The Progeny Of The Cobra: DeGale, Jack & Groves Truly Showcase The Ghoulish State Of SMW

Golovkin- Brook, Sturm- Macklin, , Sturm- Murray, Martinez - Macklin, Pirog- Jacobs, Geale- Mundine, Martinez -Williams, Quillin - Lee, Geale - Barker, Sturm - Geale, Alvarez- Cotto, Saunders- Eubank Jr, etc

 

That was quite a long post and I will read it properly later but get the idea.
I think SMW has not been as strong for years. I think it was weaker during the Super 6 time than it was a few years before, as results show really.
Faded Kessler beat Froch

 

DeGale caught him pretty good.

 

Alvarez cotto are you friggin high kid?

 

You forgot to list your #1 boy at the time, superior to all of the above (or so you said), Bute!

 

In terms of drama and consistent excitement, I'd say the only fights out of that list that would either match or exceed Jack-DeGale would be Martinez-Williams (to exceed) and Geale-Barker (to meet, more or less). The rest either ended before the caught the same kind of fire that Jack-DeGale did, lacked quite the drama as the other two or weren't as consistently exciting throughout.

 

Most of them are better. Did you even watch Sturm vs Macklin! - that was an amazing fight!

 

Sure I did. I enjoyed Jack-DeGale more.

 

Quillin/Lee is up there to I think. BJS/CEJ was exciting for the last 4-5 rounds with back and forth action but It stunk the join out for the first half of the fight so you can cross that one off. Martinez/Macklin and N'Dam/Khurtsidze deserve a mention as well.

 

There were just so many periods in Quillin-Lee where the fighters were inactive that it makes it hard for me to rate on the same level of a more consistently entertaining fight. I enjoyed Martinez-Macklin a lot, but it was one way traffic in the last couple of rounds, IIRC. Haven't seen N'Dam-Khurtsidze, but I imagine their styles would mesh together really well.

 

Prime Froch would rightly be favourite over anyone currently operating in the division but then he still has that W over one of the weights key players so of course he should.

Personally I was surprised that he didn't want the Degale payday as with his relentlessness and Degale's inability to fight at a good pace for any decent amount of time would have assured him of victory.

This said, I don't think the division is quite the wasteland CST would have us believe it is, it just isn't full of guys who we would give a chance against the best names the division has had to offer.