The darkhorse of the heavyweight divison is Shannon Briggs. He's got the athleticism, speed, punching ability, chin and heart to make a mark on the heavyweight divison (see Lennox Lewis vs. Shannon Briggs). Anyone know how old he is now? This could be a factor in determining whether he will win a title any time soon.
Briggs has skills but he has no stamina and he takes rounds off right after he is knocking the hell out of his opponents when he should be putting them away. He is only 33 by the way. When he lost to Mccline, he did absolutely nothing in the fight and just let Mccline win.
Someone mentioned Malcom Tann as something special... You must be crazy. I've seen him knocked down twice now by nobodies. He is 6'5 and has absolutely no power and no chin, especially if he is getting knocked down by hand picked opponents.
Briggs has nothing coming. This is my sisters boyfriends cousin so I know him pretty well. One thing about him, HE'S LAZY! LAZY! LAZY! Although I must say, he had the prettiest KO by left hook Ive seen since Terrible Terry norris left hooked mugabi...lol. It was pretty. A double left hook for a KO. You cant get prettier than that.
Using Briggs performance against Foreman is ludacris. THAT WAS 7-8 YEARS AGO!!!!
Having trouble with foreman and losing to LL doesn't mean anything, Those are 2 of the top 10 HW's of alltime. Briggs has a chance to make some noise. Noone in the top ten right now would stand a chance with LL, and would have had alot of trouble with 47year old Foreman.
Um I would like to point out that Klit could stand a chance against Lewis. But otherwise he shouldnt be to ashamed of those losses.
briggs sucks... he lost to daryll wilson and mccline, and couldn't beat botha or sedrick fields... he can punch and has hand speed, but his chin and stamina are weak and his defense is worthless...
birggs good...but juan carlos gomez betta
i agree with that i think juan carlos gomez is the dark horse of the heavyweight division, i've thought that for a while.
yeah, briggs vs. peter does sound good. give briggs a chance to get back in the game while he still has some of his youth left. and give peter a decent challenge for once. its a lets-see-what-happens-here fight.
I'd love to see Briggs vs. Peter after Peter defeats Sykes. This could take place in September or October on HBO or Showtime and the winner could/should get a title shot.
This would be a perfect HBO BAD main event and a solid Showtime championship boxing undercard fight.
I've been plugging Briggs for some time now, and was laughed at for mentioning him as having a bright future in the division. I think he has just enough to cause big problems for the current top ten, assuming he trains hard and keeps his stamina up. We'll see.
he's got a bad defence, he gets hit to easy, even an old george foreman had no trouble hitting him, and lewis although troubled early on, easily won that fight in the end, he's one of those guys that had a lot of ability but just lacked a couple of things needed to be great.
Having trouble with foreman and losing to LL doesn't mean anything, Those are 2 of the top 10 HW's of alltime. Briggs has a chance to make some noise. Noone in the top ten right now would stand a chance with LL, and would have had alot of trouble with 47year old Foreman.
he's got a bad defence, he gets hit to easy, even an old george foreman had no trouble hitting him, and lewis although troubled early on, easily won that fight in the end, he's one of those guys that had a lot of ability but just lacked a couple of things needed to be great.