12 Burst results for "Richard Comey"
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Yeah, I had somebody tell me in the know that, you know, about ten days ago, he was weighing in at one 42, one 43. That felt to me like it was heavy, you know? Losing 7 or 8 pounds for a guy that size to get down to one 35. That's a lot. So I am very curious to see how he makes this weight what he looks like, making the weight, what he looks like the next day because if you're even a fraction off, one would shanko is still good enough to beat you. So that's the question I have for you, Dan, with Loma. He is the underdog and we both agree he's alive underdog, but looking at what he's done since the Lopez loss. He knocks out nakatani. That was a good win. Looks good. Yeah, it looks great. It looks great, beating up Richard Comey as well. And then you get to the Jemaine Ortiz fight, where he didn't look quite so great. We're Ortiz, who nobody ever heard of goes the distance with him and loses a pretty close decision. Looking at this fight, like how game and opponent is lomachenko at this stage. Well, I mean, if you take a look at the German Ortiz fight, you know, he did not look great in that fight, obviously. Were there factors other than maybe the talent level of Jean Ortiz who, by the way, I'm insulted because I had heard of him and watched him before, but he's from Worcester. So I'm respecting my Massachusetts guys. It's more hyperbolic, right? Like he's getting nowhere. Came out of nowhere. So Loma was coming off of a ten month layoff which for him an unrelated to injuries was a little bit longer than he would typically be out of the ring. He was coming back after a sabbatical because of everything that had been going on in Ukraine where he had stayed behind. Remember when Cambodia's ended up fighting Devin Haney, Devin Haney only got that fight because lomachenko withdrew because he decided to remain back home in Ukraine when the war with Russia had started.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"I don't know who believed that he was going to fight Jaime bungie, but we can get to that later on. Quickly. But I guess who is he going to fight? Devour might have to wind up waiting until September, and then I guess he wouldn't have fought in about ten ish months or so from the time he fought Gilberto Ramirez. So we'll get to people, but his team told me they've got three options. They're working through right now. One, at least nominally, was mongeau. I don't know who the other two are. And I don't know how you're going to hope to make any money if it's not Joshua, if it's not Jaime mongeau, I don't know who's out there that would generate the kind of payday that people's becoming accustomed to making at this point. So we'll talk about people in a minute. Last thought on plant Benavidez plant going to be 31 years old this summer lost two of his last three fights, granted to come at the highest level. What do you think his future is? Took a pretty good beating. You know, one thing that Benavidez said that came true. He said he was going to put it on Caleb Plant. And, you know, credit tequila plant for hanging in there for 12 rounds, but he took a lot of punches in that fight. What do you think is the future for him? Yeah, Chrissy, David Benavidez said exactly that in a close like press conference. He said, I told you I was going to come here and beat up Caleb Plant and that's exactly what I did. Caleb Plant, I get this sense from Caleb Plant has made a lot of money. Yeah. He's done very well. He's been managed well. He's been advised well. And he's done very well financially in these two of his last three 5 even in his last fighting, but he made 7 figures for it as a fight against Anthony Darrell as well. So for his last three fights, he's made a lot of money, I don't get the sense that he's going to be the kind of guy. He only has 24 professional fights. He's 22 and two now. I don't get the sense that he's even going to be a guy that approaches having 30 professional fights before he walks away from the sport because he's done so well financially. And really overachieved, if you look at where he came from, he came from Ashland city, Tennessee. It is not a boxing hotbed that the state of Tennessee in itself is not a boxing hotbed that produces a lot of elite level fighters and Caleb Plant basically made it to the elite level. He made it to the elite level of boxing. Some people might not consider him quite elite level, but he's pretty good. I mean, he's one of the top 5 super middleweights in the world for sure. The top three, according to David Benavidez, who just shared the ring with him for 12 rounds. So I see him taking a nice long break, Chris and assess, I think I'm fighting again. But I think as I take a nice long break, let his body heal, then see where he's at, see what's left in the super middleweight division because I don't think he's the kind of guy who's going to move up to one 75. I think he's going to try he doesn't belong there, frankly. I think he'll try to get an interesting fight set, but he's already thought Canelo and he's already thought David Benavidez and lost decisively to both guys. So I don't know what's there for him. But he is the name, he's a talented guy and he's still in his physical prime, but again, I just don't think he's going to be the kind of guy who hangs around too long and is one of those cautionary tales. I think he's going to do well with his money and kind of ride off into the sunset earlier than most fighters. Yeah, I think you're dead on when it comes to how much money he's made. And I'm curious what the impact will be on a mentally. Does he have the same fire to go to the gym every day, knowing that the next step for him is going to be kind of a rebuilding type fight. Maybe two rebuilding type fights to get him back to a level of, I don't know, does he really want to fight a David morrell at one 68? The guys at one 60 coming up being down the line, maybe a Charlotte fight at one 68 is a good one. That's certainly marketable between those two guys. That could be interesting in 2024. But I think he's going to have to decide, does he want to go that route, one that could take a couple of years before he has a chance to fight in a meaningful high level world title fight once again. So yeah, I'm curious to see what I think he's probably done for the rest of the year, frankly. I think he'll probably take the rest of the year off and go into 2024 with maybe some options of about how he's going to rebuild. All right, I want to ask you about the other card this weekend. Headlined by José Ramírez. He takes out Richard Comey in the 11th round of that fight. I want to say first Keith, I want to give our pal Mark kriegel over at ESPN some credit for some of the stuff he did during fight week. Sometimes on broadcasts, you get a lot of kind of propaganda with what comes out. Kriegel went at José Ramírez pretty good during that fight week about him not taking the fight against Regis program. I tried to pin him down on his reasons for taking this low level fight against Richard Comey and not jumping on opportunities to fight for world title in his next time out. So credit to Mark kriegel for asking those types of questions on a ESPN telecast. That's where you don't often get those types of interviews. But Ramirez comes back, kind of a predictable outcome, you know, Comey's long since shot. Lopez probably got the best of him. It took the rest of him and whatever, you know, Ramirez took out was probably the last of former world title holder, Richard Comey. But do you see Ramirez now going into another big fight? Whether it is against pro gray or the winner of teofimo against Josh Taylor. Are those the options for him in the second half of the year? Yeah, I think ideally what he would like to do, Chris is fight the winner of the tailor Lopez fight because of course his only loss is to Josh Taylor. It was a competitive fight he lost, but I got knocked down twice in the fight, but it was a competitive fight. So I think he's going to want to rematch with Taylor if Taylor beats two fema Lopez. I think that fight could go either way. And of course, if TF fema Lopez wins, it's an in-house fight for top rank that would be very interesting to the public, I think. So that's what I think he's going to try to do next. I understand why Mark went after him because some of the rationale for not taking the pro gray fight. Doesn't sit well with people because if he wanted the fight, he could have taken it. Now I understand what he's saying about he had a wedding planned and all that kind of I understand that. And what he told me it was a few months ago when I told you he said, look, boxing has been put first in my life, my whole life basically. And my wife raises our kids and I'm a way for training camp and everything and I promised her we were going to get married on this date with no if sands or butts about it and that's what I stuck to. I put my wife and my family first this time and the business second. Boxing fans don't want to hear that, but that's the way José Ramírez felt that he certainly entitled to feel that way and to put his family first. That said, it does sound like he did not want to fight outreach program. And
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"I know we bought a shirt as soon as it came out because he has been clamoring for that fight nearly as often as I have. Is that right Keith? Do you have your shirt on back order right now? Look, if I can't get a free one, I give up, you know? That's true. You do deserve free one. At this point. All right, lots to get into on this episode. I want to talk about David Bennett's against Caleb Plant. What's next for Benavidez? José Ramírez was back in action as well. And Anthony Joshua is going to make an anticipated return this weekend in the heavyweight division over in the UK against Jermaine Franklin. The first Keith, you were ringside for Benavidez versus plant in Las Vegas, a excellent fight. An excellent overall card, but an excellent fight between two top guys 868 pound division. Caleb Plant looked pretty good early on using his jab using his movement using the biggest ring I've ever seen. But Benavidez eventually tracked him down and punished him in the second half of the fight, securing for him what was a wide decision win. So give your impressions on what you saw between Benavidez and plant. Well, first things first, Chris ringside is probably a stretch at this point. We were in the building. But it was a very good fight. You know, it was a coming out party of sorts for David Benavidez and I think the fight played out the way that most people anticipated. Plant was going to get off to a strong start. You're going to use his legs, use his jabby counterpunched well. He was very effective in the first 5 rounds. In fact, Tim cheatum, who is a judge who tends to favor a boxers, had about 5 rounds to zero going into the 6th round. It was closer on the other two cards, but plant was very effective in those first 5 rounds. But as I think most people expected, Chris, I'm sure you did as well. Benavidez is pressure just wore him down. You know, he's a great body puncher. He throws a lot of punch because he never stops coming forward. He's got a great chin, and he just wore Caleb Plant out. And I think that's what a lot of people anticipate it happening. I thought he would stop them and, you know, the tenth, 11th, 12th rounds, and that didn't happen. But otherwise the fight pretty much unfolded as I anticipated it and I've been wrong a million times too, but in this case, I think it pretty much played out the way most people saw it playing out. So it was a great win for David Benavidez. It was a really good event to Chris and that the announced attendance was 13,800 and something. They called it a sellout. I don't even want to get into that. The building holds 16,000 500 or so. You sell 16,500 tickets. It's a sellout. It's not the sell out just because you put that. If you put 8 tickets on sale and you sell a ticket, you can't call it a sellout. But I don't know. I don't want to rain on what was a good event, but they did a very good gate. They did between three and $4 million in ticket sales, which is a very healthy number, considering that Benavidez had not been an event of this magnitude. I think it speaks to how people are responding to him. And you know, again, the undercard was solid. I mean, the undercard was full of pretty good, evenly matched fights. On paper, I should say. And two of them certainly played out that way. So the event overall was good and it was, again, I believe in a way of coming out party for David Benavidez. Yeah, you use the phrase went as expected. And I would agree with that because it felt like that fight early on was going to be one that at the very least Caleb Plant had a lot of success in because he is a pretty sharp boxer. He has a decent jab. And because of the size of that ring, 22 by 22, he had a lot of real estate to work with. So it was set up for Caleb Plant to do well in the early stages of that fight. The question was, when would Benavidez be able to track him down and how much damage could he do over the final X number of rounds of the fight? He really was maybe the 6th round where he started to wear down David wear down Caleb plants and take control of that fight force plan to do an awful lot of holding just a lot of holding in the second half of that fight. But eventually was able to land, you know, just a lot of power punch. I forget what the numbers were over the final 6 rounds, but it was like one 70 of 45 or something like that in terms of punches landed in the final 6 rounds of the fight. So it was dominated by David Benavidez. I did think it was going to go to a decision too. I don't know if you predicted that going in, but I thought that I thought it would go to a decision. Because I told you bragging about your betting. Yeah, well, I've had some good, I've had some good runs here, Keith, just to be clear, I mean, I had Mercedes by decision a couple of weeks ago. Bam, hit on that one. I have David Benavidez. That was ballsy. I'll give you that one. Yes. I also took Jose Ramirez plus 200 by knockout against Richard Comey. That was another one there too. So you're talking to a guy on a heater here right now. Just to be clear about that. But my point was the reason I picked Benavidez by decision was because he has a lot of knockout, but the knockouts have come against like, you know, B and C level guys. Like, who's the best guy he knocked out? Anthony Darrell, and he stopped him on a cut. He's got some romaine gulo. He's got some, some lower level guys. I thought Caleb Plant would do enough to survive to the end of the fight. Got an assist, though, from Kenny Bayless. You were watching that fight ringside, didn't look to me from TV that Kenny Bayless was doing David Benavidez any favors. He was allowing Caleb Plant to hold on as often as you'd like without warning. And then had some kind of weird warnings that David Benavidez as well. I didn't, I mean, it wasn't the most, it wasn't the worst refereeing performance I've seen, but certainly not one canny bail this is gonna put on the highlight reel down the line. Yeah, Chris, it's interesting because after the fight, David Benavidez for all intents and purposes said that Kenny Bayless stopped him from knocking Caleb planet out. He didn't really give him the opportunity to do that because he allowed so much holding. I don't really blame plant for holding and because he was he was trying everything he could to not get knocked out because he was getting worn down. He was cut. He was beat up to the body and he was ready to go. So he was doing everything he could to survive. I don't blame him for that. But it's incumbent upon Kenny Bayless or any other referee to not allow that. And it looks from the beginning of the fight, Chris, as you alluded to, it almost looked to me in the first few rounds like Kenny Bayless was dying to take a point and David Benavidez. He was warning him excessively. He never warned Caleb Plant for holding as far as I could tell. And he held to the point where you certainly could argue he could have taken a point away, didn't turn out to matter two of the judges I thought got it right. I thought it was a 9 three 8 four type of fight because plants started off so well. He did win, I
THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
"richard comey" Discussed on THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
"I think he's starting to slip a little bit. I really do, I never thought he was a great fighter, but he's a good, good, solid fighter. Very good. And he had improved over the years. And now I think that he's starting to get a little sharp one. Just a little bit like I said long in the tooth and Benavidez might be too young too big because he's a naturally bigger guy than Canelo. I don't know if Canelo's heat and that Mexican hamburger stuff and, you know, he's the muscles of pumping a little bit extra. I don't know. But better vitas is a naturally big guy. I think he's younger, I believe he is. He's got less miles on his odometer, so I do think that better Frida's would have to improve off or would want to improve off of his outfit with plant. Use his jab. Don't just look for power shots. Don't look for single shots. You know, put punches together. That kind of stuff. But anyway, if it ever gets done, we'll do a fight plan on it. Oh, for sure. That would be a big fight. Yeah, that was a great breakdown. Let's talk quickly, José Ramírez and Richard Comey, Richard Comey seems to become in one of those gatekeeper guys like, hey, can you beat Richard Comey if so you're on to the next level, but if you can't beat Richard call me back to the line. Good way to put it. But I think he's probably gotten some big paydays in there with Tia fema and now he's in with José Ramírez, but I will say this. José Ramírez had a chance to take to take a title fight against the champion. He just pro gray, and I think they wanted to offer him 60, 40 for the champion, obviously. And I saw José Ramírez and his manager or promoter. I don't know what his role is or even what his name is, but I saw him on Twitter talking crap to Regis program. It drives me crazy when the managers and the trainers and the promoters are talking shit to the fighters. I'm like, you're not going to get in there and fight, let the fighter do the talking. Nevertheless, it looked to me like Ramirez didn't want any part of Regis. Because like with us, if you think you have a chance to win the title, when you have the title, you can be 60, 40. Go take the 40% and win the title and now you're the WBC champion if you think you could be programmed. I don't think José Ramírez seems like a very nice kid. I'm not trying to shit on Ramirez, but I obviously am partial towards Regis. So he's going to stay on that side of the road and if I try to fight fighters that Arab controls. And pro gate, I think is a free agent. It doesn't have a promoter in it. You can see that it's hurting if it's unfortunate that if you don't align and get in bed with someone, you ain't surviving on your own. They're keeping this kid on ice. He can't get a fight to save his life. No one wants to fight him. He's tough. Anyway, so Ramirez gets in with Comey's stops him. Pretty much what you would expect from someone to get to the next level. He ran right through Comey, beat him up pretty bad stopped him. How'd you like that one? Listen, always full disclosure, right? I didn't watch. I only saw tidbits of it. Peaked at it a little bit. Pablo Cano who does everything at Utah, the university of Utah. He had me and my son in his room. He had the pay per view on one screen. He had the ESPN fight on another. I couldn't watch the both just take little peaks because as we said, Benavidez and plant was on its same exact time, which I gotta believe took a lot of people away from the call me fight. It looked like a competitive fight early. It looked like a decent fight early back and forth. And then it looked like Ramirez looked like the bigger guy, but Ramirez call me on he knows one way he's a warrior. He fights with you. And he's got miles on his old domino. He's getting a little sharp one. And he got viciously knocked out by Tia fema Lopez. He's got miles on his old time. And you know, there's a lot of tread common autos, a little tread Commodore with those tires. And the mirrors pressed them, went to the body, kept the pressure. It looked from the little bit I saw that Ramirez was just grinding them down. You know, that it was a fight, but it was a little bit like, you know, the ocean is always going to have its way. You know what I mean? It's going to get to where it's trying to go. And mimir is look like the ocean getting to where he was going. And it looked like his precious constant pressure started the way down, call me the body work, look like that obviously definitely was damaging call me. Doing damage to, again, I don't have a mirrors look like the bigger guy to damage to the smaller man's body. And just wearing them down. Wearing down a very game Comey to wear when got to stop it's got to win after being awful. I don't know how long it was all for, but he's been off for a little while. And so he got a nice win against a former champion. I'm concerned about a guy like Comey. I like call me. Everything I've heard about him is a good human being. He trains his backside off. He just trade does whatever he's asked to do. And he's a good person.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"I wouldn't have fought anyway. I'm telling you right now, this is what it is to be a calculating decision maker as a boxer and the people that control your career. So no, I wouldn't advise them to fight cater all because it's just the wrong style matchup. Go for the bigger name. Tio female Lopez, a former undisputed champion. Had all the belts, he beat the loman, chanco. He's a name. That's who you want on your resume, a former champion that's gonna still be Celtic tickets is popular and teal female, whether he still having his issues, he's still having his personal problems. Those are always gonna be their lingering. So he's gonna be there right for the picking. He's ripe for the picking. So I think Josh sailor is an incredible talent, incredible talent, and he should go after another incredible talent. That's vulnerable mentally and so yeah, that's a fight to make. You know, I somewhat disagree that TF femo is vulnerable. I think too much was made of how difficult the fight against sandor Martin was, like Tana Martin is going to be a difficult opponent for everybody. It wasn't just that it wasn't just that performance. He lost the kids. It's his personal life. Got a lot going on there. But I think he's capable of bouncing back and being an elite guy at one 40. I do. I do alleviate the goods for it. I think a Josh Taylor matchup is a lot better for him than what a Sandra Martin matcher would be. Josh Taylor at least will try to bang with him a little bit in that fight. And that's, you know, I think TFE has the size at one 40 to be able to do that. I mean, I do. Yeah, but cambos is banged with him and was able to hurt and drop. There was a lot going on to him. Well, there was going to be more. There's going to be that's exactly what I mean. There's going to be a lot of more, like he was going through a divorce at that time. He had a bad weight cut at that time, that fight had been postponed like three times. That doesn't excuse anything. He lost fair and square in that fight. But I think he's going to, I think taya fimo, if he's an underdog in that fight, and he probably will be, I think he's a very live underdog in that fight. But to the point of the question, I do agree with you. I think this is the right move. To fight Jack katara again, was for ego, right? And you know it was because he dropped all the other belts. Yeah. Just so he could be in a position to defend a title against Jack Adderall. So with teo female on the table, it's a bigger money fight. It's a more relevant fight and it's a better fight for him to potentially win if they fight in June. I feel for Jack casserole, but you know this was around social media. I think Jack haddal could put it together and fight, Regis prograde. That's a good fight for Jack. I don't think pro grade will face the man. Backs off on cataract and protocol attack. I don't think he will, but programs are begging for a fight. Too smart. He's way too smart to take that fight. You think Jack had a role as Muhammad Ali, what are we talking about? I think he's too much risk. What's the reward and beating cataract? You fight. And it's a marketable fight in the UK. Who's been saying busy? Program's been saying business. He has nobody can fight. He is manager. I haven't had a man. Stay busy, get paid. How? Big names. It doesn't matter. It does matter. You don't get paid to fight just anybody. Anyone in the top 15. You want to pull up the top 15 rankings for, yes, please. The WBC. And I'll tell you right now, please. You have to make her. So you think, all right, we'll do this right now. It shouldn't be cad or I'll tell you that. A short, strong southpaw that's confident and he's just waiting for that phone call to fight a big name and strike again. It's just like he saw Cruz. After he tank Davis, why is nobody calling me? People did. Of course, Stephenson asked to fight him. Yes, he did. Yes, he did. Of course, he was one of the crew said no. Like, all right, that pit bull has been passing on some fights in the last that doesn't take away from the fact that he's a good fighter. He did. So, of course, Stevenson was publicly calling him out. Everyone's avoiding Stevenson. They're speaking two different things. We just program is number one. The WBC champion, right? So you go down the list. You got taffy ma Lopez. He didn't want that fight. Sandra Martin, you want taffy, you want to fight Santa Martina gonna be the next guy? No, get in the ring with Santa Martin. No. You got Gary Antoine Russell. Who knows no one knows? No idea there. Jose zapata, we've gone down that road before. Sergey lippin yes. Oh, there you go. How about that? José Ramírez didn't want it, Ryan García's on the list. Arnold Barbosa, that's not bad. Those are the good fight, but I rather take lip knits. It has more experience with the bigger names. You know, he's been in there with what Mikey Garcia. So it doesn't matter if you got knocked out by Mikey Garcia. He fought a four division world champion, so being able to beat a name like that. That makes sense. Steve spark? No. He thinks Steve sparks great because what's his name, Montana, love through him on the ring through him off the ring, but now I don't like that fight. Brett and Lee on that list. We're back at the bottom half the top 15. The point is if you think Jack Jack hadal is a good fighter, not a great fighter. And if there's money on the table to fight Jack Adderall and defend your title, you do it. You do it. Why wouldn't you? Because it's a wrong style matchup. I'd rather WBC would rather fire all ranked. How is that possible? Fight a snooze fest against a nobody. You don't get paid for those fights. Regis program has no promoter. I know he doesn't, and that means more money in his pocket. He said, he's still making a lot of money. Would you like to FaceTime Sam cajkovsky in here? Or he just programs manager and ask him if there's a lot of money out there for Regis right now. It's not. It doesn't take away from what he is, but there's not a lot of money out there for him because guys don't want to fight him. José Ramírez said, nope, I'm going to go fight Richard Comey. Tampa, I'm a Lopez, said, nope, I'm going to go fight Josh Taylor. You got to go down the list to find guys willing to fight, Regis pro gray. Is that much of a beast, man? I mean, that's why you got to fight cataract. If there's money in the UK to fight, if you take it, we're just probably going to be the favorite against caterer, you know, that Regis might be the best guy I want to. Yeah, but then he's going to give up, first of all, he's going to be fighting another southpaw and that's difficult. And then you're fighting a Brit in oh man, I don't know. I just think there's better options. He should stay in the U.S., keep doing what he's doing. He fights whoever they put in front of him, so whoever they put in front of them here in his home country, I think that's what you should do. Look, I'd love to see it. I don't think there's any money for it. Like maybe in a cataract to fight in the U.S., I don't know if you can do that. There you go. So you do it in the U.S. because then at least you would have some judging in your favor. If you go, if you go to the UK or anywhere in the UK, you're going to have the fans against you and you know they're rabid fans. They come out in the tens of thousands. Every punch is going to be a new one at all. So you have the fans against you, then you're going to have to judges against you and the referee against you too much too many cards stacked against you. So yeah, if is willing to come over here, then that's a different story. 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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"So you need to focus on you don't even family and I'm going to do what I do in the ring and I'm going to give my heart out, you know? So hopefully people respect that. And that's all I could do. This is giving my best, but at the same time, you know, I got my family and I got to take care of myself and them. Do not have a fight for boxing is not. It's not like you could be a doctor come to your 60 years old. You have, oh, you got a short, short self life, to make a lot of money. I totally get that. Last question for you. So is the plan short term? Richard Comey in March. Is that kind of what you're being presented with at this point? And how long will you wait until, like, will you still hold out hope they'll make a program for it? So, you know, I'm going into the end of the year. So I'm glad I'm having this interview. So again, do my message to readers in 20 network. Because I understand this type of the thing is that the zone and any other huge network, unless they unless there's a fire, there's no reason for them to invest on a part of that by the contract. It doesn't benefit the zone in any way, it doesn't benefit match women any way to or golden boy or by this part because I'm still legally punched up with top rank. And then we just do a probable, you know? So we already know where I say what matter motor. So the only learning person is called that guy to learn the business and within two days. And go out there and start asking questions with this promoter because they're promoters has a right to give him the champion right now. The best fights. And it seems like they're not doing that. The whole management team is not doing that. But at the end of the day, man, the Pythagorean happen and. Before the year ends, I could be in a position where I have all this options, you know, and the. Same with topic makes sense to me and now stay with top rank of not, you know, we'll see. We'll see what's out there. The good thing is that in my contract, even if I become a champion by my second next fight, there's nothing that holds me back from staying with top rank unless unless I want to stay. So it's not like there's nothing in my contract that says if you become a champion, you have to contract extends and I know how to do that. And I did when I became a champion against your mom, but that probably ended. I extended my contract with them for a couple more fights after they gave me the Taylor fight. You know? But I think that's why Richard Cohen has been present to me, but they have the percentage of bigger fight, you know, I'm willing to be back in that ring again for the second fight before September. Jose, I appreciate your time, man. I mean, like you said, one 40 is hot right now, man. It's a great division. You know, you throw Ryan García into that mix later on in the year, presumably he's at that weight class, another big name. I hope you get into it, man. You're a fun fighter and hope to see you back real soon. Now listen man. The spiders tank, Brian,
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"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"He was blasted out by taya fima Lopez. He was beaten pillar to post by Vasily lomachenko, and I'm sorry, I'm not gonna get excited about the fact that he had a draw against Jose pedraza. That doesn't tell me that he still has something left. This is a bad fight. I don't know how much clearer we need to be. It should not be a ESPN televised main event. I mean, if you want to make the fight fine, but again, I don't think it is, I don't think of it as a main event, particularly when it's taking the place of the potential of the prograde fight. So like you said, I'm just not the Richard Comey is a good dude and he's had a good career and all that, but I mean, but he's got to he's got to do, he's got to do what he did after those back to back losses to Robert Easter and to shafikov. He went out. He won what, four, 5 fights in a row before the Lopez fight, he won a belt. Like he rebuilt himself and made himself viable for that TFE mo Lopez fight. Right now he's not viable. He's not. He looks like and he's fighting at a weight class above what he was at his best at. So I can't go into that fight. I think it's going to be remotely competitive. That's my biggest problem with it. I don't think Comey would be competitive against Ramirez. There's just no real reason to do the fight. I mean, I can not get excited about that one at all. And I like each fighter. I like Ramirez. I like Comey, but the match just feels like we already know the result. I mean, unless he lands that Hail Mary punch on Ramirez, who's always showing himself that a good chin anyway, you already know what's going to happen. I can tell you right now, that fight's like, you know, 8 rounds to two, you know, going to the scorecards. You know, write it down. Yeah, I'm with you on that one. All right, let's move on to some of the chatter going on between Ryan García and tank Davis. Tech Davis had a media workout in Miami this week. Of course, the subject of Ryan García comes up Ryan, of course, has elected not to go ahead with a stay busy fight against barcelo gasta instead to just keep training to go on to the fight against tank, presumably for mid April, though we'll see what happens with tank over these next couple of months. Let's start with Ryan's decision, not to take the stay busy fight. We've heard some criticisms from people like golden boy from Oscar De La Hoya himself. What did you make of Ryan deciding not to fight guest up? I thought it was a very mature decision and the right decision. I told Ryan that myself, you know, Ron and I occasionally will text with one another. I told him that I thought it was a good decision and that it was a mature decision. In my mind, when you do tune up fights, bad things happen.
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"As well with them. You talked about kind of what the medical issue that was revealed after the fight has that been resolved. Are you comfortable medically going into this fight? Absolutely. You know, I'm definitely in a much better place physically. Now, you know, no more injuries. Thankfully, you know, coming into this fight, I believe I'm about like 90% in healthy. So, you know, and that is very high. It's a high ratio for me, especially. So you are going to see the magdalena type of performance mixed with the mason Menard performance mixed with so many other things that, you know, everyone is just going to it's just an eye candy performance that I'm really going to put out. You know, I'm performing at the end of the day. And I'm here to really show and let everyone know, you know, I am the guy, you know, I'm not someone that is just here for a moment. You know, I'm here to stay forever. And it's really just those things. The complications that I had, you know, it's great. It's great that we working on that now. And I know that a lot of it had to do because of the weight class. At one 35. I know that for a fact. And I'm just grateful now because I had to learn from that to not stay longer than I need to when my body's telling me it's time to move. So now it's just all about listening to my body and just moving forward from there. When you watched Devin Haney beat cam bosses, what went through your mind? I didn't watch the fact. I was actually in New York City during the time and I was writing a bike. I was writing one of those city bikes and especially music. Honestly, I kind of figured, I know that if I'm in the sport of boxing, then you got to know the business at a sport of boxing. And honestly, I already knew that haney was going to win. So there's no point in watching something that I'm either going to fall asleep watching, or just know that I already know the end result. So it's no point. I'd rather go and connect more with life, really. If Cambodia's one way or the other moves up to one 40, does a rematch interest you. Yeah, for sure, definitely. That's definitely something that will definitely come around, you know? And this time around, you know, I won't be the one to die and he'll be the one feeling that. So, you know, I look forward for him moving up to one 40. I think that Sony, that's the best shot that he really has, though, to stay to stay relevant because devaney is going to beat him again. And honestly, no one's going to care about kimbo since. So he's going to have to move up at one 40. And I'll gladly take that fight, you know? However, I'm focused on all these world title belts. So in the meantime, just focusing on my main goal right now, looking great, August 13th, and then we go from there. I spent some time Tao around Virgil Ortiz last week. And he had a rough year kind of as well. A lot of critics, a lot of doubters after he pulled out of that fight against Michael mckinson. And he said, it was a hard year for him and he used all that going into that fight he had this past weekend. Use the criticism. Do you kind of, does that fuel you going into a fight like this? No, it used to. It used to, I would say, it used to feel me. Now it's more so about just it feels, that doesn't feel me. What feels me is knowing that I am that I am I am who I always said I am. And honestly is the best entertain fight in the game, you know? And I think that's just really what fuels me more than ever. You know, just basically putting on for God, you know, representing him mainly, you know, I'm a child of God and I just focus on just performing at my best just so that he could see that. You know, you know, after my fight, I'm just gonna grant him and thank him for everything that he has done in my life. And hopefully, you know, it could tap into all those kids around the world. You know, put some light in everybody and just move forward. You and your father have had a lot of success together as fighter and trainer. But when things go wrong, people wonder, will the fighter make changes and changes usually means in the corner? Was there any thought in your mind about either bringing someone in to work with your father, replacing your father? What was your mindset there? No, no. It's a dynamic duo, man, to the wheels fall off, you know? Me and my father, I had so many. I mean, man, I had so many people call me and text me afterwards. I mean, people that smile in front of my father's face, you know, and give him a pat on the back and just say, hey, you should leave him and come to come to our side. You know, and I'm like, you know, I don't want to be rude and say that, I know everything 'cause I don't, you know, I still learn. I'm still learning to this day, you know? And that's the greatest thing that I could say about life and what I do with my craft, you know, my father daughter is the one that really, he knows me best. He's seen me at my worst. He's seen me at my best. You know, and he's going to be the one that definitely is going to tell me the things that I really need to focus on on how can I beat this guy? I trust him. I trust him with my life. And honestly, it's really just focusing, honestly, I didn't even want I didn't need or want a assistant coach for this fight. You know, we had talks of other people that wanted to come in and maybe do some collaborations with. That would have made probably, it would have caught more eyes. You know, however, I'm someone that is I'm loyal to the T, you know? And I just want everyone to see that. You know, my father didn't become trained out of the year just by just by luck. In 2020, you know, we beat the most decorated fighter pound for pound during that time facility lomachenko. That was from him. You know, he told me how the game plan had to go. So I just really want to give my father his flowers, especially for this fight. And that everyone let them be known, let it be known to everyone out there that that man is always going to be in my corner. And if anyone got something to say about it, you can meet me. meet me in that ring. Yeah, your father, I mean, it's what have you done for me lately, isn't it? I mean, your father is the guy that was guiding you through Richard Comey, through facility lomachenko, the best year of your professional career and now it's one loss and everybody's looking to he was like, I'll say this man, that's the problem with today's, I don't want to say with everything, but that's the problem with today's world. You know, just because you have one defeat, doesn't mean that you got to go and switch up, you know? Just because something goes wrong or whatever, it doesn't mean that you just got to forget where it started. You know, I think that's what people don't really tap into. I don't need to. And the thing is with all these other trainers, I'm sorry. They don't know shit about boxing. A majority of them. And if anything, they just want to they want to grasp onto me and say that they build something like that. You know, what better way, right, manage to try to train somebody else when they're coming back in a comeback. Fight, knowing the fight is determined to want to win this, right? And needing to win this. And then take credit for it. You know? Say that they made me and they did this. I'm not one to have that, you know? And I don't want to teach. I don't want to teach these coaches how I actually think and how I actually move. You know, if you're not on the same pace with me, you're wasting my time. And I see that with a lot of coaches. And what does a main ego coach do? They try to stimulate your style into their style. And what happens is that the whole time you're focusing on trying to perfect their style that you're not really thinking in the ring. And that's the thing that a lot of these fighters because they're not educated enough. They don't really tap into that. They're just like, okay, I got to go over here because I lost. No, you don't. You just got to go back to the drawing board and stay loyal to the team that started with you. No question. And look, you now in a position with top rank having a lot of those top fighters at a 140 pounds. You'll get that title shot very quickly. I'm assuming. I'm assuming I'm guessing that in those discussions with top rank, there are big opportunities immediately ahead of you. Absolutely, you know, I know that right now the vacant builds the vacant belts right now as somewhat, I guess already taken. So, you know, Josh Taylor is still talking about getting married and all this other stuff. I honestly, we can make that fight happen. You know, I try to make the fight happen with Taylor with Cadillac and stuff like that. However, as we can see, you know, I really don't have no say right now, you know, this was a top rank executive move. And it kind of makes me feel some type of way, but I understand, you know? I'm a fighter. So the day I die. And I'm someone that definitely loves to take every challenge and every fight. You know, and I don't know if I so, you know, but it kind of made me realize how do I how do I come back to take over and set the tone? Saturday night, August 13th against Pedro Campo is
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"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Loss. Natural Canelo did. Go back and look at the 19 80s. Look at that. Beat down can change its trajectory of your career. You don't want that beat down to be gambling for what if. Now, if you can guarantee me that Virgil Ortiz goes a distance with Crawford and aerospace, I said take the fight, but this is boxing where you're one fight, one loss away. One punch away from your career going the wrong way. Yeah. No. Is not ready for Terrence Crawford now. When is he going to be? He faced all the gatekeeper Sergio. He faced job. He faced a Velazquez. He faced Michael mckinson. He has faced every B level fighter potential good for him, but it's not his job to be facing a Crawford. It spends his job to be facing Crawford. That's what the public demands. That's the number one fight to be made in boxing. Okay. I agree. Virgil Ortiz, if he's able to do this and buy more than he can chew, that's a shows how much balls he has. It's not his job to be calling out Crawford and spend. That just shows you the audacity and the ambition of this young man. This is why we did this on jabs over on the zone. And I'll do it again. Put it up. I'm not talking about you. No, I do understand why I understand because after you beat Vernon Forrest, what was your message to the crowd right then? Who did you call it? Oscar De La Hoya who at that point was still one of the best in boxing. Was an all time. And I didn't get it. And you didn't get it, but you called him out. So you called him out. Why is it different? Why is it okay for you to call it Oscar De La Hoya and Virgil Ortiz not to call it Terrence Crawford? Terrence Crawford 34. He's not 28. He's not in the middle of the prime of his career he's 34 years old and he got touched in his last fight against kavalas. Got touched in that fight. I was 28 years old and I was in a different position. For just what 25, like 24. All right. And he just turned 24 at that. But he has power and he has a star potential. My star was already kind of like running out of shine. And his star was burned out. Well, I was about to supernova. You know what that means? Yes. All right, so yeah, I was a big red giant at that time. I was about to explode, but anyway, he's a little young star. He has a future ahead of him and a lot of money to be made. And I just think he's going to take a step backwards, fighting one of these guys, and then forget about losing. How about I be losing badly or a beat down? You don't come back from those. There's so many fighters that are left so much money on the table, but with one bad loss. Even though they got back to the top, want a championship, made some good money. They still weren't the same. They would actually made the right decision early in their career. Kell brook is a great example. Cal brook is a great example. He, he bit off more than he can chew to step up to fight golovkin. Something he didn't have to do. But where did his career go from there? He went from undefeated, knocking people out. He left so much on the table, striving for greatness. I just don't think it's a good idea, Virgil shouldn't do it. Okay. In 1981, Tommy hearns, I think it was in his early 20s took a pretty good beatdown for Sugar Ray Leonard. He bounced back. That was the welterweight title. He went on to win titles at 54, fight that he was winning. I bet he was okay, but he took a beat down at the end. One round. He was winning that fight at the end. In the 14th round. Okay, all right, how about you? He was winning before that. So that wasn't a beat down. How about this? 1985 at the same Tommy hearns fights Marvin Hagler. You want to call that not a beatdown? It was out of his range out of his weight class and hagler for God's sake. Well, the greatest middleweight in law, but he went on to win a light heavyweight title after that. His career. Please, Dennis Andrea. Exactly. Then he fought Barty lost that fight fought ray Leonard again. They were saying the careers don't end after one time. Okay, out of the four kings, why is hearns always the one that people mention less? It's always not. It's always hagler. It's always around. It's rare in its turn. It's not right up here. Phrase above everybody else. The other three are kind of blown away. Duran and Leonard, and then after that, he came back after ray beat his nomas. Yeah, but Durham was just special, you know? So what you're saying is Virgil's not special is what you're saying. Not yet. Not yet. Okay. All right. Well, look, if there's any luck, we'll get Virgil versus, say, David avision. I think that's a good fight for him next because that would mean Spence and Crawford. I know it'd be a great fight for the fans. That would be a physical, physical fight. That's a rock and sock room. That's the type of fight where that puts you on the next level where you might be ready for the bigger names, but alissa and dangerous. All right, let's look ahead to this weekend on Saturday. Lopez makes his return to the ring. He will be moving up to a 140 pounds to fight Pedro coppa. Lopez was last seen in the ring against George Campbell's last November, lost lost the decision. Was it unanimous? I think it was unanimous. Lost the unanimous decision in the aftermath of that, he dealt with some medical issues. He dealt with a broken hand. Now he's back in the ring at one 40, the takeover Sergio has become the take back. What are your expectations for Lopez at a 140 pounds? I want to say it was a split decision, but either way, yes, it was a clear loss. And I love this move because we know that he was a big one 3500. The biggest one 35 pounder I've ever seen by the way in Teófimo López and you know he knows what it's like to have overnight success, your life changes. Everyone wants your picture and all your name, you get the big money and then you have another loss and you get everything taken away from you. He's popular enough. He's still great enough to do something big at one 40 and he has a size to do it a one 40 and he has monsters at the one 40 division. You got Taylor, you got pro gray. You got tank, you got Garcia. I mean, that's going to be the next popular decision from the lightweights and I was going to be one 40. So he's going to be fit in nicely at one 40 or there's going to be a lot of money on the table and he's going to be he's going to be happy that he hasn't doesn't have to shed down that weight is size still going to be, you know, he's still going to be big enough, but he's not going to be shedding those extra pounds. A lot of money be made, man. And if he has his head right, like he says, his head is right. He's going to be probably the name I would favor over all of them, but his head has to be right. His camp has to be right. And his training, of course, because you don't want these injuries. You don't want these sicknesses that he went into the ring with that he said. Had issues with. And of course, his father was a wild card, so maybe if they can bring someone else in, that can even that out. I think he has a bright future edible. I think the mental part of it is the most important part of Teófimo López career to this point. Sergio, you were around him like I was during the campos this week. That was not the Teófimo López. We have become used to. The confidence. And it was still kind of there, but you knew he was having problems getting down to a 135 pounds. He was very open about the issues with his former wife. He had just had a baby who he hadn't seen. Like, there was so much going on that I can't imagine being mentally prepared to go to war against the guy like Cambodia, who looked at that fight as winner go home. It was do or die for George Campbell's. So I'm of the belief that if Teófimo López is right, mentally, if he's right, physically, he can very quickly become the best guy at one 40. The talent's still there. Like even in the ring Sergio, like I've covered almost every TF fema Lopez fight of his young career. Most of it live in person. I covered him at the Olympics in Rio. That was not the same fighter. He was trying to one punch campos into the mat. Like the teofimo I know is a boxer puncher, somebody that hits you, moves you, and then when he gets the opportunity, just clobbers you with that big right hand. Some of what happened, Richard Comey, and their fight a few years ago. That was not a female. I
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"Doing it with a new trainer? Is that correct? Yes. Yes, that's also as also very correct. So what's the whole story there? What's going on with that? You know, I enjoyed my time with B and B which we all know is Bo Mack on race, spikes, east south Diego's, but you know, great thing is felt that it was actually the best for us to go different ways. And you know, I had to do nothing but respect that. Like I said, I still love Bo in the team. Red spikes, et cetera, great individuals, great trainers. But it was more of a chemical thing between us and I just had to go and basically find help elsewhere. Based on his decisions. So I looked over to my left and right and I felt that Manny robles, who I known for overwhelm a decade, coach Benny actually helped me get to the Olympics. And I felt like that at this point in time was maybe the best fit for me. So I'll be working alongside many robles, Los Angeles, going into my next break. So that's interesting. I mean, well, first of all, Mandy's an excellent trainer, known to most people as the man that got it Andrew Ruiz to the unified heavyweight championship. But you sound surprised that Bo Mack wanted to go his separate ways. I'm definitely definitely because I understand it was basically more of a difference in opinion due to the business and the sport. But for the most part, you know, it was definitely, it was definitely a huge surprise because like I said, I thought I would end my career with those individuals. But you know, I responded to this decision. It's no bad blood. You know, bud, bud, as well, did it did a great tremendous job. In terms of getting to me getting me to the world title, in my career, so I always have love and respect for those guys, but, you know, sometimes you just have to just have the business works, but at the end of the day, it's no animosity. Bo Mack, you know, I give them a lot of love and respect, because again, he got me knowledge in a world title, but you know, he helped me defend it on multiple occasions. And like I said, I'm definitely going to be working alongside red, and he said, well, because those are they played a huge part as well. And getting me to where I'm at, even today. So it's definitely going to definitely feel funny. I can't, I can't lie, but, you know, I have to do what to do as best and just continue to keep trucking and pushing forward. Yeah, we look forward to seeing you back in the ring and one 35, right? You're moving up and wait. One 31 35 as of now, but I mean, you see me Chris, I've never felt like I'm outgrown. I look like I've grown weight classes. So I have no issue fighting at one 35 because that's when I actually started my career as pro. Even in the amateurs, I flooded high as Julian welterweight. But I told Todd rank to always keep options open at one 30, which is funny because I'm not at least we're speaking about it. I was originally supposed to fight Richard Comey coming back at one 35, but so I guess something on his end, they said that Richard wouldn't be available for may. So we dropped back. That idea. Then they came with me. We're all kind of sale. Robson county, at one 30. But I was told by top rank that he was having issues with these is getting into the country. So we had the scrap from that. So it was basically, I was okay with you to fight at one 30 and one 35, but we just couldn't find the right opponent. And you have either. So we're back to we're back to one 35, but again, I have no issues for that one 30. Yeah, well, jamel speaking from, you know, one finely tuned athlete to another. I can, you know, I know you're very you're easily bounced back and forth with weights. You know, I'm trying to get to Cruiserweight. As we speak, I'm almost there. Almost that day. So it's all good. Dan, do you have any news to announce that top chemicals before we get into it? I don't. I'm not dropping through weight classes. I have no new trainer. I think that's interesting though. Manny robles world class trainer must be an adjustment for you. If anyone can roll with the punches and just battle through any type of adversity, it's jamel herring. So I know you'll be in top shape for that fight in May. And it's got to be different. It's going from Colorado to LA. It definitely right now. I know it was back and forth with Colorado while snow and everything and in LA. The weather is getting just right because the springtime. So I was definitely going to be a huge difference in terms of atmospheres. But for me, I know once I was a pair of gloves and just, you know, go hit something. I'll be fine because again, I've had a great friendship relationship with Mandy mobile up a decade and again, he was in my corner for not only for the amperes, but an Olympics as well. So we definitely have a great bond and I'm just happy to be around another familiar face at least. Yeah, no question about that. All right, let's jump into the news fellas of the week. And I want to begin with a conclusion, a resolution for the drama between Devin Haney and George Campbell's Devin Haney and George Campbell's will meet in June to settle the undisputed championship at a 135 pounds that fight will take place in Australia. It will be broadcast on ESPN, which is a layer of this that will peel back as well. Dan, let's start with you. Give me a reaction to finally, you know, getting a deal done for Devin Haney to face George campuses. I just tweeted this out. It was years of confusion about who was the undisputed the franchise belt, all that nonsense, months of painstaking, negotiations, whether it was a lomachenko at first, and now in steps Devin Haney. But finally, this June, we're going to have resolution, like you said, Chris. And we're going to have ourselves an undisputed champion at lightweight. Barring a draw. I did tweet that too, and I got a lot of reactions on. No, please. The last thing we need is a draw in this fight to string this along anymore. But I think it's great. I think it's good for boxing. Dev and haney, many believe that he was the guy that should get this shot because of the confusion with the belt. He is on paper, or if you want to say email, I know that's a slight, but he is the champion of the WBC at 135 pounds. Obviously, we saw George campos did winning those belts against TF female Lopez. I thought lomachenko fight would make the most amount of money for George campos. I'm pretty sure it would have some insights on how those negotiations were going. But if it was either a lomachenko or haney, you know, I was fine with that, but now we're going to figure out that once and for all, it's going to go down in Australia. The fact that it's on regular ESPN I think is a big win for boxy fans going to get a huge viewership and like you said, just finally getting an answer to this long, long winded saga at 135 pounds and we're going to figure out who's the best. Jamal, what do you think? Because I know you were watching that very closely because whether Lou de Bella wants to admit it or not, you were potentially an option if that fight had fallen through to go to Australia and fight George Campbell. So what do you think of a deal finally getting done? I'm here. I mean, from my side, I did get a call. I did get a call about basically being on standby. I was pretty a lot of reading on the articles. I was pretty much playing C in terms because like I said, playing a was lomachenko plan B, of course I was hanging. And then I was actually giving a call to last minute response whether to prepare for my own fight to be on standby, but all due respect, I feel like the right man did get the opportunity. And even, you know, of course, I would love to fight in front of the world title, but I feel at my own right, I have to earn to get back into that until that conversation. But it's a good fight. It's a good fight. Like they are putting out, we finally get to put the rats, this is truly the true undisputed championship of the world with all the belts, including the mix up between the franchise title and the regular WC title happening being able to put it, but it's a good fight. Like you also stated ESPN. So it's going to be an or a bigger platform and I'm definitely as a box fan. I'm definitely excited to bless, you know, once I handle business.
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"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"By your logic, Alexander usak is the man in heavyweight. Do you believe that? No. He's got, okay, then what's the difference? You know, that's a good point. Maybe it's just the fact that he collected all the belts, kimbos is collected all the belts. Not a unification, not two belts. The ring, the lineal championship, he the way he did it in the hometown of tee of female Lopez. It was hard. I mean, everything was just there. It was aligned. It was a storybook victory. That's why he's number one. Look, in this sport, one story in one punch one punch can change your life in this sport. That's what makes it so beautiful. The fact that you can lose it and lose everything in one night and you can gain it back in one more fight. That's the beauty of this. You can't do that in basketball. No, you can't do it anymore, but you can do it in no other sport. You can kind of do it. Well, I mean, when a Super Bowl you change everything. But I don't disagree that it was a magical moment for George campos. And he should cash in on that. But I watched lomachenko, not just this last fight, but his previous fight against nakatani, and every fight prior to the day a few more Lopez fight. And he was brilliant. He was arguably for the last few years, the top pound for pound guy in the sport. He is rebounded from his only loss at lightweight and won two straight. He beat up on a very good fighter like you said in Richard Comey. And if you were gonna match lomachenko against George camb boss tomorrow, I mean, you and I both know we both pick lomachenko to win that fight. And by that standard, that's why I put lomachenko at number one. It would be a good fight because Cambodia knows how to follow game plan and he knows how to cut the distance. That's probably his best asset. The fact that he knows how to close the distance really well. He's an excellent fighter. But he knows how to do it in a sneaky timing is probably his best acid timing and cutting distance, but lomachenko is the smaller lightweight. So he's not only is he going to have to cut that on our show there this week, but how much Comey's a big lightweight, right? Comey's a big guy. Lomachenko didn't look that small against him. You put lomachenko and cam boasts in the ring. Yeah, Kim, both might have a couple inches on him height wise, but physically, like lomachenko was the thicker guy in a matchup like that..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"richard comey" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"So, you know, I think maybe lomachenko and his team deserve more criticism here than tank Davis and his team because what is he doing? He's fighting Richard Comey, Saturday night at Madison Square Garden and I don't want to disrespect your Comey's a hard hitting guy. He comes to fight and everything. But what is beating Richard Comey doing for other than fattening his bank account a little bit, what is it doing for vesicular lomachenko's legacy for anything really? Well, do you think he took that fight not to excuse it because I think you're right. But I think he took that fight believing that taffy was going to win and believing he just needed another fight going into 2022 to prepare him for that rematch. I think top right was going to push. For that. Chris, he has to fight somebody. I'm not saying, he's got to fight somebody, but again, this is, I mean, there's no way around the fact that he's fighting T of female Lopez's leftovers. I mean, there's no two ways about it. I agree. I think for me where I start to criticize lomachenko is next year is if he goes into next year and if he's so stubborn about staying at one 35 and the Cambodia's fight doesn't come together, what does he do? Like, can they I don't think they can make a fight with javonte Davis? It doesn't seem like that's something that's even remotely been discussed. And beyond that, like, what are we talking about? What's there for him at one 35 that's easy to make? And if you're George campos, and you have all these options, that's not the guy I'm fighting. I'm not fighting on my channel. Why would you fight him? I mean, it's the most complicated style of all of them. And he still, you know, it was a 33 34 now. I mean, he's getting up there a little bit. But I wouldn't fight him. You know, so and he has no losing the titles. You guys know leverage. I mean, he's still you talk to him Keith. Why do you think he doesn't want to go back to one? Do you think it's the weight? Like he doesn't want to cut that 5 pounds because we've watched him rise from one 26 on up. I think he's so much better at one 30. He is a much better one. Yeah, I think so too. I tried to ask him that. I didn't really get a straight answer to be honest with you. And again, I don't know, maybe if that's a negotiating ploy by them because they know the top rank does not want to put for whatever reason is hell bent on not putting Oscar valdes in the ring which of course Stevenson..