Welterweight tourney in the making for Floyd's belt...

Either Lara by UD, or Maravilla by highlight reel KO.
But as much as I like Martinez, I guess it's 60/40 in Lara's favor.

edit: damn wrong thread... it's not a smartphone it's a stupidphone (or a stupid user )

 

Thurman has the WBA

 

The tournament will either be all Haymon fighters (and being that it has Danny Garcia in, don't expect it to include Khan, Porter, Thurman or Spence) or it will come apart politically when a Haymon fighter has to fight a decent none Haymon fighter, so don't get too excited.

 

Is this a resurrection of the planned/scrapped/postponed/in-limbo "Jose Sulaiman Cup" that was in talks early in the year?

The idea was to have a tourney determining the WBC champ at both welterweight and junior middleweight anticipating Mayweather's then-imminent retirement when both titles became vacant.

The bracket at 154lb was meant to be:

John Jackson vs. Dennis Laurente
Yudel Jhonson vs. Jorge Cota
Sergey Rabchenko vs. Luciano Cuello
Domonique Dolton vs. Lukasz Maciec

I'm not sure if they ever released a welterweight bracket.

Rabchenko has fought once since the 154lb bracket was published in February, knocking out an 11-6 Argentinian.

Laurente, now 38 years old, has fought twice, losing consecutive decisions to Jackson (as planned) and Takayuki Hosokawa.

Yudel Jhonson indeed fought Jorge Cota in August, losing a UD, and was KTFO in a single round by Daquan Arnett last weekend.

Dolton fought 9-5-1 Victor Fonseca in June, retiring him in 5, and then drew with 13-0 prospect Óscar Molina in September.

Also in September, Lukasz Maciec dropped a unanimous decision to Hugo Centeno Jr. in an eight-rounder.

I'm not sure if Laurente vs. Jackon and Jhonson vs. Cota were still officially considered part of the Cup or not, seeing as Rabchenko vs. Cuello and Dolton vs. Maciec didn't happen.

Needless to say, if the JSC is continuing, they're probably going to revamp the lineup at 154lb at this point.

 

Though he achieved his peak of fame at 140lbs, the overwhelming majority of Danny Garcia's career has been fought above the limit, technically at welterweight. It wasn't like Peterson and Malignaggi were the first of his forays. He started out 14-0 at WW before ever debuting at light welter.

His victories over Ashley Theophane & Mike Arnaoutis (until his run from 2011 until 2013 of Campbell, Holt, Morales, Khan, Morales II, Judah, and Matthysse) were at welterweight as well.

...lest anybody express confusion as to why they're letting a light welter participate in the welter tourney.

 

If Andrade is excluded, the tourney is bullsh it.

 

In 22 of 31 bouts (71%) he has been. :conf

(and in most of those it wasn't just a matter of him not making LWW; his opponent was above 140 too, making them welterweight contests any way you slice it)

 

Garcia.