Maskaev will win...

[cold]

OK Yaman 5,000,000 points on Maskaev Winning

If Rahman wins you get 5,000,000 points.

[Nautilus]

Well, I root for Maskaev, and I hope he will win.

I also think that Maskaev is hugely underappreciated by the public.

Maskaev has a very decent boxing record: he beat Vitaliy in the amateurs by TKO2, and also beat a number of good other boxers, including Rahman by a spectacular KO.

Maskaev is a very good boxer, and not just a good puncher. In fact, he never lost a fight on points!

You often hear that the "lucky punch" was the decisive factor in Maskaev's victory over Rahman. I strongly disagree -- Maskaev boxed very well, landing and taking some good punches himself -- the KO was not an unlikely outcome. In fact, I had the fight even at 4:4 at the point of the KO (so did Larry Merchant).

Regarding the 5 losses by KO, I think many of those losses would not even be on Maskaev's record, had he had a proper management team and a decent trainer to begin with. McCall and Tua fights were taken too early in his career (though Maskaev was thoroughly beating Tua up to the point of TKO stoppage -- and the stoppage, without giving any proper count, seemed controversial under such circumstances). Further, taking on Whitakker immediately after the KO loss to Jonhson was a highly unreasonable move, which resulted in another KO loss that should have been avoided.

All in all, I believe that Maskaev can pull this off. Braddock came back to win HW championship after more than 20 losses. What one man can do, another man can.

bump..........................


maskaev won BOTH on the official scorecards and by KO !!!

[nezahualcoyotl]

Maskaev wont see the 5th round

Wrong. C'mon you have Toney in your avatar. If Rahman couldn't beat a smaller out of shape Toney how did you think he was gonna get by Maskaev?

[Nautilus]

man.... i am so happy .....

[TheFairPole]

man.... i am so happy .....

I'm with you man! That last round was awesome!

[BKM-]

The final round killed me haha.