First of all, I have big respect for Billy Dib. He tried everything against Gradovich last weekend, he was in the ring with a better boxer and a harder puncher, yet he never gave up. So I am not disrespecting him.
What I did notice was during the fight the commentators said that Dib is a big Naseem Hamed fan and that he once wrote him a letter and Naz wrote him back and invited him to England. Then in the last 2 (or 3?) rounds when Dib was clearly losing the fight, he totally changed his style. And anybody who ever saw Naseem Hamed fight knows that he impersonated Hamed in those last rounds, fighting with his hands down, trying to land that big uppercut Hamed always used to throw from weird angles.
Anybody else noticed it?
What I did notice was during the fight the commentators said that Dib is a big Naseem Hamed fan and that he once wrote him a letter and Naz wrote him back and invited him to England. Then in the last 2 (or 3?) rounds when Dib was clearly losing the fight, he totally changed his style. And anybody who ever saw Naseem Hamed fight knows that he impersonated Hamed in those last rounds, fighting with his hands down, trying to land that big uppercut Hamed always used to throw from weird angles.
Anybody else noticed it?
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