Comments Thread For: David Tua Decisions Friday Ahunanya Over Twelve

[SoldierWarrior]

atleast he won i supose hopefully he will start fighting some top comp now he could fight someone like chambers or "kingpin" next

Fighters who come to survive, great... Maybe he should fight someone with a pulse and will actually try to beat him like Solis, Povetkin, Haye. He can fight Wlad if he wants but most of us know the outcome of that fight already. Wlad by decision, and Tua probably with brain-damage going the distance with a hard puncher like Wlad.

[Kayoer]

Hell, Ruiz might beat Haye. Tua has sure done more at HW than Haye has.
So has Ruiz.

However, I like David Tua, but if he can't take out a bigger guy like Friday, his chances against either Wlad or Vitali are similar to Haye's chances against them: slim and none. Both Klitschkos are too good at controlling distance for Tua to do any real damage, similar to how he fared against Lennox Lewis. Against Wlad, Tua would be eating the Steelhammer jab all night long.

I'll still take Tua over Haye any time, though. But since Haye is tied up with Sauerland / King options for a long time (Ruiz, Valuev or a Ruiz rematch if he loses, then the winner of Meehan-Chagaev), we know Haye won't be fighting either the Klitschkos (as Manny Steward already said) or Tua any time soon, if ever.

Yes man, totally AGREE

[BritishBoxing92]

At the Trusts Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, David Tua (51-3, 43KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Friday Ahunanya (24-6-3, 13KOs) to retain the WBO Asia Pacific and WBO Oriental heavyweight titles. The scores were 119-109, 117-109 and 120-108. [Click Here To Read More]

i was hoping for a KO victory from tua..

[SoldierWarrior]

i was hoping for a KO victory from tua..

Yeah, people were hoping for a Pacquiao KO win over Clottey but that didn't happen. Its hard to look impressive over someone who comes to only survive and not even try to seriously take chances at winning the match. These fighters run around the damn arena or put their highguard on doing almost squat-diddly **** to beat the opponent infront of them.

Who the **** did Friday think he was fighting? Everyone knows Tua has a chin, so Friday with that style is not getting a TKO win over Tua like he did against Cameron. That bullcrap style is not fan-pleasing and it also does not beat Elite fighters!

[The Great Shark]

I need to watch a replay of this and see how well he actually did. Maybe he can go for some of the top fighters.

[Kayoer]

Tua strongly need to get to US. He need to try to get a "big" fight with America's "stars" like Tony Thompson (respect to him for Vladimir Klichko fight by the way), Eddie Chambers (I hope he will recover asap), Chris Arreola, or someone another new American prospect. Time is ticking David.

[bboy80]

What tua needs to do is move to the USA get a good trainer, work on his fitness & technique and then decide
if he really needs to be in the heavyweight division, he is only 5.10 for gods sake

That’s smaller than most super middle weights, imo he should try and pop down to cruiser and clean them out
aleast he would have some belts once and for all

[SoldierWarrior]

What tua needs to do is move to the USA get a good trainer, work on his fitness & technique and then decide
if he really needs to be in the heavyweight division, he is only 5.10 for gods sake

That’s smaller than most super middle weights, imo he should try and pop down to cruiser and clean them out
aleast he would have some belts once and for all

So, Mike Tyson was reportedly about the same damn height.

[bboy80]

So, Mike Tyson was reportedly about the same damn height.

Yer along time ago when most heavyweight boxer were shorter. & Iron Mike was abnormal!!

[Capital Punch]

Tuaman's lacklusture display might encourage some more dudes to fight him, that's the only plus I see for him.