Here's the video from last night's fight with Mariusz Wach and Kevin McBride. Wach is now 25-0 (13 KO).
McBride was taken from the ring on a stretcher for precautionary reasons.
Wach has good hands/a decent right, he does but, his footwork IMO is atrocious! People talk about him being in good shape and for todays heavyweights he is in okay nick but realistically speaking his conditioning is crap. I wish him well and think he might do okay but I can not help but notice the size of that ****ing chin, not sure what his chin is like personally but it's mahusive and you really can not miss it!
I don't know how one could say that Wach's conditioning was crap when he never got a chance to be tired. He just kept punching at McBride, whose conditioning was crap, and he scored a knockout. I don't think Wach was even breathing hard in there.
Wach has good hands/a decent right, he does but, his footwork IMO is atrocious! People talk about him being in good shape and for todays heavyweights he is in okay nick but realistically speaking his conditioning is crap. I wish him well and think he might do okay but I can not help but notice the size of that ****ing chin, not sure what his chin is like personally but it's mahusive and you really can not miss it!
The reason this is exciting for me is because it shows me how much he has improved in just one fight with his new trainers. Wach is 31, but continues to learn his craft and is in the best shape of his life.
He's a heavyweight that takes his training and conditioning seriously, and that makes him a promising fighter.
Also, the reason they call him "The Viking" is, he comes from actual Viking lineage. His descendants were all viking warriors.
McBride is the very definition of fat bum, and Wach, though in shape, didn't look much better. Sorry Buzz, I don't mean to disparage your guy, but aside from the KO punch he just didn't impress me at all. Slow hands, terrible jab, plodding feet. No way should he get within a hundred yards of Wlad, for his own health and for the sake of preventing a horrendous mismatch.
Doesn't seem like McBride did any training whatsoever for this fight. Wach is a big guy obviously but it's tough to say anything based on this performance. McBride looked absolutely gassed and the fight only went 4 rounds. Can't get no more impressive than a highlight reel KO though so no complaints.
I work with Wach, and have seen his evolution as a fighter over the past six months.
When Wach was based in Poland, he never had a full-time trainer or any real sparring partners to learn from. Now that he's in America, he's working with Juan De Leon, the trainer of Baby Joe Mesi, as well as his brother Carlos De Leon, the former 4-time cruiserweight champion.
For this camp, he sparred with Alexander Povetkin, Maurice Harris and Derric Rossy, so he was well-prepared for the fight.
i love watching fat, lazy, and sloppy fighters getting ktfo...........
nothing better than that..........
"heavyweight boxing is the SIDE SHOW of boxing, it's a joke at best, and a disgrace to say the least"- trez mala
Doesn't seem like McBride did any training whatsoever for this fight. Wach is a big guy obviously but it's tough to say anything based on this performance. McBride looked absolutely gassed and the fight only went 4 rounds. Can't get no more impressive than a highlight reel KO though so no complaints.