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Water Ur Seeds said:
Nah Shields is far from the GOAT, shes mad overrated and for a power puncher she doesnt even punch that hard, 2 KOs in 8 fights against limited opposition... Katie Taylor is head and shoulders above every other female imo, she was/is one of the most decorated amateur fighters of all time and could prolly out box most dudes (she even sparred rigo)...

In a few more Olympic runs there should be alot more elite female boxers though, right now there just isnt enough depth in the female divisions to constantly put on regularly good and also competitive fights but there is plenty of talent in the amateur set ups who should turn pro in the coming years which will strengthen the divisions...
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I think you'd have to put Cecilia Brækhus in that GOAT debate. She's been undefeated her entire career. 35-0 and been in the game for 12 years now. She's a very good boxer. Shileds still have a lot to prove but I like her confidence and if she continues to win hopefully she can hit the mainstream, that's what women's boxing is in need of. I don't consider her a power puncher though. I'm not sure but I don't think she has scored a knock down in her pro career. Those two TKO's the ref stopped the fights but her opponents didn't go down.
 
Lucas said:
I think you'd have to put Cecilia Brækhus in that GOAT debate. She's been undefeated her entire career. 35-0 and been in the game for 12 years now. She's a very good boxer. Shileds still have a lot to prove but I like her confidence and if she continues to win hopefully she can hit the mainstream, that's what women's boxing is in need of. I don't consider her a power puncher though. I'm not sure but I don't think she has scored a knock down in her pro career. Those two TKO's the ref stopped the fights but her opponents didn't go down.
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With regards to Cecilia, I agree she is a big name and with a good record on paper, the best on paper but with that said the 12 years she has been in boxing has been the years where you had/have alot women with no pedigree turning pro after doing a few boxfit sessions in their 20's/30's and finding out they are half decent so turn pro, thats what I mean when I talk about the lack of depth in the divisions... It was even worse in the Ann Wolfe/Jane Couch days, they was knocking out dreadful and embarrassing competition...

I will say Anne Wolfe, Jane Couch and Cecilia etc are definitely trailblazers and pioneers of female boxing but the real great fighters who will be looked upon as genuine elite GOATS from a skill standpoint will be from this crop (Clarissa/Katie etc) and the further crop that turn over from the amateurs after the forthcoming Olympics and Worlds, theres now a good infrastructure for female boxing to keep producing great fighters each...

Im by no means an expert on womenas boxing though, I hated it until the elite amateurs like Katie Taylor, Clarissa Shields, Chantelle Cameron and Savannah Marshall, Nicola Adams etc all turned over but now I feel it has credibility to it, but these women are still having to fight women nowhere near there level for most part... Still none of them are in the same realm as Katie Taylor, she genuinely fights like a Lomachenko, I love just watching her footwork but its taken her a while to fight like a pro, her last few fights she has started to plant her feet more though...
 
https://www.boxingscene.com/ellerbe-arum-knows-damn-well-loma-tank-not-about-happen--137876

Ellerbe: Arum Knows Damn Well Loma-Tank Not About To Happen
By Keith Idec

Leonard Ellerbe respects Bob Arum’s ability to sell an event without even discussing the main fight itself.

Ellerbe believes that’s the reason, and the only reason, why Arum mentions Gervonta Davis’ name whenever Vasiliy Lomachenko fights. The Mayweather Promotions CEO doesn’t think Lomachenko-Davis, one of the more intriguing boxing matches that can be made, will happen anytime soon.

Ellerbe admits he and Floyd Mayweather have other plans for Davis’ immediate future. He still can’t help but laugh off Arum’s suggestion that Lomachenko-Davis makes sense for his company, Top Rank Inc., which promotes Lomachenko.

This week, Ellerbe suspects Arum wanted to talk about Lomachenko-Teofimo Lopez, Lomachenko-Richard Commey, Lomachenko-Davis – any fight, frankly, to deflect attention away from Lomachenko facing huge underdog Anthony Crolla on Friday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Ukraine’s Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), the WBA and WBO lightweight champion, is listed by some odds-makers as a 100-1 favorite over England’s Crolla (34-6-3, 13 KOs), the mandatory challenger for his WBA 135-pound championship.

“There’s talk about [Lomachenko-Davis] because he’s fighting this week,” Ellerbe told BoxingScene.com. “Bob’s a master at this. He’s a terrific promoter and he says things to try to generate publicity for a fight that not many people wanna see. And it’s not [Lomachenko’s] fault. It is what it is. That’s none of my business. But I know why he says certain things. Bob’s really good at a lot of things. I know him very well and it’s just typical Bob.

“But I’ll say this – the reason why they’re bringing up Gervonta Davis’ name is, again, there’s not talk about the opponent he has. So, they have to create some type of interest and get some talk going about something. And Gervonta Davis is one of the biggest, youngest rising stars in the sport. [Arum] knows damn well that [the Lomachenko-Davis] fight is not getting ready to happen.”

If the 31-year-old Lomachenko beats Crolla, he likely will face IBF champion Richard Commey (28-2, 25 KOs) next in a lightweight title unification fight. The 24-year-old Davis (21-0, 20 KOs) might be headed toward a WBA “super” 130-pound title defense against former three-division champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (29-2, 17 KOs) on July 27 in his hometown of Baltimore

Whomever Davis and Lomachenko fight next, Ellerbe is certain they won’t face each other.

“I don’t know what they’re telling [Lomachenko],” Ellerbe said, “but they should keep Gervonta Davis’ name out of their mouths. … Why are they talking about Gervonta Davis? Because listen, what we’re doing is what we’re gonna do. And not Bob Arum or anyone else is gonna tell us how to move our kid and what we’re gonna do. Our kid’s gonna be the biggest star in the sport, and I’m very confident of that. Because we know what we’re doing. We have a plan, and our plan is gonna work.”

The Lomachenko-Crolla fight will headline an ESPN+ stream scheduled to begin with undercard action at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Lomachenko-Crolla is expected to start sometime around midnight ET/9 p.m. PT.
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https://www.boxingscene.com/arum-if-crawford-wins-ill-call-haymon-make-spence-fight--137882

Arum: If Crawford Wins, I'll Call Haymon To Make Spence Fight

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford, is planning to do everything possible to make a unification with IBF world champion Errol Spence.

Spence was in action last month, when he dominated four division world champion Mikey Garcia over twelve rounds at AT&T Stadium in Texas.

Crawford is back in the ring on April 20th, when he defend his title against Amir Khan at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Should Crawford win next Saturday night, Arum is planning to call Al Haymon - the head of Premier Boxing Champions, who guide the career of Spence.

Haymon has numerous welterweights under his brand - including WBC champion Shawn Porter, WBA champion Keith Thurman, eight division champion Manny Pacquiao, Danny Garcia, and several others.

But Arum views Spence as the main opponent for Crawford's legacy at the weight.

“They have one fighter, Errol Spence,” Arum said to The Los Angeles Times.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that Errol Spence wants the fight as much as Crawford wants it. So if Terence wins, I’ll call Al Haymon and work to sit down and make the fight. It’s not rocket science that this has to happen. We can sit down and make the fight in one day just like we did for Mayweather-Pacquiao.

“If a promoter blocks that fight, he ought to be ashamed.”

In 2015, Arum and Haymon sat down to finalize the most lucrative fight in combat sports history - when Mayweather and Pacquiao collided in May of that year, in what was a joint venture by rival cable networks HBO and Showtime.

Arum is hoping for a similar type of situation, since Crawford is aligned with ESPN and Spence is backed by Showtime and Fox Sports. A joint pay-per-view venture will be necessary to make the fight a reality.
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Lurk Rambis said:
I always watch her fights, she the Serena William's of the boxing game right now. Still salty Laila Ali ducked that Anne Wolfe smoke. Shields will be Goat when it's all said and done.
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Yea she was shook as fuck made mad excuses

Lucas said:
Speaking of Wolfe, she was a fucking beast. That KO she produced against... (I can't remember her name) must be the best KO in women's boxing. One punch KO that put her opponent to sleep. Regarding Shields vs Hammer. Hammer is slow but has a stiff jab, knows how to fight tall and is a technically sound good boxer. On paper this is Shield's toughest fight. I think it will be a competitive fight but in the end Shields should win.
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Vonda Ward

Arturo Gatti Ward of women's boxing was Mafoud vs Clampett
 
Anybody got a link for the loma fight tonight or know where's it's playing on the firestick?
 
https://www.boxingscene.com/crawford-khan-pay-per-view-details-6995-hd--137895

Crawford-Khan Pay-Per-View Details: $69.95 For HD

The undefeated pound-for-pound king, three-division world champion and reigning WBO welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford will headline the inaugural Top Rank on ESPN pay-per-view broadcast against former unified super lightweight world champion Amir “King” Khan Saturday, April 20 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT from Madison Square Garden.

Crawford vs. Khan will be available via all major cable and satellite providers with a suggested retail price of $59.95 (SD) or $69.95 (HD).

All undercard bouts will air live on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes, beginning at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.

Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs), the fighting pride of Omaha, Nebraska, unified all four super lightweight titles in August 2017 and moved up to the welterweight division intent on doing the same. In June 2018, he won the WBO welterweight title with a dominant ninth-round stoppage over Manny Pacquiao conqueror Jeff “The Hornet” Horn. Four months later, in front of a packed hometown house at the CHI Health Center Omaha, he stopped bitter rival Jose Benavidez Jr. in the 12th round.

Khan (33-4, 20 KOs), who captured an Olympic silver medal in 2004 for Great Britain at the age of 17, has long been one of boxing’s most captivating performers. He won his first world title in 2009 and has victories over Marco Antonio Barrera, Zab Judah, Marcos Maidana, Paulie Malignaggi, Luis Collazo and Devon Alexander. He is undefeated as a welterweight and is once again attempting to prove his greatness against boxing’s best.

In other action on the pay-per-view broadcast:

• Lightweight sensation Teofimo Lopez (12-0, 10 KOs) will face former world title challenger and two-time European lightweight champion Edis Tatli (31-2, 10 KOs) in a 12-round co-feature. Lopez is ranked in the top five by all four major sanctioning organizations and is coming off a savage seventh-round knockout over Diego Magdaleno.

• In the other co-feature attraction, Shakur Stevenson (10-0, 6 KOs), the 21-year-old featherweight phenom who earned a silver medal for the United States at the 2016 Rio Olympics, will face former world title challenger Christopher “Pitufo” Diaz (24-1, 16 KOs) in a 10-rounder.

• Felix “El Diamante” Verdejo (24-1, 16 KOs), one of Puerto Rico’s most popular fistic attractions, will fight former interim world champion Bryan Vasquez (37-3, 20 KOs) in a 10-round lightweight duel with potential world title implications.
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