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Andrade vs Lara ??
Andrade vs Charlos/J-Rock ??

Andrade is wasting his prime not chasing and hunt these kind of opponents. Waiting for Canelo or Cotto is a waste of time.

I disagree. It is the division with the most world class fighters of any division, IMO. It also a division with one of the younger talent pools. Some of the possible match-ups have already unfolded, but there are still numerous more that could be made. It also has 8 undefeated fighters in boxrec's top 20, whereas most divisions have only 7; all of whom are 26 or younger, except for Andrade.

Lackeos wrote:I disagree. It is the division with the most world class fighters of any division, IMO. It also a division with one of the younger talent pools. Some of the possible match-ups have already unfolded, but there are still numerous more that could be made. It also has 8 undefeated fighters in boxrec's top 20, whereas most divisions have only 7; all of whom are 26 or younger, except for Andrade.

I'm not talking about the talent pool which is obvious, I'm talking about the lack of meaningful fights.

Is the talent pool that good?

The guys aren't fighting each other so we don't know how good they are, some of those unbeaten guys have looked less than great and the division lacks the stand out fighters. The Charlo's and Lara have next to no star power and don't have the charisma or style to change that (talented guys but not going to bring news fans to the sport), Andrade is determined to destroy his own career, Alvarez is a star but unable to stay ar 154 for much longer.

There is promise with Lubin, Hurd, Williams but even then I'm not that excited.

Also very shocked that Omar Figueroa Jr is ranked at the weight by boxrec ditto Antonio DeMarco.

Boxing Prospect wrote:Is the talent pool that good?

The guys aren't fighting each other so we don't know how good they are, some of those unbeaten guys have looked less than great and the division lacks the stand out fighters. The Charlo's and Lara have next to no star power and don't have the charisma or style to change that (talented guys but not going to bring news fans to the sport), Andrade is determined to destroy his own career, Alvarez is a star but unable to stay ar 154 for much longer.

There is promise with Lubin, Hurd, Williams but even then I'm not that excited.

Also very shocked that Omar Figueroa Jr is ranked at the weight by boxrec ditto Antonio DeMarco.

Don't know what they are waiting for.

Alvarez, Lara, the Charlos, and Martirosyan have all been fighting everybody thus far. It is only Andrade and Williams who don't have a lot of of work class match-ups, but they each have either one or are working on one. Most divisions only have like 1-3 world class fighters and have given us only a few 5-star match-ups and only have a few remaining 5-star match-up possibilities left. But this division, it's like...
Lara - Alvarez: happened
Lara - Jermall: possible
Lara - Jermell: possible
Lara - Martirosyan: happened twice
Lara - Andrade: possible
Lara - Williams: possible
Lara - Trout: happened
Lara - Angulo: happened
Lara - Williams: happened
Lara - Molina: happened
Alvarez - Cotto: happened (at middleweight)
Alvarez - Kirkland: happened
Alvarez - Angulo: happened
Alvarez - Mayweather: happened
Alvarez - Trout: happened
Alvarez - Jermell: possible
Alvarez - Jermall: possible
Alvarez - Martirosyan: marginally possible
Alvarez - Andrade: possible
Alvarez - Williams: possible
Jermell - Martirosyan: happened
Jermell - Andrade: possible
Jermell - Williams: marginally possible
Jermall - Martirosyan: marginally possible
Jermall - Andrade: possible
Jermall - Williams: about to go down
Jermall - Trout: happened
Jermall - Bundrage: happened
Martirosyan - Andrade: happened
Martirosyan - Williams: possible
Andrade - Williams: possible
Cotto - Trout: happened
Kirkland - Angulo: happened
Kirkland - Molina: happened
Molina - Bundrage: happened
Cotto - Mayweather: happened
Cotto - Kirkland: happening soon, but not 5-star anymore

and if Trout recovers and proves that he's still world class, then that opens up numerous additional possibilities. So I mean... it's a division that has both offered a ton of fights already and also offers a lot of additional possibilities in the future.