Faced with immeasurable odds
Still I gave straight bets
So I felt I?m owed something
And you?
Nothin, check!
?Jay-Z, Where I?m From
ESPN boxing insider Johnny Wilds and NY Fight?s Mo? Better Green with Vegas tipsters, sees Juan Francisco Estrada tiptoeing out of The Forum in Inglewood with a narrow decision (HBO After Dark, 9:30PM EST). I don?t think so, and wanted to expound on J-Wild?s great Superfly 2 piece currently featured on NY Fights. Based on where SSR is going and where he?s from, the LA Lakers are more likely to go vintage Showtime on The Dubs and come out of the western conference.
? John Gatling (boxing sharp): ?SSR has become a Soviet version of an old Pacquiao. He?s not really reckless; more like a less creative, textbook Pac?the 2011 version with more power. JFE is a Filipino version of what became a new JMM. He?ll gamble more now; abandoning textbook precision to compensate for diminished grit. His chin ain?t what it was and he knows it. A damn good fight will turn into situational destruction, as SSR gradually beats the hell out of JFE. I think he?ll stop him in about 9 or 10 rounds.?
Though WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (43-4-1, 39KOs) is a 30-year-old methodical tsunami from Thailand, he fights more like a sadistic orphan from the former USSR.
If you are a super flyweight, or any fighter within range not named Zolani Tete or Naoya Inoue, you are very likely to run into an iron curtain of resistance, while getting bludgeoned with a hammer and sickle. Talent scouts from virtually any industry in sports rarely get enough credit for finding diamonds in the rough, none more so than in the sweet science. It?s not only that SSR emerged by sending former world #1 and all-time great Roman Gonzalez to hell; but he did so as an Anti-Pac, as Senator Pacquiao was still gathering his luggage from Australia.
Manny?s burst on the scene featured a systematic blitzing of Marco Antonio Barrera to launch a legend. What SSR did to Chocolatito was more savage. Saturday night, with an Estrada in front of him older than his 27 years show us (JFE has much more attrition than the fighter who dropped a taut decision to Gonzalez in 2012), SSR is likely to launch a new legend.
Understand that Juan Francisco Estrada is still a damn good fighter and carries his weight well in this weight class, so if he?s destroyed, that means Rungvisai has squeezed under a window some fighters know as ?special?.
?Juan Francisco Estrada is definitely among the top-class fighters in our division. When someone is a former unified champion that moved up without losing his titles, you know he is a world class fighter in his prime. However, I am confident that I will be successful in this fight because I will be at my best on fight night again. We will give the fans an incredible fight and I plan on another impressive win.?
SSR.
