Tua only hope?

[jameshepenstall]

He wont get a shot until 2011 in my opinion. There are too many fighters going for the Klits at the moment and because of Tua's ranking he is easy to turn down for them. Once he gets past Friday Ahunanya and then another step up, their fans may want them to take him on and they would have to retire or face him. I'm still 50/50 over whether Tua can win though.

[jameshepenstall]

tua would get his ears boxed off and most likely quit on his stool

No ****ing way man, Tua would never quit. Samoans are one of the hardest races on earth.

[jameshepenstall]

tua just needs to finish up his 3-fight contract with maori tv. when he gets that out of the way he can fight better opponents for better networks with a bigger budget.[/QUOTE]

wow, you know your ****. an youre Austrian?

[kenso]

No ****ing way man, Tua would never quit. Samoans are one of the hardest races on earth.

its likely his corner would stop it then.

i like tua, but he simply would get completely and utterly outboxed. he'd have to land a wild WILD ass bomb, and hope that it was enough.

besides - he hasn't done anything lately to show hes even got merit for this discussion. let him beat someone meaningful, then lets talk.

[DARKSEID]

No ****ing way man, Tua would never quit.

Yeah I don't see Tua ever quitting.. there's not an ounce of ***** in him.. He's all warrior.

[jameshepenstall]

its likely his corner would stop it then.

i like tua, but he simply would get completely and utterly outboxed. he'd have to land a wild WILD ass bomb, and hope that it was enough.

besides - he hasn't done anything lately to show hes even got merit for this discussion. let him beat someone meaningful, then lets talk.

Cant disagree with that at all. Friday The 13th has never been stopped or even hurt so it'll be a good stamina test i think. Friday will take a few shots before he goes down but after that Tua needs to finish his current contract(he signed a 3 fight deal with local Maori TV for some unknown ***n reason, hopefully someone in the US will buy it out or something). As you know if the politics are not right then he may not even fight in America or get near a title shot.

[Capital Punch]

Cant disagree with that at all. Friday The 13th has never been stopped or even hurt so it'll be a good stamina test i think. Friday will take a few shots before he goes down but after that Tua needs to finish his current contract(he signed a 3 fight deal with local Maori TV for some unknown ***n reason, hopefully someone in the US will buy it out or something). As you know if the politics are not right then he may not even fight in America or get near a title shot.

Tua's fight against Lewis was a snoozefest. He couldn't get near him and was easily outboxed. Steward knows exactly how to beat the Tuaman, and Wlad is now a master of using his natural advantages.
Wlad KO 12, again!

[SN!PER]

Very little chance for Tua, in this fight he has to take 3 punches for every chance to land 1. His work-rate would have to be insane, but still he's probably the only short heavyweight (besides prime Tyson and Marciano) who I'd not bet money against, due to his unusual durability and power.

[tyger]

Sure the Klitschko bro's are capable of boxing Tua's ears off. But there is no way any promoter would let Tua get anywhere near a title now. Too much to lose.
Now suppose a miracle happened and Tua was #1 IBF challenger, he would be steered towards the WBC and Vitali. These managers are not ******. Sad but it is not the brothers fault the division is in shambles. But it can be blamed on the title being split three ways. If there was one champion, we'd have alot more top contenders fighting each other and that would seperate the real contenders from the rest of these challengers.

[SN!PER]

I think Vitali will target Tua if he destroys Ahunanya convincingly at the end of this month.