Comments Thread For: Otto Wallin: Gassiev Is Fighting A Real Heavyweight Now; Things Are Gonna Be A Lot Different

[BlackRobb]

I wouldn't have him in the top 3 most skilled and think he is horribly overrated because he did well vs a Tyson Fury who couldn't get up for him. His only claim to fame is having fair success vs Fury. Really he has beaten nothing but journeymen.
Gassiev is 6'4 & a lean 230lbs with a neck thicker than his head, he is definitely a legitimate HW who just so happened to be able to cut down to make the CW limit.

Fans said the same about Hunter, Briedis, Usyk who all either dabbled or went up to HW permanently and all had more a fair share of success.
All of them are 6'3-6'4 and at least 220lbs

Michael Hunter is a trash ball whose sole claim to fame is dancing in front of Fury in his underwear. He was too much of a coward to even fight a stiff like Hrgovic.What has Breidis done at heavyweight? The only guy you named with success at heavyweight coming up from cruiserweight who had success is Usyk, and Usyk had a tremendous amateur pedigree.

Mark my words. Wallin will make Gassiev regret moving up and will make him look ****** for 12 rounds.

[dan_cov]

Michael Hunter is a trash ball whose sole claim to fame is dancing in front of Fury in his underwear. He was too much of a coward to even fight a stiff like Hrgovic.What has Breidis done at heavyweight? The only guy you named with success at heavyweight coming up from cruiserweight who had success is Usyk, and Usyk had a tremendous amateur pedigree.

Mark my words. Wallin will make Gassiev regret moving up and will make him look ****** for 12 rounds.

Hunter has better wins at HW than Wallin does!
In fact he has better wins than a lot of these garbage HWs who are being hyped for absolutely no reason.

Breidis only has one fight at HW vs a scrub but that scrub would also be Wallins best win.

No idea why Fury fans sit pretending this guy is this great, skilled southpaw when he is all kinds of mediocre and never beaten anyone of any kind of note at all, ever.

[Robertthebruce]

I wouldn't have him in the top 3 most skilled and think he is horribly overrated because he did well vs a Tyson Fury who couldn't get up for him. His only claim to fame is having fair success vs Fury. Really he has beaten nothing but journeymen.
Gassiev is 6'4 & a lean 230lbs with a neck thicker than his head, he is definitely a legitimate HW who just so happened to be able to cut down to make the CW limit.

Fans said the same about Hunter, Briedis, Usyk who all either dabbled or went up to HW permanently and all had more a fair share of success.
All of them are 6'3-6'4 and at least 220lbs

Fully agree, Gassiev is a monster and was a unified CW champion which you cannot achieve without being very good.
he is a quiet guy that gets on with his business and has had a rough few years with injury etc
Cannot wait to see him spank Wallin

[James]

I agree. I think most guys on this board are going to be surprised. Wallin by decision.

Chances are 60:40 for Wallin in my opinion.
I am happy that Wallin has a good oponent this time because I was waiting to see what Wallin can do after Fury fight. This is great match and great opportunity for both.
IBF will probably make 2 or 3 eliminator fights for the winner of this match for mandatory possition because Hrgovic will soon be fighting Usyk.

[AKAcronym]

Have people watched Wallin's last 3 fights?

[Mammoth]

Have people watched Wallin's last 3 fights?

Yeah he looked like ****. Losing good to Fury won't matter here.

[AKAcronym]

Yeah he looked like ****. Losing good to Fury won't matter here.

Exactly. BlackRobb saying he's top 3 in skills at HW is laughable when you look at who he's been fighting. I think the people that are expecting him to convincingly beat Gassiev haven't watched any of his fights outside of Fury. Wallin does a lot of those cute "pitter-patter" punches that absolutely won't deter Murat. Otto's never been hit by someone like Gassiev, so it'll be interesting to see how he fights once the first good shot lands.

[James]

Winner will fight Joyce. Zhang deserves a bigger fight than these 2.

No one knows who will be next for the winner.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Yeah he looked like ****. Losing good to Fury won't matter here.

Some guys fight to the level of their competition. Fury also looked like a sh.it fighting Seferi and Pianeta.

[PBR Streetgang]

Have people watched Wallin's last 3 fights?

Yeah it looked like he was just getting rounds to me. I don't think Otto is a guy who's going to impress in most fights. He's a big, awkward southpaw but he doesn't have all that much power. He beat on Breazeale from pillar to post but couldn't stop him. I still rate him as a skilled boxer.

It's a shame the Whyte fight fell thru at the last minute, I think he would have beaten Dillian in that one ans perhaps the narrative would have been a bit different for him..

I still think I favor Gassiev in this one although we don't really know what either will look like after injury (Murat) and layoff (both).