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.
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.
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.
by any chance, would you know some options being thrown out there for opponents in march and may? also, i think he got kinda jobbed in the grano fight. that ref didnt seem to interested in being there and really wasnt paying attention.
Nothing yet, though we are looking to push him more in these fights. He wants the tough fights that will get the public's attention.
yeah i know him, he's not nearly as good as your making him to be.
You might be right. I'd prefer to see a light-heavyweight beat him first before saying that, though.
Castor, it doesn't really bother me to hear you talk negatively about George. Forum words don't affect either of our bottom lines or negotiating terms.
I know who that is, thats the guys whos best win is a over a crackhead version looking of chris byrd... Chris Byrd didn't look too healthy at that weight-class. Now he needs to get bigger fights now or let his career slide.
It's not George's problem if his opponent fails to adequately prepare for a tough fight. George showed up to fight and he was too much for Byrd. George blew his last opponent out in 86 seconds, that was a pretty good performance. We're working on getting him into an eliminator next.
Unless you're an exciting ko puncher.
Not necessarily, it's not what you can do but who you know. If you have a good manager, he will give you a per diem every month to hold you over while you train for fights. Of course you can almost always expect to see that money deducted from your purses afterwards.
Being an exciting ko puncher as you put it means nothing if you don't have proper management. I know plenty of guys like that working at car washes.
thats why boxers should manage theirselves, like Money May:alcoholic
Mayweather doesn't manage himself, Leonard Ellerbe and Al Haymon handle his business affairs.
If there is TV, then you make money. If there isn't, you better be a good ticket seller or else you will find yourself on the lowest end of the pay scale. If you can cover your purse and your opponent's purse with your ticket sales, then you have a much better chance of finding yourself on a boxing card than if you think you're going to just get a free ride and someone is going to pay you to fight in front of an empty audience.
When you're first coming up, the opponents make much more than the prospects. The prospects often fight for next to nothing for a four-rounder while the opponent gets paid.
An opponent who knows he has little chance to win won't just fight a tough guy for cheap. That's why most of the money goes to them early on.
Almost certainly he was. There were many many suspicious factors. He had been beating Brewster easily until sudden fatigue occurred, and yet he is always in top condition. His hospital records which showed unatural blood factors vanished. In the rematch he further proved these allegations as he handled Brewster with extreme ease in what was a total mismatch.
If you've noticed, Wladimir fights completely differently now than he did in those days. If there was no issue with conditioning and all that was wrong with him was that he was "drugged", why has he switched the way he fights?
Do you really believe that his allegedly suspicious medical records would up and vanish? Hahaha
The rematch occurred 15 months after Brewster had last fought, losing a unanimous decision while suffering a detached retina in the process. Brewster had spent six months laying down recovering from surgery.
During Brewster's entire title reign, Klitschko never called him out. Once he lost his title, Klitschko offered Brewster more money than he had made as a champion.
What I'd say is, why doesn't Wladimir try Brewster when he hasn't been off for more than a year?
bullcrap buddy bullcrap. I remember those days Wlad kept calling Brewster back out right after he lost to him and Brewster kept saying there is no point for me to fight him cause hes nobody anymore blah blah blah plus don king didint want any part of a klitschko rematch cause obviously they knew they got lucky in the first fight and wanted to milk brewsters title reign. Wlad kept trying to get a rematch with brewster but wbo wouldnt allow it.
I've worked with Brewster for a while so let me tell you straight from the source: Brewster never said he wouldn't fight Wladimir again.
Don King, who people conveniently use as a scapegoat, wanted the rematch.
Don King stood to make a lot more money having Brewster fight on another promoter's card in Germany against Wladimir than fighting Kali Meehan or Sergei Lyakhovich.
Lamon Brewster kept telling people to stop writing Wladimir off as "a bum" because he could come back. He was just beaten by the better man that night, plain and simple.
Why wouldn't the WBO not want the fight? They'd get so much more money for that than Sergei Lyakhovich or Kali Meehan. Think about it.
If we put Haye in the ring with Brewster maybe he would change his mind.
We'd love that fight, Brewster would stop him inside of 4. I'm not trying to make this personal because I know he's one of your favorite fighters but Haye is not superman in the beard.
brewster couldn't even knock sprott out. he looked awful to me
It's hard to look good against someone isn't coming in to win. Sprott felt the left hook early that dropped him and from then on was in survival mode. If you noticed, Brewster barely got hit at all in that fight.
he said a cruiserweight cant beat the heavyweight champ.....someone give him holyfields number
I'm rooting for David Haye here because he's an exciting breath of fresh air but he is not Evander Holyfield. Holyfield came in with an iron chin and an iron will, beating guys like "Quick" Tillis, Pinklon Thomas and Michael Dokes. He was a proven heavyweight contender. We don't know if Haye is yet.
I'm just saying, he can't really say that when he hasn't been in the ring with both of them. He's only been in the ring with Wlad and Wlad beat him the 2nd time around so of course he is going to say Wlad is going to destroy him, otherwise he's basically saying Haye is better than himself.
Here's what you gotta remember; Why didn't Wladimir call out Brewster when he was champion? Why did he wait until Brewster lost to Lyakhovich and suffered a detached retina to call him out. Of course Brewster lost, he had spent the previous 6 months on his stomach in bed with a gas bubble in his eye.
That said, you have to be able to absorb a lot of punishment to get inside Klitschko's jab. You also have to get low and make Klitschko reach and give up his height. Those are things I see in Brewster that I don't necessarily see in Haye.
Still, the crazy money they offer to fight a cruiserweight? We'd take that money in a second!
I think Haye has much better chances than that. Brewster doesn't know what he's talking about.
Brewster has been a heavyweight champion and has split two fights with Wladimir Klitschko. How do you figure he doesn't know what he's talking about, because he doesn't agree with you?
got dropped in that fight. But yea dude seems good, powerful and quick. He's Arreola/Chambers sparring partner so he's been busy lately with them. He's gotten locked up a few times and once ballooned to 300 lbs but he could be one of those contenders in the future ya kno? Odlanier Solis, Travis Kauffman, Deontay Wilder, Tor Hamer and Denis Boystov.
Kauffman is the real deal and a future star in the heavyweight division. He is one of the few heavyweights who work the body nowadays. What gives him an edge over most of the heavyweights nowadays is his conditioning; He is a maniacal condition freak.
He really is a bigger heavyweight than his recent weights have suggested, but he's the only heavyweight out there that "dries out" before a fight because it helps his speed.
The knockdown in the Farrell fight was a clear slip when Kauffman got caught on Farrell's feet trying to throw his own punch.
I don't have a problem with them bringing him along slow. He's only 23, is fighting regularly enough and seems to be keeping his weight under control. Looks like he's at least 4 years from being on the world stage though, at this pace. If he's good enough, which is way to early to tell.
Yeah, not everyone is Mike Tyson, who was 20 and built like a tank. Heavyweights reach maturity around 26 or so. How many top heavyweights are in their 20s? None, really.
Kauffman has a long future in front of him and if he can stay busy, by the end of this year he will be 21-0. He'll be 24 by that time and still not at his physical peak.
Vitali fought Belinski 5-0 in his 15th fight. Wlad did fight a bum in his 15th fight, but the guy had at least won his past two. Murphy shouldn't even have been licensed to fight at nearly age 46 after 12 losses in a row.
But yes, lets hope Kauffmann fights a respectable journeyman like Cisse Salif or Zuri Lawrence next time out.
He will, remember, he just fought a 16-1 Malachy Farrell who had never been down or KO'ed, and he stopped him in three. Granted, Farrell was woefully out of shape, but that's his problem, isn't it?
People won't fight a 14-0 guy for cheap, they want a lot of money to fight an undefeated guy, especially one with a lot of knockouts. If the fight isn't on TV, you just can't afford those big name fighters, even the opponents like Lawrence or Salif.
At this stage, the opponents make a lot more money than the prospects. It's just how boxing works.
Bottom line is this, the fight was on the undercard of bigger fights, those bigger fights cost a lot of money. There just wasn't enough capital to make Kauffman vs. Lawrence.
But chances are there will be next time.
People shouldn't get their hopes too high on Kauffmann.
He does have the potential to become a decent journeyman like Robert Hawkins, Friday Ahunyana or Timor Ibragimov.
He's growing into a man, he's only 23 years old. By 26 he'll be a beast. He has a strong amateur background, unlike most heavyweights today who are really basketball players.
He won the gold at the 2004 PAL Nationals, also took home gold at a few other tournaments internationally and at home.
I don't know why someone would say he'll be a journeyman when he's only been on TV once.
Someone sparring looks like a real match!!
Sparring sessions are better than actual fights usually because two good fighters will be fighting, instead of a mismatch between a prospect and an opponent.
The principles, along with the promoters in front of the sponsors' banners
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