Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
In fairness,no one is bagging on Bojado.A very tv friendly fighter and nice enough kid who had too much put on his plate too soon.Hindsights is 20/20 and what happened happened,cannot avoid factoring that into the equation.Its easy to come out of the gate with a hot up & comers who swing first and think boxing second,networks love it and so do fans but alot of them dont tread water when time comes to make adjustments.Adjustments and gears they should have been implementing from day one.You could see it in Bojado.I just think the difference between Cotto and Bojado as all around polished prospects,at that time,level of early comp was pretty clear.Both hard chargers and compliment to the sport,exciting, but some make it and some do not.You can usually get a good idea when adversity comes knocking.
Spot on...

I mean for fucks sake Bojados pro debut was on Showtime...
Not even ODHL's debut was on a major network.