Top Rank have signed up some serious talent recently & their record of developing fighters from scratch is impeccable (De La Hoya, Mayweather & Cotto to name a few). How far will Esquiva Falcao - Middleweight (Olympic silver medalist), Zou Shiming - Flyweight(Olympic gold medalist), Vasyl Lomachenko - Featherweight (Olympic silver medalist), Ryoto Murata - Middleweight (Olympic gold medalist), Felix Verdejo - Super featherweight (Olympian), Oscar Valdez - Featherweight (World amature championship bronze medalist) & Egor Mekhonstev - Light heavyweight (Olympic gold medalist). Whereas across the street GBP are content on sigining established or semi-established fighters, will the long game Top Rank are playing take them back to the top?
Golden Boy has The Americas on lock, so Top Rank is doing the only thing it can to stay competitive...even if that means possibly overextending itself in Asia and targeting (and probably overpaying for) amateur prospects outside of Golden Boy's established area of influence.
Top Rank are making the right moves if you ask me. American boxing fans want excitement and we keep finding those outside of America can bring that.
i think, at the least, they're even with gbp but these recent additions definitely puts them way ahead. tr is stocking up on quality fighters since they're going to be the main supplier for fights on hbo. tr also will do 4 events in china this year, they may do at least 6 next year.
