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mickey1975 wrote:

chinarich wrote:I'd like to see him hang them up. He's done very well to become a three weight world champion and I don't like the idea of him becoming a yardstick for up and coming fighters. Sure there may be a couple of half-decent pay days if he lowers his sights below world-level but, as others have said, he has had a hard career and is it worth the extra punishment?

I've heard him say he wants 100 fights, even if he ends up a journeyman.

He said that quite a while ago if I'm not mistaken, he would have to start fighting much shorter bouts to achieve that now. Why just aim for 100 fights? Surely 100 wins has more worth, the last fighter to achieve that was Yory Boy Campas...

it's a hard thing to even think about now, after losing a world title fight, does he rebuild and re-try for a world title or does he fight the top ten ranked fighters in his weight class to prove he is one of the best in the world with or without a belt.

Looking at the rankings on Boxrec, i'd say a good fight next would be John Molina jr. , Both men are 34, both are coming off a world title loss and if burns want's to have another crack at the world level this is a good guy to prove himself against and start earning his way back into the bigger fights. If the Crolla fight can't be made that is.