Mega fight wish list!

[ykdadamaja]

1. Any of the Charlo brothers vs. GGG

2. Wilder vs Joshua

3. Joshua vs Ortiz

4. Wilder vs. Ortiz

5. Crawford vs Danny Garcia

6. Crawford vs. Thurman

7. Spence vs. Thurman

8. Spence vs Garcia

9. Stevenson vs. Ward OR Kovalev

10. Lomachenko vs Rigondeaux

[powerpuncher]

I'm not sure if it's a good thing or sad that all of your mega fights aren't really that great. Most of the big fights have been made this year which is great. There are some definite good fights that can be made (like fights on your list) but only a few mega fights now (meaning 2 great fighters fighting each other). Here is my list.

Garcia vs Crawford or Loma
Round robin between Crawford, Spence and Thurman
Rigo vs Loma

Those are the main mega fights that are good fights. Your list have some really good fights though.

[Alpha]

Cruiser is going to give us some crackers. Usyk vs Gassiev or Briedis will be awesome.
Mikey vs Crawford or Loma.
Gonzalez vs Inoue or the Estrada/ Cuadras winner.
Gvozdyk vs Beterbiev
Thurman vs Spence
Tanaka vs Shiro
Niyomtrong vs Moonsri

There's a few for a start.

[ykdadamaja]

I'm not sure if it's a good thing or sad that all of your mega fights aren't really that great. Most of the big fights have been made this year which is great. There are some definite good fights that can be made (like fights on your list) but only a few mega fights now (meaning 2 great fighters fighting each other). Here is my list.

Garcia vs Crawford or Loma
Round robin between Crawford, Spence and Thurman
Rigo vs Loma

Those are the main mega fights that are good fights. Your list have some really good fights though.

My list is better than yours.

[Master]

Eubank Junior v Groves
Smith v De Gale
Kessler v Froch
Thurman v Spence

[Ron Swanson]

People should probably stop talking about a Garcia/Loma fight because it doesn't look like it will happen

What Garcia's people are saying
"Loma doesn't want to fight"

What Loma's people are saying
"Garcia isn't a big name" hahaha
"Garcia is not an A fighter" hahaha
"Garcia is boring" hahaha
"We won't fight on Showtime" and that sums it up.

I hope they are BSing but it appears the plan is more fights, cheaper fights, on ESPN. To make cheap fights you need cheap opponents.

[powerpuncher]

People should probably stop talking about a Garcia/Loma fight because it doesn't look like it will happen

What Garcia's people are saying
"Loma doesn't want to fight"

What Loma's people are saying
"Garcia isn't a big name" hahaha
"Garcia is not an A fighter" hahaha
"Garcia is boring" hahaha
"We won't fight on Showtime" and that sums it up.

I hope they are BSing but it appears the plan is more fights, cheaper fights, on ESPN. To make cheap fights you need cheap opponents.

Ya it's weird why they hate so much on Garcia. One of my biggest pet peeves is when this happens:

Loma's team: let's fight Marriaga. He is a good opponent.
Garcia's team: we will fight you
Loma's team: you aren't good enough and don't draw enough ratings.

Interpretation: you are a risky fight and we will fight good fighters but not great ones because we don't want to lose.

[Spicoli]

I have Spence v Crawford stuck on the brain. Like the feel of Ortiz v AJ. Inoue v Gonzalez has to surely be in the works with huge card coming. Gervonta Davis maybe a fight or two more, v Orlando Salido. Oscar Valdez v Lee Selby. Jermall Charlo v Danny Jacobs, style wise it would be fireworks.

[Ron Swanson]

I have Spence v Crawford stuck on the brain. Like the feel of Ortiz v AJ. Inoue v Gonzalez has to surely be in the works with huge card coming. Gervonta Davis maybe a fight or two more, v Orlando Salido. Oscar Valdez v Lee Selby. Jermall Charlo v Danny Jacobs, style wise it would be fireworks.

I had about the same list except also Usyk v Gassiev and loma v Rigo but I thought most were just fights I wanted to see, not "mega fights"

[Alpha]

I have Spence v Crawford stuck on the brain. Like the feel of Ortiz v AJ. Inoue v Gonzalez has to surely be in the works with huge card coming. Gervonta Davis maybe a fight or two more, v Orlando Salido. Oscar Valdez v Lee Selby. Jermall Charlo v Danny Jacobs, style wise it would be fireworks.

Jeramll vs Jacobs would be nice.

Not a mega fight but Betebiev vs Gvozdyk would be brutal. Estrada vs Cuadras looks outstanding.

[Ron Swanson]

People should probably stop talking about a Garcia/Loma fight because it doesn't look like it will happen

What Garcia's people are saying
"Loma doesn't want to fight"

What Loma's people are saying
"Garcia isn't a big name" hahaha
"Garcia is not an A fighter" hahaha
"Garcia is boring" hahaha
"We won't fight on Showtime" and that sums it up.

I hope they are BSing but it appears the plan is more fights, cheaper fights, on ESPN. To make cheap fights you need cheap opponents.

This is hilarious. Klimas is talking and saying how different fighters say they want to fight but not next, implying they don't really want to fight and that's why not next. ES asks him about a Mikey Garcia fight and Klimas says it is a great fight but they can't do it next. I swear it's like these people don't think. You imply "not next" means not really interested then you say "not next" 😂

Bob Arum is king of that double talk and I always wonder why boxing media doesn't follow up on such obvious contradictions

https://youtu.be/S_Tx5VKv-zQ

[Alpha]

I have Spence v Crawford stuck on the brain. Like the feel of Ortiz v AJ. Inoue v Gonzalez has to surely be in the works with huge card coming. Gervonta Davis maybe a fight or two more, v Orlando Salido. Oscar Valdez v Lee Selby. Jermall Charlo v Danny Jacobs, style wise it would be fireworks.

Jeramll vs Jacobs would be nice.

Not a mega fight but Betebiev vs Gvozdyk would be brutal. Estrada vs Cuadras looks outstanding.

That entire card can be a great round robbin to see who meets when the dust settles. Right now really leaning Estrada can handle Cuadras.

Charlo made his middle debut but totally over shadowed by Heiland almost needing crutches to enter the ring. He's busy calling out Golovkin and I think he can do big things there, no better time to step up than the present. Like to see Jacobs back in the mix. Looks like he is signed Oct. 14th vs TBA. Had some great momentum off Golovkin fight but he may just go Lt hvy route.

Estrada didn't look great against Tabugon although the layoff can be attributed to that. He looked good last time out. Cuadras impressed me with the Gonzalez showing. I see this going the full 12 with Estrada just edging it. I think we're in for a treat with this fight. Fingers crossed.

Another fight that seems pointless to discuss(not that anyone did) is GGG v Charlo. Sanchez said they will never fight Charlo. The only way they would fight Charlo is if he is made the mandatory and even then they would make him wait the whole year. It's all in this if anyone wants to suffer through 30 minutes of circular logic where they keep repeating their own points and never answering directly
https://youtu.be/G9tZzD_f2Mc

it's hard to keep track of what sanchez is rambling about here :S does sound like he is deliberately not understanding the questions though and giving answers in an other direction... He also says who cares about perception after being asked "you know what it will look like if golovkin doesnt fight charlo as a mandatory?".... pretty sure they called out alvarez pretty hard about how people would perceive him if he didnt fight golovkin... but whatever :S

It's why I said weeks back we should start looking for Charlo/Jacobs. Nobody will choose to fight either. Which, I'm okay with in the sense that I would enjoy the fight. I'm just not okay with the fact those two get treated differently. Everyone should be calling for people to fight them, but they won't.

Not sure what you mean there. GGG has always been chasing that Canelo (Martinez, Cotto) money fight no matter what they said about all the belts and so on. Now he's set to get it in September. Jermall just arrived at 160. First fight/ win there although impressive from his side was a bit of a dud. Jacobs deserves a return with GGG. So hey a fight between the 2 to decide a challenger would be awesome. The question is will Charlo wait on the sidelines for his shot (maybe with a stay busy fight along the way) or try to force the issue by establishing himself as the top challenger? The Jacobs fight would do that. And what has Jacobs being doing since the GGG fight? I understand that they feel entitled to be among the mix but kicking back waiting for your number to be called seems redundant.

I basically pay no attention to what Sanchez says, he is always chopping and changing his story and contradicting himself. I see no reason GGG wouldn't want to fight either of these guys. I would still like to see him unify the division, so I could see a Saunders fight coming before either of the Americans. After that and depending on what those 2 have done in the interim then I'd be all for those fights.

[Ron Swanson]

Another fight that seems pointless to discuss(not that anyone did) is GGG v Charlo. Sanchez said they will never fight Charlo. The only way they would fight Charlo is if he is made the mandatory and even then they would make him wait the whole year. It's all in this if anyone wants to suffer through 30 minutes of circular logic where they keep repeating their own points and never answering directly
https://youtu.be/G9tZzD_f2Mc

it's hard to keep track of what sanchez is rambling about here :S does sound like he is deliberately not understanding the questions though and giving answers in an other direction... He also says who cares about perception after being asked "you know what it will look like if golovkin doesnt fight charlo as a mandatory?".... pretty sure they called out alvarez pretty hard about how people would perceive him if he didnt fight golovkin... but whatever :S

It's why I said weeks back we should start looking for Charlo/Jacobs. Nobody will choose to fight either. Which, I'm okay with in the sense that I would enjoy the fight. I'm just not okay with the fact those two get treated differently. Everyone should be calling for people to fight them, but they won't.

Not sure what you mean there. GGG has always been chasing that Canelo (Martinez, Cotto) money fight no matter what they said about all the belts and so on. Now he's set to get it in September. Jermall just arrived at 160. First fight/ win there although impressive from his side was a bit of a dud. Jacobs deserves a return with GGG. So hey a fight between the 2 to decide a challenger would be awesome. The question is will Charlo wait on the sidelines for his shot (maybe with a stay busy fight along the way) or try to force the issue by establishing himself as the top challenger? The Jacobs fight would do that. And what has Jacobs being doing since the GGG fight? I understand that they feel entitled to be among the mix but kicking back waiting for your number to be called seems redundant.

I basically pay no attention to what Sanchez says, he is always chopping and changing his story and contradicting himself. I see no reason GGG wouldn't want to fight either of these guys. I would still like to see him unify the division, so I could see a Saunders fight coming before either of the Americans. After that and depending on what those 2 have done in the interim then I'd be all for those fights.[/QUOTE]

You have expressed exactly what I mean. You say what has Jacobs been doing. Well, he's been turned down by GGG, Lemieux and BJS. Not one would even negotiate. But the story is that Jacobs has been inactive. The story should be about the guys refusing to even negotiate.

There are certain fighters that get a different standard. Once people acknowledge that they can start predicting what will happen long before it is discussed.