Monthly Archives: July 2023

Pound4poundireland’s July 30th POUND FOR POUND top 10

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1. Terence Crawford

2. Naoya Inoue

3. Oleksandr Usyk

4. Dmitry Bivol

5. Juan Francisco Estrada

6. Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez

7. Gervonta Davis

8. Artur Beterbiev

9. Devin Haney

10. Shakur Stevenson

  • Well I did say it would take something extraordinary to unseat Inoue at the top spot and that’s exactly what Terence Crawford delivered.
  • Bud’s dismantling and stoppage of Errol Spence is one of the great boxing performances of recent decades and vaults him to the top spot. For now, he’s the 1A to Inoue’s 1B.
  • Already a modern great, my hope now is that Crawford gets the chance to stay active over the remaining few years of his career to push towards all timer status.

July 29th’s Random Boxing Rants

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An important series of articles here from the LA Times’ Melody Gutierrez on boxing pensions in California:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-31/california-boxers-pensions

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-11/alex-ramos-boxing-california-pension-plan-struggles

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-11/how-to-claim-california-boxing-pension

A fourth Kerry boxer joined the pro ranks recently on a show in Waterford: Ballbunion’s Maurice Falvey. 

Introducing – Maurice Falvey

 

Pound4poundireland’s July 25th POUND FOR POUND top 10

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1. Naoya Inoue

2. Oleksandr Usyk

3. Dmitry Bivol

4. Juan Francisco Estrada

5. Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez

6. Gervonta Davis

7. Terence Crawford

8. Artur Beterbiev

9. Devin Haney

10. Shakur Stevenson

  • It’s Naoya Inoue’s world and we’re just living in it. In what will surely go down as one of the era’s great displays, Inoue outclasses and knocks out Stephen Fulton to establish himself in one fight as the best super bantamweight in the world and the undisputed pound for pound king.
  • It’s going to take a mighty performance from Errol Spence or Terence Crawford Saturday night to even put themselves in the conversation for Inoue’s top spot.