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CFH
I don't know how to break your quote up into seperate sections like you did with mine, so I'll just respond to each of your points here.
None of what you say about Mundines recent opposition changes the fact that he was knocked completely COLD by Ottke. If Sven Ottke can knock someone out, my guess is Miranda would be able as well - IF, and it's a big if, he could land cleanly. If it was simply due to exhaustion like you claim, why did Mundine lay on the canvas for a significant period of time if he was merely exhausted? Because he wasn't exhausted, he was unconscious. He's also been floored several times since then.
Edison Miranda is better known than Mundine (outside of maybe Aus.). Like you say, he has flaws which Kessler will be able to exploit, thus making Kessler look good. If Kessler looks good against a fairly highly-regarded, somewhat feared, and very popular fighter, how will he not be given credit? You still haven't explained why he wouldn't. Regardless of Miranda's faults, he is more well-known, and more highly regarded than Mundine by the majority of people, thus he will be given a ton of credit if he beats Miranda and looks good doing so. Regardless of which fighter (Miranda or Mundine) possess better skill.
Again, to your point about fighting Andrade, why should Miranda have to wait 3 - 4 months MINIMUM for Andrade to be ready to fight? And you want him to take a tune-up on ESPN in the meantime, then fight Andrade, then fight Kessler? So unless Miranda is fighting every 2 months, he should have to wait 1 - 1 1/2 years to fight Kessler? Why would he do that? What if he gets butted and suffers a serious cut or something during the ESPN fight? Whose to say where Kessler will be by that point, or do you expect him to sit idle and wait for Miranda.
Your proposal makes ZERO buisness sense. None. A better proposal would be to forget about Kessler all together if he doesn't want to fight. Miranda could try calling out a Bute or a Bika, or another highly-regarded fighter. I'd still like to see him fight Pascal, but Pascal got spooked. I'd actually also quite like to see a Miranda - Mundine fight, but that doesn't fit what seems to Mundine's plan of fighting guys who pose little threat to him.
You challenge me to name one champ that Miranda has beaten, which isn't really relevent considering Mundine has never beaten a champ either, though almost everyone feels Miranda beat Abraham - a champ. That's one more champ than Mundine has ever beat. And how am I "blowing smoke into a hype machine"? I said I thought Miranda would be beaten by Kessler rather easily, that's a strange way to hype someone up.
You compare the improvement of Mundine since Ottke (which I will grant you, he's vastly improved) to Miranda's improvement since Pavlik. Mundine has fought over 20 times since then, Miranda has fought twice since Pavlik, looking very good in both fights. It remains to be seen how much Miranda has improved, but your point is completely invalid because of the vast difference in time between the Ottke - Mudine fight and the Pavlik -Miranda fight.
Also, when Sam Soliman is the best fighter you can point to Mundine beating, it doesn't make Mundine look very good. Miranda would SMOKE Soliman if they fought. It doesn't matter if Soliman gave Winky a tough fight, styles makes fights, and if Winky had any power he would have had a much easier time with Soliman, and like Amat mentioned, Wright was ill.
I would take Banks over Echols, and maybe over Soliman and Green as well.
Additionally, I don't know how many times I have to say this to you, you keep asking why I think Miranda would be successful against Kessler -
I DO NOT THINK MIRANDA WOULD DO WELL AGAINST KESSLER! So stop acting like that is what I am saying. For fucksake.
Sorry if this is kind of a scattered post, I tried to respond to each of your points, if you need any clarification just ask.
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