Boxing Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[btc_angela]

His exhibition career was already end when he done fight with Logan Paul, after that he have next 4 exhibitions fights with Don Moore, Mikuru Asakura, Deji Olatunji, and Aaron Chalmers. But I don't see any hype, his appearance doesn't enough to bring the crowd. Maybe if he fight with McGregor or Jake Paul, it would be different. But McGregor want to comeback in UFC, while Jake Paul only want to fight in a professional career, Mayweather will not want since he is really care with his undefeated record.

But definitely, Floyd is still bringing money when he had his exhibitions fights, just a fight in Japan this December again could yield him easy cool $10 M or higher.

However, he is aged already, lots of money and doesn't need to fight even for exhibition fight to remain relevant in boxing. He can just simply find talents like what he did against Gervonta Davis and guide them on how to become boxing's cash cow.

But finding talent and developing such talent takes a lot of work, and if you were given the option to go through all that work or earn a lot of money by fighting exhibitions fight with very low risk to your health and reputation then this option makes the most sense, especially for someone like Mayweather which cares so much about making money, so I think we are going to keep seeing Mayweather arrange more exhibition fights even if they are not making him as much money as he expected.

I think though that if ever Floyd will have to unwind his career fighting, then most likely he will be a promoter as he has TMT as his company. He has the likes of Davis and to the beginning of Broner's career, they are close as hell. But when Broner started to lose and then his career goes to a steep downfall, Floyd separated with him. And then took Davis under his wing and made him millions but it's time for Davis to move up. So as genuis as Floyd is, he might be looking for another career after his boxing is done.

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[YuginKadoya]

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It's not that Brandon Figueroa is aiming for Magsayo but it's just turned out that Fulton will skip his plan on moving up to 126 to face Naoya Inoue in the 122. And just to be clear, Fulton is not that he doesn't want a rematch against Figueroa but just man enough to take the massive call and demand on taking Inoue before considering moving up. He just shows that he will not duck Inoue even with how dangerous the monster is so better to stay at 122 for now to face Inoue.

I also recognized the strength of Brandon Figueroa who probably has a better chance to win against Magsayo but the latter does have a good experience already against top boxers in the 126 like Gary Russell Jr. (although semi-injured) and Rey Vargas who is far better compare to Figueroa who is new to 126 division.

He doesn't have any choice at all that is why he is facing Mark Magsayo, a hand-pick fight? or maybe Mark Magsayo is a big money aswell, so if Naoya Inoue is not available surely Figueroa will target a different fighter, but looking at the paper Brandon Figueroa is not a push-over just like what I have said, but I can not underestimate Mark Massayo aswell because he can surely surprise his opponent,

Stephen Fulton on paper is not a slack he surely got a great record of 21 wins without any losses, and he will surely go inside that ring with a lot of technicalities in his punch and some volume while that 24 wins of Naoya Inoue is really incredible because is Stephen Fulton has 8 KO wins Naoya Inoue has 21 KO wins, equal to the winning of Fulton, Naoya Inoue is really a monster, and if this fight commence I will surely putting my all for Naoya Inoue, and for sure the odds will be for Inoue for sure,

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I was really surprised when Ponce right away attacked his 100% KO win rate opponent. I like it but I thought Ponce is also ready for a 12-round war which is why he spent big energy right away in round 1. I also thought Matias will be down later from the pressure of Ponce, but it seems the huge experience of fighting high-level opponents made him survive and remained composed. I felt like Ponce is still willing to fight but his corner are scared after Matias started to change the fight into his momentum. And the fact that someone very good and undefeated before was already dead after absorbing a lot of heavy blows from Matias made Ponce's corner more concerned.

Matias 19-1-19, now the new IBF champion has a scary message to WBC champion Regis Prograis.

It was a war, and both fighters is really trading blows and never giving up but surely 1 will prevail from this and you can see that Jeremias Ponce is one hell of a dude in being aggressive towards Matias, then after so many punches for Ponce Subriel Matias is not trading punches back, while this is not really looking good for Ponce in the 5th round he is not stopping maybe because Matias will know that he is hurting from his punches so the Pride of Ponce kept on until he can not anymore, because he was surely knock down by Matias in the 5th round,

[Baofeng]

Ok we have a new order for the IBF bantamweight,

it will be Emmanuel Rodriguez vs Melvin Lopez as ordered by IBF. So everything has taken shape now since Inoue has vacated all the belt.
Donaire vs Santiago, (WBF)
Astrolobio vs Moloney (WBO)
Takuma Inoue vs Solis (WBA)

So that's what the bantamweight will look like for this year and the vacancy will be filled by this fights.

[carlisle1]

His exhibition career was already end when he done fight with Logan Paul, after that he have next 4 exhibitions fights with Don Moore, Mikuru Asakura, Deji Olatunji, and Aaron Chalmers. But I don't see any hype, his appearance doesn't enough to bring the crowd. Maybe if he fight with McGregor or Jake Paul, it would be different. But McGregor want to comeback in UFC, while Jake Paul only want to fight in a professional career, Mayweather will not want since he is really care with his undefeated record.

But definitely, Floyd is still bringing money when he had his exhibitions fights, just a fight in Japan this December again could yield him easy cool $10 M or higher.

However, he is aged already, lots of money and doesn't need to fight even for exhibition fight to remain relevant in boxing. He can just simply find talents like what he did against Gervonta Davis and guide them on how to become boxing's cash cow.

But finding talent and developing such talent takes a lot of work, and if you were given the option to go through all that work or earn a lot of money by fighting exhibitions fight with very low risk to your health and reputation then this option makes the most sense, especially for someone like Mayweather which cares so much about making money, so I think we are going to keep seeing Mayweather arrange more exhibition fights even if they are not making him as much money as he expected.

I think though that if ever Floyd will have to unwind his career fighting, then most likely he will be a promoter as he has TMT as his company. He has the likes of Davis and to the beginning of Broner's career, they are close as hell. But when Broner started to lose and then his career goes to a steep downfall, Floyd separated with him. And then took Davis under his wing and made him millions but it's time for Davis to move up. So as genuis as Floyd is, he might be looking for another career after his boxing is done.

Floyd will surely use his legacy to continue sucking money from this sport, even he stops fighting exhibition games he will find a way
to make money and continue to have close relation inside this sport.

Like you mentioned, he already has that good glimpse of how to make money being a promoter, Broner and Davis were a cash-cow for him.

But the two were not there anymore and for sure Floyd will bring someone else to create and develop another fighter who can bring him money.

[LUCKMCFLY]

I agree, it is better for Magsayo to be slick, and quick and must launch a scoring punch rather than a knock-out punch.  This way he can compete against Vargas in scoring.  Besides not putting much of force on the punches can render him more mobile and quick.  He should know when to launch heavy knockout punches and the scoring punches.  Sadly, Magsayo is all brawn and not using his brain during the fight against Vargas.  

For sure Magsayo's camp is already aware of those problems. If ever given a chance again to face Vargas, those problems will surely be addressed. Let's also consider the fact that Magsayo isn't really outscored in the match as he won the one judge.

Surely Magsayo has learned a thing or two about Vargas's strength and his weakness especially recently when Foster revealed how to defeat Vargas, although I'm not sure that Magsayo can use that one because they have a different fighting style and Foster is quite slick, that is why Vargas failed in his attempt. This time, Magsayo should level up his game because he will get embarrassed for sure if he didn't learn something from their first encounter.

He need to adjust and learn from his past mistake, adding more on his stamina so he can last long with good breathing, unlike with that first encounter where he didn't manage to win the fight, but for now better to focus with his upcoming fight and think about Vargas after he succeed with these opportunities to come back.

Let see if he will win and start preparing for the title fight if, in case Vargas will negotiate right after Magsayo wins his fight.

Well, in boxing there are certain things that should never be revealed or said lightly, saying that the way one boxer is going to beat another is unethical, although this can be important to encourage the other boxer to correct his weakness. . .

In boxing you can apply that saying that says: "The fish dies by the mouth", in fact it is a very native saying where I am from, the bad thing about some irresponsible statements can make the boxer take it to heart and create a bad feeling.

Some believe that this is all part of the show, but there should be some restrictions, just to avoid disrespect, as I said before, fans really like this kind of thing. I consider myself a big fan of this sport, that's why I like to see every detail of what the boxers say or do before the fight.

Mayweather is getting it pretty bad in the news today for the lack of people showing up to his last fight.  That's sort of embarrassing and shows that people aren't really willing to pay to see him fight anyone no matter where he goes.  A long ways from the hype of the Conor McGregor fight. 

I'm awaiting the results of the Tommy Fury and Jake Paul fight now.  I didn't go crazy but tossed a few in for Jake Paul.  I like his troll act and think he's put in a ton of work to be able to compete at such a high level and knock out legitimate athletes.  I look forward to seeing him continue to try and get to a world title.

Mayweather fight with no one, recently he fight with Aaron Chalmers aka MMA fighter, the fight wasn't scored because each of them can't knocking out each other. I think Mayweather seems to have lose his hype, but many people are still cheering McGregor and Jake Paul, this might because Mayweather isn't a funny person.

Right, but he offers an explanation, the fight was not promoted as expected and they were just like 1 month of doing the social media promotions. In any case, it might be that Floyd is losing his ground now.

And the bad news is that he says he hurt his hands against Chalmers, although he has history of broken arms in the past, and with his age, it might take time to heal and it will be brittle the more he fight, he is nearing 50 years old.

When I saw the fight with little audience, I laughed a bit with it.
I mean we've always know that when Mayweather has a fight, there is always a crowd into it, but not on this one.

Promoted or not, I think Mayweather posted in his social media accounts that he has a fight against Chalmers right, and correct me with this one, but I know how a single post or tweet coming from a popular person like him can be shared or spread online, so I don't think that his explanation is valid. Unless he didn't promoted it in his social media accounts at all then I guess the explanation is plausible.

He doesn't just want to say that "I'm becoming less and less popular that's why it ended up like that." I guess the people have had enough of it already.

Maybe this is just one fight, so let's see what Floyd will do in the next one. Maybe he will stage it either in UK or Saudi Arabia because that's where the money is right now as the rich Arab nation is willing to have fights happening in their soil and promoters are willing because they know that they will pocket more money.

And in any case the Floyd had his second fight in either place and still no fans watch it, then yeah, he is getting less popular now.

Well, for me, Floyd Mayweather is not such an iconic boxer, I am sure that many know well who Pacquiao is before him, I cannot deny, he is a very intelligent boxer, he knows how to handle fights in a totally technical area very well, but sometimes Sometimes that is something that is boring, we as fans want to see more action, we want to see technique and we want to see what they are capable of, that they reach the limit, maybe things are getting more demanding for this type of boxer.

[passwordnow]

Well, for me, Floyd Mayweather is not such an iconic boxer, I am sure that many know well who Pacquiao is before him, I cannot deny, he is a very intelligent boxer, he knows how to handle fights in a totally technical area very well, but sometimes Sometimes that is something that is boring, we as fans want to see more action, we want to see technique and we want to see what they are capable of, that they reach the limit, maybe things are getting more demanding for this type of boxer.

I know what you feel and that vibe is the same with many boxing fans. It's true that he's a living legend and he's got a good and clean record but he's not really an icon to many. I don't know maybe that feels about how he's interacting with fans and the charisma isn't just the same with other real icons that we can say like Pacquiao, Marquez, and other boxers that have been knowing for the past years. And it even made his reputation lower when he's doing some exhibition matches as it's intended to make money just as his alias.

[AmoreJaz]

Well, for me, Floyd Mayweather is not such an iconic boxer, I am sure that many know well who Pacquiao is before him, I cannot deny, he is a very intelligent boxer, he knows how to handle fights in a totally technical area very well, but sometimes Sometimes that is something that is boring, we as fans want to see more action, we want to see technique and we want to see what they are capable of, that they reach the limit, maybe things are getting more demanding for this type of boxer.

I know what you feel and that vibe is the same with many boxing fans. It's true that he's a living legend and he's got a good and clean record but he's not really an icon to many. I don't know maybe that feels about how he's interacting with fans and the charisma isn't just the same with other real icons that we can say like Pacquiao, Marquez, and other boxers that have been knowing for the past years. And it even made his reputation lower when he's doing some exhibition matches as it's intended to make money just as his alias.

many boxing fans want real toe-to-toe fight inside the ring. and mayweather's technique is not like that, he is indeed on the technicalities wherein as a boxing audience, you will see him running away from his opponent but only care for the points he will make. i also don't like this kind of boxer. much better if he will give a real fight just like pacquiao. every boxing fan has their own take on this matter. but imo, a true legend is not afraid of having a loss in his record.

[tabas]

many boxing fans want real toe-to-toe fight inside the ring. and mayweather's technique is not like that, he is indeed on the technicalities wherein as a boxing audience, you will see him running away from his opponent but only care for the points he will make. i also don't like this kind of boxer. much better if he will give a real fight just like pacquiao. every boxing fan has their own take on this matter. but imo, a true legend is not afraid of having a loss in his record.

I've seen that fight of his when he wasn't having that toe-to-toe fight against Pacquiao and I think that has triggered a lot of fans. Well, it's part of his training and strategy and we have to understand that it's part of the sport where their foot work can be used to flee and avoid to have an intense fight. It's also a way for him to look for some opportunity to knock down his opponent like in his situation against Pacquiao. Many fans don't like him but that's how he box and that's allowed by the rules so, there's nothing to do much with that hate and still at the end of the day, he's still the undefeated. - I'm not a fan of his.

[Baofeng]

Callum Smith vs Stepien Clash - Smith withdraw from the fight because it is reported that he has suffers a injury.

But the fight will move forward:

The event will go ahead, shown live worldwide on DAZN (excluding Australia and New Zealand), with Diego Pacheco’s WBO International Super-Middleweight Title showdown with Jack Cullen and Robbie Davies Jr’s Super-Lightweight scrap with Darragh Foley now co-headlining.

https://www.matchroomboxing.com/news/injury-forces-smith-out-of-stepien-clashj-march-11-show-goes-ahead-with-pacheco-vs-cullen-and-davies-jr-vs-folley-co-headlining/

It doesn't says what injury it was though, but maybe the BBBoC will released such statement later.

[Slow death]

I think though that if ever Floyd will have to unwind his career fighting...

the guy is 47 years old, it's already a very old age knowing that the lifestyle of these guys is a lot of sex, drugs, alcoholic drinks, sleepless nights, I think he's about time to retire from Boxing even for fights exhibition, because in one day he could arrive at an exhibition fight and suffer a blow that could harm his health. according to a google search I did, the guy has a fortune of $450 million, with that money he can live well until death, even if he continues with his lifestyle

I don't know if he can do well in other areas besides Boxing, maybe being a Boxing trainer for new talents would be a good option for him, he wouldn't stop doing what he likes, he would be helping people who want to have a future in Boxing and he could also continue in the same Boxing environment, but as most of these Boxing guys are greedy, they prefer to be promoters or agents of some rookie fighter to earn a lot of money thanks to the rookie who has talent, greed has already corrupted the hearts of many fighters famous, the guys forgot humility a long time ago, they already have so much money, but they refuse to retire until they create exhibition fights

[Kemarit]

I think though that if ever Floyd will have to unwind his career fighting...

the guy is 47 years old, it's already a very old age knowing that the lifestyle of these guys is a lot of sex, drugs, alcoholic drinks, sleepless nights, I think he's about time to retire from Boxing even for fights exhibition, because in one day he could arrive at an exhibition fight and suffer a blow that could harm his health. according to a google search I did, the guy has a fortune of $450 million, with that money he can live well until death, even if he continues with his lifestyle

I don't know if he can do well in other areas besides Boxing, maybe being a Boxing trainer for new talents would be a good option for him, he wouldn't stop doing what he likes, he would be helping people who want to have a future in Boxing and he could also continue in the same Boxing environment, but as most of these Boxing guys are greedy, they prefer to be promoters or agents of some rookie fighter to earn a lot of money thanks to the rookie who has talent, greed has already corrupted the hearts of many fighters famous, the guys forgot humility a long time ago, they already have so much money, but they refuse to retire until they create exhibition fights

Not sure about Floyd though, so we are not sure if he is drinking or taking drugs. Because if we look at it, seems to be taking his health seriously. As what his motto is, "Health comes first". And this might be the reason why he stays on top and never lost to the best of them.

He has promotion called TMT, "The Money Team", and he has the Mayweather promotions, so he has the experience already outside of boxing. Not sure if he still greedy or maybe he is, because he has an estimated net worth of about $1.1 Billion.

[Yaunfitda]

Ok we have a new order for the IBF bantamweight,

it will be Emmanuel Rodriguez vs Melvin Lopez as ordered by IBF. So everything has taken shape now since Inoue has vacated all the belt.
Donaire vs Santiago, (WBF)
Astrolobio vs Moloney (WBO)
Takuma Inoue vs Solis (WBA)

So that's what the bantamweight will look like for this year and the vacancy will be filled by this fights.

And it's good to see at least 2 Filipino on that list, Donaire and Astrolobio vying for the vacant belt in the bantamweight. There is still one, Reymart Gaballo, but for sure he will get the first crack on the belt since he is also a rank boxer in bantamweight. Might be hard for Filipinos to make it 2-0 here, specially Astrolobio who is facing Jason Moloney.

The brother of Inoue is also in that list, so maybe he can take that belt and continue to bring it in Japan if he wins against Solis, although this fight is going to be held in their country as well.

[Fredomago]

Well, for me, Floyd Mayweather is not such an iconic boxer, I am sure that many know well who Pacquiao is before him, I cannot deny, he is a very intelligent boxer, he knows how to handle fights in a totally technical area very well, but sometimes Sometimes that is something that is boring, we as fans want to see more action, we want to see technique and we want to see what they are capable of, that they reach the limit, maybe things are getting more demanding for this type of boxer.

I know what you feel and that vibe is the same with many boxing fans. It's true that he's a living legend and he's got a good and clean record but he's not really an icon to many. I don't know maybe that feels about how he's interacting with fans and the charisma isn't just the same with other real icons that we can say like Pacquiao, Marquez, and other boxers that have been knowing for the past years. And it even made his reputation lower when he's doing some exhibition matches as it's intended to make money just as his alias.

many boxing fans want real toe-to-toe fight inside the ring. and mayweather's technique is not like that, he is indeed on the technicalities wherein as a boxing audience, you will see him running away from his opponent but only care for the points he will make. i also don't like this kind of boxer. much better if he will give a real fight just like pacquiao. every boxing fan has their own take on this matter. but imo, a true legend is not afraid of having a loss in his record.

Like you, that's the reason I really like Pacquiao as he's not afraid in staking whatever he had as long as he will give the entertainment to all his fans and people who supporting him, Mayweather's strategy works well with him as he was able to keep his record clean and established billions of dollars in his entire career.

Something that might newcomers will follow, especially to those who wanted to bring more fortune while still capable of fighting and win fights.

[AverageGlabella]

No talk of the Usyk vs Tyson Fury fight I guess it has been cancelled? I thought the date for the fight was suppose to happen in April and we just entered march. We usually find out the contract details and venue a few months in advance. I wonder if this fight will ever happen because there was lots of talk about it at the end of last year and now there is no talk at all. I want to see Usyk get a big pay day because he deserves it. He was the best fighter in the lower division and he is a nice guy who is trying to get this fight to happen but Fury and his team are money grabbing again.

[freedomgo]

Well, for me, Floyd Mayweather is not such an iconic boxer, I am sure that many know well who Pacquiao is before him, I cannot deny, he is a very intelligent boxer, he knows how to handle fights in a totally technical area very well, but sometimes Sometimes that is something that is boring, we as fans want to see more action, we want to see technique and we want to see what they are capable of, that they reach the limit, maybe things are getting more demanding for this type of boxer.

I know what you feel and that vibe is the same with many boxing fans. It's true that he's a living legend and he's got a good and clean record but he's not really an icon to many. I don't know maybe that feels about how he's interacting with fans and the charisma isn't just the same with other real icons that we can say like Pacquiao, Marquez, and other boxers that have been knowing for the past years. And it even made his reputation lower when he's doing some exhibition matches as it's intended to make money just as his alias.

many boxing fans want real toe-to-toe fight inside the ring. and mayweather's technique is not like that, he is indeed on the technicalities wherein as a boxing audience, you will see him running away from his opponent but only care for the points he will make. i also don't like this kind of boxer. much better if he will give a real fight just like pacquiao. every boxing fan has their own take on this matter. but imo, a true legend is not afraid of having a loss in his record.

Like you, that's the reason I really like Pacquiao as he's not afraid in staking whatever he had as long as he will give the entertainment to all his fans and people who supporting him, Mayweather's strategy works well with him as he was able to keep his record clean and established billions of dollars in his entire career.

Something that might newcomers will follow, especially to those who wanted to bring more fortune while still capable of fighting and win fights.

It's not that surprising anymore that the boxing community got more likes towards Manny Pacquiao because the man was rare, even the boxing experts are in awe seeing his greatness because who could've expect that a guy like him can still bring his talent and brute strength from 112 to 147 and became an 8-Division World Champion. Besides, if we compare Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao which was a hot topic in the past years, Mayweather fans can only provide his unscathed record because of his technicalities but for the latter, there's too many factors to show and one of that is, Manny Pacquiao didn't ducked anyone.

[BitcoinPanther]

Well, for me, Floyd Mayweather is not such an iconic boxer, I am sure that many know well who Pacquiao is before him, I cannot deny, he is a very intelligent boxer, he knows how to handle fights in a totally technical area very well, but sometimes Sometimes that is something that is boring, we as fans want to see more action, we want to see technique and we want to see what they are capable of, that they reach the limit, maybe things are getting more demanding for this type of boxer.

I know what you feel and that vibe is the same with many boxing fans. It's true that he's a living legend and he's got a good and clean record but he's not really an icon to many. I don't know maybe that feels about how he's interacting with fans and the charisma isn't just the same with other real icons that we can say like Pacquiao, Marquez, and other boxers that have been knowing for the past years. And it even made his reputation lower when he's doing some exhibition matches as it's intended to make money just as his alias.

many boxing fans want real toe-to-toe fight inside the ring. and mayweather's technique is not like that, he is indeed on the technicalities wherein as a boxing audience, you will see him running away from his opponent but only care for the points he will make. i also don't like this kind of boxer. much better if he will give a real fight just like pacquiao. every boxing fan has their own take on this matter. but imo, a true legend is not afraid of having a loss in his record.

Technical defensive boxers are always boring to watch because they seldom to be the first one to engage.  It is boring as hell of two technical defensive player fight because all we see is an idle time of waiting and waitng looking for an opportunity  for a counter punch which is likely to happen between two defensive player.  Counter puncher is sure good to watch but it needs an aggressive opponent.

Mayweather seems to retain his amateur traits of scoring points but I think Mayweather is a very intelligent fighter, he will cowers on his variation of philly shell defence if he think his opponent can KO him but plays aggressive when he knows he can take the punches of his opponent.

It's not that surprising anymore that the boxing community got more likes towards Manny Pacquiao because the man was rare, even the boxing experts are in awe seeing his greatness because who could've expect that a guy like him can still bring his talent and brute strength from 112 to 147 and became an 8-Division World Champion. Besides, if we compare Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao which was a hot topic in the past years, Mayweather fans can only provide his unscathed record because of his technicalities but for the latter, there's too many factors to show and one of that is, Manny Pacquiao didn't ducked anyone.

Manny fight is exciting because Manny Pacquiao always play aggressive.  He often times initiate attack and would love to exchange punches with his opponent.  Manny's defense is parry and evasion and always on the counters whenever his oppnent throw punches.

[stadus]

Ok we have a new order for the IBF bantamweight,

it will be Emmanuel Rodriguez vs Melvin Lopez as ordered by IBF. So everything has taken shape now since Inoue has vacated all the belt.
Donaire vs Santiago, (WBF)
Astrolobio vs Moloney (WBO)
Takuma Inoue vs Solis (WBA)

So that's what the bantamweight will look like for this year and the vacancy will be filled by this fights.

And it's good to see at least 2 Filipino on that list, Donaire and Astrolobio vying for the vacant belt in the bantamweight. There is still one, Reymart Gaballo, but for sure he will get the first crack on the belt since he is also a rank boxer in bantamweight. Might be hard for Filipinos to make it 2-0 here, specially Astrolobio who is facing Jason Moloney.

Now it's clear, Moloney ducked the fight against Donaire because he is afraid to have another loss against another Asian boxer who do have a strong KO power. Now he is taking his chance to have the WBO belt against another Asian boxer who is also fellow countryman of Donaire, but I don't think he will just have an easy journey towards the belt because Astrolabio also got a decent chance and is also hungry and been waiting for this chance to come.

[Baofeng]

Ok we have a new order for the IBF bantamweight,

it will be Emmanuel Rodriguez vs Melvin Lopez as ordered by IBF. So everything has taken shape now since Inoue has vacated all the belt.
Donaire vs Santiago, (WBF)
Astrolobio vs Moloney (WBO)
Takuma Inoue vs Solis (WBA)

So that's what the bantamweight will look like for this year and the vacancy will be filled by this fights.

And it's good to see at least 2 Filipino on that list, Donaire and Astrolobio vying for the vacant belt in the bantamweight. There is still one, Reymart Gaballo, but for sure he will get the first crack on the belt since he is also a rank boxer in bantamweight. Might be hard for Filipinos to make it 2-0 here, specially Astrolobio who is facing Jason Moloney.

Now it's clear, Moloney ducked the fight against Donaire because he is afraid to have another loss against another Asian boxer who do have a strong KO power. Now he is taking his chance to have the WBO belt against another Asian boxer who is also fellow countryman of Donaire, but I don't think he will just have an easy journey towards the belt because Astrolabio also got a decent chance and is also hungry and been waiting for this chance to come.

Yes it was clearly a duck to me as well, how him and Top Rank try to avoid Donaire at all cost and just hiding on their own reasons like doesn't want to work with Probellum, Donaire's promotion but in the past did they that.

In any case, they might underestimate Astrolabio here, maybe they thought it's going to be an easy fight for them. But they forget that he is also a Filipino with a big heart and he had a good chin as well. So expect this also to be a war for Moloney. And he could end up bloodied as he is known to be cut very easy, so not an easy fight for him and maybe Vincent can pull an upset here.

[AverageGlabella]

Technical defensive boxers are always boring to watch because they seldom to be the first one to engage.  It is boring as hell of two technical defensive player fight because all we see is an idle time of waiting and waitng looking for an opportunity  for a counter punch which is likely to happen between two defensive player.  Counter puncher is sure good to watch but it needs an aggressive opponent.

Technical boxers that do not engage are some of the most fun imo because they are counter punching which is more effective for knocking people out because they catch their opponent off guard. It takes a lot of skill to be a counter puncher because you have to be prepared to get hit and then throw a punch and some of the most successful boxers of all time are counter punchers. Floyd Mayweather is a defensive boxer who uses foot work and counter punching and he has built 1 of the largest fan bases in boxing and it is why he is worth so much money.

[YuginKadoya]

Ok we have a new order for the IBF bantamweight,

it will be Emmanuel Rodriguez vs Melvin Lopez as ordered by IBF. So everything has taken shape now since Inoue has vacated all the belt.
Donaire vs Santiago, (WBF)
Astrolobio vs Moloney (WBO)
Takuma Inoue vs Solis (WBA)

So that's what the bantamweight will look like for this year and the vacancy will be filled by this fights.

Well sounds fair, well they sure did give a fight to Nonito Donaire, and the Emmanuel Rodriguez vs Melvin Lopez fight is a mandatory one, the IBF has ordered the two to fight, so they have no choice but to pick their opponent, but it is a chance for them for the vacated belt,

The Nonito Donaire VS Alexandro Santiago fight was for the vacant WBC bantamweight belt, which is exciting to see a Filipino could hold the belt again, well if Donaire would win that fight, it is good to see how eager Nonito Donaire in getting a belt

While Jason Moloney VS Vincent Astrolabio fight I don't know but I have recently seen an article that this fight has been canceled by the IBF, I will find the article again, but this will be a chance for Moloney to come back, and be relevant again,


Here are my quick pick almost full picks for the Figueroa vs. Magsayo event

Brandon Figueroa VS Mark Magsayo

Jarrett Hurd VS Armando Resendiz

Amilcar Vidal VS Elijah Garcia

Terrell Gausha VS Brandyn Lynch

Enriko Gogokhia VS Samuel Teah

Justin DeLoach VS Travon Marshall

Daniel Blancas VS Kynndale Prather

Anthony Cuba VS Darel Harris