Lomachenko deserved his shot because he is the long time WBO mandatory. Actually, Loma is supposedly the first to fight Kambosos if not for the war in his country. Now with all the belts under Haney's waist, he needs to defend them or lose some of them if he fails to follow mandatories. Besides, even beating an old Loma makes your name more popular and credible because the resume is clearly worthy in the Hall of Fame. Teofimo, Haney, and Shakur are the next generation and are somehow proven but their resume needs more achievements for them to follow Loma's path and I even doubt all of them can enter the Hall of Fame when they retire. I did not even mention the names of Tank and Cruz, their resumes are too weak at the moment.

Shakur is most likely next. This undefeated 2 division champion and Olympic medalist will never get ignored and he showed he's got the skills and is better than Haney IMO. This fight might be Haney's last under Top Rank and his last in this division. Top Rank already offered Haney (win or lose) a shot at the winner of Josh Taylor and Teofimo Lopez. So maybe he re-signs but I won't be surprised if he returns to Matchroom especially since WBC champion Regis Prograis is already there. But still, Top Rank has too many big names in the division to offer if Haney is aiming for legacy. Matchroom though despite no other top names in the division aside from Prograis has DAZN which has the biggest money in boxing and it also has Ryan Garcia under Golden Boy Promotions.

As for the other young names like Cruz and maybe Tank as well. Tank if he stays with PBC and Showtime can continue cherry-picking and exploiting his opponents. He might only care for money and not for his legacy. Cruz meanwhile might need to transfer to the other networks if he gets the chance since PBC will continue to baby Tank and will never give him that rematch. Besides, all the belts at 135 are at Top Rank.

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Are they really worth comparing because both are too different from each other?

Banks are more focused on offering services to the public. Banks are more like crypto exchanges that cater to a lot of clients and earn fees thru their services. Banks offer interest on deposits and loans.

Big whales in crypto on the other hand are just huge investors and traders. And even some of these whales are directly or indirectly banks. Banks with each wide services and business ventures also have departments that take care of their investments and trades.

Well, the last time Loma fought, he was not the same fighter anymore. Was it only ring rust or he just declined? Until I can't see the Loma that beat Linares, I consider him out of his prime. I anticipate Haney as the quicker and stronger guy in this fight. I also hope Loma does not give the early rounds to Haney because that kid will be contented with his jabs throughout this entire fight and will move away or hug to avoid any risks.

Fighters aged in different ways but most of them lose their primes in their mid-30s. Conservative styles like Lennox Lewis, GGG, Bernard Hopkins, and Mayweather Jr. tend to last longer than fighters that use a lot of energy when they fight. Guys like Loma, Roy Jones, and Tyson consume a lot of energy and relied on speed so they will be in trouble once their bodies start to diminish.

That's the spirit mate! You can do it. We can do it. And by the way, welcome to Bitcointalk.

Nowadays, the internet is becoming bigger and is a necessity. You might have the skills or hobbies or interests that you can turn into an income. If you love analyzing market trends then you can study trading wherein a small capital also has the chance to turn big thru leverage trading. There are free online games that allow players to earn. You can also make videos on Youtube. There are a lot of potential earnings on the internet although you need to spend ample time on it. Best wishes to you mate.

But Ngannou is not just aiming for MMA money. If he remains unbeaten since becoming the UFC champion, his potential of earning big bucks in boxing stays alive. And besides, if Ngannou is really capable of marketing well his next MMA fights, he might earn more than $10 million per fight.

Most of the time, we cannot teach old dogs new tricks. I wonder if Ngannou is an exception. He carries that big punch though so there's always a puncher's chance but this might be the same case for any heavyweights. His stamina will be his main problem, not just in a 36-minute boxing match but also in a full 5-round match in MMA. We'll see what he looks like in his tune-up fight this year.

There's a reason why Casimero went to Thailand during his fight in Korea for him to focus. I also do not believe that Casimero was fully focused during his training camp in Cebu, Ph. He might have underestimated Fillipus which is why he avoided a more costly training camp abroad like Thailand. Casimero's lifestyle and becoming a part-time vlogger make it more difficult for him to focus if he stays in the country during training camps.

The fight is already done. Many fans did not appreciate Casimero's poor performance during that fight. Filippus might be heavy during fight night but that cannot be an excuse if you are looking for a fight with Naoya Inoue.

Damn! I am sure Jimmy Butler burned a lot of bettors' money in today's game 1 with Boston. Jimmy Butler looks good in a regular season game but is excellent when it comes to the playoffs where it matters most. And Miami Heat despite a roster with only 1 superstar and less support compared to the other top teams are always a dark horse when it comes to the playoffs. It's a good thing I did not bet against Jimmy and will just watch their games. I still think Boston is the favorite to win the series, they're just too well-rounded and deep.

It's been years now that Miami Heat despite its roster continues to over-perform. I wonder when is the time the management becomes serious in bringing help to Jimmy. Jokic got his reinforcements this season, hopefully, Jimmy gets his next season.

Ang lakas ng akyat ng Nigeria ah. Parang dito sa forum lang din, sobrang bilis ng pagdami nila at dahil solid rin ang kanilang community ay napanatili ang kanilang growth. Ang Pilipinas naman ay ibang klase talaga pagdating sa adoption lalo sa internet. Kung hindi lang sana low quality at overpriced ang services ng ating mga telco ay mas lalo pa sanang mataas ang interest ng mga Pinoy sa web 3 dahil siguradong interesado rin ang mga nasa provinces with zero to low internet signals.

Sana magkaroon na ng mga games with solid tokenomics and economies para long lasting.

Nothing different here mate. My country is struggling as well. But what turns matters worst is the high level of corruption in my country. The pandemic permanently closed a lot of our businesses here and I also lost all my source of income. I have investments in our local stock market but it turned into a nightmare with some stocks performing worse than crypto's altcoin market in a bear season.

Despite all of these trials, we need to strive harder than ever. I am actually looking forward to crypto's bull run next year and 2025 as my biggest hope of recovery.   

Inoue went the other way which is unifying and becoming undisputed. The goal of achieving them won't allow you to move up in divisions pretty quickly just like Pacquiao did. If Pacquiao went on to pursue unification fights and become undisputed, he will never reach the 8 division titles. Pacquiao only tried to unify twice which ended in a draw and a loss. Pacquiao never experienced holding 2 major belts in a division. But somehow, Pacquiao is a 5 division lineal champion IIRC which makes him unique and special. So if there is only 1 belt per division, Pacman will remain as having the most titles in as many divisions, Mayweather probably 4, De La Hoya only 2, etc. Having only 1 belt but being recognized as the lineal champion is still better than having 3 belts but unrecognized as the lineal of its division. That is why Spence despite owning 3 of the 4 belts needs Crawford to determine the lineal champion of their division. Pacman did not duck anyone and always went on to fight the best which are the lineals or #1 or #2 in the divisions that is why he made it to 5.

Inoue on the other hand has the chance to become the only 2-division undisputed champion in the 4-belt era. And this is very doable if he wins over Fulton because WBA and IBF champion Marlon Tapales expressed his willingness to unify the 4 belts as well.

I'm excited about next season. Maybe we can see a rivalry between these top picks, Chet Holmgren and Wembanyama. Hopefully, no injuries especially on these 2 players. I'm also not sure if Wembanyama will be happy at San Antonio but the team is known to have legendary David Robinson and Tim Duncan and Wembanyama is the 3rd coming. And with coach Pop who's been developing players into stars, he will learn a lot which will be very important in his early days in the NBA. I expect him to gain some weight as the team will assess him. And with his playing style and skills, he is capable of avoiding injuries if he keeps away from being too physical while his body is still developing.

As much as I respect Devin Haney, the kid is the man in this division and is undisputed but it is annoying when he tries to trash-talk and throw false accusations on Loma. Is Haney trying to have a reason to get mad and disrespect Loma in order to further motivate him? Haney says he wants to punish Loma for what he did to him in the past. What did Loma do to Haney in the past? And what type of punishment he can offer when he is not a KO artist and is only very good at hugging his opponents? Seriously, betting markets should offer an over or under as to how many hugs Haney will do this weekend. 

I know Loma is already past his prime but I really hope that what is left to him is enough to outsmart Haney. I expect Haney to make another boring fight just to secure his undisputed belts. Haney will jab, move and then hug Loma every time he goes near. At this stage of their careers, Haney will be the stronger guy so he might dictate the hugs in this fight.

Ngannou is expected to have his boxing tune-up this year. Maybe he should start training early and then late-noticed someone that is past his prime and is also inactive. Someone that is not mobile and only has 4 weeks or less to train. Or maybe an agent can just pay someone to let Ngannou win in a KO. Still, I don't see Ngannou having enough energy after 4 rounds. Any of the top 20 with proper training camp can easily jab him to death. And fat guys like Andy Ruiz have more energy and speed.

The real target after his tune-up are Fury, AJ, and Wilder. All of them except Wilder possessed skills but after their previous losses, it seems like only Fury is capable of bringing a possible 1 million PPV buys with Ngannou. But 500k PPV buys is probably enough for Ngannou to earn around $15 million.

It seems like Ngannou's name grow big after what he did to UFC and showing reluctance to sign easily to any of the other rival MMA promotions. The $20 million 2-fight deal from ONE is the biggest per-fight guarantee although PFL's deal allowed Ngannou to become part of the board, allowed him to box, and have a huge PPV share which will be more beneficial only if his PPV numbers grow more than his previous numbers at UFC.

Ngannou is expected to return to MMA action next year so it will be 2 years of inactivity. Although he is expected to have a heavyweight boxing tune-up this year before vying for a shot at either Fury, AJ, or Wilder. Seriously though, he cannot beat any of the top 20 heavyweights except his puncher's chance. A shameful loss to boxing at least won't hurt much if in case his market will diminish since PFL only gave a guarantee of 7 digits in each of his next 3 MMA fights. 

In many parts of the world, people cannot even earn a million dollars in their lifetime. But I agree that it is very difficult for someone to have financial stability without education. Not all because I also heard stories of success from people with limited educational backgrounds but they are only a few of the millions or maybe billions of poor people around the world. That is how important education is, especially financial education.

That being said if I were to leave a million dollars to my child or provide him a full education up to college, I will choose the latter. I don't mind my child not becoming a millionaire in dollars in the future for as long as it can take to go to school and then go to college with his own preference based on his skills and interests.

Somehow, I agree to fire Doc. He seems to choke on very important games during the playoffs even during his time with Boston's big 3 of Garnett, Pierce, and Allen where he only managed to earn a single championship. I forgot the stats but was it zero wins in all of his game 7 games?

Another coach that is being watched closely is Jason Kidd. If only he is not Jason Kidd and not Dallas Mavericks where he earned his lone ring. But he might be given another last chance. I say the trade with Kyrie Irving trade was a huge failure. And why is it that Dallas always let go of very important players every time it accomplished something big in the previous season? When they became champions, they decided to let Tyson Chandler go in favor of saving money. Last season they upset the Suns and were able to proceed to the western finals and only lose to the champion GSW but then again they let go of Jalen Brunson who's now playing great with the NYK.

But what is the real secret of knowing the inside and out of trading? Maybe you can share it here so OP will learn it? Of course, I also need to know, I tried many strategies before and they did not work for long. So I thought strategies will only work for some time and then traders need to develop another strategy to gain from the market.

I remember when I tried to increase my daily trading capital to $10k so I can target a net profit of at least 0.50% daily. And even with that very small target, I failed to become consistent. And after trying to make more strategies to earn from the market including not putting a stop loss, I end up losing nearly 50% of my capital before I stopped day trading once again.

Or maybe trading is not for me. So I might just again try copy trading in crypto but I want it free this time or at least free in the first few days or weeks to test if it works. I hope OP will make an update if ever he is able to find a consistent trader he can copy trade.

It's disgusting Tony Weeks intervened, stopping the fight when 4k years old Barroso was not even hit clean and was leading the fight prior to the stoppage. Weeks did not even think about the effort of Barroso who's just awakened from his pyramid in Egypt just to fight PBC's baby pug, Rolando Romero. Anyways, Romero better mentions only popular but weaker fighters because he is nowhere near the levels of Taylor, Prograis, Matias, etc. 2 of the champions in the division are now at PBC but I really doubt Al will allow Romero to unify his WBA belt against IBF champion Subriel Matias.

Meanwhile, here is Eddy Reynoso's say on KingRy. He might be welcomed again but he needs to follow Reynoso's rules and not his. But I have doubt that this will happen if Canelo will face an uphill battle next with the likes of Bivol.

If there was someone that wants Moloney to face an easier opponent to become a champion, it would be Bob Arum. Nonetheless, Arum has his own valid reasons, old Donaire until now wasted a lot of time, energy, and money as well as it is assumed that he is already training.

At last, I already watched the whole replay yesterday on Youtube. The reception was only 720p though and I was sleepy so I did not score the fight. But from my own limited observation, it was close and could have gone either way? And the Mexican broadcasters followed someone's scorecard who actually had Astrolabio winning 116-112. I haven't seen the per-round stats yet but I heard Moloney connected more although I valued power punches more than just jabs and Astrolabio seemed to have landed the heavier shots.  

I also watched an interview with Moloney. I was surprised that his hand was actually injured in round 3 or 4 of that fight. And he kept it a secret and did not show any hints even to his own corner because he was afraid that they might stop the fight and would stop his chance of becoming a champion. He was in a hospital after the fight and stayed there until 2 AM. That was probably the reason why he stick to moving and using his skills. And I am surprised that he was so confident that he really won very clearly in that fight. His mind right after the fight was that he won 11 or 10 or 9 out of 12. And then lastly, he mentioned that he would love to unify the belt for a chance to become undisputed, Donaire included. He is hoping to bring another big unification fight to Australia again.

By the way, next weekend is the Haney-Lomachenko event. The main supporting event is Jason Moloney's twin brother, Andrew Moloney trying to become a 2-time champion against the undefeated Japanese Junto Nakatani who is moving up in weight to become a 2 division champion. There were only a few brothers that became world champions and it's rare to see twins become champions. This might steal the show if Haney keeps on hugging and making his fight with Loma a boring one.