Smith vs Bauderlique and Hrgovic vs Zhilei on the Usyk-AJ II card

It must have been hard to keep a straight face during those contract negotiations.

"OK, you want $300 trillion, how about we have the fight on the moon while we're at it?"

It's just not happening, these two will never fight each other. I wish they didn't put it on this card because it's possible their bad mojo will cancel this whole thing.

 

Another thing about Richard Rivera....his career started out with a reasonable progression in opponents. But he has been fighting lousy opposition the last 2 1/2 years. Badou Jack is a lot of levels higher than what he's been accustomed to fighting recently. So Jack holds a huge advantage in terms of having faced quality opponents and Rivera has only fought in small, regional venues.