - to Cano by technical decision; and while Cano had begun to swing momentum his way as of the cut stoppage they fought on mostly even terms and were tied 38 apiece on my card through four - and that he just deflowered Spadafora...)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwpw47_2013-01-12-johan-perez-vs-steve-forbes_sport

 

You could slap a couple of buttons on there and upgrade yourself to gym sock ******. :conf


...although somehow, knowing this place, that perfectly innocent bit of whimsy could be misconstrued and you would then be in the uncomfortable position of having sparked off a racial firestorm... putting me in the uncomfortable position of having to plead with other mods to remove the ban stick from your tooter...:err

 

Well, he can be proud of that in the same way that Paul Spadafora can be proud of bothering Floyd Jr. in sparring - but AFAIK Forbes never got his ass whooped by a Kadaphi Proctor, and he was a world champ once upon a time, so he probably isn't losing sleep over having once had a worse day than Martyniouk in the gym.

 

Well that is what he found brought him success with Johan, forcing him into those hooking exchanges up close. Generally he doesn't loop 'em like that. Except for lacking KO power, Forbes is a versatile fighter.