Paul Williams-Winky Wright is Done For April 11

[SlickRikki]

This is a very dangerous fight for Williams, depending on how much Wright has left, he could be the best fighter Williams has faced to date.

Thats what I was thinking lol

[Ch@mpBox@PR]

If Winky is atleast half the fighter he was against taylor, he will win a UD. If father time has catch to him, hell loose a d,or a late stoppage, do to accumulation of punishment.

[COACH WEBB]

This is a very dangerous fight for Williams, depending on how much Wright has left, he could be the best fighter Williams has faced to date.

Thats what I was thinking lol

I agree with the bold

[Fox McCloud]

I just pray I'm wrong about how I see this fight turning out...

[SlickRikki]

I just pray I'm wrong about how I see this fight turning out...

may I ask how do you see it playing out? lol

[Fox McCloud]

may I ask how do you see it playing out? lol

Wright loses a 9-3 or 8-4 decision to Williams based on the following factors:

1. Wright is old, and is losing his skill as every day goes by.
2. Wright has had a massive layoff, and those skills don't stay fresh with each day that you don't box, so I expect that he will be rusty.
3. Wright's defense has shown significant diminishment since the Trinidad masterpiece. He struggled against Soliman, Taylor and Hopkins, getting hit with punches that were custom made for his guard (Taylor specifically... Taylor scored by punching through the guard, something that had no previously been done).
4. Wright's worst outings have always been against volume punchers. In his fights against Vargas, Hernandez and Soliman, he struggled because he was not able to keep up in level of activity. Vargas ran over him in the rounds he won by just throwing so many more punches... if you throw more, more land. Hernandez is an average fighter who did very well (much better than he should have) against Wright, because of the amount of punches he threw. Soliman did his whirlwind gig, and it won him a lot of rounds, because Wright spent so much time with his guard up that he was not spending enough time throwing back in order to sweep the amount of rounds he should have won against an opponent of this caliber.
5. Williams is, by far, the most active fighter that Wright has ever faced, and he is easily the best volume puncher he has faced (you could make the argument that Vargas and Taylor are better, but they were fighting out of their natural gameplan, Williams will be naturally throwing thousands of punches).
6. Williams goes to the body (as shown in the Phillips fight), and Wright doesn't enough, which means that Williams keeps throwing a zillion punches and Wright throws less and less.
7. Wright thrives on when his opponent stops to throw his counterpunches (rather than throwing over the punch or whatever) and Williams rarely stops.

All of those reasons are why I have a really, REALLY bad feeling about this fight.

[handler00]

I agree the punch output will be the difference

[Heru]

I see Paul taking this and hopefully he does; no room for delusional boxers like Winky that negotiate themselves out of good winnable fights. He could be a first ballot HOF and possible ATG if he would have taken the Taylor rematch and/or the Pavlik fight.

Williams is an exciting fighter and more fighters like him are better for the sport. He's beating Winky off of his work rate, body punching, and chin; he better not forget that or he will get his ass handed to him (if he tries punching through Wright's guard).

[Ian_ST24i]

I don't think this fight is going to be a good one to watch. But what Winky fights are exciting to watch?

I hope Williams wins. He should do. Williams by UD. Winky would've stood a good chance, but he's been too inactive, for too long. Don't reckon his heart is in the game anymore.

[Da Hammer]

i'm rooting for Winky but the man better have a mindset of actually throwing in this fight because Williams will pressure him and if Winky aint throwin Williams will win on pure activity!