Upcoming HW fight: Jovo Pudar (WBA #11) v Raphael Zumbano Love (WBA #15)

12 rounds in Montenegro on the 22nd. Why the **** are these two ranked in the first place? atsch

Pudar is a 41 year old who had reached 21-1 by early 2004 before losing to Taurus Sykes and being shut out by Sam Peter. He then retired before returning six years later and scraping past glass-jawed journeyman Serdar Uysal in a PABA title fight, which gets you a WBA ranking. His best win came in May against Marcelo Luiz Nascimento, a 12 round UD against a guy who was stopped by Fury and Diamond Boy.

Zumbano Love is even worse, a Brazilian who has padded his way to 32-5-1. He's never beaten anyone remotely significant, and has some dreadful losses on his record, like suffering shut outs to C level journeymen like Oloukun and worse, to D level unknowns like Basile and Andreesen. Yet over the past few years he's been ranked by the WBA and WBO several times due to winning their bull**** regional trinkets in a region totally devoid of HW talent.

Here he is looking uncomfortable and struggling to assert his dominance against a guy who lasted just over a minute against Ustinov:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-dfessvOA[/ame]

Sad that the WBA rank these two cans. I pick Pudar to win by UD and to then provide another easy defence for Povetkin.

 

Has anyone seen these two fight? :think