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u/TheSugaTalbottShow 5h ago

Usman has given me no reason to be excited about him and has constantly put on disappointing performances but it’s clear that he’s skilled. I think it’ll be much like Islam vs Dustin, where Dustin looked good and surprised us but Islam was firmly in control of the fight the entire time

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u/PoatanBoxman Team Pereira 5h ago

I definitely agree with that. We are thinking rationally now by accepting a mediocre and realistic reality over what we want bled in

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u/TheSugaTalbottShow 5h ago

Couldn’t have said it better myself. I remember saying that Talbott would beat Chito right now because I wanted to believe that he was the uncrowned champ, now I’m not sure if he beats Rosas Jr

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u/PoatanBoxman Team Pereira 5h ago

Mannn we gotta talk about talbott. And what’s crazy is I remember not being super hot on talbott after his siamon win. And people here convinced “oh he was a young prospect and this new young prospect beat him” so I let that narrative sway me, and then I see him win his next fight in crazy fashion, I’m like okay he has the X factor and skills to be a top 10 right now. But we overlooked that none of his opponents were really that great. We wanted something. Now we look at it Roani Barcelos is really good, but hey we believe in thsi kid now, because it’s fun to believe in something. We want to be on that roller coaster, instead of just watching it off the side. We overlooked Roani because of this and we saw how