Comments Thread For: Spike O'Sullivan: Lemieux Was a 179-Pound Light Heavyweight!

[wesk81]

Made weight and performed, dudes like jccjr can't make weight and still don't perform with weight advantage.

[W1LL]

Gary O'Sullivan is a domestic-level club fighter. He could be in fan friendly fights against the right opposition. It's admirable that GBP managed to guide him almost to a title shot! He could be like a modern day Micky Ward, if they could find him the limited opponents to show his skills against.

['b']

His crying after getting knocked the fucc out is not befitting of a man with a moustache of that.....caliber

[Blond Beast]

They should also take into consideration when a fighter gains a lot of weight from the previous day.

If a fighter cant make weight in a healthy way then he isn't meant for that weight class.

An example of Gatti vs Gamache, Gatti had a lot of weight advantage, although he did the weight the previous day. He ended Gamache's career and he still has issues to this day. (mind you, I'm a hugeee fan of Gatti).

I remember the Gatti v Gamache fight. Im cdn and we love Gatti here. I played football against people as a teenager that were so much older and outweighed sum people on the filed by hundred pounds. I understand it for kids and amateurs. But the pro level, sum people just hit harder than others. Tyson smoked people way heavier. Julian Jackson could crack harder than anyone, and it wasent due to a weight advantage. Too much is made of weight. Floyd almost always weighed less than his opponents. Lemieux punches like a beast no matter what. Hes not shredded or overly muscled. If anything making weight hurts him. He couldn't take out GGG? Hit him clean a few times. Somebody tell me what Spike weighed on fight night? I just have no respect for anyone saying "I fought a light heavy weight in there". Spike certainly didn't weigh exactly 160lbs in the ring. Also a Light heavy weight is probably 180lbs-195lbs in the ring. He made weight at considerable effort im sure, and thats whats asked of him. No one cares when a heavyweight is outweighed by 50lbs or shorter by 6 inches. I mean people like Lemieux exist and hes not even close to the best in the division, so Spike can move down if thats why he thinks he lost.

[BigDramaShow]

Spike got knocked off his vintage bicycle and woke up in another dimension after that KO.

[KidDinamita]

I remember the Gatti v Gamache fight. Im cdn and we love Gatti here. I played football against people as a teenager that were so much older and outweighed sum people on the filed by hundred pounds. I understand it for kids and amateurs. But the pro level, sum people just hit harder than others. Tyson smoked people way heavier. Julian Jackson could crack harder than anyone, and it wasent due to a weight advantage. Too much is made of weight. Floyd almost always weighed less than his opponents. Lemieux punches like a beast no matter what. Hes not shredded or overly muscled. If anything making weight hurts him. He couldn't take out GGG? Hit him clean a few times. Somebody tell me what Spike weighed on fight night? I just have no respect for anyone saying "I fought a light heavy weight in there". Spike certainly didn't weigh exactly 160lbs in the ring. Also a Light heavy weight is probably 180lbs-195lbs in the ring. He made weight at considerable effort im sure, and thats whats asked of him. No one cares when a heavyweight is outweighed by 50lbs or shorter by 6 inches. I mean people like Lemieux exist and hes not even close to the best in the division, so Spike can move down if thats why he thinks he lost.

And IMHO, Spike isn't a World Class fighter as well, so he will struggle against punchers big or similar like Lemieux. Even what he did to Stevens

[Blond Beast]

And IMHO, Spike isn't a World Class fighter as well, so he will struggle against punchers big or similar like Lemieux. Even what he did to Stevens

Right. I’m more concerned with top level guys fighting guys well beneath them. SM is 7lbs from LH, then it jumps 25lbs to CW. Big jumps are exciting. They should weigh everyone fight night. Then we know the truth when people fight over catch weights. If the heaviest person was the champ in each division I’d be up for regulating things better. But the fighters would have to get on the scale. Won’t happen. Props for Lemieux for admitting it.

[iamboxing]

I think he would have knocked him out even without the extra weight. You don't trade with Lemieux. Also, what a sore loser after the fight when Lemieux tried to embrace him and Gary was all stand-offish and cold.