Peter Enrique Quillin vs. Caleb Matthew Truax

Remember these guys? Both used to be world titlists (Quillin at middleweight courtesy of the WBO for nearly two years with three defenses and ultimately abdicating due to issues making the weight limit; Truax with a flash in the pan four-month campaign which saw the IBF 168lb title hot-potato from James DeGale to him and then immediately completing the round-trip...) yet are hardly spoken of nor remembered anymore. Well, they're going to be front & center when they square off in this strange PBC on FS1 main event over 10 rounds from the Minneapolis Armory on April 13th.

I don't really know what to make of this. Kid Chocolate, since his loss to Jacobs and two year layoff and subsequent move up to SMW, has taken comfortable unanimous decisions over respected circa-.500 gatekeeper Dashon Johnson and, more notably, J'Leon Love. Truax, since losing the DeGale rematch, has sparked out some random Brazilian fellow (the Brazilian's fifth stoppage loss in seven bouts, and tenth overall). Both are 35 years old. Quillin is an inch taller but faces a 3½" reach deficit. This could go ten and be dull, or somebody - either one, really - could be highlight reeled in embarrassing (and, in this cannibalistic and puerile fandom, ostracizing) fashion. Both can hit, and both have serviceable but imperfect chins.

 

This is truly fascinating matchmaking... you have a guy that was born with all the natural athletic talent needed to be a force but with several damning flaws (chiefly a seeming mental fragility) versus a dirt-dog overachieving ham-and-egger.

 

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