Lee - Quillen in advanced talks

[Tam Seddon]

Lee-Quillin in Advanced Talks For Garcia-Peterson Card - Boxing News

I didn't expect this, but it's a good fight to happen. Hope Lee can pull off the upset

[IamInuit]

So he drops the WBO and the biggest payday of his life against a guy that according to him he would have beaten anyway and now will be the challenger for the WBO. Another graduate of MENSA.

[Ron Swanson]

Quillen is mediocre anyway, like Lee.

[La Cucaracha]

So this must be one of those bigger fights Quillin was talking about

[p4pking]

Quillen is mediocre anyway, like Lee.

Neither are anywhere near mediocre! They are both very dangerous, if a notch below the elite skill wise. I agree with @brocktonblockbust, you are a hungry man.

[brocktonblockbust]

@p4pking

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[Ron Swanson]

Quillen is mediocre anyway, like Lee.

Neither are anywhere near mediocre! They are both very dangerous, if a notch below the elite skill wise. I agree with @brocktonblockbust, you are a hungry man.

You don't feel silly saying "I agree with rocktonblockbust"? Isn't his whole shtick that he isn't serious about anything he says?

[Ron Swanson]

Quillen is mediocre anyway, like Lee.

Neither are anywhere near mediocre! They are both very dangerous, if a notch below the elite skill wise. I agree with @brocktonblockbust, you are a hungry man.

I'll be more specific. If the division wasn't weak for the last 20 years and was good neither should ever hold a title. They are good fighters but it's a testament to the fact boxing is in a lull that either has ever been a champion. They should be gatekeepers, that is their level but middleweight is light on talent and has been for a very long time.

Hell, I'll go on. Sam Soliman never should have been a world champion, this older shot version of Jermain Taylor never should have been a world champion. I love Cotto but he never should have been a MW champion.

[Tam Seddon]

I reckon he did it for some reasons; 1) Haymon told him to, the new TV deal wasn't ready at the time of the defence so he told him to vacate instead. 2) He said in an interview it gives him the opportunity to become a two weight world champion. 3) He also said in the interview that he was having family problems and he wasn't in the right place to defend his title. 4) Haymon wouldn't have wanted to work with a Roc nation maybe?

[El Kabong]

Adios Andy, it's been real. Pete Quillen might not have the best sense when it comes to management of his career but he's certainly tough enough to KO Andy Lee who is only in this position because he landed a Hail Mary punch on Julian Jackson's son.