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Undefeated:
Joshua
Wilder
Ortiz
Parker
Fury
Head-2-Head Record:
They never faced each other!
Joshua
Wilder
Ortiz
Parker
Fury
Head-2-Head Record:
They never faced each other!
How do all these boxers avoid each other?
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their promoters dont want them to have these type of risky fights unless crazy money is involved
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Not to mention that teh average frequency of activity today is 2 fights a year. so would take years everytime for the top ten of a certain weight class to face off finally.
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This
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The real issue is that the US HW scene has become a bit of a sideshow allowing for fighters like WIlder and Ortiz to get up to world championship level for several years without facing the best European talent.
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because boxers make a habit of ducking the best competition. That's why it's a joke and a dying sport.
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See that over there, it's where you go fuck yourself.
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Joshua and Parker are just getting themselves to the top level and fighting Wlad made more sense then anyone else.
Fury got himself to the tip level and then got depressed and fat. We will see if he comes back.
Wilder and Ortiz will likely get bigger fights in the future. As was stated there are a lot of boxers in the world and it generally takes a long time to work your way up.
Fury got himself to the tip level and then got depressed and fat. We will see if he comes back.
Wilder and Ortiz will likely get bigger fights in the future. As was stated there are a lot of boxers in the world and it generally takes a long time to work your way up.
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But you know it is and has been true for ages. WBO, WBA, IBF, WBC, all these freaking belts with laughable rankings set to make their fighter look good. And fighters endlessly padding records and avoiding top talent to secure their first payday. After that, assuming they win, they look for best case matchups that still sell well.
It's a massively corrupt sport and the number of lemmings willing to pay to watch it keeps dropping as does media coverage. Add in HBO, Showtime and promoters all going for their piece of the pie and making great fights less likely to happen. they are killing themselves.
Here's a great article explaining this if you can read.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/t...nsnational-boxing-rankings-board-sport-titles
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Yet when 2 great boxers meet each other no other fight sport can catch up with an event like that. By the way there are way more interesting boxing fights in the past 6 months than MMA fights - Jacobs vs Golovkin, Ward vs Kovalev, Klichko vs Joshua. I am sorry but even UFC 200 did not provide a good card like the ones above. Then Klichko vs Joshua, Fury vs Joshua and Maywheater vs Pac happen in the past 2 years and all these are matches that will go in the history of boxing. What was actually out there in the other fight sports? Perhaps only Petrosian vs Boukaw. So how is boxing actually dead?
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Yes definitely Boxing has delivered much more than MMA in the last few months although I think Floyd/Pac did have a negative effect long term, not a terrible fight just not a fight that appealed to a mass audience, last nights fight most certainly did though.
The UFC did have potential to have a really strong series of matches around the MW title in the last year but they totally pissed that up against the wall allowing Bisping to pick opponents and now reintroducing GSP.
The big issue there dealing with that most MMA fans don't even like to mention(due to being so commited to "evolution" hype) is that MMA has a massive problem with new talent, especially at the higher weightclasses. Its a fundamentally different sport to boxing where talent naturally filters though as it depends on transitions from other sports you need promoters willing to go out there and offer good money for quality fighters to switch. This happened a lot more in the past when you had lots of promoters working against each other but the UFC near monopoly really only pays names built up already reasonably well, it pays peanuts to new talent and generally demands they work low level events for at least 2-3 years even before that.
How many really exciting new fighters have we see at 170lbs and above have we seen emerged post Strikeforce buyout? even fighters generally considered "new" by a lot of fans have actually been around for most of this decade.
From a UK perspective the UFC isn't anywhere close to boxing, even Bisping as champion has barely registered with the mainstream here and probably 99% of the public wouldn't be able to name him if show a pic.
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So world wide sports can't match up the best with the best? Why is that?
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Again its really the US side that's the problem, Joshua fought Wlad relatively quickly after turning pro, Fury spent longer but when he'd built some profile he fought him as well without that much delay.
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Ah, the old read thing missing the point and ranting, I have a masters in that.
