Мэргэжлийн боксын шинжээчид Эмилиано Варгасыг дэлхийн аварга Шакур Стивенсонтой тулалдуулах нь эрсдэлтэй бөгөөд дутуу үнэлсэн алхам болохыг анхаарууллаа.
WBO байгууллага Эмилиано Варгасыг чансаа ахиулахдаа сул өрсөлдөгчидтэй тулалдуулж ирсэн нь түүнийг дэлхийн түвшний техниктэй боксчинтой нүүр тулахад бэлтгэж чадаагүй байна. Варгас одоогоор мэргэжлийн рингэнд 64 раунд тулалдсан бөгөөд нэг ч удаа өмнөх аваргуудтай эсвэл зай барьж тулалддаг мастеруудтай ринг хуваалцаж байгаагүй юм.
Топ Ранк промоушны зүгээс Варгасыг Шакур Стивенсонтой тулалдуулах нь түүний ирээдүйд сөргөөр нөлөөлж болзошгүй гэж үзэж байна. Стивенсон нь өрсөлдөгчөө зайнаас хянах, хамгаалалтын алдааг нь ашиглан цохих чадвараараа ялгардаг тул туршлагагүй боксчин түүний эсрэг хүндхэн сорилттой тулгарах нь гарцаагүй юм.
Мэргэжилтнүүд Варгасыг шууд аваргатай тулалдуулахын оронд Линдольфо Делгадо гэх мэт техниктэй боксчидтой тулалдуулж, ур чадвараа сорих нь зүйтэй гэсэн байр суурьтай байна. Ийм арга хэмжээ авах нь залуу боксчны ирээдүйг хамгаалах төдийгүй түүнийг жинхэнэ аваргын дайны төвшинд хүргэхэд туслах юм.
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The WBO hurried Vargas up the ladder against opponents who barely belong on televised undercards. Walking through Mills, Agustin Quintana, and Jonathan Montrel is paid sparring. It does zero to prepare a kid for an elite technician coming off a one-sided dissection of Teofimo Lopez. The sanctioning body prints numbers next to names to collect sanctioning fees. It cannot gift a raw prospect the ring IQ required to survive an elite southpaw.
Vargas owns 64 professional rounds. He saw the tenth round exactly once. He never shared a ring with an ex-titleholder, let alone an elusive master of range. The stoppage over Mills gave Top Rank nice internet highlights. Vargas pressed forward against a guy willing to trade in a telephone booth. Mills cooperated completely. Shakur treats fighters like that as light cardio work. The champion controls distance with absolute cruelty.
He will dig body shots, angle out of corners, make Vargas reset every single rush. The moment frustration sets in, Vargas will begin lunging wildly. Shakur will step around those telegraphed swings, crack him with counters, and vanish before Vargas even finishes throwing.
Lopez learned that lesson the hard way. Lopez brought wins over Vasiliy Lomachenko, Josh Taylor, and Jamaine Ortiz into that ring, yet he still looked completely lost. If an experienced champion failed to win three rounds against Shakur, a prospect with zero marquee wins will drown inside six minutes.
Defensively, Vargas is an accident waiting to happen. He keeps his chin stuck in the air whenever he unloads combinations. When return fire comes his way, he commits the cardinal sin of pulling straight back with his left hand resting on his hip. Club fighters miss those openings. Shakur will pick him apart like an unpaid sparring partner.
Power means nothing when a fighter punches thin air. Shakur controls real estate so well that Vargas will spend 36 minutes swinging at ghosts while eating crisp left hands.
The Vargas family already paid this price once before. Fernando Vargas held a real belt at 154 pounds when promoters fed him to Felix Trinidad back in 2000. Fernando possessed true grit, yet he absorbed five knockdowns and sustained trauma that altered his entire career. Fernando took a beating from a puncher. Emiliano is being lined up to get systematically humiliated by a defensive wizard who will make him look amateurish.
Top Rank skipped entire tiers of matchmaking. If Bob Arum wants to find out what he truly has, he needs to stick Vargas in with Lindolfo Delgado. A solid technician like Delgado tests a prospect, exposes defensive holes over ten grueling rounds, and shows whether a kid possesses actual championship grit.
Getting outboxed by Delgado ends the hype train early, but feeding Vargas to Shakur ruins the fighter entirely.
Cashing out a young ticket seller for one mandatory payday is downright reckless. Vargas draws eyes. Top Rank has a marketable commodity they can build into a legitimate draw over three years. Throwing him into a mismatch strips the polish off the product overnight.
Weight drain makes matters worse. Vargas is a huge light welterweight who eventually grows into a full welterweight. Squeezing his body down to 140 pounds to chase an elusive target drains his legs before the opening bell rings.
Shakur will happily take the payday and collect an easy defense. The real blame falls on the handlers who confuse a manufactured ranking with genuine fighting ability. Vargas has plenty of raw talent. Serving him up to Shakur right now sacrifices a good kid just to give a champion an effortless night of work.
