April 1, 2020
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Winky Wright knocked out Sugar Ray Leonard in the ninth round in today’s ‘eWBSS Middleweight Legends’ fantasy tournament. Winky will take on the winner of tomorrow’s march between Carlos Monzon and Jake LaMotta.
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A new weight division? In an article on their website, the WBC floated the idea of a possible super heavyweight division in professional boxing. The article concludes that the division isn’t necessary yet, but it will become increasingly inevitable.
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Pretty much all sports in the world being canceled isn’t doing sports streaming network DAZN any favors. Reportedly subscribers are canceling, staff are being furloughed, and rights fee payments are being deferred for the time being. DAZN is postponing their big worldwide launch originally scheduled for May to later this year.
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Super featherweight prospect Aqib Fiaz (5-0, 0 KOs) has signed a multi-fight promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing.

WBC Talks, during the COVID-19 crisis
May 9 Ramirez-Postol clash postponed

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  • Yeah if it’s one thing boxing needs it’s another weight division? ‍♂️ Seriously It’s such a dumb idea, that’s what heavyweight is, top of the line so stop smothering the sport with your countless divisions and alphabet titles it’s just becoming a joke

  • Just what we need, another weight class with four more champions. Wonderful! Why don’t we simply have a weight class for every pound on the scale and get it over with?

    • They pretty much have that now. All that these divisions really do, except provide more “champions”, is to encourage fighters to squeeze into classes too small for them to gain weight advantage. Couldn’t do that with the eight weight divisions.

  • This move would actually benefit the smaller guys moving up from cruiser like Usyk. Can’t see Usyk fighting Fury and we know Fury’s size would be a factor. Usyk is not a one-punch KO artist, but rather a accumulative puncher. Fury would have his way all the way thru the fight. Yes, a smaller heavyweight class would protect the smaller guy’s overall health status from the bigger giants in the division. In addition, if a smaller heavyweight would decide to eat tons of cheeseburgers, fried chicken, and ice cream, he can move up to the grown-up’s class and test his chin with the bigger bangers. You get the picture…LOL

  • — Naked new belt cash grab by tubby El Presidente Para Viejo Junior.

    Already have the Junior heavy division 25 lbs over light heavy. Make it 10 more at the 210 lb limit if you must, or just close up shop as these money grubbers have already driven the Greatest Pro Sport in history into a fringe sport.

    • True because the average sports fan can not take a sport seriously that has so many champions to try to follow or care about.

  • How about a heavyweight division that requires talent? Not just a fat fuck who bought a pair of gloves at 21 year of age

  • The WBC have been cheapening their status in recent years. They are not as bad as the WBA but not far off.
    And it’s kind of funny that they are doing this with the mess they have made of their HW title whereby a guy has been waiting for his shot for an age. This guy is now interim champ but I reckon he’ll have been interim champ for at least 18 months (if he remains undefeated) before he gets a shot and even then it wouldn’t surprise me if the champ was protected by becoming the franchise champ.
    There is a SH division in the amateurs but there is no cruiser division there. I hope for once they don’t take this idea any further

  • Thanks for reminding me to cancel my DAZN subscription, I would’ve forgotten.

  • A super heavyweight division isn’t needed. Fat fuck heavyweights need to fight at Cruiserweight.

    Any other reasons are just for these ABC cunts to get more sanctioning fees and ruin boxing further

  • Totally silly outcome Winky Wright would never have beaten SRL let alone knocked him out, what’s next a lightweight tournament with Magic man Paulie knocking out Roberto Duran? Pffff

    • i stopped following this fantasy wbss when Mike Tyson Dec Muhammad Ali.WTH LOL

  • Am I seriously going to be the first one to post a comment about the absurd outcome of the Winky Wright vs. Sugar Ray Leonard fantasy fight?! There is no way in hell Winky Wright would ever have knocked Ray out.

    • They didn’t mentioned, but the match was when Winky was on his prime, and Leonard just after his fight against Macho Camacho

  • I think the silliest thing here is the thought that winky Wright could have kod sugar ray ha ha

  • Surely that WBSS result got mixed up and they meant to say that was Sugar Ray Leonard knocking out Winky Wright in the ninth round, not the other way around. Are they serious?? Wright can’t KO Vargas, Mosley, Quartet, or Trinidad in real life but he can KO the great Sugar Ray in a video game? This means we will not see Sugar Ray Robinson vs Sugar Ray Leonard in this game! I haven’t been this outraged since Rocky Balboa KO’d Mason “The Line” Dixon in a computer fight!

    • Ha ha. Balboa was robbed in the “real fight “ too. The fix was in.
      Back to wright: he won 1 fight out of about 5 or 6 actual middleweight fights. He was always a jr mid.

      Mason Dixon would have cleaned him up

  • Whoever concocted the outcome of Wright vs Leonard must have absolutely been on crack.. Seriously

  • This Fight Night Champion must be quite the game where Wright knockouts out Leonard.

  • Definitely a fantasy I thought it would be interesting to see Wright beat Leonard to shake things up didn’t believe it would happen I’m going for Winky to win it all now

  • When Primo Carnera was heavyweight champ, they floated the idea of a “dreadnought” division because it was thought that giants like Carnera would be too much for smaller heavyweights. They were wrong then, and the WBC is wrong now to even consider this. Cruiserweight Steve Cunningham nearly kayoed giant Tyson Fury; Anthony Joshua was stopped by the shorter Andy Ruiz; Deontay Wilder has been hurt, rocked and dropped by guys much smaller than him. In the end, skill always beats size.

  • Only in fantasy land does Winky Wright beat Sugar Ray Leonard, except maybe if they were to fight right now!

  • Fantasy tournament living in a fantasy world. Wright, who was by no means a puncher, ko’s Leonard!!! Cannot take this series serious anymore.

  • This computer tournament was absurd in conception and now is absurd in its result. Just too funny. Wright should not be in the tournament of 8 middleweights. Leonard should be at welterweight. If they fought at Middleweight, it would go to a decision. That would be a mortal lock bet, i.e. that it goes the distance.

  • So your telling me someone who goes the distance with Hearn, Hagler and Duran gets knocked out by Winky Wright. That’s a thinker.

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