Nothing fights you would like to see...

[ykdadamaja]

Glorified bum fights . Happens to be one of the best trilogies ever seen. Hey better than Danny vs Algieri we're getting Danny Garcia v one Daniel Gonzalez...a guy Algieri beat 6 years ago . You know one that comes to mind and is actually made, the David Allen vs Makhmudov next month. I mean, they are already very much at where they are going being honest. But it should be entertaining and want to see it.

I mean, Gatti v Ward was exciting... but in no way would we or could we believe they could beat any of the top contenders at that time.

As far as 140 at the time they were literally top contenders themselves. Ward was in top 10 for like three years leading to Gatti. The wins propelled Gatti into winning another championship. And it was arguably one of the top guys in boxing, Mayweather, who was the challenger for Gattis belt in Mayweathers very first PPV main event. One where he made le$$ than Gatti. Gatti didn't have to beat him he 'won' by just being the face for Floyd . Now of course, nooooo one in their right mind gave Gatti a snowballs chance in hell but in the bigger picture of the weird way boxing moves, he was right at the very top then off the trilogy. Boxing gets convoluted like that, belts increasingly are merely transactional. And Ward never pretended to be anything he was not. He was brought in short early career taking a few losses to guys who wouldn't hold a candle to the Gatti version. A major title eluded him sure but it's the Wards of the boxing world that ultimately make the sport what it is and he wasn't without beating top contenders along the way. And as much as I liked Vince Phillips, Micky was royally screwed in that one .

We all know those rankings are rigged. We have bandwidth's worth of material on this same board that would explain to you how the ranking are rigged. But with the eye test, we know Gatti or Ward could never beat Mayweather, Tyszu, Judah, DLH or Corely, for that matter. Let's be honest.