Can Monte Barrett beat Nicolay Valuev?

[charlie31]

Some of us think Valuev has already lost - to Ruiz and/or to Larry Donald, but his record is still clean.

Monte Barrett's effort against Joe Mesi was too late, his KO of Owen Beck looked less impressive as Beck looked bad against Ray Austin and Valuev, and his win over Dominick Guinn lost its luster as Guinn went 2-3-1 in his next 6...

But a lot of people will agree with me that Valuev is very beatable by a competent Top 10 heavyweight. The Barrett that fought Rahman probably can't win the WBA title fight Oct. 7, but he can be better than that.

Who thinks Barrett can beat Valuev and if you were his trainer how would you try to go about it?

i think he can..obviously needs to get inside and stay there.....Valuev guy deserves to lose..he sucks and has been getting gift desicions.

[neils7147933]

Valuev is very much beatable but I don't believe Barret can.

Look at Barrets last 11 fights record.
He lost to WLAD via 7th round TKO. After that he raked up 6 wins 2 tkos; 2 UDs and 2 split decission against mediocre fighters. Then he lost to Joe Messi via majority decission. Then he got a split decission against Dominic Guinn, then anothet TKO win against Owen Beck. After that a majority decission LOSS against Rahman.

It's not impressive at all. So Barret is just another lamb being fed to the lion.

If you asked me after the Beck fight if Barrett could do it I definitely would have said yes. I'm not sure what happened the Rahman fight, though...

[phallus]

If you asked me after the Beck fight if Barrett could do it I definitely would have said yes. I'm not sure what happened the Rahman fight, though...

depends which barret shows up, he has the hunger and the better skills, if he did his best stick and move i'd say he beats the caveman