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Barrett: Ppl tells Fields he's a big puncher. He isn't!
Graham Houston has previewed the Fields-Barrett fight and interviewed Barrett in the process. Here's what Barrett had to say:
When I spoke to Barrett on the phone a few weeks ago he sounded full of confidence. He said he sees a lot of flaws in Fields but will be concentrating on what he sees as his opponent’s greatest asset — the ability to keep up a high punch-volume for 10 rounds. Barrett said he was preparing himself to go 10 busy-punching rounds to counter Fields’s workrate.
“I think the fight’s going to be much easier than a lot of people expect,” he said. "Tye Fields is a very off-balance, uncoordinated fighter. He throws a lot of punches that have no meaning for them, and for some reason his corner people tell him he’s a big puncher, which he’s not. I’m looking forward to the fight.”
Fields is much the bigger man, of course, at 6ft 8ins and about 260 pounds, but Barrett fought someone even bigger in Nikolay Valuev and he was doing well for a while, landing some heavy right hands, before the Russian’s size and weight wore him down. When I suggested to him that some heavyweights might not have been able to stand up to the right hands he landed on Valuev, he said: “We’ll never know, but I know Tye Fields won’t stand up to them.”
When I spoke to Barrett on the phone a few weeks ago he sounded full of confidence. He said he sees a lot of flaws in Fields but will be concentrating on what he sees as his opponent’s greatest asset — the ability to keep up a high punch-volume for 10 rounds. Barrett said he was preparing himself to go 10 busy-punching rounds to counter Fields’s workrate.
“I think the fight’s going to be much easier than a lot of people expect,” he said. "Tye Fields is a very off-balance, uncoordinated fighter. He throws a lot of punches that have no meaning for them, and for some reason his corner people tell him he’s a big puncher, which he’s not. I’m looking forward to the fight.”
Fields is much the bigger man, of course, at 6ft 8ins and about 260 pounds, but Barrett fought someone even bigger in Nikolay Valuev and he was doing well for a while, landing some heavy right hands, before the Russian’s size and weight wore him down. When I suggested to him that some heavyweights might not have been able to stand up to the right hands he landed on Valuev, he said: “We’ll never know, but I know Tye Fields won’t stand up to them.”
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