Undefeated middleweight contender john duddy will drop down to 154 pounds to take on ibf junior middleweight champion vernon phillips, his promoter is 100% the fight will happen.
http://sports.setanta.com/en/Sport/News/Other-sports/2008/07/04/Boxing-Duddy-to-fight-Phillips/?facets/sport-space/great-britain-locale/boxing/
Say what you want about Duddy and his skill level or level of fighters he has been in with but when you go to see one of his fights you ALWAYS get your money's worth... How the judges call them may not always be right, but fun night any ways! I think going to 154 may turn out to be a great move for him.
Duddy-Pavlik would be like that scene in Raging Bull, where he's covered in blood and saying "you never knocked me down". It would be a bigger mismatch than Cotto-Gomez.
Duddy does have a chance of beating Phillips though.
Except that he will get knocked down a lot
I think Phillips beats Duddy easily, this is the closest he will ever come to a title.
he will be David Tua of the Middleweights
I like him though. He looks like he likes fighting.
why was he ever fighting at 160 in the first place if he can make 154?
BTW he does not deserve a title shot at all
I agree If you can make 154 do it.
Otherwise you get championship fights looking like Pavlik/Lockett.
Duddy would get a dangerous beating from Pavlik, no knees, just a sustained beating broken up by small insignificant moments of fleeting success that encourage the ref not to end
it before the late rounds
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