Comments Thread For: Ponomarev vs. Rivera Early Results From Phoenix

[kiaba360]

Rivera is shot many times over but to lose to that lousy club fighter that he did tonight is an embarrassment.

dayum! , Konstantin wasn't THAT bad! I won't pretend like I was impressed with his performance. It was my first time seeing him, and I thought he looked alright. He's 21, makes some dumb decisions in there that you'd expect a young fighter to do. He doesn't have any outstanding physical attributes, and he still needs to sharpen up. But hey, with 25-0-12KOs, he isn't completely helpless. Let's see what Jesse Reid is able to do with him.

Castro looked good though. Solid punching technique and great punch selection.

[richardt]

dayum! , Konstantin wasn't THAT bad! I won't pretend like I was impressed with his performance. It was my first time seeing him, and I thought he looked alright. He's 21, makes some dumb decisions in there that you'd expect a young fighter to do. He doesn't have any outstanding physical attributes, and he still needs to sharpen up. But hey, with 25-0-12KOs, he isn't completely helpless. Let's see what Jesse Reid is able to do with him.

Castro looked good though. Solid punching technique and great punch selection.

I'm seeing slow, looping punches with him and almost no power. His popularity to me to get on TV has to do with looking more like a young Tom Cruise than serious fighting skills. He made too many mistakes for my tastes in a prospect.

[kiaba360]

I'm seeing slow, looping punches with him and almost no power. His popularity to me to get on TV has to do with looking more like a young Tom Cruise than serious fighting skills. He made too many mistakes for my tastes in a prospect.

The reason why I recognized him:


That, plus the fact that Freedom has him in his avi. He actually reminds me of Bieber, especially from the side lol. IDK how far he'll go, but he really has to sharpen his technique. He wants to be a pressure fighter, but that style doesn't work too well with his body type, never mind the fact that he lacks power and good technique. Reid has a lot of work on his hands.

[animalfan10]

Ponomarev is decent....I've seen him fight a once or twice live in California and he's not bad....Plus a 25-0 record at age 21 is impressive even if it's again meh competition.

But I don't think he gonna get that far with his lack of power....He reminds me of Viktor Postol, but not quite as skilled as him.

Still a decent prospect and in no way a "club" fighter like the idiot poster above claimed.

[richardt]

Ponomarev is decent....I've seen him fight a once or twice live in California and he's not bad....Plus a 25-0 record at age 21 is impressive even if it's again meh competition.

But I don't think he gonna get that far with his lack of power....He reminds me of Viktor Postol, but not quite as skilled as him.

Still a decent prospect and in no way a "club" fighter like the idiot poster above claimed.

Listen pinhead, you have the nerve to call me a name when you are the idiot who said Loma is an "overhyped foreign bum". You have a problem with someone seeing Ponomarev as a mediocre fighter, yet you call Lomo an overhyped foreign bum. Time to open up a can of STFU on you.