What is happening with Jalolov's Career?

Same that happens to most European fighters high risk low reward no one willing to fight them will be aged out then someone will give him a shot when he's old and past it all Europeans should lose 2 fights on purpose early on so the bigger promoters will try and use them as a cherry

 

Like a lot of guys in his position, its also a case of getting guys in the ring with him.

What top 10 or even top 20 guy wants to get in the ring with a guy that good and who brings in almost no money?

 

He's not European.

 

Isn't he fighting Smakici? Samkici is pretty good, probably around the level of Wallin.

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Top Rank has shown zero interest in building his career but I also suspect he doesn't care that much about pro boxing.

 

He's central Asian, but yeah, same deal.

 

Or, from another angle, what top 10 or well regarded top 20 guy wants to get in the ring with someone with good amateur pedigree but next to zero professional resume?

Because if they win, he'll be instantly written off as just another of the amateurs who can't really hack it in the pro's (like Yoka, etc) and they'll get limited credit... All whilst earning fairly little as he brings little attention from his side.

(And of course, if they lose...).

It's just really the definition of poor risk:reward... And not necessarily because the risk side (that's a bit unknown) but because the reward side is near to zero.

These guys really should build up at least "okay" pro resumes before people start decrying proven fighters for not wanting to help them skip the queue.

Or, perhaps, it's more a case of getting him in the ring - with more appropriate fights to build him up as a pro instead of getting to jump straight into the big fights as if he'd proved more than he has?

 

Yes he's high risk low reward but then so is every top amateur who turns pro for the most part with a few exceptions. He has a big promoter in Top Rank who can put him on high profile cards to expose him to bigger audiences.

Joshua in his 5th pro fight fought on the undercard of Terence Crawford/Ricky Burns in his next fight he fought in front of 80,000 at Wembley stadium on the Froch/Groves rematch. He was routinely being put on cards where there were world title fights and so fans tuning in to them and by default him. That's how you build a fighters profile.

Jalolov though hasn't been given the same platform to succeed by Top Rank. In his 8th fight he was put on an undercard of a world title fight for the first time but it was for Akhmadaliev on DAZN, which means the audience seeing that was tiny. He did fight on the undercard of another world title fight but again this was for a flyweight world title which again few would have watched. He then was on the undercard of Pograis/Zepada on a Triller card which of course nobody as it only did 20K buys. Other than that he fought on a heavyweight card which included Anderson and Zhan vs Ajagba but again that's one for the hardcore fans. He simply isn't being promoted well, not being given a platform by Top Rank to really succeed. Why couldn't he have been on the undercard for fights like Loma/Haney, he's not fought in Vegas once, that's like Joshua being 14-0 and not having fought in London. Why wasn't he on the undercard for Fury/Chisora which Arum co promoted with Warren or the undercard of Fury/Wilder 3 which he added Anderson to but not Jalolov.

So personally I blame Arum, he doesn't seem to see Jalolov as a fighter worth investing time and effort in. Not giving him the opportunities to perform on a stage where he is exposed to fans outside of the small hardcore fanbase.