Gonzalez Inoue Estrada Cuadras Then you have Rungvisai, a Thai G. And Viloria is on the card as well. Insane. Could be the GOAT card in terms of combined talent...
2017 has been the best year in maybe decades. Essentially every division will have had the top 2 fighters in their division fight in each other in 2017
This is such an amazing card. I really hope Inoue loses so the winner of the main event can be considered the man of the division.
Exceptional card, one I'm really looking forward to also but Inoue's fight is a dud. Just a fight to make him look good to the new crowd. I just want to see Inoue fight the winner of the main event and then defend against the Cuadras-Estrada winner.
Nieves is a decent contender if you don't unfairly hold him up to the standard of the frontloaded p4p star-studded top end of the division.
It would take all four of those future match-ups for Inoue off the table (at least temporarily, until he did some serious face-saving rebuilding), but I can sort of see what you mean. It would reinforce that magical "wtf, boxing is so unpredictable!" quality we all love about the sport, and it would guarantee that González/Estrada/Wangek/Cuadras are forced to have multiple-fight rivalries (since almost every iteration possible there have either fought already or will have soon) within an even smaller incestuous bubble to determine the beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt "man" of the division. Lol, but what if that ends up being Nieves? First the Inoue upset and then unifies against the Cuadras vs. Estrada & González vs. Wangek II winners? That would send all the (and yes, by "all the" I mean "we" ) boxing hipster know-it-alls into a suicidal tailspin. "O despair! For we DKSAB! "
Amazing card, and.... get ready for Cuadras-Sor Rungvisai II, and this time Sor Rungvisai finishes what he started in the 7th. I have a hard time seeing Estrada beat Cuadras, stylistically Cuadras is a nightmare for him, Estrada has looked less than stellar at SFW, and I have a hard time seeing Estrada turning into a come forward effective aggressor and walking down Cuadras. Sor Rungvisai stops Chocolatito this time around, stylistically Sor Rungvisai is still all wrong for Roman as well, Roman took a ridiculous amount of damage in the Cuadras match, Sor Rungvisai polished off whatever prime Roman had left, he ends Roman brutally, I hope the ref isn't reluctant to stop it, because I can visualize Roman on the ropes taking a shitload of punishment with the ref scared to pull the trigger. Sor Rungvisai late in the first fight made a subtle adjustment, he started countering Roman and using his aggression against him, after pressing the pace for the first half, so if Roman is more aggressive this time around, he may pay for that as well. Nieves is a solid fighter, who is actually undefeated, his match against Potypov was a robbery, no one on the RBR, including myself, scored it for him IIRC. He's good in every department, but not stellar, it will probably follow a similar pattern to the Inoue-Carmona match, only Inoue scoring a stoppage because Nieves seems durable with a good chin, I've never seen him truly tested, so he'll probably wilt.
I love big match ups, but I love upsets even more. The only downside to my love of a good upset is having the Mrs giving me grief because my bets never come in lol.