Joe Smith Jr on upset alert tonight?

[DoubleMM]

Vlassov is bigger, longer, more experience, and much slicker then joe.

I can see him outpointing the long island stallion.

[Citizen Koba]

Vlassov is bigger, longer, more experience, and much slicker then joe.

I can see him outpointing the long island stallion.

Would not be very surprised although Joe has improved massively - almost fight by fight -since he first broke out against Fonfara 5 or 6 years ago. Expect a tough, hard fought fight whichever way it goes, but bear in mind the judges are likely to see the close rounds Smithy's way.

[_Rexy_]

It's possible, sure. But Joe has made some vast improvements, so I see him winning this. He completely dominated his last two fights. The Judge who scored it for Hart has only been working ****ing club shows since then. Good to see when judges get punished.

https://boxrec.com/en/judge/709451


All his fights since then have been in a Delaware gymnasium. Looks good on him. These ****s need to realize that they are messing with peoples careers and livelihoods.

[ShoulderRoll]

Joe rocked Bivol, who is a much better fighter than Vlasov, a couple of times in their fight. And he was able to absorb all his shots and survive to the final bell. Vlasov can box but does he have enough power to keep Joe off of him all night?

Should be an interesting matchup.

[Bain01D]

Vlassov is bigger, longer, more experience, and much slicker then joe.

I can see him outpointing the long island stallion.

Good fight this, looking forward to it

[JakeTheBoxer]

Joe lost nearly every round to Bivol, who is the best fighter in division.

Joe is good enough to beat E. Alvarez ( as he did), but he is also bad enough to lose to every top 20 guy.

[Pantera_]

I wouldn't doubt it. Vlasov had a real good losing effort to Zurdo Ramirez a while back but Joe Smith is not on Zurdo's level so we may very well see an upset here.

[Scopedog]

We'll see. I do think Smith showed big improvements in his game in the course of beating Alvarez. We'll have to see whether that was just him having an abnormally good night or if those improvements stick. If so I think he'll win.

[ShaneMosleySr]

I would feel better about Vlaslov’s chances if he wasn’t 50 years old coming off of covid.

I think there’s a real chance he’s going to look like Povetkin did against Whyte in the rematch.

[PinkGod]

I just want Joe to win...idc how he does it.