By Jimmy James: WBO world champion in super welterweight, Brian Castano, affirmed in a live video interview in Golden Era Boxing that “Demetrius Andrade, David Benavidez, Arthur Beterbiev and Gary Russell Jr, are the most avoided fighters in boxing today.
“The boxers mentioned are the boogiemen of their divisions; they are terrific fighters that are avoided,” said Castaño to Golden Era Boxing.
Castaño also mentioned, “they are going to be avoided until promoters gather more money, and there is nowhere to hide.”
Unlike boxers like Canelo Alvarez, Castaño has shown great warriorship in the game of boxing. He hasn’t ducked any boxer and is about to make history unifying super welterweight to become undisputed, something Alvarez never did in 154lb, staying longer in the division.
The Argentinian champ knows what it means to fight the best since he took in the past three years difficult opponents like Michel Soro, Erislandy Lara, Patrick Texeira, and now the dangerous Jermell Charlo.
How was Castanio able to give the boxing world the best fights in his division and become undisputed in only three years, while boxers like Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin couldn’t achieve it in their whole existence as humans?
If he becomes undisputed, he would earn the title of the first Latino to win a world undisputed contest from the days of Sixto Escobar, Juan Zurita, Manuel Ortiz, Baby Arizmendi, Al Panama Jack, Kid Chocolate, and Kid Gavilan. Legends who were undisputed in their divisions when there was only one belt, with fewer weight classes.
He will also do it without controversy, unlike Alvarez, who was ‘gifted’ the vacant WBC belt in super middleweight without fighting the true champ (Benavidez), unjustly sanctioned by the WBC that could have just made him recess champion as they did with Manny Pacquiao.
Interestingly, the scam title of franchise champion is nothing less than another farse to make influential boxers not fight for world titles, and make their path easier to succeed.
Castaño is the prototype boxer the boxing world desperately needs at this moment. A true warrior who is not afraid of facing the most dangerous opponents in his division, in their prime.
He also doesn’t thrust his opponents with cowardly hydration clauses or conditions to make the fighter have a disadvantage in the ring.
Alvarez is not half the warrior that Castaño is; he might scam his fans into believing he is a warrior, but deep down inside, he is not made of the same material as the Argentinian.
Alvarez never wanted one piece of the Charlo brothers, and Castano wanted all the smoke in the world with Jermell when the American was more seasoned, without making the fans wait for eons till humans have a base in the milky way. How can he not be as popular in the boxing world?
If Castaño was in the same division as Golovkin, Charlo, and Alvarez, he would be avoided, and avoided and avoided again without a possibility to dispute a world championship.
Boxing casuals would be calling him all sorts of names and excusing the fact he is being avoided. Castaño is right about the boogiemen because he himself would belong in that category had he not been fighting in the most competitive and fearless division in the world. True boxing fans, take notes and learn from fearless boxers.