{"id":259752,"date":"2025-07-12T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259752\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:43:10","slug":"a-message-to-floyd-mayweather-roy-jones-and-the-ibf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259752\/","title":{"rendered":"A message to Floyd Mayweather, Roy Jones, and the IBF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Greetings Breadman, I hope all is well with you and yours my man. Just to weigh in on the Crawford-Canelo fight coming up: I have very mixed feelings. In some ways, this fight reminds me of Michael Spinks versus Larry Holmes, in that both boxers are elite with one (the naturally bigger man in both cases) showing enough decline that the smaller man is emboldened to attempt exploiting that slippage. I don\u2019t see Crawford attempting this one right after Canelo broke Billy Joe Saunder\u2019s face, for instance. In other ways, it reminds me of De La Hoya-Pacquiao (De La Hoya having lost a split decision against Floyd, followed by win over Stevie Forbes \u2013 not shot by any means but not the Oscar that gave Trinidad a boxing lesson and got robbed versus Mosley). However, Bud is older than Canelo, let alone the far younger and fresher Pac Man who was just 31 when stepping up to fight De La Hoya. Comparisons and analogies are fun, though far from scientific. The more I think about it, I go back to the old saying: a good big man beats a good small man every time. While I concede Bud has some advantages skills-wise, ring IQ and mindset are dead even. This is not Sugar Ray moving up against Donny Lalonde. Canelo is far better than Lalonde. This would be more like SRL stepping up against Michael Spinks or Evander Holyfield so I\u2019m going to resist making too much of Bud being an inch taller or longer and keep it simple: He\u2019s never been in the ring with a natural 168-pound fighter (Canelo\u2019s familiar weight class) and I think he\u2019s going to be in for a very rude awakening when Canelo starts connecting wherever he can \u2013 arms, shoulders, etc. I\u2019m taking Canelo by mid-late stoppage, perhaps BoMac saving Crawford from himself, but what the hell do I know? We shall see! May the best man win! On another note, something I\u2019ve been meaning to ask you about is this: We all feel terrible for Miguel Cotto perhaps being a victim of Margarito\u2019s loaded wraps one fight before getting caught, as it obviously impacted Cotto and his career afterwards, despite being stellar, we\u2019ll never know how good he might\u2019ve been if that didn\u2019t happen to him. But I\u2019m surprised less people bring up Kermit Citron and his two brutal beatdowns at the hands of Margarito and what those beatings did to his career. I don\u2019t think we can over-estimate the psychological impact of getting beaten into submission while not knowing their opponent might have been using illegal hand wraps. Of course, we don\u2019t know if Margarito\u2019s hands were illegally wrapped those nights, but go back and watch those fights, and it\u2019s easy to speculate. I know Cintron started late with boxing, but was a very hot prospect, eventual world champion, and last I heard, opened a gym in Allentown where he doesn\u2019t like discussing his professional career as a boxer. What\u2019s your thoughts on that Bread? Emanuel Steward wouldn\u2019t have taken Citron on if he wasn\u2019t \u201cthe goods\u201d and that\u2019s in part why I think the poor guy might have been a victim of illegal hand wraps ruining and shortening his career. To his credit, I\u2019ve never heard Citron speak about it but I think the rest of us should. It takes such immense courage to step in the ring and do what these guys do, they shouldn\u2019t need to worry about being assaulted with anything deadlier than the two fists of the boxer in the opposite corner. Thanks again for all you do, my brother. Keep punching and Muharam Karim! Sean, Atlantic City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greetings Breadman, I hope all is well with you and yours my man. 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