Whats up boxing followers and devoted haters. Right here’s one other week’s price of my bulbous sack, bulging with gooey, salty fact, in your face. Take pleasure in. This week, we’ve got feedback/questions relating to Shakur/Zepeda/Oscar, Jake Paul, and Anthony Joshua-Daniel Dubois.
A Golden Duck?
Hey Mags.
I do know you, of all folks, are loving the irony of Oscar De La Hoya calling out Shakur Stevenson for William Zepeda, however when the WBC orders the struggle, he backs out. LOL. You possibly can’t make this shit up. If that ain’t the king of all geese, I don’t know what’s.
– Tyler from STL
Hey Tyler.
Yeah, that was good enjoyable. It wasn’t surprising, although. As I’ve to inform folks time and again and over again– boxing is a enterprise. Having Zepeda tackle the chance of a Shakur Stevenson struggle proper now makes no enterprise sense in any way. Oscar is goofy and immature as hell, however he is aware of boxing and he is aware of a foul kinds matchup when he sees it. As I wrote over at my different gig at BoxingNews.co, making a Shakur struggle for Zepeda proper now could be like cashing-out on him earlier than they’ve actually made any money from him. It makes no enterprise sense, simply because it didn’t when Golden Boy turned down a title eliminator for Zepeda in opposition to Shakur final 12 months. Almost certainly, Zepeda (who isn’t any. 1 light-weight contender for all 4 sanctioning our bodies) will get pushed within the course of WBO titlist Denys Berinchyk or takes some interim or “common” title given to appease him and Golden Boy. With some kind of belt round his waist, he can money checks for awhile and he’ll have a built-in excuse as to why he’s not preventing the opposite guys– “Hey, I can’t pressure the opposite champs to unify…I’ve my very own mandatories!”
Jake Paul, World Champ?
Hello Paul.
You’re going to name me loopy, however when Jake Paul says that he’s going to win a world title in 2025, I sort of imagine him. Cruiserweight isn’t an particularly deep division and he might discover a unfastened belt someplace to win. Personally, I don’t see him as unhealthy of a boxer as some folks prefer to say he’s. He’s received some ability. What do you assume? Does he received “it” or ought to he keep on with preventing scrubs like Mike Perry?
– Mark Z.
Hey Mark.
Sure, you’re loopy. In Paul’s 10-fight professional resume to this point, he’s confronted a YouTuber, a retired NBA star, 5 retired MMA stars, a part-time boxer/actuality TV star, and two undersized and inactive fall-guy boxers. In what universe does that lead one to imagine that he’s, in any approach, prepared for world class opposition? Paul swears up and down that he’s been working exhausting within the fitness center this final 12 months or so to develop next-level ability. However we received’t learn how good he actually is in his pay-per-view boxing match this Saturday with bare-knuckle boxer Mike Perry, who’s about as expert as one would count on from a bare-knuckle boxer, or in opposition to a 58-year-old Mike Tyson in November. One can solely assume that if Paul have been actually that secretly expert, he’d be preventing precise ranked boxers. So, forgive me if I doubt his world title aspirations in the intervening time. I’ll say that he’s really fairly good for a novice together with his stage of expertise, however I’ll go away my evaluation at that till I see extra and higher.
Joshua-Dubois, Ideas?
Hello Paul.
What are your ideas on the Anthony Joshua-Daniel Dubois struggle? I’m not particularly excessive on both, however I believe it makes for an fascinating matchup as each want a win and may’t afford a backward step. I see AJ considerably energized currently and I believe he may take Dubois out. Perhaps across the eighth? What’s your breakdown of the struggle?
– George the Brit
Hey George.
Joshua-Dubois is an effective matchup and a logical one, too. Each have a historical past of uneven, inconsistent performances with good outings of their latest previous. It’s completely conceivable that one might come into this struggle flat…or each might are available flat. So, for me, the large issue will probably be Joshua’s edge in one-punch energy, which may bail him out of any unhealthy spots and, additionally, preserve Dubois tentative and respectful. I’ll agree together with your take. Joshua ought to cease Dubois. However I see it occurring a bit earlier, possibly across the fifth or sixth.
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