Diamond Boy Versus Pretty Boy Mismatch Should Never Take Place

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent

Cologne, Germany (May 14th, 2021)– On May 15, 2021, former World Boxing Association World Heavyweight champion Manuel “Diamond Boy” Charr, 34-1 with 17 knockouts, originally from Beirut, Lebanon, now hailing from Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, inactive for three and a half years, will return to the ring at Box Gym in his native Cologne, Germany, against unbeaten but unknown Christopher “Diamond Boy” Lovejoy, 19-0 with 19 knockouts, Las Vegas, Nevada.

The padded record of Lovejoy south of the border in Mexico began with ten consecutive wins in the first round, consisting of first round knockouts, first round stoppages, and one referee’s stoppage in the first round. These opponents included professional debuts amounting to people putting on boxing trunks and collecting a paycheck winless fighters, and professional losers. Lovejoy, who has only one bout in the past two years, has only had two opponents make it out of the first round, a second round stoppage and a third round stoppage.

How Germany can sanction a 12 round between a former world heavyweight champion and an opponent whose padded record of stiffs raises more questions than answers next week either speaks for the desperation of finding an opponent during the pandemic, the stupidity of the matchmaker and stupidity of Mr. Lovejoy. AN upset is unlikely here, and is the bout makes it past the fifth or sixth round this reporter would be shocked. Not as shocked as the match itself. The matchup is a joke, and Mr. Charr is not fooling the experts, this reporter, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, or any of the major contenders in the heavyweight division. Inactivity is one issue, fighting bums another. He might as well fight Max Schmeling, who is not alive but still has better credentials than the mysterious 19-0 Mr. Lovejoy.

Even the opponents of the late World Heavyweight champion Joe Louis had better credentials than the undefeated Mr. Lovejoy, whom Mr. Charr will not experience joy with when he knocks him out quickly in a bout which proves absolutely nothing. Mr. Lovejoy should fight a few opponents in six or eight rounders with winning records before stepping up from the bottom rung to the world class rung. Mr. Charr is unlikely to be fooled, and no other contenders would ever agree to a mismatch like this. All in a day’s work in the boxing ring, and as reporters, we’ve seen it all, but we’re still more than we’ve seen before.





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