Tua is coming back

**ProBox1** · 12-15-2004, 01:39 PM

Originally posted by tri4ben2

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundays...8a6444,00.html

It doesn't say who he is fighting, but I am going to guess that it is a guy with one foot in the grave, if you know what I mean.

It also says that he weight 135kg, which is just under 300 pounds, and less than the 330 it says he weighed before.

So the question is, is this Mike Tyson wannabe who blew through the 15-20 Million he made in his career and has to fight, going to be anything more than a punching bag for a top 10 fighter?

I have no doubt that his next 4-5 fights coming back will be KOs, but can this "never was" be a "can be"?

Tua is the only fighter in the heavyweight division that can knock out anyone with a "single" punch in any single round. Tua can knock out any top fighter on any given day. He also has the best chin in the heavyweight division. If Tua could ever learn how to beat a guy with a long jab and cut the ring off on fighters who move, he would be a champion today.

**elveiel** · 12-15-2004, 01:44 PM

Originally posted by Rick Reeno

Tua is the only fighter in the heavyweight division that can knock out anyone with a "single" punch in any single round. Tua can knock out any top fighter on any given day. He also has the best chin in the heavyweight division. If Tua could ever learn how to beat a guy with a long jab and cut the ring off on fighters who move, he would be a champion today.

I agree, that guy can punch and take one!!

Although he did a pretty good job cutting of the ring against Ruiz and Moorer

**jack_the_rippuh** · 12-15-2004, 01:47 PM

Doesn't Mike Tyson want him. This fight was something to see a couple of years ago, it's still going to be a money maker..

**dansweeney** · 12-15-2004, 01:53 PM

id love to see him come back, he can take any heavyweight out there, maybe even vitali because he can actually withstand the barrage vitali will throw at him on his way inside, we need a "one" punch guy in there

**jack_the_rippuh** · 12-15-2004, 01:56 PM

Originally posted by dansweeney

id love to see him come back, he can take any heavyweight out there, maybe even vitali because he can actually withstand the barrage vitali will throw at him on his way inside, we need a "one" punch guy in there

Yeah, but I doubt he's in shape..

**SacTown1** · 12-15-2004, 02:03 PM

Waste Of Talent

David Tua is the biggest waste of talent in the past 20 years in the heavyweight division. He had all of the tools to become champ, but he ate his way out of contention. David Tua makes Rid**** Bowe look like Richard Simmons.

**Xecutioner** · 12-15-2004, 02:14 PM

i'll always love tua for what he did to john ruiz

**ProBox1** · 12-15-2004, 02:24 PM

Originally posted by SacTown1

David Tua is the biggest waste of talent in the past 20 years in the heavyweight division. He had all of the tools to become champ, but he ate his way out of contention. David Tua makes Rid**** Bowe look like Richard Simmons.

He didnt have all the tools, he could not figure out how to get inside of a fighter with a good jab and could not figure out how to cut the ring off on a fighter who uses his legs.

**SacTown1** · 12-15-2004, 02:39 PM

Originally posted by Rick Reeno

He didnt have all the tools, he could not figure out how to get inside of a fighter with a good jab and could not figure out how to cut the ring off on a fighter who uses his legs.

I'll give you one for Tua not being able to cut the ring off, but he could get inside the jab when he was in fighting shape (Ruiz tried to jab him, look what happened), if he came in around 230 for the Lewis fight it coulda been a slugfest, but McDonald's was his downfall

FYI, my pops took me to the Tua-Ibeabuchi fight at Arco Arena back in '97, maybe the best slug-fest i've ever seen live

- SacTown1

Tua is coming back