Tag, You’re HitThu Aug 21, 2025, 4:20 AM UTC<\/p>\n
In case you missed it, my reply was to the comment that “Bakhram Murtazaliev would crush either one”. I’m not out here beating the drum for Lubin or Ortiz, claiming they’re monsters that everybody is ducking. And with no basis for that other than he crushed Tim Tszyu and “everybody is avoiding him.”<\/p>\n
steeve steelThu Aug 21, 2025, 3:20 AM UTC<\/p>\n
Name 2 top guys Lubin beat? lol He got knocked out twice and barely beat Ramos, who’s nothing special. He had a chance to go for a belt, and he didn’t. Why? His manager explained pretty clearly. “We lose against Murta and were done. We lose against Ortiz and we can get another fight.” Either way, Lubin is losing. But<\/p>\n
Tag, You’re HitThu Aug 21, 2025, 2:39 AM UTC<\/p>\n
I’m not sure about Lubin being naturally bigger simply because he’s always fought at 154. Ortiz obviously wasn’t meant to be fighting at 147, at least not for as long as he did. And I’m also not convinced Lubin punches harder or that Vergil’s power hasn’t translated up. I think the main think about Ortiz is that the competition<\/p>\n
Tag, You’re HitThu Aug 21, 2025, 2:29 AM UTC<\/p>\n
Nah. I’m looking forward to this fight, but I’m WAY more interested Fundora vs. Thurman. My boy Keith back in a big fight finally. It’ll be interesting all the way from the announcement, through the lead up, and into the fight.<\/p>\n
Tag, You’re HitThu Aug 21, 2025, 2:26 AM UTC<\/p>\n
Name two top fighters Murtazaliev beat. And don’t try to get out of it by saying he hasn’t beaten two because he’s been ducked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tag, You’re HitThu Aug 21, 2025, 4:20 AM UTC In case you missed it, my reply was to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,4495,41954,79,16,15,126935],"class_list":{"0":"post-361402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-erickson-lubin","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-virgil-ortiz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115065374885589056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}