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The ten dumbest active fighters right now...
I'll work out a top ten as I go on, but for now I present the top two...
1. Jean Pascal.
The man who tried to psychologically intimidate Hopkins by doing press ups in the ring... AFTER the fight was over. Jean Pascal is as dumb as a box of rocks, and makes so many dunderheaded decisions that if he went to a brothel he'd end up ****ing a door handle.
Last night - and I concede I had £5 on Bute so I may be biased - I had him throwing away the verdict in a close "has anyone thrown a punch yet?" fight. He won that fight through good fortune with the scoring, IMO, not through anything he does.
Now, I get that he was being trained by Roy Jones, so the main instruction he was given in the corner was "try and get knocked the **** out and lie on the canvas for 36 days - Pensacolainthehouse!" I also get that Bute is a hard-hitting counterpuncher. But you've seen the guy in his sole defeat get blown away by the bum's rush... you've even had success with it yourself, so what do you do? That's right... sit back and not throw any punches, letting the other, clearly nervous and uncommitted, fighter steal rounds with his jittery pitter-pat (or, on another night it would have done).
More ******ity:
1. When you've landed a punch that was going to KD him, try and trip him up and hit him behind the head to ensure it gets called as a slip. And then when he gets up, still slightly phased, don't take advantage... back off, and complain about it, giving him time to recover.
2. Try only throwing punches in the last twenty seconds of the rounds. That way, if the other guy's hurt, it'll ensure the bell rings and he gets a minute to recover.
3. Only showboat if it's YOU that's getting hit in the face.
4. If the fight is close (and I'm slightly su****ious that you knew it wasn't, Mr. "ten punches a round") then give away the last two rounds to really make it closer.
Jesus, that guy is a ****ing idiot.
2. Amir Khan
Poor old Amir comes in for a lot of stick in NSB, often undeserved. After all, while his chin is bad, he didn't go down against Marcos Maidana... lolz.
But the kid is blessed with gargantuan gifts and weaknesses. He's a fighter so fast he can make the Flash look like he's in slo-mo... yet he's got the chin of a 7-year-old girl.
But what's the real problem is not so much the astonishing lack of punch resistance (and he weirdly seems to take it better the more you hit him) but the factor of what's taking place between his ears. NOTHING is taking place between his ears, that's what. It seems that not a single conscious thought is going through the lad's mind other than "eh up, I'll throw us punches and owt, just keep throwing, innit? Wikkid." The concept that, just maybe, the other guy might try and hit you back seems an alien thought to this colossal fuck trumpet.
1. Jean Pascal.
The man who tried to psychologically intimidate Hopkins by doing press ups in the ring... AFTER the fight was over. Jean Pascal is as dumb as a box of rocks, and makes so many dunderheaded decisions that if he went to a brothel he'd end up ****ing a door handle.
Last night - and I concede I had £5 on Bute so I may be biased - I had him throwing away the verdict in a close "has anyone thrown a punch yet?" fight. He won that fight through good fortune with the scoring, IMO, not through anything he does.
Now, I get that he was being trained by Roy Jones, so the main instruction he was given in the corner was "try and get knocked the **** out and lie on the canvas for 36 days - Pensacolainthehouse!" I also get that Bute is a hard-hitting counterpuncher. But you've seen the guy in his sole defeat get blown away by the bum's rush... you've even had success with it yourself, so what do you do? That's right... sit back and not throw any punches, letting the other, clearly nervous and uncommitted, fighter steal rounds with his jittery pitter-pat (or, on another night it would have done).
More ******ity:
1. When you've landed a punch that was going to KD him, try and trip him up and hit him behind the head to ensure it gets called as a slip. And then when he gets up, still slightly phased, don't take advantage... back off, and complain about it, giving him time to recover.
2. Try only throwing punches in the last twenty seconds of the rounds. That way, if the other guy's hurt, it'll ensure the bell rings and he gets a minute to recover.
3. Only showboat if it's YOU that's getting hit in the face.
4. If the fight is close (and I'm slightly su****ious that you knew it wasn't, Mr. "ten punches a round") then give away the last two rounds to really make it closer.
Jesus, that guy is a ****ing idiot.
2. Amir Khan
Poor old Amir comes in for a lot of stick in NSB, often undeserved. After all, while his chin is bad, he didn't go down against Marcos Maidana... lolz.
But the kid is blessed with gargantuan gifts and weaknesses. He's a fighter so fast he can make the Flash look like he's in slo-mo... yet he's got the chin of a 7-year-old girl.
But what's the real problem is not so much the astonishing lack of punch resistance (and he weirdly seems to take it better the more you hit him) but the factor of what's taking place between his ears. NOTHING is taking place between his ears, that's what. It seems that not a single conscious thought is going through the lad's mind other than "eh up, I'll throw us punches and owt, just keep throwing, innit? Wikkid." The concept that, just maybe, the other guy might try and hit you back seems an alien thought to this colossal fuck trumpet.
at the Roy Jones jibe.
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