Tune-up Fights and Mandatory Defenses: when/how often should a champ face good comp?

[luvfightgame]

It all depends on the situation, i mean if you have lost your previous fight in a big showdown against another elite boxer, i think your entitled to come back with a sort of warm up/easier on paper bout, similar to Cotto and Pavlik, but if your on roll i dont see why the top guys dont fight other top guys every fight, i hear alot of fighters saying you cant expect to fight p4p star every fight but i disagree these top guys fight twice a year. It's not as if there fighting four times a year.

I mean Pavlik fighting Duddy or Mora is a fucking disgrace imo he has just fought a stiff in his comeback fight after his first defeat he needs to get back in there and there is plenty of fights the boxing fans want to see.

Again id be dissapointed if Cotto fights Cintron, i feel Cintron is on the slide and has looked like that in his last three fights, Cotto should be fighting Berto or Mosley in his next fight.

I agree with most of your post. The only problem is in the example of Cotto. Let's say he fights Berto and Mosley in his next 2 fights, who's next? Sometimes there's not enough top level fighters. Same for Pavlik. He fights Abraham next fight, then who's the big name out there at middleweight?

Yes of course, i can understand that. While there is elite compitition around you have to face them if not well thats fair enough, i think Cotto is a great fighter and has possibly 5/6 elite boxers to choose from if the $$ is right, as for Pavlik well i know we all want to see Abraham asap, but there is a few names that he should be fighting rather than John Duddy just so he gets a nice few million bucks to put a beat down on an untested challanger.

id prefer to see him in with Strum, Mundine, Winky, Williams or even up to 168 against Kessler or a Bute.

I think belts mean shit these days and we all want to see fights where fighters move about weights to make the best fights possible, in recent times Hatton,Calzaghe,Pac,Marquez have done it and i like it.

Agreed. SRL, Duran, Hearns, Hagler all moved around to face each other. I would like to see that also. It does screw up the rankings though and the chances for unknown guys to move up and get a title shot when guys are switching weight classes.

I think Pavlik would handle Sturm, Mundine, and Williams fairly easily.