The last I heard from him was a decade ago, when he rattled off a streak of three KO1's in a row and was vehemently calling out then-champs Samuel Peter & Wlad K., and begging Eliot Spitzer to intervene with the NYSAC to reinstate his boxing license so he could generate big-bucks in his Empire State home (and build up interest for either of the aforementioned title challenges)
And I wouldn't have liked his chances against either of those guys given the circumstances after the Jirov fight. I really liked Baby Joe.
Dmitrii Chudinov ought not to have been put in with CEJ when he was. His only experience was versus faded also-rans (Brewer, Bouadla), an undefeated but untested kid in Nielsen, and Max "Posterboy for Useful Domestic Journeymen" Maxwell. CEJ meanwhile had already shown his true class in the loss to Saunders. Chud and his brother Fedor were supposed to co-reign like mini Klitschkos. Instead he's 31 and losing to 45 year old Lolenga Mock.
You can also add Jose "The Threat" Baret. Somewhat touted, have a look at his record post Starling. Simon Brown got thrown in with him too but went reasonably well and was better for the experience. He Also made a substantial leap up to Starling.
You can also add Jose "The Threat" Baret. Somewhat touted, have a look at his record post Starling. Simon Brown got thrown in with him too but went reasonably well and was better for the experience. He Also made a substantial leap up to Starling.
Lubin looked OK but his management tried to capitalize on the vacuum that was happening before he was ready.....he will be OK if the rebuild him right and let him mature into that level but if they throw him back to the wolves of the division again and he gets stopped again and then they try to squeeze more quick money out of him then yeah he will be in Vargas waters....lucky for him the fight with Charlo was quick and not prolonged unlike Vargas The Moore-Duran fight still lingers in my mind as a fighter thrown into a pitbull fight and his corner let him take a vicious beating one that still bothers me too watch Arguello-Mancini- I thought this was way to early for Mancini but he did well and of course the great Arguello stopped in harsh fashion.....but Mancini proved good resilience for his style I think the cruelty of this whole thing is a journeyman knows he is a journeyman and expects to be the fight to build the other guys career on.....young talents many times are at the mercy of a greedy promoter/manager who doesn't now how to develop a good talent and takes a bold chance against a tiger when they do the fighter gets hurt and normally instead of rebuilding the guy they seem to go full force squeezing as much as they can out of a guy who with good management may have made a fortune.....the psychological damage on a fighter with hopes of being a champion taking beatings enroute to losses without a corner who will pull the plug on a lost cause and reset....most of these guys are not the old school tough guys the realists winning and losing on their own terms like Walcott, etc....and if they make it they make it if not the know their place.
Lubin looked OK but his management tried to capitalize on the vacuum that was happening before he was ready.....he will be OK if the rebuild him right and let him mature into that level but if they throw him back to the wolves of the division again and he gets stopped again and then they try to squeeze more quick money out of him then yeah he will be in Vargas waters....lucky for him the fight with Charlo was quick and not prolonged unlike Vargas The Moore-Duran fight still lingers in my mind as a fighter thrown into a pitbull fight and his corner let him take a vicious beating one that still bothers me too watch Arguello-Mancini- I thought this was way to early for Mancini but he did well and of course the great Arguello stopped in harsh fashion.....but Mancini proved good resilience for his style I think the cruelty of this whole thing is a journeyman knows he is a journeyman and expects to be the fight to build the other guys career on.....young talents many times are at the mercy of a greedy promoter/manager who doesn't now how to develop a good talent and takes a bold chance against a tiger when they do the fighter gets hurt and normally instead of rebuilding the guy they seem to go full force squeezing as much as they can out of a guy who with good management may have made a fortune.....the psychological damage on a fighter with hopes of being a champion taking beatings enroute to losses without a corner who will pull the plug on a lost cause and reset....most of these guys are not the old school tough guys the realists winning and losing on their own terms like Walcott, etc....and if they make it they make it if not the know their place.