ChocolateGiddyUp
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Angel Garcia "I grew up in black neighborhoods! A motherf*cker from the hood aint racist!"
Chinese brehs bout to be mad af
Chinese brehs bout to be mad af
Swift hook knock ya eyebrows off..Right Cross only takes one time: Garcia vs Thurman 147 unification
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BlackManLiveFromLondon
New God
Angel Garcia "I grew up in black neighborhoods! A motherf*cker from the hood aint racist!"
Chinese brehs bout to be mad af
nikkas in here claiming "swiftset" looking funny in the light
ChocolateGiddyUp
Superstar
nikkas in here claiming "swiftset" looking funny in the light
You need attention friend ??
Angel Garcia called Zab a bytch ass nikka too when Zab N goons ran up on him
Angel Garcia talks reckless go be offended
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reservoirdogs
Superstar
Angel Garcia "I grew up in black neighborhoods! A motherf*cker from the hood aint racist!"
Chinese brehs bout to be mad af
the cheeks on this family
He should just stfu but he is teh one who is in his feels?
Damn... I kinda want Thurman to KO his ass after the fight
Angel Garcia "I grew up in black neighborhoods! A motherf*cker from the hood aint racist!"
Chinese brehs bout to be mad af
He had a point with the whole "beef and broccoli" though.
nikkas out here getting served shredded puppy.
thats why im a food snob when it comes to chinese food..once you've had authentic you become more pickyHe had a point with the whole "beef and broccoli" though.
nikkas out here getting served shredded puppy.
BlackManLiveFromLondon
New God
You need attention friend ??
Angel Garcia called Zab a bytch ass nikka too when Zab N goons ran up on him
Angel Garcia talks reckless go be offended
I'd be surprised by the caping but then I see you're a class of 2012 poster
Say no more
Knicksman20
Superstar
David Avanesyan vs. Lamont Peterson and The Play For Later
By Cliff Rold, photos by Stephanie Trapp
Jr. bantamweight, Jr. middleweight, and cruiserweight have all seen their fortunes rise in the last year or two in conversation about boxing’s best division.
Heavyweight is quickly returning to its perch as the surest road to riches.
One class still combines both a chance for wealth and serious depth. All it takes is for the right fights to be made. Another domino fell in that regard this week.
It so consistently ranges between solid and excellent that shiny new objects can obscure the obvious. When we’re talking about the best division in boxing, welterweight is rarely out of the conversation. Take a hard look and try to find the weak eras in the division’s history. It’s hard to do. Even when it’s down, it rarely lasts long.
Already in 2017 we were looking forward to Keith Thurman (WBA)-Danny Garcia (WBC). The biggest PBC fight yet will bring a unification battle to free network air for the first time since Terry Norris-Paul Vaden at Jr. middleweight in 1995. This week, a showdown between IBF titlist Kell Brook and former US Olympian Errol Spence was announced to further ignite the division.
With Manny Pacquiao still hanging around with a belt (WBO), and veterans Amir Khan, Timothy Bradley, and Shawn Porter all still in play, the depth and dollars are there for the remainder of the year if the schedule stays as strong as the first half of the year is playing out.
That makes every win, and every fringe belt, around welterweight all the more valuable. Enter this Saturday’s chief undercard bout below the Adrien Broner-Adrian Granados bout on Showtime (9 PM EST/6 PM PST).
For the WBA’s not-super version of the welterweight title (Thurman is their sooooooper champ), 28-year old David Avanesyan (22-1-1, 11 KO) will make his first start since last May in defense of his belt. Avanesyan won his piece of the WBA sanctioning fee pie with a unanimous decision over an aged Shane Mosley in what ended up being a decent enough scrap. Avanesyan, on paper, is matched a little tougher this time around.
His challenger, former Jr. welterweight titlist Lamont Peterson (34-3-1, 17 KO), enters off an even longer layoff. The 33-year old is making his first start since winning a questionable decision over Felix Diaz in October 2015. It was the second of a pair of questionable calls Peterson experienced that year. There is a case he was legitimately 1-1 on the year, but in the wrong order.
Along the way to Thurman-Garcia, Garcia picked up a majority decision win over Peterson in April 2015 that many thought should have gone the other way. Peterson may have lost on the cards but in terms of who landed the harder punches, who outfought the other man and did more damage, Peterson had reason to believe the victory should have been his.
It wasn’t, Diaz was, and then nothing for all of 2016. At 33, Peterson is at a point where losses carry even higher risk. Already not at the head of the line for big fights, a defeat Saturday could push him towards the dangerous gatekeeper role. For Avanesyan, a loss would push him even farther back in the pack. Low on name value, Peterson is his best chance to get into the meat of the field.
If this was just a welterweight fight, the winner might not matter much. It isn’t. The WBA belt at stake is worthy of scoffs to everyone but the combatants. For them it is there ticket into bigger opportunity.
Slowly, fitfully, trudging, the WBA has been putting their multiple-titlists-per-division in the ring together in the last couple years. The ‘regular’ WBA champion is in essence the mandatory to the real, or sooooper, champion. They’re supposed to square off eventually but over the last decade what we’ve seen more often is dual track titlists defending in separate universes. That’s not bad for the WBA’s coffers but it’s a silly look for boxing.
In an environment where the WBA is doing something about that, the winner here stands in the way of the winner of Thurman-Garcia. Boxing fans will inevitably start fantasizing about the winners of Garcia-Thurman and Brook-Spence facing each other, or Pacquiao. That’s not what these two will be thinking about.
The winner of Avanesyan-Peterson will have a chance to spoil fantasies and create a few new dreams of their own. This isn’t a fight with a lot of attention heading in but it’s one that will factor in, whether in the ring or in back room dealing, on how the rest of the year at welterweight plays out.
That it might end up a pretty good fight doesn’t hurt either. Peterson is a slow starter but he’s often in fights that heat up as the night wears on. Avanesyan is capable and fan friendly. It’s enough to make a point to tune in early. Another piece of the puzzle will be laid.
ChocolateGiddyUp
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"Its not a step up for me...its a step up for him :Swift1:"
"I'm physically stronger then him... He got power but that's it...I never see him bully anybody around...I've seen him get bullied around...he might be the bigger man in between fights we know that"
Sparring with Julian "hammer hands" Rodriguez & ivan baranchyk
"I'm physically stronger then him... He got power but that's it...I never see him bully anybody around...I've seen him get bullied around...he might be the bigger man in between fights we know that
"Sparring with Julian "hammer hands" Rodriguez & ivan baranchyk
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
"Its not a step up for me...its a step up for him :Swift1:"
"I'm physically stronger then him... He got power but that's it...I never see him bully anybody around...I've seen him get bullied around...he might be the bigger man in between fights we know that
Sparring with Julian "hammer hands" Rodriguez & ivan baranchyk
To be fair though Shawn Porter is hellaciously strong
ChocolateGiddyUp
Superstar
Yea Porter is small AF too...I saw them both in BK for Swift vs PED...Thurman looked bout 2 weight classes bigger then Porter... Dude is bulldog
But Run time had issues with Chaves N Soto Karass too tho
Then Errybody wanna bring up PED giving that work to Danny in 11 N 12th
But wanna "bu bu bu but" if you bring up Ghost bullying Keith in the 11 N 12th
Keith was tired
Danny was chasing a dr note having cruiserweight dancing nikka for 10 rds...that excuse don't matter tho
shawn porter is prolly the strongest welterweight around...the only aberration to that is the fact only julio diaz was able to get the best of him on the inside..brook had enough size to keep him at bay but only on the outside
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
I Think breh benched like 300 or so.Has that football background
Danny was chasing a dr note having cruiserweight dancing nikka for 10 rds...that excuse don't matter tho
your peterson excuses...they get more crazier by the day
lucas ko's peterson with ease: choc "peterson was scared and frightened from the opening bell..shyt nikka was frightened by the bell"
danny struggles with peterson: choc "this nikka lamont suddenly grew to be a 6'3" 220 version of a prime muhammad ali..doing the shuffle and rope a dope and thats why danny couldn't catch or hurt him"
