Comments Thread For: Chambers: Heavyweight Prepared Me For Facing Cruisers

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Eddie Chambers hadn’t initially thought he’d be moving in this direction — from heavyweight contender down to cruiserweight. Instead, he once thought he would use the cruiserweight division as a springboard for a heavyweight campaign, much like Evander Holyfield, James Toney and David Haye had done.

That’s not what happened. He fought as what this era would consider a smaller heavyweight for more than a decade, even as he got lighter and came in within pounds of the cruiserweight limit in his last bout, a controversial June 2012 loss to Tomasz Adamek. Now he’s set to make his cruiserweight debut against Thabiso Mchunu as part of the Aug. 3 broadcast of NBC Sports Network’s “Fight Night.”

Nevertheless, he feels his experience at heavyweight has prepared him in some ways for facing cruiserweights. [Click Here To Read More]

[Jam Jars]

Shouldn't have been at HW at all, he still looked fat at 202 lbs. Shame it took him until 31 to put down the fries and take his career seriously.

[kiDynamite92]

that's like saying running helped me to prepare to jog

[TyrantT316]

Shouldn't have been at HW at all, he still looked fat at 202 lbs. Shame it took him until 31 to put down the fries and take his career seriously.

Ditto...he seemed to have the talent to carve out a nice and possible great career for himself at crusier even if there wasn't much glitz and glamour...just being a dominant champion in a low profile weight class can do wonders for your career...enough to give him a big money shot at a top LHW moving up or a top HW later

[socialteach]

Despite his less than chiseled physique, he's never had trouble going rounds and has never quit. He fought Adamek with one arm and should have gotten the decision. I think he tried heavyweight because of the money, but he's really a cruiser, where I think he'll do well.