Comments Thread For: Felix Verdejo Not Ruling Out Vasyl Lomachenko or Mikey Garcia

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Puerto Rican star Felix 'El Diamante' Verdejo (22-0, 15 KOs) is well aware that he needs to be impressive when he returns to the ring on February 3rd - if he wants to full secure a June world title shot against Terry Flanagan, the lightweight champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO).
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[LADIV]

This dude is a bum...he will get stretched by both loma and mikey...

[Sheldon312]

This dude is a bum...he will get stretched by both loma and mikey...

Doubt it against Mikey. Verdejo is like a young tito with better defense and power.

[Boxing Logic]

Between Pacquiao, Loma, Crawford, Mikey, and Lomachenko, there are a lot of good fights to be made. I just hope Arum doesn't ruin half of them by "marinating" them like he did with Gamboa and Juan Manuel Lopez.

I think Loma is too small for Crawford and possibly Mikey, but Loma-Pacquiao and Loma-Verdejo are two fights I'd like to see in 2017, Crawford-Mikey and Pacquiao-Crawford are two more to see in 2017, and Verdejo-Mikey is a match-up no one has talked about that size wise might make the most sense.

And of course, for the bigger guys, Spence and Thurman are also fights I'd like to see in 2017. Spence vs. Thurman, Thurman vs Crawford, Spence vs Crawford, Crawford vs Mikey, Spence vs Mikey.

Boxing can still be the #1 sport in the world! Even in 2017! The talent is out there, they just need to fight each other! If they're worried about miles on their bodies, just fight twice a year instead of three times, but make BOTH fights a year against the very best guys! Then rest in between.

The quality is what will really resuscitate the sport, not quantity. UFC guys fight the best, why can't this generation of boxers do the same? UFC guys even get kicked and elbowed and punched with little padding. Boxers can't at least fight the best twice a year? I think most the damage you see on these older guys with speech problems was done in sparring anyway!

They didn't know any better so they went to war in sparring all year round for decades... but what if modern boxers only fought the best on two or three nights per year, and then the rest of the year, trained smart, no hard head shots in sparring AT ALL, maybe invent even bigger padded gloves, like 35 ounce padding, and much thicker head gear, so you literally take ZERO head punishment in sparring. That way, even if you go to war in the ring, that's just two nights a year, three nights a year, and then lots of rest for your brain.

Couldn't the sport survive that way? Best of both worlds? Best matchups, but less damage? Boxing used to have wars and great match-ups, but not smart management of fighters health. Mayweather decided to be smart about his health, but at the expense of great match-ups. He ruined the sport. But what if we could have the best of both worlds? Have the great match-ups, but also limit the punishment fighters take by redesigning the sparring gear and limiting sparring in general?

Hell you could even regulate it, like the WBC does with doping. The WBC could say for every training camp, no more than 70 rounds of sparring are allowed, or whatever. That way both fighters have to limit it and there is no advantage either way. If anyone gets caught paying extra sparring partners under the table, or doing extra rounds, they get suspended for a year, or stripped of the belt or their ranking.

You could do all those things to limit damage to the fighters, and that way they could be healthy enough to actually fight the best in the ring three times a year, no tune-ups or soft touches unless they lose or have a huge war in the ring, but still be healthy afterwards. Because right now, these guys are all ducking each other and waiting until the best guys are in their mid-30s before fighting them, and it's ruining the sport. Hell even Kovalev-Ward we got 4 rounds of a good fight and then the fight slowed down because both guys are in their 30s and they can't maintain the elite pace anymore, apparently. So that's bull****. Like Duva said the FIRST matchup of top 5 P4P guys in decades, and even then they can't deliver a good fight because they waited too long and they're old, they have top 4 P4P skill but the gas tank isn't there anymore because they're in their 30s. The athletic peak is mid-to-late 20s, sometimes 30, 31, 32 in rare cases. Then it's downhill so why would we want to see guys who aren't at their best anymore? Why wait that long to make the fight?

So I hope we get to see all these fights this year while the fighters are at their peak. Errol Spence is 26. Crawford is almost 30. That's prime. They're ready to fight. Wait a few more years and Spence will be pushing 30, Crawford will be past 30, and it won't be the same. The same goes for all these fights. Make them while the fighters are at their best if you want boxing to deliver good action to the fans which will raise the entire boat and ensure bigger purses for everyone later on, when boxing gets its reputation back. Otherwise you can keep squeezing the lemon for a few last drops and get a drop or two out every time a big matchup comes along, but the overall lemon will continue to shrink and get more dry every time these big match-ups fail to deliver, which they will continue to fail to as long as the fighters are past 30 years old.

THE FANS WANT TO SEE THE BEST FIGHT THE BEST BEFORE AGE 30. IN THEIR PRIMES! 31 AT THE LATEST. 32 AND LATER IS ASKING FOR ANOTHER LETDOWN!

[LADIV]

Doubt it against Mikey. Verdejo is like a young tito with better defense and power.

nah i doubt it..he fought nothing but bums.. he failed to impress against a bum before his motorcycle accident

[jonnyc420]

Nothing to see here, they both destroy this guy.

[OctoberRed]

I give Verdeo no shot against either guy.

[richardt]

Doubt it against Mikey. Verdejo is like a young tito with better defense and power.

He hasnt even fought a top fighter and now he is being compared to the defense and power of an ATG. You sound like a schoolgirl with stars in her eyes.

[jonnyc420]

Doubt it against Mikey. Verdejo is like a young tito with better defense and power.

Pffft! No ****ing way, he is nothing like Tito. He gets put to sleep by both fighters. End of story.

[Strategic1]

Time for him to step up the competition. ..I wonder how he'd do even against a guy like Ray Beltran.