Comments Thread For: Efe Ajagba still in Martin Bakole?s sights as trainer warns ?he?ll be back to being the bogeyman?

[JakeTheBoxer]

Well he didn’t destroy Parker. Parker landed bombs throughout the fight & he was not in the best shape he could have been in. He got stopped late but the damage he did to Joyce’s chin was the beginning of the decline for Joyce. His punch resistance has been gone since.

Yup. Dubois and Parker fights took a lot from Joyce.

[PRINCEKOOL]

Even if Martin Bakole was out of condition, he displayed almost zero World to Elite level Skills vs Joseph Parker 'This is why I personally don't rate him as a genuine top level fighter'.

I am also wondering? Why are people very quiet on Martin Bakole's conditioning? Bakole was by his teams admittance miles out of condition for the fight against Parker 'But does that mean he was in condition for all of his recent fights?'.

I have been one of the few people, if not the only individual 'Who actually thinks Bakole has regressed with his conditioning since being beaten by Hunter. When Martin Bakole fought Michael Hunter he weighed in at 256 pounds. Martin Bakole in his prior fight before Parker, weighed in at 284 pounds. That is almost a full 2 stones, heavier than when he fought Micheal Hunter'.

I would not be highlighting this area of his game, if that mass gained was functional weight 'When Evander Holyfield moved up into the Heavyweight Division, he trained alongside Lee Haney the 8 times Mr Olympia Champion. To gain incremental solid functional mass, and increase his durability and overall strength as fighter'.

Martin Bakole has not done that since he fought Michael Hunter 'There is no way, that any person within the boxing community can seriously claim that Bakole is absolute best version he can be right now as fighter. I give credit to Bakole for being a clearly very strong, aggressive and powerful fighter. But apart from that, he is seriously lacking in many areas of his game which would create a genuine top level Heavyweight fighter'.

Note: There has been no fight, were ether Tyson Fury or Anthony Joshua at the very least did not show flashes of being World to Elite level fighters. When Tyson Fury was grossly out of condition, you could clearly see that he was still a World to Elite level Heavyweight fighter. And in all of Anthony Joshua's performance's win or a loss, he has always shown that skill for skill he was a World to Elite level fighter'.

Even during Anthony Joshua's last fight against Daniel Dubois 'Which is officially skill for skill, his worst ever performance in the professional ranks. Daniel Dubois after the fight, had clearly sustained heavy structural damage. Dubois after his best ever performance, was smashed up. That damage did not just occurred on its own, it happened because of Anthony Joshua and his skills. Joshua in a recuperative, and concussed state was still at times clearly skill for skill the better fighter than Daniel Dubois'.

To Conclude: Martin Bakole is a strong, aggressive and powerful fighter 'But I personally don't rate him as a top level Heavyweight. I just about rate Daniel Dubois as a genuine World to Elite level fighter, so there is no way I am going to rating Bakole that high'.

I rate Billy Nelson as a trainer, and I do value what he says to a certain extent 'Bakole is a solid fighter in today's era of Heavyweight fighters. But there is a level skill for skill, and by the looks of work ethic? That he is nowhere near as a fighter'.

Martin Bakole is nowhere near the level of Anthony Joshua skill for skill, or as a complete Heavyweight fighter 'And when you get carried away with just brute strength or power and neglect those other important areas of a fighter's game. All this does is prolong the inevitable.

Bakole was always going to get absolutely smashed up by a genuine top level Heavyweight fighter at some point in his career 'And as I have stated many times in my other previous posts? I think Daniel Dubois is also on that same track as a fighter, Dubois skill for skill is by a distance better than Bakole. But even still Dubois technically his skills are not at a World to Elite level standard' etc.

[hogey]

Bakole is too easy to hit to be a force at the top level, I think he gets destroyed by Parker in the same way whether as a last minute replacement or after a full camp. I think his level with be respected gatekeeper so I’m glad he has had a huge payday from Saudi.