You haven't answered my question yet.
Are we seriously accept the idea that Alexander Povetkin is a 'MONSTROUS' puncher whilst Carlos Takam has a GRANITE chin now?
Isn't Anthony joshua SIGNIFICANTLY bigger in size compared to Alexander Povetkin and Carlos Takam? Isn't Anthony Joshua SIGNIFICANTLY taller, heavier, rangier with a longer reach and more muscular than Alexander Povetkin and Carlos Takam with much bigger and more packs in his abdomen?
So why couldn't the much bigger sized Anthony Joshua knock Carlos Takam out unconscious more brutally when the MUCH smaller Alexander Povetkin managed to knock this same Carlos TAkam out unconscious without even having any size advantage?
Where was Anthony Joshua's mythical power? Or is it more down to Joshua not being that powerful to begin with?
If Carlos Takam really had a granite chin, then why was Povetkin able to knock Takam out unconscious whilst Anthony Joshua couldn't? Or is it down to the fact that the much smaller, pudgier, fatter and overweight Povetkin being a much more powerful puncher than the much bigger and muscular Anthony Joshua? HOW EMBARRASSING!
Either you are trolling or you a straight ****ing idiot. Where do I start? First of all, sleeping a fighter with one punch has far more do to with timing and placement than sheer power. Povetkin landed as perfectly placed of a left hook on Takam as you possibly can. That shot would have knocked out just about anybody. Takam does have a pretty good chin. Parker's shots couldn't do **** to Takam.
Wilder has an awkward rhythm plus he throw his whole damn body into his shots. With perfect placement and timing, he is going to put guys to sleep (only a small few were actually rendered completely unconscious by the way). Joshua does not load up on his shots like Wilder plus he does not have that strange style that Wilder has. He makes contact and breaks you down. By the way, Joshua has laid out a few opponents in fairly brutal fashion as well.
Nice throwback.
Campillo was one of those guys who never had the right promotional power or managerial power behind him at the right times or else he'd have achieved a lot more.
He was supposed to be a stepping stone for Shumenov but got outfoxed and out boxed IMO.. at least their first fight.
The first Campillo fight for Shumenov was close; Campillo beat the **** out of Shumenov (9-3 fight easy for Campillo) and got ****ed hard by the judges. Worse than the Cloud robbery for Campillo.
The fight against Korobov definitely wasn't a gift. Boxing fans need to stop throwing words like gifts and robberies in competitive fights.
Derevyanchenko has a path to victory but VERY slim chance he KOs Charlo.
Charlo can be out boxed but fighters coming to him suits his style. I'll go with Charlo in this one and wouldn't be surprised if he drops Derevyanchenko a few times.
If it was not a gift, it was at least questionable. Charlo could not get out of the way of the straight left hand of Korobov for the first six rounds. Charlo did not really start landing consistently until about the second half of the fight. Sure, it was competitive (for the most part) but Korobov has a stronger case for winning if you score on clean punching.
With that being said, Charlo has a good chance here because Derevyanchenko is just a bit vulnerable to speed.
Gvodz was losing on all cards on pts vs a 41 years old inactive fighter...
He gets eated alive by Alvarez... Beterbiev has no chin so he gets KOed by everyone in the division I think.
Gvozdyk was clearly getting the best of Stevenson and knocked him out; **** the scorecards.
What makes you think he would have knocked Gvozdyk out a few years ago? He never fought anybody other than tough journeymen and contenders early on in his career. None of his early fights convinces me that he would have performed much better against Gvozdyk. I don't buy the age excuse either; Stevenson has had relatively few fights as an amateur and ended almost all of his professional fights in the first two rounds.
Ramirez actually deserves more praise for his gutsy performance. With that said, you have to be straight of delusional to think that Ramirez has any case for winning the fight or even coming close. Taylor landed the cleaner shots all night and most of Ramirez's flurries were falling short or only partially landing. The only clear Ramirez round was round 3
TBH. 5 other rounds could swing in Ramirez's direction. The rest of the rounds were dominated by Taylor.
Loma would be very gunshy against Duran. Duran would win by dominating decision or possibly a late stoppage. Duran did just about everything better in the ring than Teofimo Lopez.
If I'm gonna be honest. I thought Floyd beat Castillo and I thought Pac beat Marquez on their 3rd meeting.
This! Although you can argue that Pacquiao vs Marquez 3 was a draw.
Kov is actually overrated himself. best wins over pascal and 50 yr old hopkisn(couldn't finish him).
i never rated kov. but i just thought he was better than Ward.
clearly in fight 1, he showed that.
in the 2nd fight though, Ward brought low-blows. took the cheating to a whole new level.
It depends on who is rating Kovalev. I suspect that Bivol, Beterbiev, and even the Nail will give Ward some serious issues. I wouldn't even sleep on Chickenson being a threat to Ward either.
So you don't his ability to COMPLETELY neutralize Kovalev's straight right has anything to do with his ring intelligence? If Ward didn't have such great defense, he would be another easily KOvalev victim; regardless of the dirty tactics. Give Ward his due; he was the better man.
Of all these posters, i cant believe only Headshot understands what he is watching. Smh
I bet you guys never boxed before
Headshot never mentioned anything about Ward's lateral/head movement and his ability to make Kovalev miss with almost every straight right. All I'm reading are bull**** excuses from him instead of giving Ward credit for his defensive skills and body punching (most of which was clean and legal). Thanks for contributing to the anti-Ward agenda though.
This is an insult to Froch
Kovalevs resume is a literally 50 year old hopkins and that's it.
I also never saw froch quit in a fight against a featherfist either
1. Your first point is incredibly inaccurate (Froch has a better cumulative body of work; don't get me wrong).
2. I never saw Kovalev get badly outclassed by that same featherfist you mentioned.
De la Hoya avoided lots of punches from very good boxers that have good timing and speed. I know because I've seen most of his fights. I explained to you on some occasions on why DLH got hit but I'll repeat it again, it's cause he wanted to go toe to toe. Look how he fought Mosley the first time vs the second time. Look how he outboxed Tito and other offensive machines.
You haven't told me **** on what Ward does that's better than DLH and against who it was.
I will help you out.
Ward has better head movement (De La Hoya's defense was primarily blocking/parrying which he was very good at), a better counter-puncher than De la Hoya (close), punches in a more compact fashion than De La Hoya, controls his opponent on the inside MUCH better than De La Hoya, and has a higher ring IQ than De La Hoya. Ward dominated Kessler and Froch by using control/smothering tactics which neutralized any oncoming fire.
What does De La Hoya do better? He blocks/parrys better than Ward (close), has a MUCH better jab than Ward and he puts his punches together MUCH better than Ward.
Plus De La Hoya had lethal power in his left.
Their styles are very different but I would argue that Ward was the better defensive fighter while De La Hoya was the more destructive offensive fighter. Ward has the edge in skills overall but it is close.
Stop being so soft and easily triggered.
It's just my prediction.
Ward doesn't seem in a hurry to fight Stevenson
Stevenson has yet to fight an A-level fighter and yet you have this weird fantasy about him. Yes, he has TNT in his left and he does have decent boxing ability but he still has not proven he is as good as Ward or Kovalev.
Canelo actually looks more comfortable walking down bigger, harder-punching men than he did smaller fighters. I think Canelo has adjusted his style brilliantly for men who have bigger physical dimensions than he does.
Stevenson has not fought anybody who is remotely as skilled or defensively sound as Ward. The question is will Stevenson actually take a fight with Ward or is he going to continue fighting lower-middle tier contenders for rest of his career?
Bivol seems like a good fighter, but he is getting overly hyped. Not sure why, as to me, he does not look anything more than what I would call B level.
Bivol still has questions to answer about his chin, defense, and infighting skills but he looks everything like an A-class operator otherwise.
:pat: Chilemba, Barrera, Smith Jr., and Pascal are not anybody of note? Do you even watch boxing to spew bull**** like this?
Other than Gvozdyk, who has really outclassed Chilemba? Even Kovalev dropped 4 rounds to him. Not to mention he fought a virtually a draw with Alvarez. Some bum, right? Barrera is still a very good win but yeah he is definitely short of elite. Pascal and Smith Jr. are far from elite but they are very dangerous. I still insist that dismissing Bivol's wins is disrespectful.
Bivol being hyped up like mad. Would suck if he took a step up in competition and got his ass whooped and became just another eastern Euro puncher who got smacked when they fought someone who didn't work part time as a chimney sweeper
Bivol is also being slept on my many people such as yourself. Just because he may not be top 3 in the division (at the moment at least) doesn't make him a future p4per. He is still green and has shown excellent boxing skills even with low experience. It is not his fault that some people are excited about him, he has done what he has needed to do and blown out everybody like any top prospect should. It is not like he has had exposure for years like Stevenson who has not fought any top 10 fighters to this day.
Please! learn first about boxing before making comments like that, Cotto DID outbox Canelo who can not move his feet for Sh1t.
You know a lot about boxing and yet you scored Canelo-Cotto in favor of the man who lost almost every exchange in the fight. I bet you think Cotto landed the cleaner punches too, right?
I don't know, I wasn't extremely impressed with his power. Don't get me wrong, he hits hard, but hes not other wordly. I always sensed that Gvozdyk's chin wasn't that strong, but last night he showed that he was able to take multiple flush shots from Beterbiev without going down, in the end it was the body work and lack of conditioning that did Gvozdyk in.
Were you impress with Wilder's power when he land dozens of flush right hand on Duhaupas' chin with only modest effect? Tell me exactly who is more heavy-handed than Beterbiev at 175? Every shot Beterbiev land was THUDDING. Every single shot Beterbiev landed had at least some effect on Gvozdyk. Gvozdyk wilted BECAUSE of Beterbiev's heavy hands; not in spite of it. Give Beterbiev his due!
You sir need your head and eyes checked, Cotto gave Canelo one of the best fights he's had, even with the weight difference, Cotto was able to withstand Canelo's hard punches, he boxed better and had better movement and the flatfooted Canelo, he outpointed Canelo, yes Canelo was the one with the harder punches, obviously, he was the bigger man, the only reazon people saw him wining was because Cotto's punches didn't have an effect on Canelo, and we all know weight was the reason for that, still Cotto gave Canelo a boxing lesson and the only reason Canelo won was because of the corrupt judges and GB deep pockets with their golden goose.
So if Cotto is done and irrelevant, and gave Canelo a boxing class, where if there had been fair judges it would have gone a draw or a win for Cotto, what does that make Canelo and all his previous opponents?
Cotto didn't outbox **** against Canelo. Stop embarrassing yourself.
I thought the result of that fight was disgusting , I'm with Roach on this one , cotto should of won that fight on the score cards comfortably , but the judges are corrupt golden boy and their fighter canelo is worth more money so the judges must of been bought , no way did canelo win that fight , yes he threw the harder punches when he did land in some rounds but he did not win enough rounds , cotto's ring generalship was better, his defence was better , his jab landed more , he was robbed completely . And making fun out of Roach and Parkinson's you nasty people it could happen to you , Parkinson's effect motor skills and body movements it does not effect thought process thinking or judgement , stop being cruel.
What the **** were you watch, bro? Canelo rolled the vast majority of Cotto's punches, he landed more, and landed cleaner. This fight was closer to a shut out than a robbery.
he beat a limited fighter who had already been whooped by someone bivol had already whooped. lets give him a big round of applause. hes not beaten anyone of note yet, absolutely noone. how about he beat someone with a pulse before we start writing articles like this.
:pat: Chilemba, Barrera, Smith Jr., and Pascal are not anybody of note? Do you even watch boxing to spew bull**** like this?