Briggs-Ibragimov Lands in MSG on 3/10

[K-DOGG]

Austin would be a pick 'em fight with Briggs. I've said this over and over again. I really do think Briggs is the most overrated currently active boxer on this forum. I have no idea why he has so many fans. The biggest victory of his life, the win over Foreman, was a ****ing robbery. His career is a joke.

Rahman was a better and more deserving champion.

It's because he looks like a Wrestler, man....or a comic book hero or villain. He's all flash, no substance; and I don't get the appeal either.

[The Surgeon]

Ibrag wins....Briggs will simply run out of gas as usual...although Ibrag show a glass jaw against Austin..

If a Glass jaw then great heart!

[The Surgeon]

You guys think Austin sucks because you rate fighters on how athletic they look, and not the results they get. Boxing isn't about being the better athlete or the smoother boxer. Those things factor in, but ultimately it's about who can successfully impose their will on the other guy.

Id make Briggs only a slight favourite over Austin

[!!Captain]

Personal feelings aside, this should be an interesting war. We'll find out how good Ibragimov's chin is and hopefully, he'll do more to press Shannon's stamina than Liakhovich did. Maybe, just maybe, this will be a fight.

To press Briggs' stamina less than Liakhovich, Ibragimov would have to do a no-show for the fight.

[K-DOGG]

To press Briggs' stamina less than Liakhovich, Ibragimov would have to do a no-show for the fight.

Truer word were never spoken.

Honestly, part of me almost thinks Briggs-Liakhovich was a fix. I mean, Briggs was scared of getting tired and Liakhovich seemed scared too........like both were afraid of the fight ending by accident.

I'd love to know if anyone actually bet on Shannon winning by a 12th round stoppage. The odds against that had to have been huge.

[PATO 1]

lyak seemed imo scared of briggs

[jujuman]

i wont call it a fix sergei was afraid of what happen in the 12th, getting caught. Briggs is big boy and Sergeis defence does tend to get sloppy. even in his fight with Brewster, too many clean shots were landing on his head. And he needs to quit those lead rights to the body they leave him too open for counters.

[K-DOGG]

i wont call it a fix sergei was afraid of what happen in the 12th, getting caught. Briggs is big boy and Sergeis defence does tend to get sloppy. even in his fight with Brewster, too many clean shots were landing on his head. And he needs to quit those lead rights to the body they leave him too open for counters.

I don't know. It was just such a screwed up fight. A last round knock-out for the man with no stamina agaisnt the man who took Brewster's best shots for 12 rounds.....and then to get knoced out of the ring ala Hasim Rahman.


....just too screwy for me to ignore completely.

[Kid Achilles]

Sergei was afraid of getting knocked out and Briggs was afraid of exhausting his feeble ****ty ass cardio.

The result was one of the worst fights I've seen in months, and without the knockout it would have been the worst fight in a long, long while. The only thing that kept my interest was a sadistic part of me that wanted to see Briggs get more and more exhausted until he finally just quit, or Sergei stopped him. It all backfired whe Briggs lashed out with whatever he had left in the tank and with a lot of luck managed to stop Sergei in the last few seconds.

[Derranged_]

I hope Ibragimov is getting ready to fight in a hostile evironment because MSG my guess will be a really pro-Briggs crowd.