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They said he was ringside at the Haney fight because thats the fight htey are trying to get made
 
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One option for George Kambosos first up is a voluntary defense of his titles in Australia.

Undefeated local prospects Jacob Ng and Brock Jarvis could be possible opponents and would be considered fairly safe fights.

This would enable George some further exposure as champion, a payday and a lead-in to a big fight with someone like Haney.
 
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buff my helmet said:
One option for George Kambosos first up is a voluntary defense of his titles in Australia.

Undefeated local prospects Jacob Ng and Brock Jarvis could be possible opponents and would be considered fairly safe fights.

This would enable George some further exposure as champion, a payday and a lead-in to a big fight with someone like Haney.
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I really want George to get a voluntary in down under before anything else. He deserves it.

But I don't know about those two. Neither would be a good look for him.
Jarvis could potentially sell in Aus. Especially after his exciting last fight. But is he even ranked at lightweight? He's been a career Super featherweight apart from his last fight.
Jacob Ng belongs no where near a world title shot. I was just hugely shocked to see the WBO have him 6th..... George would become a laughing stock if that was his first defence.

Maybe a rematch with Selby could work? I don't know.
I would expect George to beat him cleaner a second time around though.
 
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Super_Fly_Sam said:
I really want George to get a voluntary in down under before anything else. He deserves it.

But I don't know about those two. Neither would be a good look for him.
Jarvis could potentially sell in Aus. Especially after his exciting last fight. But is he even ranked at lightweight? He's been a career Super featherweight apart from his last fight.
Jacob Ng belongs no where near a world title shot. I was just hugely shocked to see the WBO have him 6th..... George would become a laughing stock if that was his first defence.

Maybe a rematch with Selby could work? I don't know.
I would expect George to beat him cleaner a second time around though.
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I was just throwing around some Aussie names. But you are right, they are hardly intimidating opposition for George.

I don't think a Selby rematch makes any more sense than Jarvis and Ng though. An all Aussie fight would probably sell better too.
 
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Super_Fly_Sam said:
I really want George to get a voluntary in down under before anything else. He deserves it.

But I don't know about those two. Neither would be a good look for him.
Jarvis could potentially sell in Aus. Especially after his exciting last fight. But is he even ranked at lightweight? He's been a career Super featherweight apart from his last fight.
Jacob Ng belongs no where near a world title shot. I was just hugely shocked to see the WBO have him 6th..... George would become a laughing stock if that was his first defence.

Maybe a rematch with Selby could work? I don't know.
I would expect George to beat him cleaner a second time around though.
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Pretty hard to fight any of those guys given the number of elite Lightweights out there at the moment, part of the gig of being Unified champ in a division this deep is having to fight hard fights everytime out.
 
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Ar558a said:
Pretty hard to fight any of those guys given the number of elite Lightweights out there at the moment, part of the gig of being Unified champ in a division this deep is having to fight hard fights everytime out.
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Fair call.
Though as long as it's a reasonable opponent and happens within a reasonable amount of time, lets say signed early Jan at latest, fight end of Feb or early March, I don't think anyone would truely begrudge George getting in a voluntary. Especially the Aus border isn't fully openned yet.

Haney can come down under after that and both him and George can make bank!!!
 
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"We’ve got to really let Australia know what’s going on and how big this fight will be. This will be the biggest fight in Australian history. It’ll be a stadium fight in Sydney or Melbourne. We’re in negotiations with both, and it’ll be very exciting. I wouldn’t be real to the crowd if I told them I’m coming back for an easy fight. What for? I’m coming for the big names, and we’re already in negotiations with everybody."

Those are the latest words from the champion but with what's gone on recently with the treatment of tennis' world number 1 in Australia in the government quarantining him against his will, ignoring his visa and medical papers and forcing him to seek (and get) justice in an Australian court, I can't see this being a popular choice of venue for organisers. If the Australian Open champion has to incur legal fees before he can play his sport there then any non-Australian national who intends to fly there for this fight and doesn't wish to be vaccinated, be it trainers, sanctioning body staff, promoter's etc are probably not going to be able to do so.

I no longer want to see Australia get the fight, hopefully the sanctioning bodies will refuse to let it take place there due to recent discriminatory practices.
 
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Thing is it doesn't matter what the opponents want anymore. GK has is in the drivers seat and he calls the shots.
Extremely unlikely the sanctioning bodies refuse to allow a fight down under. The WBC have already mandated all their refs, supervisors etc be vaccinated. Hard to see them go back on that.

Devin Haney already expressed he is fine coming to Aus. Plus it will be by far the biggest money fight out there for him. Doubtful he'd knock it back.
The big pay day would just about be the same for any of the big names in the lightweight division. GK will have a financial huge backing behind him in Aus.

It's hard with all the belts but personally I would like to see GK take a softer touch as a voluntary defence first up. Get him into somewhere like Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney which has a 21k capacity.
He'll sell it out and also raise his profile in Aus. Beating Lopez definitely raised his profile but I get the feeling it's still not as big as it should be at home for GK...

After that he should bring Haney over for full unification. Get Tim Tszyu VS Tony Harrison/Liam Smith or someone of the likes as a support bout and then you've got a real big show down under!!


Also Fuck Djokovic. He didn't have his shit in order. He shouldn't have been let in. He didn't win the case based on him having done the right thing. He won it based on a procedural screw up. It was made extremely clear to him and the tennis governing bodies that having had covid in the past 6 months was not a valid excuse to not quarantine. Fuck him and his conspiracy bullshit
 
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Pretty accurate. Loma would spike the interest of proper boxing fans.

But the vast majority of what would be a sure sellout crowd (unless they did it somewhere overly big like Suncorp Stadium)… would be there because of Kambosos and not the opponent.

The names Haney or Lopez, neither make the fight any bigger down under than the other.
 
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