Comments Thread For: Andy Lee Hints That Career is at Stake With Korobov

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ANDY LEE reckons his career is on the line in Las Vegas.The London-based 28-year-old takes on Russian Matvey Korobov for the vacant WBO middleweight world title tonight.

Irish-born Lee, 28, had his last attempt to land global glory ended at the hands of Julio Chavez Jr two years ago

And he knows another failure simply isn't an option.
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[Corelone]

He sounds like he's about to lose. When you start complaining, your heart isn't in it anymore.

[Eastcoast]

I would be really happy to see Lee win. Reading Steve Kim's article about Lee and Steward was really cool.

[Tobi.G]

Koroboy is nothing Special. Lee outpoints him.

[any craic lad?]

In terms of World Title aspirations it is and in all honestly no disrespect to Korobov but this is as a good chance at winning a world title as Andy will ever hope to get

[GoldenGloveLove]

I would be really happy to see Lee win. Reading Steve Kim's article about Lee and Steward was really cool.

I'd be happy for him too but I doubt it. I think Korobov is too strong for him. Which is pretty weird to say about a middleweight who spar Klitschko lol. But still, when it comes to pro boxing I think there's several guys that are too strong for Lee at middleweight. Too bad.

[Dr Rumack]

In terms of World Title aspirations it is and in all honestly no disrespect to Korobov but this is as a good chance at winning a world title as Andy will ever hope to get

Stylistically, Korobov is as good a match as Andy is going to get at this level.

Lee struggles when opponents look to really pressure him because he doesn't have much of a defence and he's not good enough with his feet to keep his opponent at a range that suits him.

Korobov doesn't seem to like applying that sort of pressure. He wants to box and outpoint opponents with nice neat combinations, and he rarely puts his foot on the pedal and raises the tempo.

That's exactly what Lee would want. Andy is a strange sort of a fighter in that he's almost like a boxer-slugger. He has no problem tearing it up, but he wants to do it at the mid to long range most sluggers are uncomfortable with. It's because his punching technique is actually really good, that's what Steward saw in him. And the one hope you would have for him coming into this fight is that Korobov prefers to fight at that distance too.