Quote Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON View Post
There's nothing wrong with Diaz. He likes to wing away once he traps his prey which he was unable to do with the crafty Magic Man.

Bilbo, you mentioned that you wonder where the Diaz that beat up Julio Diaz and Acelino Freitas went... Well, Freitas's legs are nowhere near Paulie's and Julio Diaz sat in Juan's wheelhouse and allowed him to wing away. Diaz was never allowed to get set against Paulie yet he still put forth a good effort.

Juan Diaz should stay at 135 and continue his canpaign. He's a good, solid come forward fighter that can throw punches for days. He way not have a whole lot of pop but he makes up for it with a nonstop swarming attack.

The Juan Diaz of old is still there. He's just fighting the Elite now. Freitas was at the ass end of his career and Julio Diaz was not a good boxer. He crashed the Elite with Campbell who forced him to fight through advercity, then he fought and aging ATG in Marquez who went to the body once Diaz was hurt to finish the show and now he fought a guy with speed and agility that is gone before Juan can set his feet. The days of him fighting the Jose Cottos of the world are over. He's world class... and he's fighting world class fighters now. It's not as easy as it used to be.
Hold on a second, when did Malignaggi become elite all of a sudden?

Are we talking about the same guy who was dominated by Ricky Hatton, and barely scraped by Herman Ngoudjo and Lovemore Ndou, a fighter even Ricky's club fighter brother Matthew looked better against?

Paulie has looked great in two fights, one in showing heart in losing to Cotto and Saturday night against Juan Diaz.

Aside from that there's been no performances at all that I've seen that would qualify him as elite. Apart from against Cotto and Diaz what other great Paulie performances have their been? Ednar Cherry?

Freitas may have been old but he was a much more respected fighter than Malignaggi, and Juan Diaz looked great against J M Marquez early whilst he was in some people's eyes the worlds best p4p fighter.

He looked great against Katsidis too.

You can't seriously say Diaz looks as good as he did, he's just lifeless now, he seems to be on a Jeff Lacy style decline.

Paulie fought well last night but if guys like Ngoudjo and Ndou can make him look as bad as they did a prime Juan should have been to aggressive for him.

Remember when he used to have blazing handspeed, it's a shame really.