Gvozdzyk vs Chilemba is a sleeper

[KingHippo]

Gvozdzyk is the future of the division in my opinion. This will be his first real test.

Here before the bandwagoners.

[Jewish-Reptile]

Gvozdzyk is the future of the division in my opinion. This will be his first real test.

Here before the bandwagoners.

Chilemba is awkward and rarely involved in exciting fights, this one will be a good test of where he can go and where he's at for Gvozdzyk.

[AliBombaye]

Yet Chilemba ducked Beterbiev.

[dan_cov]

Yet Chilemba ducked Beterbiev.

Other way round.

[KingHippo]

Yet Chilemba ducked Beterbiev.

I don't know about that, but I can tell you that much though, you won't hear Beterbiev mention Gvozdzyk's name anytime soon.

That's exactly the type of fighter he doesn't want to face.

[NEETzsche]

i think gvozdyk might beat him more convincingly than kovalev did

[AliBombaye]

I don't know about that, but I can tell you that much though, you won't hear Beterbiev mention Gvozdzyk's name anytime soon.

That's exactly the type of fighter he doesn't want to face.

I don't think we've heard Beterbiev mention anyone but Kovalev and that's because of the history they have.

Damn shame what's happening with PBC, everyones careers seem to be on halt.

[rudy]

Yet Chilemba ducked Beterbiev.

Yeah after he lost a to Sergey

[KingHippo]

i think gvozdyk might beat him more convincingly than kovalev did

I'm expecting a boxing match, but Gvozdzyk won't get touched as much.

[King_]

Very good fight and FINALLY Top Rank steps up Gvozdyk/one of their young talents.... We've all been complaining about how they've been moving him, and some other guys compared to ShoBox fighters and young Haymon fighters recently, for example.

A couple of notes:

1) Perfect platform for this fight. On a night that features the best LHW in the world- we get to see a future player in the division against his best opponent, and an opponent that is very tough to look good against due to his spoiling style.

2) Chilemba is criminally underrated on here- I know that IRL he's really not because this place is overrun by trolls and a bunch of idiots, but anyone who knows anything about boxing knows that Chilemba is a very tough man and a tough boxer to beat. This is a very tricky fight for Gvozdyk to step into- IMHO they should of done his "gradual step up" way better, I don't think they did a good job, and they certainly did not prepare him for a spoiler like Chilemba. If he can box smart and do some damage in the late rounds, I'd be impressed.

3) Top Rank desperately needs to start moving their young/talented fighters faster, harder, better and with more exposure. It's pretty ****** that they can't put them on TV other then 2 PPV cards per year on the first undercard untelevised fight on TopRank.TV....... They need something like ShoBox. The thing they had going with TruTV is the type of outlet they need, having a special program on live tv every week just for their young fighters will allow them to fight more often at the least if they're going to be fighting ****ty fighters for 4 years before randomly stepping up against top 10 divisional fighters, etc.