Boxing is a wreck. Whether it’s fighting advertisers, Frantic Max levels of oversight or Ponzi-by-numbers plans of action, the game can’t avoid its own idiotic way. However occasionally, a wonderful sight is fished from the swamp – a benevolent demonstration, a virtuoso strategy or one minute worth sharing. I desire to find and feature these here week after week. (Hey now, boxing, three seven days ain’t a lot to ask!) Got a thought or tip of your own? Go ahead and send it my way, and I’ll make certain to give you a gesture on the off chance that it’s utilized.
What’s more, an Aussie aggravation will lead them
You must hand it to George Kambosos Jr. He gave us a particular confining second back 2021, when he traversed the world to “take the zero” and, undeniably more significantly, shut the big mouth of Teofimo Lopez at New York’s Madison Square Nursery. Seen as a close incredible, profession making irritated with the time, the presentation has blurred a piece under the unforgiving light of time.
Yet, more damningly, in the mediating three years, Kambosos appeared to track down it his obligation to make up for the shortfall of organized nonsense Lopez had so masterfully addressed. Whether it was the hard turns between unending whimpering and tireless gloating, his likeness to a certain “Company” part or simply the neck tattoos, requiring Australia’s 30-year-old Kambosos truly had turned into an inexorably troublesome undertaking.
Yet, as he (possible) slips into a lesser level of watchable elite warriors following Sunday’s one place to another misfortune to Vasiliy Lomachenko, now is the right time to hand it to Kambosos once more. In his brief period in boxing’s spotlight, he got one thing right: He didn’t squander it.
Subsequent to knocking off Lopez and assuming control over the brought together lightweight title at age 28, Kambosos, might have taken boxing’s low, rewarding street. All things being equal, he calculated directly up the mountain – Devin Haney, a Haney rematch, Maxi Hughes (to slow down and rest) and, at long last, Lomachenko. Instead of draining his prime, as well as the praise of a nation – also every one of the potential open doors it introduced – Kambosos went 1-3 testing his grit during his pinnacle battling years. How reviving is that?
See, you can’t fault contenders for taking care of their professions and long haul wellbeing. (Who else will?) Yet as boxing fans, who pay profane aggregates and put forth a valiant effort to keep their heads above water stepping in expanses of debasement, you can damn well call B.S. at the point when you see it. (Note to Floyd Mayweather Jr. also, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, who never neglect to help us to remember their significance: Show us, don’t tell us.)
Or on the other hand, contenders, simply notice the counsel Kambosos presented after his Loma misfortune:
“F*** the singles out. Disregard the zero. Battle the best.”
Carve it into the family peak, toss on that emblem and ride into fight three ends of the week a year, and – win or lose – boxing fans will sing tunes about your magnificence.
Sweet triumph for “Sugar Neekz”
Three Coolest Things: Kambosos’ Advice, Justice for Sugar Neekz and Usyk’s ‘Talisman’ https://t.co/lYsfRPOQNp
— BoxingScene.com (@boxingscene) May 12, 2024
Prior to Sunday, Cherneka “Sugar Neekz” Johnson was, reasonably or not, referred to in boxing circles generally as the one who exposed everything (kind of) at the weigh in front of last June’s conflict with Ellie Scotney in Wembley Field. Johnson hit the scales with a topless middle body-painted with an OnlyFans logo, then, at that point, dropped a heartbreaker choice wherein she was cut on a conflict of heads and lost her lesser featherweight belt to Scotney.
Web savages, as they do, depicted the trick as “decrepit” and, at times, appeared to excuse Johnson as a warrior. There was more terrible, obviously. Yet, Johnson, a 29-year-old New Zealander, accepted any analysis, appeared for Sunday’s battle in Perth against Nina Hughes with an OnlyFans promotion on her trunks, then persevered through a declaring disaster prior to learning she had, as a matter of fact, done what’s necessary according to judges to swipe Hughes’ bantamweight title.
Call it vengeance, karma, no big deal either way. Johnson (16-2, 6 KOs) is currently a two-division champion and essentially more improved subsequent to inclining toward every last bit of her resources as opposed to creeping through an unforgiving game that is doubly unfriendly to ladies in light of some silly strict ideal. She has acknowledged her relationship for OnlyFans for giving the assets to travel and forego a non military personnel work to capitalize on her boxing profession, and the way that she gauges the principal promotion alone significantly increased every last bit of her past income as a warrior says undeniably more regarding us than it does about her. Great for Sweet Neekz (whatever that implies). Go get yours.
An insane peered toward, cuddly man of our times
It will be old information to some, however this week we again noticed a critical piece of stuff that Oleksandr Usyk stays close in his movements. It’s the Eeyore toy – named Liolia – given to the bound together heavyweight champ by his girl, Yelizaveta.
It’s one of those I’m-not-crying-you’re-crying stories that makes establishing against Usyk remarkably difficult. “It’s my girl’s. She gave it to me to be my charm,” Usyk told “The Sun” in 2022. “At the point when we left Ukraine together however our streets isolated in Europe, my girl gave this toy to me and said, ‘This should be right close to you.'”
Indeed, #GirlDad is moving. In any case, who planned to express boo about it in any case? A man who makes an appearance to testosterone-drenched exercise centers and boxing-press social events while unironically wearing a braid and gripping a Winnie the Pooh doll is, clearly, not to be fooled with.