Oh and Kessler wins. Likely by KO. If Andrade can have Bute on queer street, Kessler will rape him. Besides Bute's been fed clubfighters in his last 50 fights and he is in no way prepared to fight a real tough hardhitting technical fighter like Kessler.
I think Nelson was more exhausted than anything else. It's best that he was counted out as Moran was ferocious and Nelson would have taken more unnecessary punishment.
I dont know if he was exhausted. In fact I doubt that as durability was his trademark and he was a marathonrunner. No he was genuinely hurt. He suffered one vicious KD before the KO.
Furthermore Nelson was past prime having lost his title in the mother of all brutal fights against Ad Wolgast.
But I guess this makes too much damn sense to happen
Would be a great fight, but Kessler is WBC champion emeritus and has a shot at that champion first (aka the supersix winner).
I would agree with most of what you are saying but in the 11th round against a ferocious monster like Moran I could only imagine how exhausted he must have been at that point in the fight. You're right though, he was genuinely hurt, without question...
I wouldnt think that a guy who goes 42 rounds against arguably the best LW ever in prime Joe Gans is exhausted after 10 rounds against Owen Moran.
That's true. We have no way of knowing what his conditioning was like in 1910 when he fought Moran, but I will say that while Joe Gans is regarded as one of the greatest lightweights of all time, his style was very different from Morans and when you're fighting at a Moran pace it makes for a different fight.
Joe Frazier was another high pressure fighter who would set a very fast pace and guys like Ali who had proven to be long distance fighter would be winded in the later rounds against Frazier.
Jake La Motta was the same way and that was the reason Robinson claimed he lost the one fight to him... He said Jake just fought at such an incredible pace so for the next fight conditioning was "the name of the game" and the key to winning.
Perhaps this was the case in Nelson/Moran. I'm not saying that's definitely what it was but it's a thought that crossed my mind.
Good points as always Carlos.
Owen Moran was the only one who KO'ed Battling Nelson. And the count itself was controversial as Bat was up at 10. He might have been nearly out on his feet by todays standards, but probably not by the standards of yesteryear.
I always here boxing fans say COTTO doesn't like pressure fighters, or Mayweather can't handle pressure fighters, or this fighter hates being pressured.
My question is what boxer actually LIKES pressure fighters?
All counterboxers wants pressurefighters. That's obvious.
Its just to open the new stadium I don't know how Poland would hype up a World Cup that doesn't make any sense.
AFAIK it will be the first event in the new stadium built for the world cup.
No it wouldn't have been a problem at all if Wlad didn't choose to fight Chisora first. Unification fights are higher priority than mando's.
Uhm... How so? Sky didnt have a date in April and no german stadium was available in May.
Besides that why didnt Haye just put in the contract that Wlad should be slapped with a hefty fine if he was to postpone the July fight due to injuries sustained in the Chisora fight?
I'm guessing he did not because frankly he simply hasnt got the guts to face a klit.
Future ATG SMW.
He made Smith look like a bum.
Or should I say, he made smith look like the bum he is.
I like him as well. Not his attitude though.
So he's the new Great Britain?
Can you give some more recent examples of Champions fighting 3 fights in 16 weeks?
Not of the top of the head, but 2 fights is easy. Both Andre Ward and Mikkel Kessler fought 2 months before their showdown in Jokeland.
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"The truth is Wladimir is prepared to fight on July 2nd."
Adamek is in Poland in September. It's to celebrate a new stadium. I'm sure that it made economic sense to do the fight in Poland to hype the soccer world cup. That's the reason I think.
His only obligations to them would be to pay 2% of his purse as a sanctioning fee everytime he fights and to fight his wbc mando within a 12 month period.
They just want him out of the way so that Chavez can get a title
The decent thing to do would be to strip him for failing to fullfill his mandatory obligations.
Do you know if HBO were interested in that fight?
I am pretty sure they are not.
I can perfectly understand that Martinez is looking for the big money fights, but if the WBC is to preserve the little integrity they have left, then they should strip Sergio. At least that's how I see it with the info at hand.
Please tell me how you debunked that Haye has to fight his mandatory?
Why didnt Haye just get that mando out of the way instead of fighting Audley? He knew it would be a problem later if he wanted a klit fight in 2011.