apollo creed wrote: ↑26 Dec 2018, 12:32
Mexi-Box wrote: ↑26 Dec 2018, 12:17
Why not rematch Korobov. Majority had him losing that fight. I've seen only very few so far that thought Charlo beat Korobov, which is only on this forum. I've not ran into anyone that thought Charlo won on another.
He needs to earn his place like Jacobs, Derevyanchenko, and BJS have. You don't get big fights mouthing off and getting schooled by half-retired, AARP-card-holding boxers.
True. That was my thought too. Rematch Korobov to clean the waters and then challenge Jacobs, bjs or even Andrade and then demand to fight the top dogs.
I don't understand how on this forum are some people that are acting like Charlo should get GGG or Canelo just bc luckily he still has that '0' on paper.
Who did GGG defeat to earn the right to engage in his very first world title bout at 160lbs?
Is it reasonable to assume that the Jermall Charlo is currently more qualified to challenge for a world title than the 2010 version of Gennady Golovkin (who had only competed in 18 pro bouts)?
Should Jermall Charlo be deemed as being a better qualified title challenger than the likes of Lajuan Simon, Kassim Ouma and Nobuhiro Ishida who all fought GGG for his WBA championship, despite possessing losing records?
Jermall Charlo defeated the middleweight division’s highest-ranked WBC title challenger when he stopped Jorge Sebastian Heiland within four rounds, which was a final eliminator to determine the mandatory challenger to face GGG (as confirmed by Mauricio Sulaiman himself).
He then became the WBC's interim 160-pound champion when he KO’d Hugo Centeno Jr. during his very next outing, a bout that was ordered by the WBC, which further cemented his mandatory challenger status.
Jermall Charlo has been the mandatory challenger to the WBC middleweight crown for more than sixteen months! Charlo was told by the WBC that the winner of the Canelo vs. Golovkin rematch would be forced to face him next, but it seems Mauricio Sulaimán lied.
Instead, two months ago, the WBC stated that Jermall Charlo had to engage in a third consecutive final eliminator, this time against GGG, in order to gain his long-awaiting shot at the WBC title!
People are claiming that Jermall Charlo has to jump through all sorts of hoops, such as engaging in a rematch against Korobov, as well as facing the likes of Jacobs, Saunders and Andrade, before he’s “earned the right” to face Canelo or Golovkin, but why do they say this, when GGG faced the following unranked fighters in world title bouts?
• Dominic Wade
• Willie Monroe Jr.
• Osumanu Adama
• Marco Antonio Rubio
• Curtis Stevens
• Nobuhiro Ishida
• Gabriel Rosado
• Grzegorz Proksa
• Makoto Fuchigami
• Lajuan Simon
• Kassim Ouma
• Kell Brook
• Vanes Martirosyan
• Nilson Julio Tapia
• Milton Nunez
Nearly every single one of these guys were not considered top-ten middleweights (based on ESPN’s and The RING’s divisional rankings) prior to their bouts against Gennady Golovkin and the vast majority of them were also former welterweights/light middleweights.
We can probably perform a similar analysis of Canelo’s resume, whereby the Mexican has also engaged in world title bouts against weaker and less qualified opposition than Jermall Charlo.
The WBC has already ordered GGG to compete in a final eliminator against Charlo (for the WBC interim title), so why are people claiming that Jermall needs to face other fighters beforehand?
Why should Jermall Charlo be motivated to face other top-tier fighters (for small paydays) when he’s "apparently" already near the front of the proverbial queue to face Canelo and/or Golovkin?
For the record, you’ve created
five separate critical anti-Charlo threads in the last
four days!
