Topic: Boxing Speculation, Odds and Predictions - page 135. (Read 31605 times)

It's not that Brandon Figueroa is aiming for Magsayo but it's just turned out that Fulton will skip his plan on moving up to 126 to face Naoya Inoue in the 122. And just to be clear, Fulton is not that he doesn't want a rematch against Figueroa but just man enough to take the massive call and demand on taking Inoue before considering moving up. He just shows that he will not duck Inoue even with how dangerous the monster is so better to stay at 122 for now to face Inoue.

I also recognized the strength of Brandon Figueroa who probably has a better chance to win against Magsayo but the latter does have a good experience already against top boxers in the 126 like Gary Russell Jr. (although semi-injured) and Rey Vargas who is far better compare to Figueroa who is new to 126 division.

Maybe this is just one fight, so let's see what Floyd will do in the next one. Maybe he will stage it either in UK or Saudi Arabia because that's where the money is right now as the rich Arab nation is willing to have fights happening in their soil and promoters are willing because they know that they will pocket more money.

And in any case the Floyd had his second fight in either place and still no fans watch it, then yeah, he is getting less popular now.

I'm not familiar with Chalmers as well, maybe Floyd thought that he is popular in the UK that's why he staged that fight in that place thinking UK fans are going to buy their tickets.

But we have the Tommy Fury and Jake Paul fight in Saudi as well and maybe that's where the UK fans is.

And who knows, maybe this is the start of Floyd's career in exhibitions fight coming to an end.

I didn't know Mayweather had a fight. 

Just finished reading the news and it was held in London, there were a lot of different reasons from different people on why there's a lack of people who watched it but I doubt that's the right one. Even if he has lesser fans in the UK, that is still Mayweather who was undefeated before he retired. There will always be followers who would go to lengths and visit London just to watch him.
Some say it's because his opponent Aaron Chalmers is not that popular. Well, yeah that's the case but again, that's Mayweather.
Honestly, I just sniffed this news from you, meaning it was not in the trend or they failed to hype it even before the fight.

It was well yeah we will now be having a Brandon Figueroa VS Mark Magsayo this coming March 4, and I think it will be an epic battle, I know that Figueroa just got his defeat against the hand of Stephen Fulton and because Fulton doesn't want a rematch from him Brandon Figueroa is now aiming for Mark Magsayo, for me also got a great record but is he conditioned to fight Brandon Figueroa, I surely have a lot of question because Brandon Figueroa could surely win in this fight aswell, but because Magsayo is a Filipino likely I am still going with Magsayo


And though Jeremias Ponce doesn't have any losses Subriel Matias just got the wits while Ponce got the aggression and it was imminent in the 1st round well, even though this is Ponce's debut to fight in the US he was not shy at all and was very aggressive and got some volume shots to Subriel Matias, but on the 2nd round Subriel Matias is retaliating now maybe he was hurting with Ponce's punch but I really doubt it but surely Matias just got the chin and durability from the beating, it was a very close fight it was literally close they are close to one another it was the determination to stand-up that is why this fight is really good, and on the 5th round you can see that Ponce having a difficulty to stand up because of the beating he received, and even if he stood up he can not raise his hands Subriel Matias is really one tough dude,

When I saw the fight with little audience, I laughed a bit with it.
I mean we've always know that when Mayweather has a fight, there is always a crowd into it, but not on this one.

Promoted or not, I think Mayweather posted in his social media accounts that he has a fight against Chalmers right, and correct me with this one, but I know how a single post or tweet coming from a popular person like him can be shared or spread online, so I don't think that his explanation is valid. Unless he didn't promoted it in his social media accounts at all then I guess the explanation is plausible.

He doesn't just want to say that "I'm becoming less and less popular that's why it ended up like that." I guess the people have had enough of it already.

Agree with you. It's not that his body does have the capability of quick self-healing providing the fact that he is aged now.

But if he is serious about getting into a quick rehabilitation, the technology today is somehow good and there are ways now to actually give a quick recovery for an injury like that. We have to wait then for the progress and what will be the probably next move by him.

Wait what, Canelo vs Bivol's first meetup is an entertaining fight?

The hype Canelo just turned into a punching bag for Bivol and overall, did not become entertaining to watch as Canelo wasn't even able to give a good fight.

But regarding marketing the rematch, definitely, it will be sold out even without the media will hype it because of the reason that Canelo is popular and one of the recognized top boxers right now and Bivol also established a big name after beating Canelo.

Right, but he offers an explanation, the fight was not promoted as expected and they were just like 1 month of doing the social media promotions. In any case, it might be that Floyd is losing his ground now.

And the bad news is that he says he hurt his hands against Chalmers, although he has history of broken arms in the past, and with his age, it might take time to heal and it will be brittle the more he fight, he is nearing 50 years old.

I sort of think that both the Mayweather and Jake Paul stories might be coming to a close. You might see a rematch or a fight with KSI, but I don’t think McGregor will fight him now that he’s lost. Unless maybe McGregor loses his comeback fight and decides to give up on fighting to do something else. With the shine off Jake’s record now, I think he’ll probably stop being a story in another couple of fights.

Since there's a possible upcoming match for Donaire, I've just seen this news but it's not about him but her wife, Rachel. Maybe I would just share it here.
(Rachel Donaire tearfully recalls Nonito Donaire Sr. "tried to trap me" over money issue)

Mayweather fight with no one, recently he fight with Aaron Chalmers aka MMA fighter, the fight wasn't scored because each of them can't knocking out each other. I think Mayweather seems to have lose his hype, but many people are still cheering McGregor and Jake Paul, this might because Mayweather isn't a funny person.

The match was end with Tommy Fury win via split decision, we will see a rematch sooner or later, Jake Paul will mad and take the future fight in serious.

Selling a Bivol vs Canelo rematch won't be hard since they showed an entertaining fight in their first meeting. The media will hype Canelo taking his revenge, and in case he wins, we can expect even more hype for a trilogy. That's how great fights are made, and boxers and promoters can make a lot of money at the same time.

Same with you. I also wanted to see Beterbiev first before that possible rematch against Canelo. Whatever the outcome, Bivol still has that shot to bring his name up if ever he failed to snatch Beterbiev's belts. He still has a win against Canelo and if the promoters will hype the rematch for sure, there are still people who will support and watch the fight.

It will be at the hands of their promoters. Either way, it's still going to be a big fight for Bivol.

Yes, I think he will stick with the WBO, I mean he got his highest ranking is just one fight at this weight class, Luis Nery will be a good fight for him and they have been calling each other even before goes up to 122 lbs, as far back as 2020, after his win with Duke Micah.


https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/09/03/20/boxing-casimero-calls-out-ex-world-champ-in-instagram-spat

So this is going to be a slug fest, and hopefully they can schedule it this year.

That's what he really needs to do and it will all come to his promoter whether they have some way to give him the chance to fight the champion in the other belts association. It's not that hard for him because he can really fight those champions as long as given enough time to train and fix his skills to get back his confidence. His last fight was a joke and the guy is frustrated right now, he really needs to fight a real boxer to regain his honor. He still has a long road to getting a chance to fight Inoue and he needs to regain his popularity a well by completely beating his next opponents.

Agreed. Casimero has nothing to offer Inoue except if he is holding a super bantamweight championship. However, you mentioned that he is ranked 5 in WBO. Stephen Fulton is the champion of the WBO super bantamweight division and Fulton is scheduled to fight Inoue already. I reckon he should challenge someone with a high ranking in WBA or IBF then challenge Murodjon Akhmadaliev the WBA and IBF super bantamweight champion hehe.

I think regardless, Bivol is capable of dealing with Canelo either in 168 or 175.

As long as there's a title at stake, that is already a good reason for Bivol to boost his confidence to win as in the first place, he really wants to collect titles.

According to some rumors though, the fight with Beterbiev will be the possible next in line for Bivol and that will probably happen this year. Personally, I'd rather want to see that first before taking Canelo in their possible rematch.

Jake Paul is supposedly be the villain role? remember when fans used to boo Floyd as well because they all wanted to see him lose? But those are the fans that go to live events, spend thousands of dollars to watch them in the fight and hope that they get knockout or get a L on that record.

The fight is still ongoing though, so let's see how this goes, and who is going to be knockout as for sure, both of this boxers are going to be tired as the fight goes on.

Yeah, I read that Jack Badou won the fight with 12 round TKO and was dominating the fight. It was a good decision by the referee to end the fight early because Makabu is unable to continue and even if he is able, he will only receive more punishment and it is obvious that the fight is already won by Badou unless of course Badou gets knocked out.

And now we are just waiting for the result of Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury.  I am still thinking why does people booing Jake Paul?