Alright, it’s going to be three great pick ’em fights. Any fighter can win. They are all very talented. This blog is to address some dumb stuff that is being said because I can’t believe it needs to be said. Bill Haney is stating that Garcia looks smaller and less fit then last time. That Garcia looks smaller and slimmer. I can’t believe this needs to be said but if you look smaller and weigh more, that means that your muscles are denser or you are more fit. If you look big but weigh less, that means you have less muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you look tiny and weigh the same as a person that looks like a body builder, that means you are one strong son of a bitch. You understand that? By Bill Haney stating that Garcia looks smaller this time and looked bigger last time but weighed less last time and weighs more this time, it means that Garcia was probably not on PED’s. Does that make sense? PED’s make you weigh more because they thicken your muscle. So looking bigger but weighing less probably means that Garcia was injured and had too much cortisol in his system and most likely didn’t do the cryo (ice) baths or used the cryo machine to let his muscles heal probably and was full of cortisol, (did I already say that?), which makes you look bloated but doesn’t weigh as much as muscle and actually makes you tire faster and makes you weaker. So, with all of Bill Haney’s accusations, he is only saying that a weaker version of Garcia beat his son. You don’t believe me, you can ask any Exercise Physiologist or Kinesiologist if what I just said is true and they will tell you that it is. Mr. Haney is making a case that Garcia was not on PED’s that night but was injured.

As for the fights, If Romero lands flush, it’s good night Garcia but Garcia knows that. If Garcia lands flush, it’s good night Rolly, but Rolly knows that. The only thing we should hope for is that neither care and they are here to put on a show for the fans. 50-50 fight in my opinion.

For Haney vs. Ramirez, I think Ramirez has the power edge but I think that Haney has the slickness edge. In Ramirez’ loss against Taylor, it would have been a draw if he hadn’t gotten careless and hit the canvas. That’s saying something about Jose’s recuperative ability. Haney doesn’t have the same kind of recuperative ability, if he gets hurt, he stays hurt for a couple of rounds but he is a real slick fighter that probably won’t put himself in that position. Everyone says this will be the snoozer of the three, I don’t know. If Ramirez had a good camp and forces Haney to come to him, this might be a barn burner. Haney can’t afford to lose three in a (almost) row (Some people say he lost to Loma, he lost to Garcia, even though it was reversed and if he loses now, it will be 3). He will have to prove his bona fides if he wants to headline ever again. Haney is teetering on becoming irrelevant, so he needs to come out hard. If he wins but wins boring or lackluster, he might not even get the Garcia rematch. He needs to be the person everyone is talking about at the end of the night, in a good way not in a “maybe he doesn’t have a chin” way. For Ramirez, compadre, put your faith in God and your corner. Make Haney come to you. If you take a half step back and to your right or left, all of that slickness of Haney’s goes away. Use the stick often and you will put Haney in a position where he has to play catch up, then make it a dog fight. That guarantees you a win and maybe a KO.

Lopez vs Barboza…. In all honesty this fight will either be the best fight of the year or the fight I go to the store to buy chips. Barboza has looked…. both elite level and amateurish. Against Catterall and Ramirez, he looked like a superstar. Against McComb, I got a hematoma. I fell asleep and hit my head on the coffee table. I looked like Hasim Rahman when he fought Oleg Maskeav. You have to be a boxing fan to know what I’m talking about. First, let me say that Ramirez was his most difficult fight, even though he made it look easy. The scores were closer in the Catterall fight but that’s because he was fighting in England on DAZN and everyone was pushing a Catterall versus Lopez fight, which would have seen Lopez knock Catterall out in 8 rounds. Barboza won that running away. Against Lopez, Barboza has to be something more than special, he has to be a top ten performer. Lopez is probably the best fighter in this line up. If anyone was born with boxing gloves on, it was this kid. He is a generational talent, so beating him makes you that. The only knock on Lopez is outside influences. They mess with this kid and make it hard on him. If the fight is fair, no outside influence, even though I like Barboza as a person, Lopez wins it. Barboza can prove me wrong but the one thing that Lopez has over everyone is his Boxing IQ and awareness mixed with some God like speed. It’s an almost insurmountable advantage but he does have a loss on his record, so it can be done. But I know it was because they were messing with him, not to take away from Kambosos’ effort. He was extremely on point that night. George would have beaten almost anyone that night. I give this fight to the Hispanic guy… he’ll be the winner unless Bill Haney jumps in there and whoops both of them, but then Oscar is going to break out that left hook…. this is already getting crazy.

Good luck to all of the fighters and thanks for agreeing to these fights. Boxing is back again thanks to you. Here’s hoping that I don’t have any hematomas. You guys have to make it more exciting that Benn v Eubanks. It will be hard to do that but you need to try.