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Quote Originally Posted by Primo Carnera View Post
Yes, Enzo is a multi defence Champion - FACT as you would say. 5 defences , opponents with combined career records of 124-13-4. Bellew is an unproven champ , who got his chance after fighting non CW's (Cleverley & others where he came in half a stone below the limit.) and has defended it once against a hand picked part time commentator - FACT.
Actually it was four defences, he wasn't given the WBO title until Nelson retired, which makes the combined opponents - 86-8-3.

Bellew won the WBC title - in the ring - against the no.1 ranked WBC fighter, the combined record of his title fight opponents is - 53-3-1. If you throw in his European title win, which immediately preceded those, it's 87-6-1.

So even if we ignore the actual substance of the fighters (which is obviously silly, as light-heavy Cleverly, or the "Commentator" alone, would easily beat everyone Enzo beat apart from Braithwaite), the numbers suggest Bellew's winning cruiserweight title fights matchup well with Enzo's.

To address another point - Enzo is the "natural" cruiserweight that dropped down to lightheavy. Bellew is a lightheavy that is about to fight at heavyweight. Enzo is an inch taller. They have the same reach.

(I love boxrec) Fact.
yeah, Boxrec is great for facts, but it also means you don't have to twist the facts. My post compared title defences . the reason for that is to show who was a worthy champion and who wasn't. The WBC International and EBU fights are meaningless. they were step up fights and most of the time one or neither fighter was anywhere near the CW limit. now before you say "it's up to that weight, you don't have to go in on the limit," that's as may be , but they can hardly be seen as a credible build up to a World title bid.
Bellew got the shot because the power and money of Matchroom and Sky got him the shot. To be fair , he won fair and square against what was billed as a tough credible champion. I'm not too sure people had that right, but hey-ho. What does he do next? try to unify? No. HE , and let's not forget he's World Champion, decides to take on a part time commentator. and then HE , as a World champion CALLS OUT somebody in a different division.
a lot of double standards here . Bellew keeps saying Haye is only in it for the money and is bad for Boxing, whereas infact , It's Bellew who is bending over backwards to whore himself out to the masses and take non credible match ups.
Maccarinelli was an honest , genuine Fighter. Bellew is an overrated joke, even if he beat Haye!