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Post by Bragging Rights Corner on Jan 12, 2010 16:14:07 GMT -6
With Jermain Taylor now out of the Super Six who should fill his spot?
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Post by gumbo2176 on Jan 12, 2010 21:14:45 GMT -6
Glad to see this development. Jermaine has had a rough go of it for the past couple years with brutal KO's coming more frequently than wins. When Lou DiBella decided it was time to end his association with Taylor due to his concerns for his health if he kept fighting, I was wondering if Jermaine would take the hint. Hopefully he will decide to retire for good and not attempt a comeback sometime in the future.
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Post by ninjamantis on Jan 21, 2010 0:40:01 GMT -6
Jermain Taylor should NEVER have been invited to participate in the Super Six because he's NOT one of the six top Super Middleweights in the world, he's lost like 3 of his fights prior to the Super Six tourney.
But nevermind Taylor, at least he WAS a titlist and a pro for a good while. How about Andre Dirrell?
How the hell did Dirrell get a spot on the Super Six? WHO did he ever fight and beat that was even worthy of mention? Nobody.
Almost seems like a conspiracy to have two guaranteed losers on the American side, while the Europeans had three legit titlists in Abraham, Froch and Kessler (who seems on the downward spiral after being whooped by Andre Ward so easily.
Bottom line is...without Canadian Lucian Bute and Librado Andrade, this Super Six was another bogus attempt to make boxing look like other real sports do, with actual tournament competition.
but I digress...because ANY tournament in today's boxing is an improvement from the bullshit, structureless shit we have today, where guys get their rankings via bribery to the gangster sanctioning bodies.
My pick to win it all is Andre Ward, who is a natural Light HW, which is what he fought as in the Olympics. So, he comes to pro boxing, loses some weight to fight at 168, where on fight night he'll naturally be 175 and have a big advantage over legit 168 pounders. Abraham CAME UP to 168, as did Taylor. The only legit SMWs were Froch and Kessler.... as to Dirrell...who cares what he was? Guy fights like a girl, run run run, punch and run, then fall down and hope the ref feels sorry for you. What kind of shit is that?
My "Super Six" would've included all four titlists (wba,wbc, ibf, wbo) and two of the toughest SMWs around. It would look like this:
Bute
Froch
Kessler
Andrade
Abraham (really a MW)
and lastly... Ward, who proved he deserves to be there...if it were a Super Six Light HW tournament!
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