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Despite the fact he only had one fight in 2016 which happened to be a clean unanimous decision loss, Viktor Postol (28-1, 12 KOs) is still one of the top dogs in the super lightweight division.

That defeat came at the hands of Terence Crawford, who many regard as one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the sport. They fought in a WBC/WBO junior welterweight unification in July - with Crawford's boxing ability dominating the twelve round match.

We haven’t heard too much about Postol since he suffered that loss. BS.com spoke to his manager, Vadim Kornilov.

"Postol never said 'no' to any fight, that's how we got into the Crawford fight. The money Postol was paid was not HBO Pay-Per-View level, we wanted the fight because we wanted the challenge.” The manager thinks it is important to give the fans the fights they want to see. He also expressed his thoughts about how boxing needs to improve certain standards to remain competitive. "I always try to support the idea that the best should fight the best in the sport, and I try to do this with most of my fighters. We have done the same with Ruslan [Provodnikov], with Dennis Lebedev, with Postol, and I think that people appreciate it,” Kornilov said.

"The way to save the sport is to fix the judging system and fix the overall matchmaking part of boxing. UFC is successful because the way they match fighters is easy to understand for the fans. We are doing all this for the fans and have to make sure we accommodate them first and not our own interests. When the fans don't see the best fighting the best or they see the wrong guy get a decision - they turn away and go watch something else. I hope that we can create an alliance with the people in boxing that still care about the future of the sport and make some changes.”

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Not sure who is a big name right now at 140 other than Crawford. Broner would get demolished by Postol. Horrendous style matchup for Broner, and I have doubts Gaymon would want that. Probably see Postol fighting Ricky Burns, maybe?

Ruthless-RKO wrote:Despite the fact he only had one fight in 2016 which happened to be a clean unanimous decision loss, Viktor Postol (28-1, 12 KOs) is still one of the top dogs in the super lightweight division.

That defeat came at the hands of Terence Crawford, who many regard as one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the sport. They fought in a WBC/WBO junior welterweight unification in July - with Crawford's boxing ability dominating the twelve round match.

We haven’t heard too much about Postol since he suffered that loss. BS.com spoke to his manager, Vadim Kornilov.

"Postol never said 'no' to any fight, that's how we got into the Crawford fight. The money Postol was paid was not HBO Pay-Per-View level, we wanted the fight because we wanted the challenge.” The manager thinks it is important to give the fans the fights they want to see. He also expressed his thoughts about how boxing needs to improve certain standards to remain competitive. "I always try to support the idea that the best should fight the best in the sport, and I try to do this with most of my fighters. We have done the same with Ruslan [Provodnikov], with Dennis Lebedev, with Postol, and I think that people appreciate it,” Kornilov said.

"The way to save the sport is to fix the judging system and fix the overall matchmaking part of boxing. UFC is successful because the way they match fighters is easy to understand for the fans. We are doing all this for the fans and have to make sure we accommodate them first and not our own interests. When the fans don't see the best fighting the best or they see the wrong guy get a decision - they turn away and go watch something else. I hope that we can create an alliance with the people in boxing that still care about the future of the sport and make some changes.”

http://www.BS.com/viktor-posto ... GfJ80.dpuf

I like this kid Kornilov and couldn't agree more with his point of view. Boxing needs some young bright minds like this to come in and change the status quo and usher out the old. With Arum, Oscar and AH controlling boxing and tilting the tables in their favor the sport will never be on the up and up.

Guys like Arum have the ability to write the narratives from beginning to end for his boxers without really putting their success on the line continuously. As long as his boxer wins the occasional big fight, the rest will be padded victories and mild tests until he's extracted the most value from a guy and then he'll graduate to Manny's status in Top Rank's Camp. Now the key is to match Manny with any animal within TR's stable and throw caution into the wind. It's sad really.

Once guys like Kornilov start controlling the sport, maybe fighters will have to earn their spot in the rankings every fight out and not just once or twice in their careers which is the average now for most boxers.