It's Still Good: Why The Featherweight Division Is Still Awesome And Might Actually Be Better After Juan Manuel Lopez' Loss

When Roberto Ramirez jumped between Juan Manuel Lopez and Orlando Salido on Saturday night, many thought he was waving off featherweight's time as one of the sport's top divisions. It certainly looks like Bob Arum let JuanMa-Yuriorkis Gamboa go off, after marinating in the fridge for too long.

But there's good news, if you're optimistically inclined. The popularity of stretched marination metaphors is going to plummet, and featherweight is still a juicy, tender and spicy division (just for old time's sake).

So what do we find if we pick through the post-apocalyptic rubble (new hot metaphor) of the division? Some shiny and interesting match ups that we might not have found, were it not for the bomb that Orlando Salido dropped on Saturday.

Source: http://queensberry-rules.com/2011-articles/april/its-still-good-why-the-featherweight-division-is-still-awesome-and-might-actually-be-better-after-juan-manuel-lopez-loss.html

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