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Sturm beat him. And don't start about Mitchell. Mitchell is one helluva boxer. His boxing skills are so underrated. He lost, he learned from it, he has the heart of a lion. Name me one credible fighter Macklin has beat?
And to be fair, Macklin went to the wildcard gym, LA, got the **** kicked out of him in sparring, told to get the hell outa there and came back with his tail between his legs.Comment
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Sturm beat him via a gift hometown decision. Mitchell is not a helluva a boxer at all, he's an above average yet inconsistent boxer & nothing but.
Never said Macklin was a great fighter but he's done more & likely already achieved a lot more than Mitchell ever will.
Mitchell lost & learned from it? He went on a year, 18 month drinking spree & tried to kill himself ffs
Fair play to him for coming back & picking up a good win over the extremely 1-dimensional hypejob John Murray (which I predicted he would) but Mitchell is not a great fighter. Great fighters do NOT go life & death & nearly get stopped by 5ft5, washed up career super featherweights named Carl Johanneson - That dear boy, is a fact.Comment
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[QUOTE=dancovboxer;11238508]Never said Macklin was a great fighter but he's done more & likely already achieved a lot more than Mitchell ever will.
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What has he done? I am asking you who has he beat? Did you not watch Macklin going life and death with journeymen only a couple of fights ago.Comment
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To be completely honest, and I don't want to sound like an assh*le, but I watched about 5-6 minutes of this guy...yes ONLY 6 or less minutes, in that span, nothing and I repeat nothing impressed me, he does nothing particularly well and no, I didn't think he was fast at all, as a matter of fact, I thought he was damn slow. Sure, I may have not given him much of a chance, but it seemed quite clear this dude doesn't belong in the ring with Martinez. I'm sorry, perhaps I should've watched more, but I simply didn't have the energy to go through with it. But I do agree with you that NSB has overrated Martinez.I can't believe how underrated this guy is but he's going to make a fan out of a lot of people.
I can't stand most British boxers but let me tell you this guys very talented.
I've followed this guy from day 1 and know a damn well good fighter when I see one, I don't jump on hypetrains like the rest do.
He's a spiteful puncher (not the most heavy handed in the world) that uses his height & reach well, very fast hands, lovely jab, timing & footwork.
This is a classic case of 1 fighter being hugely overrated & the other underrated.
You all said Macklin had no chance against Sturm & how wrong was you? Macklins no Darren Barker.
Lets be fair here Barker is an underdog for good reason but Sergio is very beatable & overrated in a lot of area's (punch power, timing & footwork)
Because of his great lateral movement & showboating, ONE perfectly timed corkscrew left against a guy who didn't see it coming - people think this guys better than he actually is. You need to remember - This guys struggled against a fair few Euro-bums as you call them.
The bookies are taking notice as well from a 10-1 underdog to a 6-1 now with weeks to go.
He stands in front of Barker, impersonating a drunken monkey, mark my words Barkers going to slap the **** out of him & be gone before he throws that predictable corkscrew left.
Win-lose-draw, I promise you Barkers going to surprise a lot of people. (This guys made a career of sparring, fighting & whipping southpaws)
Love how they give the robotic stiff Dzinziruk a chance but not Barker when reality is Barkers better in every department.
He has the height & reach, youth (Sergio's not getting any younger & once those reflexes even start to go
), timing, accuracy & I'd even go as far as saying he is as fast if not quicker than Sergio (remember I was a guy who said Wlad was probably as fast as Haye & the world laughed, I wasn't exactly wrong)
I said Arce will not just beat Wilfredo Vazquez Jr but likely K.O him late, the world laughed. They said Arce was done & this kid was going to KHTFO!
This is Barkers big chance, he's not like most of these bums that are there for a payday, he'll go to win & prove the world wrong because thats the type of fighter he is. Don't count this guy out, he's no scrub.
WAR BARKERRRRRR!
And Dzinziruk was never gonna win that fight. It wasn't a big deal when Martinez beat him, just some NSB hyperbole (which I excluded myself from).Comment
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Barker's never fought anyone remotely close to Martinez. If you're right, and Barker wins, hell if Barker is competitive, that would be a major upset like we haven't seen in a while.Comment
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