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WBC#1, IBF#10, WBA#6 light heavyweight Paul Briggs (25-3) will be back in action on February 4 when he meets South African Andre Thysse (19-7) over twelve rounds at the Homebush Sports Centre, Homebush, NSW, Australia. Briggs is coming off a twelve round majority points loss to Tomasz Adamek (30-0) in a WBC light heavyweight challenge in one of the best fights for 2006. Thysse lost in eleven rounds to current WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler and also in a WBC super middleweight title challenge to Marcus Beyer via twelve round decision loss in 2004. In what promises to be the biggest promotion seen in Australia in several years, IBF #3 Lovemore Ndou (44-8-1) will meet IBF#4 Noufell Ben Rabah (24-2) in an IBF jr welterweight eliminator . Other fights will feature IBF#14 super middleweight Sakio Bika (21-2-2), WBO #10 jr middleweight Daniel Dawson (25-0), IBF Pan Pacific jr middleweight champion Daniel Geale (14-0) and IBF Australaisan welterweight champion Robert Medley (16-0). Sky Television will televise live on pay per view nationally.
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I know a lot of ppl are gonna say this is poor opposition for Briggs. But Thysse is one tough mother****er. He might not be that big a threat, but it's gonna be damn hard for Briggs to end it early. It just seems nothing really bites on Thysse.
Against Kessler Thysse really shouldn't have been stopped ahead of time. Sure the fight was getting increasingly one-sided. But there was nothing to suggest Thysse couldn't have lasted to the end. It was obviously what he was fighting for during the later stages of the fight and it wasn't fair to deny him that under the circumstances. Kessler could dominate him but he couldn't floor him.
The same goes for hot SMW prospects Brähmer and Bute. They couldn't stop him either.
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