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[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

Six years ago me and five mates ran a fantasy boxing draft league over a group chat and a spreadsheet.

We've done it every year since. So I built the real thing.

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[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

@DragonsCentral still a lot to play out so who knows! but Young's (also assuming he'l be coach) showed his hand that he wants Reed in 1st grade. will need a big off-season.

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@ATokkers5 Tell me more 😍😍😍

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

FIGHT PREVIEW: 🇦🇺Andrew Moloney vs 🇲🇽Willibaldo Garcia - IBF super fly championship, Aichi Sky Expo, Tokoname, Japan, Saturday June 6

Moloney is boxing for a world title on enemy soil, against the odds and the money, trying to close one of the great redemption arcs in Australian boxing.

Two years ago Andrew Moloney stood in a Perth ring, grabbed the mic after a split-decision loss to Pedro Guevara that most ringside observers thought he'd won, and told the world he was done. "I'm done with this sport." Four world title fights, a WBA super fly reign, a 2014 Commonwealth Games gold, and it looked like it was ending on ANOTHER bad scorecard. The Moloney story has always carried that ache, the sense of a fighter who keeps doing enough but keeps walking away empty-handed.

He didn't stay retired. He went back to the gym, ground his way back to mandatory position, and now at 35 he gets possibly his last shot at a world title since the Joshua Franco saga. And that saga is the reason Aussie fans should care. Their second fight in 2020 is one of the genuine robberies of the modern era: Moloney battered Franco's right eye shut inside two rounds, the doctor stopped it, and then the referee ruled the swelling came from a headbutt after a replay review that dragged on close to half an hour. NO CONTEST?!. A title was in his grasp, won, gone. He lost the trilogy on the cards too. Moloney has spent his whole career a coat of paint away from greatness.

This fight is well worth watching beyond that story. Garcia (23-6-2, 13 KOs) is the champ, he's fighting at home base in Japan under the Kameda banner, and he's taking 85% of the purse to Moloney's 15%. Matchroom reportedly offered Moloney US$250,000 to step aside and let someone else in. He turned it down flat.

"Winning this world title means more than anything to me, more than money." That's a man fighting on the road, for the short end, because the belt is the only thing he ever actually wanted.

Garcia is no gift, he's a late bloomer who started his career 1-3 and didn't peak until his mid-30s, a durable, awkward Mexican who edged Rene Calixto by SD to win the vacant strap. He grinds, he survives, and he found a way when it mattered. Moloney is the sharper, more decorated boxer with the cleaner amateur pedigree and the better engine, which is exactly the profile of fighter who's supposed to win comfortably and then doesn't, because that has been his entire story.

EVERYONE should be getting behind the Moloney's . Andrew and Jason are about as far from fight-game bravado as you'll find. A pair of Melbourne twins who only picked up the gloves at 13 to get fitter for footy, they've built a reputation in the sport for being exactly what they look like, no manufactured trash talk, no act. ESPN once described them as a refreshing countermovement to the murky machismo of boxing, all old-school grit and authenticity. Their longtime manager Tony Tolj just calls them "beautiful people" and reckons that's "a big rarity" in this business.

In a sport that rewards the loudest man in the room, the Moloneys are two of the genuinely good blokes you'l meet, and that's part of why us Aussies have always wanted to see them finally get the result they deserve.
🔥🔥🔥

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

@el_pollo_loco 100% agree. The Franco NC still does my head in.

Going to be nervous watching saturday. hope he can get it done.

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

@ntqu3ntin @fakndafunk Huni has awesome skills, and has unreal movement for a heavy…. Problem has always been his power.. he cant finish guys - and at heavyweight thats a problem when they CAN finish you.

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

i am better than that! 💪
that was not a comment saying AJ earned that shot or that I agreed with it. Just that Usyk's shown he's happy to be stripped when it suits him.

my personal preference is for him to retire, BUT if he has to have one more fight, it should be kabayel. 

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

@agentofchaos22 problem is even if zuffa allows him to chase another belt - im not sure the sanctioning bodies will play ball.

They won't crown Dana White's fighter while Dana wants them abolished. Jai might just get used as a pawn and boxed out. Shame, he's one of my favourite fighters.

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

No and NO.

Zuffa belt will never mean anything while it's a closed circuit. Sign 100 fighters, wall off the other 99% of the division, then hand out a title nobody outside the roster is allowed to contest.

You don't become undisputed by shrinking the field until only your guys are left in it.

Undisputed has a fixed meaning. WBA, WBC, WBO, IBF.

Benavidez holds 2 of those right now. Opetaia holds 0.

Ring and Zuffa aren't sanctioning bodies, they're house belts.

[D H @diegomayra]

Boxing Game Theory:

David Benavidez🇺🇸 fights Jaia Opetaia🇳🇿 after his next fight

Is the Winner the Undisputed Champ at Cruiser?

If Zuffa signs David, and they fight ONLY for ZUFFA & RING, Winner is Undisputed at Cruiser?

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

@UnbiasedBrim1 @agentofchaos22 maybe - but blind freddy could have seen signing with Zuffa was always going to be an issue, given their public intention of war against the sanctioning bodies.

if he wanted to be undisputed - signing with zuffa was a weird way to go about it.

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

💯 exactly this

if he just held the IBF for a little longer instead of signing with Zuffa, he'd be getting the big fight hes been begging for and be lining up against Benavidez right now.

use to think he was getting ducked, but its getting hard to blame anyone other than his own corner. unfortunately horribly managed

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

the distinction can definitely evolve (like when undisputed changed from 3 to 4 belts 20 odd yrs ago)

but for it to be just Zuffa and Ring - all four of those would have to collapse first. and they are all a corrupt mess so it's by no means impossible.

but i dont think its going to happen in the short term. by definition it should be so clear that it wont be 'disputed' - so we should be able to see it coming.

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

Only the IBF is actually US based. WBC is Mexico, WBA Panama, WBO Puerto Rico, so 501c rules don't reach them.

they just do whatever suits them, it only really turns criminal with real bribery/fraud - breaking bylaws isnt a crime im pretty sure (because they do it so often)

The law that's meant to govern them is the Ali Act. but even that barely gets enforced.

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

Only the WBA could turn a guy winning his last fight into a reason to give his belt away.

This is how the alphabet bodies print money. An injury that should freeze one belt spawns a second, and the sanctioning fees roll in either way.

Bam walks up to 118 and none of it matters. Belt politics evaporate the second one of the best fighters alive decides he wants what's in your division. 🔥

[Tokkerū @ATokkers5]

🚨The WBA has now officially made Seiya Tsutsumi their Bantamweight Champion in Recess due to injuries sustained in his fight against Nonito Donaire

Antonio Vargas has been installed as Full Champion, with his bout against Jesse Rodriguez approved as a title defence

The winner of that fight will have 6 months to defend the title against Tsutsumi

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

@fasipovi17 @SteveKim323 When the purse is big enough these bodies bend whatever rule's in the way. Skipped mandatories, franchise belts, two champs in one division, they've signed off on all of it 😅

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

@fasipovi17 @SteveKim323 haha yep. The WBC needed to be on that card more than he needed them. 50 million dollar event, biggest night the sport had in a long while.

So they cut his fee to 0.6% (still around 300k), basically begging to stay attached, and he still didn't bother.

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

exactly. The reason they can't pull this on Bam is the reason the racket works at all. A recess belt only sticks to a fighter who can't afford to walk.

if Bam vacates, the belt halves in value. Tsutsumi has no choice. Every alphabet belt is priced to whoever in the division has the least leverage.

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

@BoxingEnth People forget Floyd was barely a 6-5 favorite for this. A pick'em against a 33-0 Corrales who carried the bigger power.

Then he put Chico down five times and the corner had to climb the apron to save him.

Not many of his nights got that violent 🔥

[Dom Pirrello 🥊 @Pirrello]

Bournemouth is Zuffa Boxing's first UK card. glad to see them out of the soulless apex. And Padleys got that Sheffield main event when Yafai (and Dalton Smith before him) pulled out hurt. Cursed card.

Two big nights that look very different to how they were drawn up a month ago.