Hi there boxing followers and devoted haters. Right here’s one other week’s value of my bulbous sack, bulging with gooey, salty fact, in your face. Take pleasure in. This week, we now have 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 individuals, are loving the irony of Oscar De La Hoya calling out Shakur Stevenson for William Zepeda, however when the WBC orders the combat, he backs out. LOL. You’ll be able to’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 individuals time and again and over again– boxing is a enterprise. Having Zepeda tackle the danger of a Shakur Stevenson combat proper now makes no enterprise sense in anyway. Oscar is goofy and immature as hell, however he is aware of boxing and he is aware of a nasty kinds matchup when he sees it. As I wrote over at my different gig at BoxingNews.co, making a Shakur combat for Zepeda proper now can 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 towards Shakur final yr. Almost certainly, Zepeda (who is not any. 1 light-weight contender for all 4 sanctioning our bodies) will get pushed within the route of WBO titlist Denys Berinchyk or takes some interim or “common” title given to appease him and Golden Boy. With some type 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 drive 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 could discover a free belt someplace to win. Personally, I don’t see him as unhealthy of a boxer as some individuals prefer to say he’s. He’s acquired some talent. What do you assume? Does he acquired “it” or ought to he follow 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 method, prepared for world class opposition? Paul swears up and down that he’s been working exhausting within the health club this final yr or so to develop next-level talent. However we received’t learn the way 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 towards 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 truly fairly good for a novice together with his degree of expertise, however I’ll depart 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 combat? I’m not particularly excessive on both, however I feel it makes for an fascinating matchup as each want a win and may’t afford a backward step. I see AJ considerably energized recently and I feel he may take Dubois out. Perhaps across the eighth? What’s your breakdown of the combat?
– George the Brit
Hey George.
Joshua-Dubois is an efficient 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 could come into this combat flat…or each could are available flat. So, for me, the massive issue might 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, perhaps across the fifth or sixth.
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