Comments Thread For: Israil Madrimov Drops, Decisions Eric Walker Over Twelve Rounds

[Cypocryphy]

I think the big thing... boxing in humid 90 degree weather...

He apparently was also 20 lbs overweight with 3 weeks out... so I am sure he was starving himself too... Diaz did a good job managing him through the fight to wake him up.

Wow! I didn't know that he had to drop 20 lbs. That's nuts. I don't even know how I'd be able to do that. The only time I was able to do an extreme weight loss was when I was really sick. I lost 15 lbs in two weeks and I was so weak for weeks afterward.

And I just had a taste of what heat like that can do last week. I was doing plyometrics outdoors in the heat for about an hour. And the weird thing is that a person will feel more wasted when he sits down. While a person is moving around, etc. he'll be okay, relatively. But once he sits down or stops, it's as if everything catches up to him and he has to push for that second wind. But the heart rate spikes in the heat and can just leave a person feeling exhausted in no time. I suppose that goes without saying, but it was a nice reminder to utilize the cooler weather in the mornings.

Anyway, that makes sense now about Diaz! hah

[Satir]

He wasnt 20 lbs overweight
"When he was flying here, he never knew that he would have a fight. When he got here, two days after, they called us and told us that the main event pulled out and we would love Israil to fight. Israil came here 163 pounds when he's fighting 154. He came here in shape, well-trained. He wasn't doing boxing over there, but he was doing wrestling, judo and conditioning training."

https://www.boxingscene.com/israil-m...ssible--150959

[Cypocryphy]

He wasnt 20 lbs overweight
"When he was flying here, he never knew that he would have a fight. When he got here, two days after, they called us and told us that the main event pulled out and we would love Israil to fight. Israil came here 163 pounds when he's fighting 154. He came here in shape, well-trained. He wasn't doing boxing over there, but he was doing wrestling, judo and conditioning training."

https://www.boxingscene.com/israil-m...ssible--150959

Yeah. See that makes sense. The only way someone could possibly lose that amount of weight in that period of time would be if he were super sick, like with the Sydney Noravirus. You'd have to be puking and ****ting at the same time for those two/three weeks to drop twenty pounds.

And I use to live down in that area, more to the South Eastern US. And I'll tell you now, there's a reason why people sit on their porches, drinking Iced Tea all day long. You work outside for a couple hours and then you have to seek refuge on the porch for the rest of the day. Never had heat stroke in my life until I lived over there, and it would happen every summer.

[_Rexy_]

Won by KO and Decision.

When he deducted the point in the 12th and Madrimov followed it with a KD I fully expected that POS ref to call it another slip.



Never seen someone need a five minute break for a MF slip

[_Rexy_]

He wasnt 20 lbs overweight
"When he was flying here, he never knew that he would have a fight. When he got here, two days after, they called us and told us that the main event pulled out and we would love Israil to fight. Israil came here 163 pounds when he's fighting 154. He came here in shape, well-trained. He wasn't doing boxing over there, but he was doing wrestling, judo and conditioning training."

https://www.boxingscene.com/israil-m...ssible--150959

That makes sense. He was “in shape” but not in boxing shape.

It’s one thing to be in shape, and it’s another to go twelve rounds.

[Dean_Razorback]

caught the last 4 rounds, madrimov looked exhausted

[Mammoth]

This ^. That shet was absurd. I got a lot of time for Madrimov but he looked like a half trained street fighter in there at times, spinning himself right round with wild leaps or staggering forward on the follow through. Gotta walk before you can ride. I'm sure he's got the fundamentals but they weren't really on display for big parts of last night's fight. Honestly if Walker had been a few years younger I could easily have seen him walk away with the W.

He needs someone there to admonish him for this stuff. Work all that stuff out in the gym. Loads of potential but he ain't there yet...

[Randall Cunning]

He wasnt 20 lbs overweight
"When he was flying here, he never knew that he would have a fight. When he got here, two days after, they called us and told us that the main event pulled out and we would love Israil to fight. Israil came here 163 pounds when he's fighting 154. He came here in shape, well-trained. He wasn't doing boxing over there, but he was doing wrestling, judo and conditioning training."

https://www.boxingscene.com/israil-m...ssible--150959

He was originally scheduled to be on Haneys card late Sept/early Oct, thats what he was training/travelling for. Then Martinez pulled out of this card with a throat infection, 4 weeks ago, and Madrimov accepted it.

[Satir]

Btw his previous fight vs Navarro was also called "eliminator bout for WBA SWW title", guess his next one will also be smth like "final WBA title eliminator", Haymon's gonna have to sacrifice one of his fighters sooner or later anyway

[SouthPawHitman]

Great job by the ref. Madrimov is a young hot prospect who needs rounds and highlight knockouts and he let him have both in one fight.