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Sauerland said Inoue is almost a done deal, McDonnell too, so they're obviously waiting for the winner of that bout, probably both.

The rest of bantamweight is a bit weak though - Solis, Haskins, they'll probably throw in a Japanese/Filipino if Inoue gets to fight out there.
Weak?

Payano, Solis (should already have a win over McDonnell), Zhakiyanov (I heard he retired), Warren, Jason Moloney, Mikhail Aloyan would be fantastic, Oubaali/ Sanpattan winner, Gerardo Castillo, Mzuvukile Magwaca or Duke Micah for a bit more international flavor, Takuma Inoue looks good. Haskins, Aaron Alameda, Michael Dasmarinas, Tapales. There's a lot of talent there for me.

I agree Taylor needs to be in the 140 tourney.

I heard they might do Cruiser 2, I'll take some credit for that, I post a thread awhile back about that exact topic.
I didn't mean "weak" overall, I meant compared to the four champs (assuming Inoue will win), there looks a gulf in class. We've already seen Burnett deal with Haskins and Zhakiyanov and I don't see Solis, McDonnell, Warren or Payano beating the four seeds.

Some of those young, unexposed guys you've mentioned would be fantastic though, I prefer that over the proven guys who I think will not get past the first round.

Oubaali-Sanpattan winner would be excellent (not seen the Thai, hopefully he's the new Wang). Not seen the South African fella who unfortunately, anyway, was shot. Inoue's brother can't be in it. I don't know much about the Aussie, but boxing is currently so weak out there I was thinking he was underdog against Kono.