Exactly what is a 'Bridgerweight'
Well it looks like the Wbc and it's syndicate head Mauricio Sulaimán are giving us fans what we all need..another weight division. Apparently it's "designed" for fighters between 200-224 lbs. Now I'm up for new ideas *cough *cough cash grab, but would this restrict fighters within that ranger from daring to be great and facing fighters of higher weights. You know since it's so rare and so few have pulled it off. If I were Usyk I'd resist the hell out of this, seems like training wheels put on a bike that is not broken. I seem to recall they already had this in the mid 90's called the Super-cruiserweight and it disappeared after exactly 1 fight with Bobby Czyz :-X
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It is a new name for the Super Cruiserweight division.
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I saw the name without the story and thought that's an awful name.
Then when you recall the story. It's still a fucking awful name. No offence to the kid who put his face in the way of rampaging dog.
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Well it looks like the Wbc and it's syndicate head Mauricio Sulaimán are giving us fans what we all need..another weight division. Apparently it's "designed" for fighters between 200-224 lbs. Now I'm up for new ideas *cough *cough cash grab, but would this restrict fighters within that ranger from daring to be great and facing fighters of higher weights. You know since it's so rare and so few have pulled it off. If I were Usyk I'd resist the hell out of this, seems like training wheels put on a bike that is not broken. I seem to recall they already had this in the mid 90's called the Super-cruiserweight and it disappeared after exactly 1 fight with Bobby Czyz :-X
Why am I not surprised it's a WBC creation? Also... "syndicate head" sounds totally appropriate. ;D
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I saw the name without the story and thought that's an awful name.
Then when you recall the story. It's still a fucking awful name. No offence to the kid who put his face in the way of rampaging dog.
Ah makes sense the name. They did the little dude right with meeting fighters and giving a belt in fairness but comes off exploitive here. It sounds like some 17th Century medical device used on witches ffs.
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Trying to think of who will compete here
Michael Hunter
Wilder.. It just doesn't fit. The man with the biggest eraser options to fight in a lower division ???
Usyk..
Briedis comes up
JC Chavez after a bender ? Slim pickings
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No point. Some lower quality fighter will grab the belt, but most of the better fighters around that weight will want to fight the HWs
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
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I happen to think the weight classes are good the way they are.
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
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I'm happy this is happening. Been waiting this division for too long. Although I still think the cruiser limit should be dropped down to 190 for the sake of the light heavyweights wanting to move to.
I think a 190-215ish division would have been better but hey, can't complain.
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
Sounds good to me. Maybe he'll challenge Beterbiev. :cool:
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
both roy & canelo looked great in those fights
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
Sounds good to me. Maybe he'll challenge Beterbiev. :cool:
artur is too old now you would give canelo any credit
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
both roy & canelo looked great in those fights
Looking good is far different from taking over a division. Beating an alphabet champion in Kov or Ruiz and then running away to not take the top champion is not dominating any division but simply cherry picking.
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
Sounds good to me. Maybe he'll challenge Beterbiev. :cool:
artur is too old now you would give canelo any credit
If he fights him now, yes. If he let's it "marinate", or waits till Beterbiev gets "Bambi'ed" like Kovalev did, then.... no.
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
both roy & canelo looked great in those fights
Looking good is far different from taking over a division. Beating an alphabet champion in Kov or Ruiz and then running away to not take the top champion is not dominating any division but simply cherry picking.
they can only fight one guy at a time. both roy & canelo dropped back down again to take on guys that are considered near the top of their divisions
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
Sounds good to me. Maybe he'll challenge Beterbiev. :cool:
artur is too old now you would give canelo any credit
If he fights him now, yes. If he let's it "marinate", or waits till Beterbiev gets "Bambi'ed" like Kovalev did, then.... no.
dmitry or artur should have gone after sergey once he got bambi'ed. how many fights have they had at the weight compared to canelo? these guys can fight top fighters in their own divisions yeh?
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
Sounds good to me. Maybe he'll challenge Beterbiev. :cool:
artur is too old now you would give canelo any credit
If he fights him now, yes. If he let's it "marinate", or waits till Beterbiev gets "Bambi'ed" like Kovalev did, then.... no.
dmitry or artur should have gone after sergey once he got bambi'ed. how many fights have they had at the weight compared to canelo? these guys can fight top fighters in their own divisions yeh?
Doesn't matter that Bivol nor Beterbiev haven't fought Kovalev. What matters is that Canelo chose to go after Kovalev only after he'd gotten Bambi'ed by Andre Ward (of all people) and then for good measure gotten KO'ed by Eleider Alvarez. Staying with the "meat" analogy... let's just say Kovalev had gotten tenderized ahead of the Canelo fight.
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sounds like another division for canelo to take over
Canelo really "took over" the light heavyweight division the way Roy Jones took over the heavyweight division.
Sounds good to me. Maybe he'll challenge Beterbiev. :cool:
artur is too old now you would give canelo any credit
If he fights him now, yes. If he let's it "marinate", or waits till Beterbiev gets "Bambi'ed" like Kovalev did, then.... no.
dmitry or artur should have gone after sergey once he got bambi'ed. how many fights have they had at the weight compared to canelo? these guys can fight top fighters in their own divisions yeh?
Doesn't matter that Bivol nor Beterbiev haven't fought Kovalev. What matters is that Canelo chose to go after Kovalev
only after he'd gotten Bambi'ed by Andre Ward (of all people) and then for good measure gotten KO'ed by Eleider Alvarez. Staying with the "meat" analogy... let's just say Kovalev had gotten tenderized ahead of the Canelo fight.
And not to mention that it was the fishiest high level fight I’ve seen. Ive heard different conspiracies of fights over the years but never believe them. Kovalev literally never threw a hard punch the entire fight. He basically only threw weak jabs. I didn’t think that Canelo would be able to take his punch because he hit so hard and was big, but Kovalev literally never threw a hard punch the entire fight which is so unlike him. Every punch he throws is heavy except in the Canelo fight where none were heavy.
