Comments Thread For: Gassiev, Briedis, Wlodarczyk Ink With World Boxing Super Series

[joe strong]

The super 6 was great but it did have a few challenges. What I like is this is a single elimination 8 man tourney done by the spring. I hope Usyk & Lebedev don't pull a Bute but they probably will. Realistically this tourney will be done in spring of 2018. Bellew won't be in it because he has other aspirations. We could have an undisputed CW champion by spring if Usyk & Lebedev join. So the IBF #1 contender is in so why don't they try & get each #1 contender from the other 3? This could be the best tourney ever! I doubt we could ever see this in the HW division because of the difference in drawing ability. It makes no sense for Joshua or Klitschko to enter a tourney like this as they generate way more money then the rest. At any other weight class there is no reason not to do it. I pray Usyk & Lebedev join.

[yankees7448]

Im surprised at these as i would have thought Briedis would be clearly top 3 after beating Huck.

Would be hopeful of seeing guys like Mchunu, Makabu, Duradola, Dorticos etc on the list as they dont draw big crowds. Glowacki would be great. Kudryashov too. Such a good division to do this in with so many evenly matched fighters in the top 10-15

Usyk would obviously be the dream but i cant see it. Would probably try and 'do a Bute' by hanging back and trying to fight the winner

I would love for Usyk to get in there. He wants to eventually move up to heavyweight. What better way to ensure he cleans out the cruiserweight division first?

[yankees7448]

The super 6 was great but it did have a few challenges. What I like is this is a single elimination 8 man tourney done by the spring. I hope Usyk & Lebedev don't pull a Bute but they probably will. Realistically this tourney will be done in spring of 2018. Bellew won't be in it because he has other aspirations. We could have an undisputed CW champion by spring if Usyk & Lebedev join. So the IBF #1 contender is in so why don't they try & get each #1 contender from the other 3? This could be the best tourney ever! I doubt we could ever see this in the HW division because of the difference in drawing ability. It makes no sense for Joshua or Klitschko to enter a tourney like this as they generate way more money then the rest. At any other weight class there is no reason not to do it. I pray Usyk & Lebedev join.

The Super 6 tournament was a good idea marred by its complication. They wanted to make sure they had as many of these dream 168 matchups as they could get so they created a horrendously complicated set up to ensure they did. While it worked it was just weird. Plus it was flawed because Lucien Bute wasn't involved. His performance against Froch showed he wouldn't have won the whole thing but still...he deserved the opportunity to be in the mix.

[Scary_canary]

Would be sick if these fights were on the same card....maybe at neutral venues or something
Either way looking forward to this

[Clegg]

2 of the 3 top guys in the division. Usyk seems unlikely which is a shame but still pretty sweet overall. Bellew is another one I'd like in there, probably won't happen. The rest of the top 10 should be possible though.

I'd like to see Mike Perez in there. Lebedev, Glowacki, Makabu. Kudryashov-Durodola winner. I do wonder who they'll get to help with the US name recognition. Not many Americans at the weight, Cunningham is old, Hunter could do with more experience.

[removed]

Very nice, now we need Usyk and Big Tony to sign on.


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[joe strong]

The Super 6 tournament was a good idea marred by its complication. They wanted to make sure they had as many of these dream 168 matchups as they could get so they created a horrendously complicated set up to ensure they did. While it worked it was just weird. Plus it was flawed because Lucien Bute wasn't involved. His performance against Froch showed he wouldn't have won the whole thing but still...he deserved the opportunity to be in the mix.

Bute chose not to be in it because he could make a lot more money fighting in Quebec outside the tourney. He was invited but declined.

[yankees7448]

Bute chose not to be in it because he could make a lot more money fighting in Quebec outside the tourney. He was invited but declined.

But still....his absence made it a flawed tournament. A worthwhile tournament nonetheless but flawed.

[TheCell8]

Let's get Kudryashov, Vlasov and Glowacki in there.

Uysk, Bellew and Lebedev will obviously not enter.

[Chrismart]

George Groves challenges Tyron Zeuge to enter the World Boxing Super Series

George Groves has revealed his reasons for entering the World Boxing Super Series and urged super-middleweight rival Tyron Zeuge to join him in the tournament.

Groves became the first fighter to commit himself to the knock-out competition - putting his WBA super-middleweight belt on the line in a tournament not dissimilar from the Super Six World Boxing Classic, which featured the likes of Carl Froch, Andre Ward and Arthur Abraham.

He finally became a world champion at the fourth attempt with a sixth-round stoppage of Fedor Chudinov on the undercard of Brook vs Spence at Bramall Lane in May.

The Hammersmith-born fighter is now determined to unify the super-middleweight division and has set his sights on eliminating the threat of Zeuge, who comfortably defeated Paul Smith to retain his WBA (regular) title on Saturday.

"Boxing fans will understand that, at the moment, the WBA have this strange thing where they have a super champion and a regular champion," Groves said. "I've just achieved the dream and become WBA world champion - oh wait a minute, there's another guy who is fighting and defending it a couple of weeks later.

"If Zeuge goes in it and I fight Zeuge, we will eliminate one of those belts.

"I think he needs to step up in opposition. No disrespect to Paul Smith - he's been a great ambassador for the sport - but he hasn't been in massive competitive fights lately and he knows that."

Groves added: "Zeuge is good enough. He's got a world title so he should be in this competition, I'd like to see him it but I'd like to get my hands on him first."

Groves faces the prospect of three world title fights in the space of 10 months, should he progress to the final, and the 29-year-old admits the tough schedule could prove to be a challenge.

"It's quite a brutal schedule, it will take its toll on the body," Groves said. "It's not for the weak or for the old, it's going to be back-to-back exciting fights.

"Everyone was so excited about the Super Six - the only flaw in it was that it sort of took a bit too long, I felt. Fights got delayed - this is different.

"You have to be healthy, you have to be healthy because these are the dates that you're going to be boxing. Your belts are going to be on the line - so you need to be 100 per cent."

British fighters James DeGale and Callum Smith are two other potential entrants to tournament, although Groves expects the competition to come too soon for DeGale, who recently underwent surgery on his shoulder.

"James DeGale had a shoulder operation of something lately - he's said he's had it a while and is happy to box with it but now he's decided the time is right to have a break and that he needs to get it fixed," said Groves.

"That's ruled him out of this, from the sounds of it that's an operation that will rule him out for the next ten months. That probably suits him, if he does keep getting injured he's not going to be able to keep up in this tournament."

Groves added: "Callum Smith, on the other hand, has got his fight with the WBC. Why don't we try and get Smith and [Anthony] Dirrell in this tournament?

"Smith beat Dirrell, he knows that maybe one, two fights time - if I win, or maybe don't win, he could come out with two belts in the space of 10 months' time."