This is mainly about Virchis and not Gomez. As I stated before an eliminator should involve 2 contenders. Virchis is and was never a contender.
What a n00b. Virchis was European Champion. That alone means a top 10 ranking & makes him a contender.
What in the world has that to do with Thompson, who is American and was never European champion? Thompson has a more proven resume than Virchis.
You're saying bums Thompson & Toney are contenders & their fight should be an eliminator, labeling them world class & calling the European Champiom a bum. Thompson hasn't proved ****. Gomez has done more than both to earn his shot, beating the European Champion & McCall, who was coming off an eliminator win himself.
He fought two eliminators against McCall then Virchis and has been waiting for ages, while bums like McCline, Rahman, Ray Austin etc get title shots. Gomez WILL be beaten by Vitali but he deserves his shot more than some of the bums that have already had title shots.
The winner of Toney/Thompson is a lot more deserving IMO. Why not make Valuev-Vitali and Gomez-Thompson/Toney. The respective winners should then fight each other for 2 BELTS. Boxing would really benefit.
Amazing the hate for Thompson, Virchis and Toney. They are all contenders. And face it, being a "world class" contender today is just not that difficult. Virchis was rated highly, was European champion, had a close fight with Chagaev and so on. Thompson was even in the top 10. They are both world class in the current state of the division.
Yeah go ahead and pick against Vitali again. Gomez is no better than Peter. In fact, Peter would probably knock him out around round 5.
Thompson WAS in the top 10 he had his shot and was knocked out. Virchis is no longer a contender in fact he said he was going to retire Toney has done nothing at Heavyweight and never will. He is 40 years old for christ sakes. None of them are contenders right now.