Combat Talk Radio

Very few fighters have delivered FOTY and FOTY candidates like Eggington did.

The demise of HBO has caused a loss of ability to see some of these guys unless they were in with a top tier opponent.

Eggington never got to the pinnacle of world championship gold, but almost every fight he was in, delivered to the fullest extent.

We're understood that he retired in the end of 2021. If that's not true OR he decides to come back (he's still under 30 if we recall), we'd KILL to see Eggington against Conor Benn at 154.

Savannah did what we think she needed to do - which was make a statement. Hermans had not been stopped up until now, as a former champion, and Shields was taken the full distance by her.

Marshall's power in both hands is legit, and Shields has basically zero power. Her only chance from our perspective is to stay away from that power; but Marshall seems to be able to just walk opponents down at will.

This will be a great fight if/when it happens.

We saw one source that claimed this fight was on the 10th, but every other source says tomorrow, so we're not sure. May or may not happen.

Either way, it's one of the big fights of 2022, bar none.

Sandor Martin (known for beating Mikey Garcia) returns against a soft touch.

The other fights are regional.

Keef 'At One Time' Thurman perfected the art of the "Get Back" fights.

Fights against guys you're supposed to beat.

Keef did it.

Danny Swift did it.

Crawford did it (a lot).

But with Lomachenko, for example, he consistently fought threats.

Teofimo fought one or two threats, then leaped to Loma and beat him.

Teofimo then fought nobody before losing to Kambosos.

The A-Side can CHOOSE whether to fight, and if they do, whether they fight a scrub or someone that's a threat.

Kambosos could have taken a soft touch and nobody would have blamed him after the war with Teofimo.

Instead, he wanted a threat.

Tank (still rated at 135) is in a fight.

Cryan Garcia is in a fight.

That left Loma and Haney.

Loma chose to stay in the war. That left Haney.

Kambosos STILL could have fought someone from 140 or 130 at a catchweight. Or fought some bum.

He made a CHOICE to fight a threat.

He CHOSE Devin Haney.

Kambosos is the perfect A-Side, stringing Haney along nicely especially given Haney's dad playing games about going to Australia.

But according to major outlets, the contracts were completed in Melbourne, and we're ready to go (assuming Devin or his dad doesn't back out).

Early prediction: we suspect a controversial draw if Devin doesn't step up and actively work to knock out or stop Kambosos.

Fight happened on a strange day, but yeah, that happened.

With Menayothin, certain places online were hyping him on after he had surpassed Floyd's record of 50-0.

Menayothin would retire at 54-0, but then someone convinced him to come back (probably Golden Boy), and he would take a loss to Freshmart, thus restoring Floyd's record as the fighter to retire with the best undefeated record.

This rematch went largely how we expected. Two guys were actively trying to win, but Menayothin looked to be a shell of himself, and we blame the excessive hype behind him.

We can't say Tim got "exposed" specifically, but we did predict that this would not be an easy out.

The question now, is whether Gausha was that good or that he had just been matched so well against guys he was able to blow out before.

Time will tell with Tim. He got the decision and looked otherwise good, but it was widely expected that this would not be a struggle for him.

That was unexpected. Completely unexpected.

We're not really sure what happened there. Nakathila looked elite. He shouldn't have. Decent fighter, but never has shown anything above a basic pedigree.

The Oscar Valdez fight took something from Berchelt. We think his team needs to rethink the matching.

We've got quite a few fights - mostly international.

To us, the one that's worth the price of admission is Tim Tszyu vs. Terrell Gausha.

This fight has the potential to be similar to Naseem Hamed vs. Kevin Kelly. Same origin countries, same rise on both sides and same test for the UK fighter making his US pro debut.

For someone who started way late, Jeff Horn had a hell of a career.

A win over a legend. One of a select few to beat that legend, of which all but one are certified future or current Hall of Famers.

A former world champion.

Key to the City of Brisbane.

Featured in worldwide news.

No matter what you think, he is and was a warrior in the ring, and worked hard to give the fans what they wanted - even when the fans weren't ready for his unique style.