Comments Thread For: Bernard Hopkins Says: "I Want Haye-Ruiz Winner Next"

[Dave Rado]

If the fight happens, we'll see. Before the Chambers fight, I made a poll asking people if Chambers was a good fighter or a bum. The good fighter option won by a landlslide. How many people are calling Chambers a bum now? In fact now that I've remembered I'm going to bump that thread.

Chambers is a good fighter, who would have been at least a fringe contender in any era; and I haven't heard anyone call him a bum.

I think he's similar in skills, speed and ability to Jimmy Young and Chris Byrd.

That said, he hasn't got the right style to cope with the Klit brothers - and almost no one gave Chambers a realistic chance of beating Wlad. It will take a pressure fighter with serious power, allied to similar speed to Chambers, to cope with them. Which is why a lot of people think Haye may have an outside chance, because he does have serious power as well as speed, although whether he's got enough skill to get past that jab is another matter.

[Pirao]

Chambers is a good fighter, who would have been at least a fringe contender in any era; and I haven't heard anyone call him a bum.

I think he's similar in skills, speed and ability to Jimmy Young and Chris Byrd.

That said, he hasn't got the right style to cope with the Klit brothers - and almost no one gave Chambers a realistic chance of beating Wlad. It will take a pressure fighter with serious power, allied to similar speed to Chambers, to cope with them. Which is why a lot of people think Haye may have an outside chance, because he does have serious power as well as speed, although whether he's got enough skill to get past that jab is another matter.

Lol, for real? You haven't read the forums much in the last days then, because lots of people have called a bum. I can search some posts for you to prove it, if you like.

Eeven if Chambers had power it would have helped him none, how many times did he hit Wlad?

[Dave Rado]

Eeven if Chambers had power it would have helped him none, how many times did he hit Wlad?

It needs to be an aggressive pressure-fighting style, as well as someone with real power and outstanding speed, and good lateral movement. That said, Chambers did land some punches - not much, but he did land some.