Hall of a chance: Among active fighters, who’s headed for Canastota? Long Shots
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BY ERIC RASKIN
This Article has been curated by UDBN
June 19, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
Long shots
Danny Garcia: One suspects his career is over, but he hasn’t announced that yet. The 140lbs resume is exceptional. Still, he probably needed one big win at welter, and instead fell just short against Spence, Porter and Keith Thurman.
Keith Thurman: “One Time” got a couple of those meaningful, close wins at 147 — over Garcia and Porter — but he was never quite the same after elbow and hand injuries in 2017 and 2018, and losing to a 40-year-old Pacquiao killed his momentum.
The Charlo twins: Jermall and Jermell have had distinct careers, and neither is necessarily finished, but they both cooled off in their 30s and aren’t even guaranteed to get on to the IBHOF ballot.
Erislandy Lara: Often underappreciated, never defeated decisively and still a championship-level fighter at age 42, Lara deserves consideration, but as long as fellow Cuban defector Joel Casamayor continues to languish on the ballot, it’s hard to feel optimistic about Lara.
Emanuel Navarette: The fan-friendly Mexican seemed on the right trajectory through the first Oscar Valdez fight two years ago, but questionable training habits appear to have caught up with him and he’s perhaps lucky to have gone 1-1-1 with one no-contest since.
Carlos Cuadras: A damned good fighter who couldn’t win the big one, Cuadras went 1-4 against Chocolatito, Estrada, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez and Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, and 43-1-1 against everyone else. He’s not just a longshot; he’s an extreme longshot. But with the way HOF standards keep slowly slipping…
Adrien Broner: I know he’s nowhere close to being a hall of famer. You know he’s nowhere close to being a hall of famer. It would be nice to trust voters not to be fooled by the words “four-division champion”. But my days of trusting voters not to be fooled are long behind me.
Ryan Garcia: You’d think a 26 year old like Garcia would land in the “Too soon to tell” section, but we have a pretty clear idea already of what “KingRy” is. And what he is leans heavily into what the “F” in “IBHOF” stands for — and history says not to be 100 per cent sure that fame alone won’t get a boxer the votes he needs.
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