I don't think his chin is bad but I remember the first jab that Abraham landed on him made him stumble a bit. Maybe it just caught him off guard but I'm still skeptical on how good it really is. His defense and his ability to negate his opponents offense is what makes it hard to tell because he doesn't get hit that cleanly all too often.
Not often but he has been hit by Dawson, Froch, Rodriguez, Abraham, Kessler, Bika, Green. All of those guys can punch. They didn't land much but if his chin was really a weakness we'd know imo. It may or may not be great but a major flaw it is not. Nobody's D is THAT good.
How many times do you have to watch it happen to other guys? I never understand how anybody makes that much finds a way to have nothing. This guy fought everybody and not that long ago was he fighting the top guys. This is ridiculous.
That's cool. I told Rosario Dawson not to spit. I don't know her but Ima just tell her now on Bscene so that's cleared away. And if she's reading this, PM me with your number. I wasn't talking about what you thought I was talking about. Honest.
He's got some bitterness but after I saw him and Hearns's sparring footage I really wish I could've seen them fight. That would've been a dream match for technical boxing.
I like to watch GGG more because he walks his face into more punches and that's what boxing is about-trying to walk into punches while you're punching so that you can tire the other dude's fists out and then he'll be vulnerable to your telegraphed orthodox right hook.
I hope he is a drug addict, at least that way he has a chance of getting better. If it's permanent brain damage from taking punches to the head, then he's stuck like that. Sad to see.
100% with you.
Okay that's it. He is definitely on drugs. You don't need a drug test. You just say bathtub facebook apology and that's the same as coming up positive.
I would love nothing more than Wlad to have a clean good looking win over Povetkin but I think the way they clash they're going to both make each other look about two levels lower than they actually are and it will suck with a better referee too-just suck less. It still might be the most relevant fight out there because it would probably still be the first and second best guy in the division but it's the same as I think if Jennings and Perez fought again, we'd get both guys making each other look bad again. Sometimes they flatter each other, sometimes they do the opposite you know. Povetkin deserves another shot to see if he can adjust but I do not see good things coming from it.
Careful what you wish for. Everyone wanted Mayweather to move up A SIXTH WEIGHT CLASS for the middleweight title because they thought they found their savior and now they might get it. Only it's not Martinez. lol Careful what you wish for, haters.
I don't know anything about him having THAT much but the guy is smart and he has been a top 25 highest paid athlete in the world a few times on the forbes list, and on top of his promotional company now having Golovkin and Usyk, he's only going to get richer. Plus the heavyweight division is only dead for people whose countries can't house the best heavies.
It's a very popular division in Germany that sells big time. His fight with Leapai got 9 million viewers on free TV. That's one of his worst actual opponents but his name carries those viewers. But in America showing on ESPN2 in the middle of the afternoon, they were doing articles about it bombing on American television with something like half a mill and acting like that was the end of the story. So a lot of people aren't getting the full picture on how successful this guy is. All they tend to do here is downplay everything. I don't remember even HBO when paying for the Povetkin fight showing a fraction of the crazy attention this got in Europe or how it was breaking records for journalists attracted to it and all the TV channels in all the countries it would be featured on. They just basically said "And here's another guy Klitschko gonna fight. He might be okay tonight." lol Truth is he's just a lot more popular than American media cares to focus on.
If boxing was treated like German TV does in America the ballgame would change big time for the better. Germans show Klitschko/Leapai on free RTL and that got 9 million viewers in Germany. But we've got this signed like a month before it happens and on a pay channel and I doubt the real numbers will come out anything on that anyway. It's not a good system.
Dafuq does he have to do with Rigondeaux? A. Rigo has done more than Golovkin and should be a p4p top 10. B. Golvokin OBVIOUSLY hasn't faced nothing but bums because he's beaten a handful of Ring top ten fighters. Nobody is top ten in any division in any era and is a bum. That's so dumb I don't understand how a real boxing fan buys into that BS. Golovkin has hype because he's demolishing good fighters and the champions avoid him like the plague and he's a fun personality who brings his A game to international television. That's all.
Can you imagine how big this would be if it were a lightweight fight between Mexicans or Americans instead? I mean to hardcore fans it doesn't get much bigger but those little guys are so overlooked it's ridiculous. Because these are p4p guys with what they have been doing. Last year was amazing for them.
Never thought of Kessler as being an elite puncher. Thought he had elite timing though in his prime and very very good power. But maybe. Cool shout from Barker.
K, let's see, loses to a guy everyone said he'd knock cold in the real 140 champ, tooth and nail getting hurt with a guy even his haters thought he'd starch easily in the first few rounds, lost close to old Zab Judah, still somehow gets portrayed as Tszyu 2.0 when he's not even Tszyu .5, now Provodnikov who hasn't done any worse at all against Herrera, Bradley, Alvarado and Algieri than Lucas with his similar level guys, he just don't stand a chance and is no better than a scrub gimme fight. Aight. How anybody is going to take away that they're not the same league I don't know honestly. Yeah maybe he blows Provo out, maybe the opposite, maybe it's a war for the ages. Either way, they are not different leagues far as their history would say.
It doesn't matter. If people don't get this Pacquiao thing they're going to blame Mayweather no matter what and sh*t on any of his fights like whiny little b*tches and pretend Arum isn't part of the problem if not the entire problem.