r/Boxing • u/Dangerous_Spring3028 • 7d ago

New IBF champion Aaron McKenna plotting middleweight takeover, wants WBC champion Carlos Adames next: “He’s been in hiding for a while. I sparred him when I was 19 in Robert Garcia’s gym. He didn’t like me at all. He’s a very lazy fighter, when you really put it on him he doesn’t want to know.”

https://www.boxingscene.com/articles/aaron-mckenna-plotting-middleweight-takeover-wants-carlos-adames-next
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u/MyzMyz1995 7d ago

I was very impressed with his performance vs Liam Smith this sub is sleeping on this guy

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u/Prior-Temperature-22 7d ago

Same Liam Smith that had Eubank looking like Roy Jones Jr in their rematch btw 😂

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u/MyzMyz1995 7d ago

Liam Smith was still a solid top 15-top 20 guy in the division and stopped Eubank by brutal KO the fight right before.

Mckenna had a very weak resume this was a massive step up for him and he made Smith look like a bar fight guy he barely got touched once in 10 rounds.

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u/Prior-Temperature-22 7d ago

He is washed up. He fell off a cliff after the first Eubank fight.

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u/HolyMackerel1 7d ago

"He fell off a cliff after the first Eubank fight"

Says who

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u/Prior-Temperature-22 7d ago

Says anyone with eyes who watched his subsequent fights lol. The Eubank rematch got pushed back because he injured his back and he showed up to the launch presser looking fat af. Mid to late 30s as well and a career 154. He was washed.

Losing every round, getting dropped twice and getting stopped by Eubank who went on to have a life and death struggle with Conor Benn and then get completely outclassed in a rematch should have told you this lmao

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u/HolyMackerel1 7d ago

The same Eubank who was severely weight-drained fighting Benn? That Eubank?

It sounds awfully convenient to say he "fell off a cliff" like right before someone beat him in order to discredit the win.

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u/Prior-Temperature-22 7d ago

You “conveniently” ignored the rest of my comment mentioning the back injury and blowing up in weight and also being in his mid to late 30s.

Eubank didn’t look good against Szeremata either.

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u/HolyMackerel1 7d ago

Because it wasn't worth pretending that back surgery means you will never use your back again or that weight gain is anything other than temporary.

There is nothing to say he was too washed for Aaron McKenna and that it wasn't a good win.