Briggs now facing Lyakovich

[mercadojglb]

A source close to the situation says that heavyweight contender Shannon Briggs and his representatives grew tired of waiting for IBF Champion Wladimir Klitschko and his manager, Shelly Finkel, to finalize arrangements for a fight on November 11 and have decided to instead sign to face WBO Heavyweight Champion Sergei "The White Wolf" Liakhovich (23-1, 14 KOs), possibly in early November in New York. Briggs (47-4-1, 41 KOs) has also signed a promotional deal with Liakhovich’s promoter, Don King, contingent on the Liakhovich fight taking place. The source says Team Briggs decided to look elsewhere when Finkel, who they say promised them “1000%,” they had the fight, began negotiating publicly with new WBC Champion Oleg Maskaev and reportedly made overtures to Liakhovich, top-rated contender Calvin Brock and others. “Mr. Finkel is retuning from a relaxing cruise today to find that the Shannon Briggs ship has already sailed,” said the source. Briggs is currently rated #3 by the WBO.

[Southpaw16]

translation: Briggs was planning to fight Wladimir Klitshko until an offer was made to fight another beltholder, but this one being a much more winnable fight, so Briggs took it. Don't blame him, if he can win the WBO belt then he could go back to negotiations with Klitshko except this time it would be a much better money fight for him.

[Nautilus]

Briggs chickened out !

[Kid Achilles]

Actually this is a worse fight for Briggs as he has less of a chance of hurting Lyakovich than he does Wladimir. Briggs was only a threat because of his big punch but Lyakovich took everything Lamon Brewster threw at him and I don't think Briggs could do worse. In fact, I am certain he would tire quicker. So Briggs either fights an active fight , shoots his load early on the durable Lyakovich, and gets knocked out, or he tries to box and gets schooled by the quicker and more skilled "White Wolf". Either way, Briggs doesn't even have too much of a puncher's chance here.

I expect to see him disposed of quite easily and then we can finally stop hearing about Briggs as a top ten contender.

[Nautilus]

Actually this is a worse fight for Briggs as he has less of a chance of hurting Lyakovich than he does Wladimir. Briggs was only a threat because of his big punch but Lyakovich took everything Lamon Brewster threw at him and I don't think Briggs could do worse. In fact, I am certain he would tire quicker. So Briggs either fights an active fight , shoots his load early on the durable Lyakovich, and gets knocked out, or he tries to box and gets schooled by the quicker and more skilled "White Wolf". Either way, Briggs doesn't even have too much of a puncher's chance here.

I expect to see him disposed of quite easily and then we can finally stop hearing about Briggs as a top ten contender.

Kid Achilles' posts always kick ass.

[Nautilus]

Actually this is a worse fight for Briggs as he has less of a chance of hurting Lyakovich than he does Wladimir. Briggs was only a threat because of his big punch but Lyakovich took everything Lamon Brewster threw at him and I don't think Briggs could do worse. In fact, I am certain he would tire quicker. So Briggs either fights an active fight , shoots his load early on the durable Lyakovich, and gets knocked out, or he tries to box and gets schooled by the quicker and more skilled "White Wolf". Either way, Briggs doesn't even have too much of a puncher's chance here.

I expect to see him disposed of quite easily and then we can finally stop hearing about Briggs as a top ten contender.

who is this, in your signature?

[Kid Achilles]

Jack Dempsey, one of my all time favorite heavyweights.

[beez721]

Actually this is a worse fight for Briggs as he has less of a chance of hurting Lyakovich than he does Wladimir. Briggs was only a threat because of his big punch but Lyakovich took everything Lamon Brewster threw at him and I don't think Briggs could do worse. In fact, I am certain he would tire quicker. So Briggs either fights an active fight , shoots his load early on the durable Lyakovich, and gets knocked out, or he tries to box and gets schooled by the quicker and more skilled "White Wolf". Either way, Briggs doesn't even have too much of a puncher's chance here.

I expect to see him disposed of quite easily and then we can finally stop hearing about Briggs as a top ten contender.

I disagree. brewster was very close to having serg out and he wasnt in great shape for that fight. briggs has a better chance against serg than with wlad. he'll have an easier time finding him. I give briggs a 1 in 3 chance of starching serg in this fight

[FibreOptic]

Yo, what's uo Nautilis? I say Briggs should fight Valuev (I know he is fighting Barret soon). An unworthy challenger vs an unworthy champion.

[Revere]

Kids post is right on. Still, I dont see how he gets a title fight