Overmatches...........

Peter Manfredo vs Joe Calzaghe

Whilst there are many parties responsible for this joke of a fight, notably Sports Network and the respective TV companies, whoever sanctioned this bout should be thrown out of the sport.

You have a guy at the top of his game, a P4P contender, fighting against a guy a weight above his best, whose resume suggested absolutely nothing that he could even compete against Calzaghe. A loss to Alfonso Gomez (a welterweight) and two to Sergio Mora (a naturally smaller guy) should have had the alarm bells ringing.

Whilst the stoppage was premature, it was a sypathetic one, he was shipping so many punches with nothing in return, and shouldn't have been in there in the first place.

The WBO want to be recognised as a major player in boxing, but sanctioning bouts like this only add to the ridicule it cops from people within the sport and fans alike.

 

felix trinidad-david reid.

insanity.

 

Joe Calzaghe vs Peter Manfredo

It was a premature stoppage but Manfredo was there to be butchered

 

beat me to it and said it better too!

 

Rafael Marquez, on his debut, getting thrown in with former world champion Victor Rabanales. atsch

 

cooto gomez
pbf gatti

 

I can think of many more, a few of Hatton's earlier WBU fights could be considered mismatches!

Most British fighters are given far too many mismatches and are then exposed at the elite level - Hatton, Calzaghe and Hamed are three exceptions in point, beating top class names after being gifted a padded record, whilst the likes of Bomber Graham fell short.

It is time we thought differently in guiding our fighters to the top - once they are ready, stick them in there, if they aren't ready, give them more time, and if they are never going to be ready, reduce them to gatekeeper level, either domestically or internationally.

This is the one area in which the US is miles in front of us, perhaps the other is producing fighters who can move up in weight and still maintain the level of skill and overall performance in their previous weight.

I am sure that one of the major reasons for this is the number of major promoters in relation to fighters - our major promoter v fighter ratio is much higher than anywhere else, and each want their own slice of pie, thus diluting the standard of the majority of our fighters, with a few obvious exceptions, and the standard of British title fights, which is fairly low at times.

In short, the cream takes too long to rise to the top - it may not get there at all, as a fighter may just think '**** it' and try something else!

 

PBF vs Bruseles a total mismatch

 

Judah vs Baldomir = what Judah loses that fight, damm what a shame.

 

:rofl :rofl :rofl

Tyson v Douglas
Honeghan v Curry

 

Hamed V Said Lawal

 

That fight was very competetive until Reid got caught.