White Wolf backers? lol

[BrooklynBomber]

Gotta love the band wagoners, they are lurking in the dark, afraid to express their point, but once their fighter wins(no matter how ****ty he looked in the process) they jump, "back in black" to talk ****.
Briggs is ****, Sergey is disappointing, this is what I got out of this fight.

[K-DOGG]

guess all this doesnt say much for serge. I always thought he was green and overrated but I sure as hell didnt think briggs would beat him,,,let alone do it in the last round no less

I agree; but I honestly think it was more about the pressure of the event, than any pressure Briggs applied. I've heard it said that it's easier to win the championship than it is to keep it. No one expected Liakhovich to beat Brewster, so there was no pressure on him, really. He was the underdog. In this fight, he was expected to win; and he was fighting in front of his adopted hometown. That's a lot of pressure, especially for someone who had never been in the "spotlight" before. He choked. I hate to say it; but that's what happened IMHO.

[kayjay]

diegofuego you dumb ass..how is the division bad just because its evenly matched?..

I'm with dino. We don't need a HW savior, only good evenly matched fights. Mind you, this was not one of them. But the real HW championship, or at least a slightly more legit one, is on the line Saturday.

[cold]

Good end for that fight. Briggs finally punched which is sort of the basis of boxing and won by KO.

Serguei Lyakhovich did not deserve the win going into the 12th round but neither did Briggs.

The last 15 seconds decided the fight and rightfully so when throughout the fight it was clear Lyakhovich feared Briggs power.

Briggs was smart fighting judiciously to conserve his energy and Lyakhovich made it easy for him to do so.

Other opponents will wear Briggs down until exhaustion sets in and then finish him.


Sidenote: Kenny Weldon is the only reason Lyakhovich won the fight against Brewster. Also he is the only reason going into the 12th round Lyakhovich was winning the fight on the judges card.
Kenny Weldon is a great trainer who any prospect should jump at the chance to be trained by. The evidence is clear how he could take Lyakhovich a "B" class fighter and train him to put out just enough to win and almost win a second time vs two "A" class fighters.

[Welter_Skelter]

look at the champions. tell me they would have survived in ANY other era! and I mean ANY

OH yeah AND the middle weights are at an ALL time high? Taylor is a ****ing joke the middle weight division is worse than the heavies..

[BrooklynBomber]

Diego, I love ya man, but please stop whining.

[potatoes]

the fight ****** through and through. serguei was winning but briggs did absolutley nothing in the fight, he threw **** beans for punches and was gasing in after the second round, AND HE THREW NOTHING! it was pretty infortunate that sergeui lost in a bout with no action, he got careless a bit in the 12th and it cost him the title.

but briggs is crap and will lose to anyone who presses the action on him. he does have big power but if someone boxes him and makes briggs work, briggs is going to collapes from exhaustion. he was terrible. i feel bad for serguei losing that way but hey that's boxing, you can't slip for one second or you're out!

Both Briggs and Liakhovich collaborated in making that one of the worst heavyweight championship fights in the last 100 years. It was without a doubt the worst one I have ever seen. It was so disgusting I shut it off early and did not see the 12th round KO. Compare that with the all out wars that Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, Ali, or any of the other great champions gave the fans and it is not hard to understand why the fans are staying home.

[nelsoncm]

Briggs is a lucky bum. "Wolverine" Jason Lane would send him to retirement.

[badblood]

Briggs is now 12-0 12 KO's since his last loss, congratulations to Shannon Briggs.

[Kid Achilles]

Compared to the Shannon Briggs of last night, Samuel Peter looks like Henry Armstrong. I have never before seen such a terrible display of conditioning. Briggs simply has the worst stamina in heavyweight history. Basically by the 3rd round he was gasping for breath after having thrown maybe a total of 50 punches by that time. He hurt Sergei in the first, and then threw something like six or seven punches to try to take him out but had to give up because the effort clearly exhausted him.

Sergei wasn't in great shape either and was not the same guy who beat Brewster. From the begining he looked subdued and depressed and did not want to be there. Mentally he wasn't in any shape to defend his title IMO.

I give credit to Briggs for doing what he had to to win but Wladimir Klitschko would have taken both men out last night, in a round or two each. Wlad must have been drooling as he watched the fight last night. Briggs and Maskaev are two easy fights for him. Only Valuev will offer any kind of resistance. At first glance it looks as if we Americans have a chance at unification now but really it's just set things up for Wlad to make a clean sweep.

The one thing standing between Wlad and the unified title is boxing politics. He will go through these title holders like a pig through ****.