Friday, November 16, 2018

Boxing Fights I Want to Watch

There have been some good top level fights recently and let's hope that trend continues.

Jumping a bit out of order, let's start with welterweight. The fight I most want to see is:
Terence Crawford vs. Errol Spence for the true welterweight championship
A true 50-50 fight at the highest level

Heavyweight
Winner of Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua for the true heavyweight championship.

Light heavyweight
A 4 man tournament between the true champion Adonis Stevenson-Olexandr Gvozdyk winner, Eleider Alvarez, Dmitriy Bivol, and Artur Beterbiev

Middleweight
Canelo should fight a GGG rematch, Danny Jacobs, or Saunders next. Canelo-Saunders tagline could be: Whose PEDs are better?

I'd like to see Charlo and Andrade fight someone world class, maybe each other. At least Andrade tried before Saunders was caught. Charlo's win over Trout was good, but otherwise, both Charlos and Andrade have been stuck fighting a certain level. The Charlos are probably the most disrespectful boxers in the game right now- no class after the fight- so I'd like them to actually test themselves against world class. Charlo-Andrade wouldn't be the most exciting fight, but it'd at least stir the pot for one of them.

Junior welterweight
If Josh Taylor and Regis Prograis get past their opponents in the WBSS, that would be a very exciting fight. Both face live dogs int he semis though. The Hooker-Saucedo winner should face Mark Kriegel's love interest Jose Ramirez. The winner of that fight should face the WBSS winner. Mikey Garcia could face the winner. That would make 140 one of  the hottest divisions around.

Then the winner could move up to 147 and face the Crawford-Spence winner. I'd like Mikey Garcia to wait to face Spence. That fight doesn't excite me yet.

Lightweight
I'd rather see Lomachenko-Garcia than Spence-Garcia. Maybe Lomachenko could face the winner of my 140 super-tournament instead of Garcia.

Junior lightweight
Alberto Machado vs. Gervonta Davis
Lomachenko gets the winner. Or you can throw Miguel Berchelt in there.

Featherweight
Leo Santa Cruz vs. Gary Russell

Junior featherweight
Guillermo Rigondeaux vs. Naoya Inoue
Isaac Dogboe vs. Rey Vargas

Bantamweight
Naoya Inoue vs SSR

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