Comments Thread For: Jai Opetaia ends mismatch with Claudio Squeo in round five

[brankobugarski]

Zurdo's last 3 fights:
Chris Billam-Smith (reigning WBO cruiserweight champion)
Arsen Goulamirian (reigning WBA cruiserweight champion)
Joe Smith Jr. (former WBO light heavyweight champion)

Next: Yuniel Dorticos (former IBF cruiserweight champion)

Opetaia's last 3 fights:
Claudio Squeo
David Nyika
Jack Massey

Hmm, I wonder who's ducking the smoke?

I give Opetaia full credit for his two grueling wins over Briedis. But that's two fights out of 26.

Hell, I might even pick Opetaia to beat Zurdo. But first he'd have to take the fight.

I understand what you are saying, but everybody is just speculating. None of us know the truth.

[Coverdale]

I understand what you are saying, but everybody is just speculating. None of us know the truth.

Correct. We have no idea what discussions took place before those opponents were selected. A large part of the TBRB top 10 at cruiser (Jack, Cieslak, Rozicki, Peralta) are caught up in the WBC circle jerk. CBS is working his way back from the Zurdo loss and Zurdo is tied up with his mandatory.

[famicommander]

Correct. We have no idea what discussions took place before those opponents were selected. A large part of the TBRB top 10 at cruiser (Jack, Cieslak, Rozicki, Peralta) are caught up in the WBC circle jerk. CBS is working his way back from the Zurdo loss and Zurdo is tied up with his mandatory.

What we know is that Squeo was the most untested, unproven guy in the IBF top 15. The absolute worst fighter Opetaia could choose to fight and not be stripped of his title.

[famicommander]

I understand what you are saying, but everybody is just speculating. None of us know the truth.

The truth is staring you in the face. You can choose to ignore it if you want but don't pretend the rest of us can't see what is naked and bare before our eyes.

[brankobugarski]

The truth is staring you in the face. You can choose to ignore it if you want but don't pretend the rest of us can't see what is naked and bare before our eyes.

What you are sharing is just your own opinion and I respect that. I am too old and too experienced to think that my subjective opinion is the truth because it just isn't. It does not matter how much you believe in it and how many clever arguments you can present, at the end of the day it is just speculation and guess work.

[famicommander]

What you are sharing is just your own opinion and I respect that. I am too old and too experienced to think that my subjective opinion is the truth because it just isn't. It does not matter how much you believe in it and how many clever arguments you can present, at the end of the day it is just speculation and guess work.

At the end of the day you can posture all you want but you know the truth when you see it even if you refuse to say it out loud.

Either Opetaia doesn't want the smoke or his handlers don't believe he can beat Zurdo or his handlers are saving him for a hopeful Usyk/Bivol cashout.

Zurdo lined up Bivol, Smith, Goulamirian, Billam-Smith, and now Dorticos consecutively. It's obvious he's not the hold up, he's stacking risky fight on top of risky fight while Opetaia crushes cans.

[Joseph]

I like Opetai. I do. But I am not liking his resume. I also am not sure he can beat Zurdo, because his resume stinks.

[famicommander]

I like Opetai. I do. But I am not liking his resume. I also am not sure he can beat Zurdo, because his resume stinks.

His two wins over Briedis are easily as good as any of Zurdo's two best wins.

But the issue is, after those two wins Jai's resume falls off a cliff while Zurdo's goes much deeper with tough world level fighters (Bivol in a loss, Billam-Smith, Goulamirian, Smith, Abraham, Vlasov, Barrera, Hart twice, Angulo, etc).

[Fighter Club]

Squeo is better than all but perhaps 20 of them, so he was perfectly qualified as an in-between challenger.

Ranked 73rd by Bxrec and is nowhere close to being on a top 20 list for any belt.

I like watching Jai, his bouts are high action, and yea he can call his own shots, but selling the fans this kind of BS matchmaking isn't good for his fans or the sport.

[sportbuddha]

It’s Australian boxing what do you expect. They rarely bring a live body to fight an Aussie champ, Kambosis vs Haney was rare example, otherwise it’s tomato cans designed to just sell some local lad tickets.