Whatever happened to...

Lakva Sim? :huh

Alright, he became champ in a 2nd weight division (having already become the first Mongolian to ever become a world champion in boxing, period) and had probably set out all he could've ever wanted to accomplish in the sport already by his quick-turnaround loss flipping the lightweight belt to young prime Baby Bull Diaz, and was over the hill and probably figured "okay, back to Ulan-Bator, time for the pipe & slippers (or whatever the equivalent in Mongol culture)", I get that...

But so then why come back a year later? The knockout of Simmons makes sense. Yeah, go out with a W, even if over a soft-touch opponent. Plenty of guys do that, no shame in the practice.

...but then he entered into a WBA 135lb title eliminator with the fairly well regarded fringe contender Ebo Elder, which could have set up a rematch with Diaz.

AND HE WON.


...and then never fought again.


How do you not cash in that golden ticket? He came back from a year retirement, found he still "had it", won a title eliminator - and then just said..."nah, I'm good."??

Why even participate in the eliminator if you're not going to go for it? One last payday at the very least, and you best case scenario might set the bar crazy high as the first 3x Mongolian world champ. Why not go for it?

...or did he try, and politics got in the way? Because that would suck.


Sidebar: where do you (only if you've seen enough of these combatants to form an opinion, please) rank Sim all-time p4p/h2h in Mongolia? GOAT? Or behind Choi Tseveenpurev, who technically never held a world title but had a fine career anyway, with more longevity than Sim?


Personally, I'd go with

1) Choi
2) Sim
3) Shinny Bayaar
4) Bayan Jargal
5) toss-up between Enkhbat Badar-Uugan & Nyambayaryn Tögstsogt, both decorated amateurs, since there are no other pros of even mild renown after Jargal. Both were Olympians, and Tögstsogt a Silver medalist. (Tögstsogt has also signed with Al Haymon and will be debuting in the pros soon, with Joe Goossen as his coach, so it stands to reason projecting that all told he will have done more than Badar-Uugan combined pro/am even if his amateur credentials alone weren't superior)

 

Are you suggesting a mass transgender movement? Calling not it.

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Or we could just splice ourselves a bit of frog DNA to split the difference and become dually reproductively viable hermaphrodites, like in Jurassic Park.

 

Okay, so this got weird before it had a fighting chance at being a decent thread.

 

...oh.

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Holy ****. :shock:

 

...like a white supremacist group?