Can Carlos Baldomir pull off the upset of the Year? He's done it twice already.

[Wacko3205]

Yup I completely agree with you 100% My point is that Wacko thought that Sam Peter's size and strength advantages would play absolutely no part in his fight with Toney and that Toney would school him. That is despite the fact that Toney is 38 and out of shape and looked poor in his last outing against Rahman.

This is such as easy thing to understand.

Peter vs Toney was on September the 2nd & several several several pounds from this discussion.

My rationalization of that fight compared to this one is totally different.

Now we come to the Mayweather Baldomir fight and Wacko thinks Baldomir's size and physical advantages will play a major part, even though Floyd is at the peak of his career, will weigh the same at the weigh in, and is always in top shape.

Youv'e also neglected the fact thta I mentioned Baldomir's heart along with the fact that he can box. Peter can not. Many things play major parts...I never said Floyd wouldn't be in top shape...I just said that Baldomir should be given credit for his accomplishments & youv'e started running with the bulls.

I'm not criticising Wacko for his picks, I'm merely asking the question, What do you see in Baldomir that will trouble Floyd and give him a hard fight that you didn't see in Sam Peter? From my perspective their advantages are the same, size and natural strength. But Peter had the additional advantages of youth and KO power, plus Toney had the disadvantages of being old and out of shape.

Let me ask you this simple question: Do you think that Baldomir is one dimensional?

I for one do not. I think that he can box, has heart & determination & apparently a chin on his side & I think he can give Floyd a tuff fight...never said that he would beat Floyd...in fact I quite often said in this very article that he could not.

Also...if you want to back track to Peter Toney...I said that Toney won...a close fight that coulda gone either way...but I was fine with Peter winning for the betterment of the division.

Peter is no where near the boxer that Baldo is...so from my perspective...there's a vast difference in making that comparison.

That's all I'm saying, you would think logic would dictate that if you thought the first fight would be a clinic then this one should be even more so, and if you don't think that, then did the result of the first fight not going as you expected have any bearing on your decision to re-evaulate the second fight.

Hope that makes sense!

You can't apply the same logic to every fighter just because one is old & one is younger. Simple logic in itself dictates that no matter how much you try to make something alike...it can often surprise you.

No need in re-evaluating this fight over two unproven fat guys.

Only one of them was an accomplished boxer...both men in the up coming bout are proven to be able to box effectively.