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Looking at the poll, there is a user here who voted for Ryo Akaho? Who are you and why did you choose him? Nah, just joking! Grin

I'm just glad to see that there's someone here who is in favor to the Japanese boxer and not John Riel Casimero, surprising enough but it is a good thing though because this means that there is indeed a competition here. Though I'm just not sure if he can really make some difference here because I'm seeing this Ryo as a local boxer which is kinda different to Casimero's league who is fighting in the mainstream.

Of course, that's why we have some times kinds of unexpected events where we see an upset because the supposed boxer will dominate his opponent is taking a lot of damage and is mostly stunned by an underdog opponent. This is a sport and with enough practice and skill to adapt to how to counter his opponents throughout the rounds will gonna his ace to win the fight. Casimero should not underestimate his opponent because he hasn't been in the ring for a long time and he might be caught by a surprise.

I agree, idling for too long somehow made one's skill a bit rusty. This is probably one of the reasons why Casimero's camp pick a less popular and somehow on the end of its prime boxer. And yes, Casimero should not underestimate Akaho because Akaho has a 60% knockout on his record. This means Akaho is a hard puncher which can render Casimero kissing the canvas if Casimer become cocky and careless.

Quote from: Natalim on Today at 06:18:10 PM

In contrast with Casimero, he is known to be messing with the other boxers to make some hype or to trigger them to make things much easier for him because he is already messed up in the head. But yes, Casimero is not the kind who boast, he just wanted to talk like that because that is his way.

There is a reason behind Casimero's antiques I just can find the video link when he reasons about him trash-talking his opponents. He found out that being quiet will not get the audience's attention and will not make him talk of the newspapers and social media. So the moment he learned that he needs to brag and at least have a bad boy image to be able for the mainstream media to take notice of him, he starts trash-talking and showboating which can be misunderstood as disrespecting his opponent.

Yes, it's called ring rust, when boxers is gone for so long from the ring, somewhat they become a bit rusty. There are great boxers who can just shake this off in a couple of rounds and be back. But most of the time even good boxers need more rounds to acclimatized themselves again inside the ring, with their power and timing and this is what Casimero is doing here.

Another reason is that is a new division for him, so he just can't fight a higher rank fighter.

He needs someone like Akaho, who is good in paper but probably he can beat to be his opponents, to bring back his confidence and make himself accustomed to the weight and see how he can absorb the power.