Demolition Dan's Prediction's September 23rd-25th

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Everybody around the world is still talking about last weeks' boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz. What is in store for us this week? Well, nothing explosive. We have a solid group of fights, but it's nothing wowing and really captures everybody's attention. And while I'm on the subject why oh why did HBO not have the Sergio Martinez-Darren Barker fight this week? I don't get why the big heads at HBO didn't have the Martinez fight right after the Mayweather-Ortiz fight. This matters because it would be a great way to showcase who Sergio Martinez is to people that may have not have seen him that would have seen him during the Mayweather-Ortiz replay. Instead, all HBO is going to show is the rerun of the fight. No live fight. This is yet another terrible decision by HBO, but let's not get into that. Let's talk about this week of fights.

 

Alexander Dimitrenko, the tall German is taking on the journeyman Michael Sprott. Dimitrenko has a very good record, and is tall and has pretty good power, but I don't see him as a legit threat. I don't even rate him as a top 10 Heavyweight. Dimitrenko is very weak physically and mentally. When the going gets tough he folds and has no answers. His big name on his resume is Eddie Chambers and Chambers destroyed Dimitrenko. Dimitrenko's other name fighter is Albert Sosnowski, who is a nice journeyman fighter, but he was having difficulty with him too, before knocking him out a very tired Sosnowski. He's taking on Michael Sprott who is a journeyman, but is very very long in the tooth. His last great moment was winning the prizefighter...eh, and beating on Audley Harrison before getting knocked out in the last round. Since that fight he hasn't gone more than 4 rounds. So, with that, I have to think Sprott really isn't in it anymore and Dimitrenko will stop Sprott sometime in this fight. Again, I don't think highly of Dimitrenko, but Sprott is chinny, old, and he may'be just coming in for a paycheck. And even if he actually does manage to beat on Dimitrenko...he isn't winning a decision in Germany. Dimitrenko wins this fight guaranteed and I see him stopping Sprott.

 

Adrian Hernandez is taking on Gideon Buthelezi. Hernandez is now a belt holder at 108 after beating Gilberto Keb Baas in a rematch and it was a very entertaining fight. Hernandez just had too much skill, and is a great worker to the body. Very accurate and very powerful. Hernandez is a lot like other Mexican fighters, great body work and comes forward quite wild and wide, but it gets the job down. Gideon Buthelzi is a bit of a slick southpaw, very accurate puncher that has very good boxing ability. He can be slick and can fight off the back foot. He did a lot of that in his last fight against Budler where he frustrated Budler with nice sharp punching and movement. It was a razor thin fight though, one where he won by SD. And a lot of could be influenced because he does fight off the back foot and he looks to be a counter puncher rather than a straight up, in the pocket, banger. I think this definitely has the potential to be a very entertaining fight. It's one of those bull versus the matador type fight. Hernandez will be coming, using his strength and power to beat Buthelezi and Buthelezy will look to use his speed, and counter punching ability to outpoint Adrian Hernandez. There is a problem there though. This fight is in Mexico and it will be tough for Buthelezi to win this fight on the cards. I don't think though this fight will go to the cards. I think Buthelezi is too green, and this moment is too big for him at this time. Him on the road, and fighting a tough fighter like Hernandez is just a very tall and tough task. I think Buthelezi gives a good effort and puts on a good show, but he gets stopped in the mid to may'be late rounds. Hernandez' body work will be devastating and that will definitely knock the wind out of Buthelezi's sails. Hernandez via stoppage.

 

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