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It only makes sense for Ryan Garcia to fight Rolly Romero for the belt, and it maybe will create a lot of noise and hype as Rolly is also a trash talker. But in terms of talent, I don't think that he has what it takes to beat Garcia.

All Garcia have to do is to avoid that power shot of Romero and then at the same time, try his left hook as Rolly is not known to have a good chin. But it seems that Oscar wants all in house money and that's why he wanted Jose Ramirez for Ryan Garcia, but the risk is very high here.

Beterbiev and Bivol both showed an eagerness to battle each other. They are likely glad that Alalshikh can assist them in making it a reality. They have different promoters behind them and it makes the match challenging to make. Everything has a cost and with the huge wealth KSA has, it is easier for dream matches to become a reality.

Alalshikh can send ten Ferraris to Gervonta Davis but the boxing authorities in KSA do not need the A side show and delayed dealings. They see Haney as an undisputed champion and it is an opportunity for Davis to battle for the belts. But Davis has a different take and is certain that Haney needs him.

Rolly Romero is not even close to the championship level. I cannot believe how Romero is a champion equivalent to Lopez, Haney and Matias. Teofimo Lopez released his sparring match with Romero for disrespecting Oscar De La Hoya. Pay attention to how easily Lopez mocks Romero, a class C boxer.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MHb2-lR8Fds

For sure no one here wants to see an amateur fight and so Turki Alalshikh the Saudi Arabian Adviser at the royal court doesn't want some kind of boxing like this either, he wants a seasoned veteran fighter like Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Gervonta "Tank" Davis, Devin Haney, Artur Beterbiev, and Dmitry Bidol kind of fighter to fight on whoever would win from that for sure they are curious on what will happen and who's going to win, but keeping away from Saudi Arab the likes of the Paul Brothers and other Youtuber wannabee  boxers, which is OK for me and boxing likes this surely stays at Misfits only,


Nice point, for sure if they can get great boxers just because of their money and power then why not get a professional veteran rather than getting amateur fighters to represent themselves in their country for sure amateur boxers are a big NO for them they surely love professional Champion that can likely step up and still fight,


Rolly Romero and his Scheme in buying the referee's side, if that is what I understand for sure is what it is Rolly Romero is just pretending to be great, he is baffled when said that Manny Pacquiao does 3000 sits up a day, or 15 hundred sits up for sure Rolly Romero didn't believe what the guy just have said, here is the video

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rLEjEFVFbIo

That is good news for fans of both Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol sure they wanted to see the fight between these two boxers and Turki Alalshikh is making it happen but it is still going to be the decision of both boxers if they like to fight at Saudi Arabia but for sure Turki Alalshikh will fund that fight that is for sure, and I saw that Turki Alalshikh wants to get Gervonta Davis to fight Devin Haney in Saudi Arabia aswell but Gervonta Davis has twitted “They made me mad. If they want me they gotta send something to my front door…like 2 Ferraris or sum! Like before I even THINK about going over there.


They don't like the Exhibition matches right now that is for sure, maybe they realized that they are just wasting money on those, but maybe it is because they are not just interested with such amateur fight events for sure they are just interested in the great boxers and considered those that are not well-known to doesn't really have some value,

The crowd and authorities in Saudi Arabia likely saw the distinction between boxers and YouTubers. They are happy with the professional boxing matches and they no longer need the YouTubers in the kingdom.

Rolly Romero was safeguarded by the ref to get the championship belt. I see no reason why Ryan Garcia and Oscar De La Hoya dumped Rolly Romero. Rolly Romero is a champion and is a simpler match than Jose Ramirez. Jose Ramirez even though I have not seen him in a while and is no longer a champion, this boxer is better and is above the level of Rolly Romero. This match is dangerous for Ryan Garcia, but I respect him for accepting to battle Jose Ramirez.

Isaac Pitbull Cruz might be a better fight for King Ry, I reckon. King Ry's tactics will be a very entertaining show vs. someone who fights similar to Mike Tyson hehehe. Also, King Ry will be fighting in the lower weight division on lightweight where he will have a size advantage and certainly a longer reach than Pitbull. He is not ready for a championship fight on a higher weight division against Rolly Romero, I reckon.

It would be much more preferable for the fans to witness Devin Haney fight Teo Lopez and Rolly Romero to unify the super lightweight division. This Rolly Romero on King Ry only wants someone with a big name to win a big purse.

I don't think boxing fans will also be happy seeing Paul getting his fight in the kingdom as this is just exhibition fights. And it's obvious that Alalshikh is a big fan of boxing, the way he shoulder everything and allowing big fights going into Saudi as they have a lot of money.

For Rolly Romero, he was just gifted with that belt, and so we can say that he could be one boxer that is very lucky to get a championship when he should have lost that fight. For Ryan, it seems that GBP wanted him to be tested against former champion Jose Ramirez. But not sure if Ryan is interested though and everyone is leaving as to who Ryan wanted to fight. And so this is another tug of war between him and Oscar and it might turn out ugly again.

Saudi Arabia transformed boxing to a different level. Big boxing matches that typically require time to arrange and are politically difficult were accelerated. Thanks to Turki Alalshikh and the leaders of the kingdom. Turki Alalshikh wanted to keep on pushing the large matches to occur. Fury versus Usyk and Joshua versus Ngannou in February and March. And there is more to come, Alalshikh referred to Beterbiev versus Bivol and recently, Haney versus Davis.

There was another buzz when Alalshikh showed no interest in carrying YouTubers into the kingdom any longer. This is sad news for the fans of Jake Paul and other YouTubers who like to box.

Rolando "Rolly" Romero is an easy fight for Ryan Garcia that is for sure, all of his fights except Gervonta Davis were all cherry-picked, but you can say that I am Bias because I really don't like the way he talks, and the way he thinks he though he is a great boxer all he has was the WBA super lightweight belt, on the Super lightweight he will surely have a hardtime unifying the belt the WBC Champ was Devin Haney, the IBF champ was Subriel Matías, and the WBO was Teofimo Lopez which he already got a hard time against Devin Haney, for sure Teofimo Lopez will also be a hard fight for him aswell,


I recently watched this fight and for sure even though on paper it is not unfair Ed Matthews has a chance to win, because he is still an amateur he is easily gassed out in this fight while Luiz Alcaraz Pineda even though Matthews catches him with his punch he recovered easily and he can surely go for almost 10 rounds for sure, that is the level of condition this two have for sure while Ed Matthews surely have that slick move and skills but the condition of Luiz Alcaraz Pineda as a professional boxer is still there,


These two surely have some skills maybe it is the way they train that they have such movement, but for sure all Fox Townley's advantage was his reach and height and that was it, for sure this two needs to be in a separate division these are really unfair, but because this is an exhibition match it is not prohibited the referee should monitor the fight even more and the rounds were just 4 to 5 rounds, it is still unfair for him to fight a opponent bigger and heavier, but for sure Jonah Joseph Chris accepted this fight and got a consent to fight a bigger and heavier opponent,

It is unbelievable what happens with every fight in Misfits Boxing there are canceled fights, and I know this is just amateur fighting but it was still entertaining because we are watching non-boxers fight in this exhibition match,

Ed Matthews VS Luis Alcaraz Pineda


This is the Mystery fight for Ed Matthews well even though his opponent has many losses he is still a professional boxer while Ed Matthews is just an amateur, this is really not fair for Matthews, this is a skilled fighter even though Matthews had the early knockout from Pineda he stood up and you can clearly see that Ed Matthews is breathing heavily then Luiz Alcaraz Pineda just busted the Knockdown to Matthews then he was saved by the bell,  but when round 2 comes Ed Matthews has come with a blitz against Pineda but for sure Luis Alcaraz Pineda evade it and retaliated with his own punches that Knock Matthews out of the ring that let a win for Luiz Alcaraz Pineda, clearly not a great fight but it was entertaining just a sense of watching different boxing.

Elle Brooke VS Andrea-Jane Bunker


For sure it is not a great idea for Bunker to seek to avenge his loss to Brooke back in their 1st fight in 2022, but you can clearly see the difference in this fight right now with their 1st fight you can clearly see they already trained a lot, from their movements but we can clearly see that they are still amateurs, you can see that they want to clinch more often then punch each other which the referee keeps on breaking, and in the 3rd round you can clearly see that Elle Brooke have knockdown Bunker in that round, but he referee didn't see it and keeps the fight back up, and that big right hand did land on Bunker that causes her to fall down.

Tristan Hamm VS Rodney Petersen Jr.


Clearly, you can see the difference in boxing between these two, Not Logan Paul was an MMA fighter back then but his boxing was clearly for amateurs, Tristan Hamm needed just one punch to finish the fight, and clearly Not Logan Paul is the aggressor for this fight but it was not effective for him to be the aggressor in this fight, and from that 2nd knockdown he recovered late so the winner is Hamm.

Fox Townley VS Jonah Joseph Chris


I thought that the Filipino would win this he had the footwork and the style but seeing the two fighters inside the ring you can clearly see the advantage of Fox, he has the reach, and the height, and surely his boxing is also there and so you can see both have training but because of that reach advantage that punch was getting into Jonah Joseph Chris so he got dominated in this fight.

Rolly's last fight was on  May 13, 2023, so he hasn't fought for almost a year already but this guy is a champion although not as popular as Ryan Garcia. I think he would be a good match for Ryan Garcia but so if it's a championship fight there's a chance Ryan will become a champion, so why not get him instead of pursuing Isaac Cruz which is not a champion.

I don't know if Ryan is looking for an easy opponent here but Isaac Cruz I think is better than Rolly as Isaac Cruz almost beat Tank Davis in a controversial fight.

For not having accomplished much in the sport besides winning secondary titles and losing to Tank Davis these guys sure act like huge divas. It's an interesting fight but it ain't that interesting. This should have been an easy fight to make. We know who the A-side is and both guys say they want to fight each other. The bickering on social media is getting tiresome.

Romero isn't some superstar and has been inactive a long time. He is reaching the point where people are fed up with him and any interest in seeing his fights is almost completely gone. Ryan might be able to milk his popularity a while longer but he needs to start fighting big names inside the ring rather than on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/ESPNRingside/status/1748819171008237669

Lol, Rolly Romero mad at Ryan Garcia and Oscar Dela Hoya. He thought that they have negotiations with him and Ryan fighting next. But as he claim, Oscar is also negotiating for Ryan to fight Isaac "Pitbull" Cruz.

Ryan has responded to Romero, so it's going to be interesting as to who Ryan will fight next. But obviously, it's not as what we wanted like Teo Lopez or Devin Haney.

I don't think it was a very bad decision, to be honest. A controversial one for sure but not a bad one. He has been very dominating and maybe if we say that it is the boxer of the year and this year other fighters had better performances, that can definitely be argued. But to be honest I think the decision is probably not the best, but not bad at all.

I also agree that we all want to see our favourite fighter be the BOTY. but it is also true that most of the time our favourite fighters actually don't deserve that. That is the hard truth.

If Naoya Inoue is finished with most boxers in the Super Bantamweight for sure he will move up to the Featherweight Division in 126 lbs, maybe after his title defense on 1 of his belts the WBC against Luis Nery then after that he needs to tune up his body before going up the division maybe a fight on 1 of the fighters in the Featherweight, of course, Terence Crawford is more dangerous that Naoya Inoue and because he is in a much heavier division that is the Welterweight right now and Terence Crawford is doing fine right now getting WBC and WBO belt he might have a unification match against Eimantas Stannionis, then getting the IBF belt on Jaron Ennis, if he can get all of that then he is a Unified champion for the Welterweight while Naoya Inoue still has a long way to go,

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We are now having a crazy Misfits boxing today, and as we all know most fighters are Content creators who become boxers, but this is just an Exhibition matches and right now they have Logan Paul look-alike the one who got involved in the altercation with Nate Diaz,

MF & DAZN X Series 12



Saturday 01.20.2024 at 02:00 PM ET
Promotion: Misfits Boxing
Venue: First Direct Arena
Location: Leeds, England

MAIN CARD

Andrea-Jane Bunker VS Elle Brooke
Ashley Tebi VS Okemka Jibunor
Tristan Hamm VS Rodney Petersen Jr.
Myles Stephenson VS Ayodeji Araoye
Jonah Joseph Chris VS Fox Townley
Ben Williams VS Mohammed Faisal
Joey Knight VS Zuriel Rudi Ayo
Chase DeMoor VS Malcolm Minikon

All information was from Tapology: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/108700-mf-dazn-x-series-12-hstikkytokky-vs-tayo-ricci

I agree with that, Inoue might be seeking more achievements, possibly that after this fight he might be moving up again and will try to achieve another level and added it to his resume. Nery's upcoming change may be a good challenge for Inoue and, hopefully, Nery will bring that competitiveness against the monster.

Crawford, on the other hand, might accept another good challenge that may also add up to his resume and who knows this year he will earn
the fighter of the year award.

It's really up to the fans to decide, we all have our own boxers who we wants to be the Boxer of the Year, so it's hard to go against the decision of the Ring magazine. Although I think this is not the first time that they made controversial fighters becoming their BOTY, or fighters not deserving.

But in this case, it depends on how they look, but according to them, Inoue beating the best super bantamweight and Inoue becoming the second boxer to become unified champion in two weight decision is good enough for them to declare him as their BOTY.

That can be done by Inoue since he is very dominant. I don't even get why he still chooses to stay at super bantamweight despite getting all the belts already. Maybe he isn't ready yet? If the answer is yes, then we can't compare him to Pacman, or would replace Crawford in the list if he'll stay at his comfort zone.

By the way, what happen to a possible Crawford vs Canelo fight? I think that one died down already.


They have basis on their ranking and most of us aren't aware of that basis, so let's respect their own ranking. If we argue and we have our own, there's no problem with that, but how reputable  we are so people would believe on us?

If Inoue goes up in weight and will become an undisputed champion again, then we can expect that he'll replace Crawford in the ranking. Inoue probably has more achievements as a champion but maybe Crawford is more deserving since he has fought more dangerous fighter than Inoue.

it's hard to make a debate on who is the number 1 or not because as a fan we are too bias, so let's just based the ranking on the publishers report and we can all agree with it. After this fight with Nery which I'm sure Inoue will be victorious, maybe moving up should be next, forget about other challengers lining up, Inoue has to chase making a history again.

However, for Mauricio Sulaimán it might not only be because of the money. He has expressed his disapproval on Russia's invasion on Ukraine as the reason for not sanctioning the fight. I reckon Bivol vs. Beterbiev would have have occured last year already if the WBC did not threaten to remove Beterbiev from his WBC championship.



Sulaiman says that Beterbiev vs. Bivol fight can happen, but it won’t have the WBC title at stake due to the Russia-Ukrainian war. Bivol (21-0, 11 KOs) was born in Tokmak, Kyrgyzstan, and lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Unless the war ends soon, boxing fans might not ever get the chance to see the undisputed 175-lb championship fight between IBF, WBC & WBO champion Beterbiev (19-0, 19 KOs) and Bivol.

Source https://www.boxingnews24.com/2023/04/beterbiev-bivol-wont-be-sanctioned-by-wbc-says-mauricio-sulaiman/