this is why americans should not write boxing articles

[slimshandy69]

Worst piece of journalism ive ever seen...

http://www.************.com/2009/08/...ing-desperate/

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch will be facing the best opponent of his career on October 17th when he steps foot in the ring against unbeaten American Andre Dirrell in the Super Six tournament at the Trent FM Arena, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.

Froch, who moves like a glacier, will be facing one of the fastest fighters in the division in the young 26-year-old Dirrell. So I’m thinking that Froch will be falling apart when he sees that he’s not quick enough to land his ponderous shots against Dirrell. Froch will be totally frustrated when he can’t land his punches and will end up doing something weird that will get him hurt in there. I hope he doesn’t start throwing leaping hooks or something like Ricky Hatton. If he does that, Dirrell will knock him immediately.

This is a bout that Froch is facing a different kind of fighter than the ones that he has been brought up against in England. Froch seems to think he’s going to be able to walk Dirrell down by coming forward and throwing pawing jabs from the outside and his those long uppercuts that Froch likes to throw.

Those punches won’t have any effect on Froch, and I can see Carl quickly getting desperate as Dirrell’s movement causes him to hit nothing but air. At first, the slow moving Froch will try to compensate by moving at Dirrell with more of an urgency, but when that fails to produce results, I can see Froch going to pieces mentally and getting wild with his punches.

Dirrell is going to be drilling Froch in the face with his straight right hand jabs and making him pay for his desperation and slow movements. Froch looked poor in his last fight against Jermain Taylor in April, and I gave Froch poor marks in that fight. Froch ended winning only because of Taylor’s stamina problems.

It was not an impressive performance by the speed challenged Froch, because he was getting badly schooled by Taylor up until Jermain ran out of gas. Dirrell won’t be tiring out like Taylor and will be a level above anything that Froch has ever seen before.

The problem with Froch is that besides his lack of experience facing a fighter as talented and as good of a mover like Dirrell, he has no one that can get him prepared for a figter like him. The closest fighter that comes to being like Dirrell is Andre Ward, and even he doesn’t move nearly as good as Dirrell.

Froch will be essentially going into the fight against Dirrell without the proper tools needed to fight a talented fighter like him. When you have hand speed as poor as Froch’s, you’ve got to have other tools that you can fall back, such as huge power. But Froch really isn’t a big ****er by any means. He has a lot of knockouts, but those were against a lot of Euro fighters in the UK, and not against opponents in the class of Dirrell.

[REMOVED SHARK 97]

I think all journalism from any country can show BS.

Problem with some American ones is the term "Boxing is dying", American may not have as many popular champs as before, but it doesn't mean the whole of boxing is dying ... it doesn't always revolve around America.

[oc9979]

dont worry that guy is a joke

[oc9979]

read this one



By Scott Gilfoid:

With David Haye’s heavyweight battle with Monte Barrett (34-6, 20 KOs) only a short period of time away, one has to wonder whether or not Haye fully understands how desperate the 37 year-old Barrett is in wanting to win this fight.

According to Barrett, “This is my last hoorah. I’m desperate and desperate people do desperate things.”

If Haye thinks that he can just walk out and blitz Barrett, like he’s done to so many other outclassed cruiserweight fighters during his six-year career, he may be in for a rude surprise because the American will be fighting as if this is his last bout of his life, and will likely be swinging for the fences, hoping to connect to Haye’s glass jaw.

It isn’t as if Barrett will have to guess what kind of strategy that Haye will be bringing into the fight, because Haye fights pretty much the same way every time out. In other words, Haye goes out throwing bombs from the opening bell, letting loose big punches with both hands. It works for him most of the time, but it also leaves him wide open for counter shots from his opponents.

It’s up to Barrett to try and take advantage of Haye’s sloppy defense and try to nail him with a big punch in between his own bombs. For that to work, Barrett will have to be able to take a few, perhaps more than a few, big shots from Haye in order to get his chance to tap Haye’s fragile chin.

Without question, though, Haye will be trying to take him out as fast as possible in order to make an example of him and to try and increase his selling point for a future 2009 fight against Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, both of whom are heavyweight champions.

That’s where the problem may come in for Haye, because he’s never fought a quality heavyweight before in his career, and has only a fight against Tomasz Bonin to show for in terms of heavyweight experience.

While Haye did his job and took Bonin out in the first round, the victory doesn’t say much about how good Haye is as a heavyweight because Barrett would likely take Bonin out in a couple of rounds as well if presented with him as an opponent. Haye’s heart, chin and stamina are all a question mark at this point going into his fight tonight against Barrett.

Haye hasn’t had any serious career-defining fights up to now, and he will be going into this fight with precious little experience against what I consider to be quality fighters. At the same time, both his endurance and chin may be tested tonight by Barrett, and if that does occur, there’s a question whether Haye has what it takes to fight a full 10 rounds, taking shots from a near premier heavyweight like Barrett.

Haye may be a better fighter than Barrett, at least as a cruiserweight, but given that he’s moving up in weight and will be taking bigger shots, this may be more of challenge than what Haye is ready for. If that happens, forget about the Klitschko brothers and title shots for the time being, because Haye will need to rebuild his career after such a dramatic setback.

[mojack]

Was that article written by Dirrell...? lol

[WhoreUs]

I think all journalism from any country can show BS.

Problem with some American ones is the term "Boxing is dying", American may not have as many popular champs as before, but it doesn't mean the whole of boxing is dying ... it doesn't always revolve around America.

everything revolves around america.

you guys from second rate countries best learn that.

[mojack]

I think all journalism from any country can show BS.

Problem with some American ones is the term "Boxing is dying", American may not have as many popular champs as before, but it doesn't mean the whole of boxing is dying ... it doesn't always revolve around America.

I wouldn't even call it journalism, his grammar is that of a 12 year olds. He obviously knows absolute sweet FA on boxing.

[JM1]

[oc9979]

By Scott Gilfoid:

Recently, Ricky Hatton fired off a broadside attack on Floyd Mayweather commenting how Mayweather can’t sell tickets. What Hatton was referring to was Mayweather’s September 19th bout against lightweight Juan Manuel Marquez, a fight which has thus far gained very little attention in the boxing media.

Although the bout may end up getting a lot of pay-per-view buys once the casual boxing fans have seen the Mayweather-Marquez HBO 24/7 series that will be starting soon, but Hatton does seem to have a point that Mayweather’s bout doesn’t appear to be in the process of being a huge seller.

What Hatton said was pretty much unnecessary, because most hardcore boxing fans can already see that it was a poor decision on Mayweather’s part to take a fight against an opponent as small as Marquez. Mayweather might have gotten a free pass had he fought an opponent a division below his welterweight fighting class, say a fighter like Timothy Bradley.

But to take on a Marquez, 35, who only recently moved up to the lightweight division within the past year, it looks bad on Mayweather’s part, like he’s looking for a fighter small enough for him to beat without too many problems. What makes Hatton seem bitter is that he felt the need to make the comment in the first place, because it seems like kicking a dog while he’s down.

Obviously, Mayweather is having problems here by his poor choice of an opponent and didn’t need someone like Hatton to pour it on and kick sand in his face while he’s already looking at a fight that will be doing poorly with the PPV audience.

Hatton, if he was completely mentally recovered from his 10th round beating at the hands of Mayweather, should be thinking of other things rather than wasting his time taking shots at Mayweather during his time of troubles. Did the loss to Mayweather hurt Hatton’s mental psyche that much that he still has to get back at Mayweather? I had a feeling that Hatton might be messed up mentally by the Mayweather fight even before it happened.

After the bout, Hatton revealed that he was emotionally upset about the loss, talking about crying a lot about the defeat. Instead of sitting down like a boxing scientist and studying what he did wrong, Hatton let his emotions get the best of him and moped about the defeat. I realized early on that Hatton was more of a primitive slugger type of fighter with average boxing skills, but I figured that he could accept and defeat without harboring on it years after.

But I’m not so sure about that now. Instead of lashing out at poor Mayweather, Hatton should be learning what he did wrong in that fight and vowing not to repeat the same mistakes twice. He’d be better for it. If he was truly over the defeat, he might want to consider lending a hand to Mayweather to help him promote the Marquez fight in any way he could.

I’m sure Hatton could think of some ways that he could be productive in helping sell some tickets for that fight. That would be real healing, I think and it would be a sign of growth and maturity for Hatton

[mojack]

everything revolves around america.

you guys from second rate countries best learn that.

I've just come back from America, needless to say it's a f.ucking ****ole. Cars are the worst cars i've driven....ever, everything looks fake and made to look old, they don't know what dieting is. America is pretty much all smoke and mirrors, just one big illusion.