This is a good fight for him before he goes up against Wlad to cash in on his mandatory position, You cannot expect him to jeopardies that by fighting the big tough guys with the Wlad fight just one fight away.
From the business point of view, you're right. From the boxing fan's point of view, this is a ****ty fight. Besides, he has plenty of ****ty opponents who resemble Wlad at least in hight and reach department. Rahman would be the one. Povetkin's last 2 opponents could not knock out a fly, Sykes is no exception. The fact that Povetkin is not trying to prepare for Wlad only tells me that he will be there to collect his paycheck, which sucks big time.
Derek Bryant's knockout of Taurus Sykes was one of the best of the past few years. It was on FNF and Bryant KO'ed him with a running superman punch that left Sykes so out of it he rolled out of the ring and started walking around in the crowd.
If anyone has any idea or knows of a clip they should post it cause its awesome and im never seen it since the live telecast
For real, I had the time of my life there man. Me and my buddy got seats on the floor, and it wasn't so crowded so it was easy to walk around and mingle with fighters after their fights and what not. Peter even pounded my friend's fist in front of the Showtime camera's after he exited the ring lol.
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