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  1. bravo// bravo// Not only a good call, but a pair of very worrying mental images to boot.
  2. Interestingly, Graham Houston agrees with the verdict. http://www.fightwriter.com/ring-history-supports-ref-chad-dawson-tko2-bernard-hopkins
  3. Re: Tyson Fury to face Neven Pajkic for the Commonwealth tit Just to let you know Mick, I've called the national helpline for the terminally baffled and deranged. They have assured me that an ambulance and a straight-jacket are on their way to you now. A padded cell also awaits you, you poor deluded fool. Try not to dribble too much in the meantime.... Let me guess, David Haye will be the fellow inmate. No need to rush Fury, and I like that he's going the old-school route. He did say he's not ready for the elite yet and he is still very young.
  4. A better title would be "the self-proclaimed saviour". As IAmA... correctly states, his heavyweight fights were often the antithesis of "exciting". In fact, I'd say many Klitschko fights are more entertaining. He might have got people talking about the heavyweight division, but possibly caused even more damage. Fights against Audley "Parcel Force" Harrison (credit Gav with that one a few years ago) do not make legends. I hope he invests his money well and enjoys life outside the ring, but he's certainly not the gunslinger he so loudly proclaimed to be.
  5. Mario Veit was a 6'3" super-middle and without checking, I think Stipe Drews is 6'5". He was a skinny light-heavy... Not that this hindered Alexis Arguello, mind.
  6. Actually, the Klitschkos are supposed to GAIN weight in training camp unlike most fighters so purely focusing on weight isn't really a failsafe guide to working out their level of fitness. Dave, I disagree with the criticism there simply as if you're not fit, you don't fight. You wouldn't start a fight with a torn rotator cuff, so I don't really see the difference if a fighter decides to pull out with it mid-fight. It certainly drove him on against Lewis though, that much can certainly be agreed with - and he alluded to it in the press afterwards.
  7. Henry Armstrong vs. Roberto Duran at lightweight. Failing that, let's have Hagler vs. Monzon.
  8. Aye, but as others said, Klitschko was also not in prime condition himself - he didn't have a full training camp either prior to that bout. You had two fighters some way off their physical best in the ring that night, yet the pair of them delivered a damn good scrap. As for "quitting" against Byrd, torn rotator cuffs can make it borderline impossible to hold your arm up in guard position depending on the extent of the damage, let alone punch with it (probably a punch that tore it). Worse injury than a broken hand for me - at least with a broken hand you can pull the guard up, just can't punch. Lewis deservedly won at the end of the day, but it was a case of two sub-prime men running each other damned close.
  9. Wrong sport I know, but the late Valerii Lobanovskiy (former manager of Dinamo Kiev) used to maintain that "to be a good manager, forget the player you used to be". He was a rather temperamental winger as a player, but as a manager came out in favour of a hard pressing game. John Beck was a creative midfielder, yet his Cambridge and Lincoln teams were long-ball merchants. Egil Olsen was an attacking midfielder, yet his Norway teams of the 1990s were renowned for being defensive. I don't doubt that Hatton will try to teach his fighters the importance of a good body shot, of excellent conditioning and probably how to look after themselves better between fights (not his forte, was it?). However, I suspect he's sharp enough to realise that it's better to work with the materials you have, and not to create an army of clones.
  10. Considering that Khan once prominently said that the idea was to catch fighters when they were slightly past their best, does anyone else think that the last sentence of the original post is more than just a little bit ironic?
  11. You've got to turn up in shape as well (see the James Toney Fitness Guide for details). Why can't more boxers show a bit of humility for once in interviews? The most important thing for Fury now is that he works on what he has rightly analysed as his weaknesses, although I doubt most of us can comment on his ability as a 15 year old and in terms of his combination punching at that age. He needs to get his weight down and his roadwork / stamina work up (if roadwork is tricky due to his size then he could take a leaf out of Vitali's book and get into the swimming pool on a semi-regular basis as well). As others have said, sticking it out with the same trainer for years would probably help too. I quite liked his win over Chisora, but he has a long way to go and needs to learn his trade.
  12. Yup, unlike the faux-rationalising, pseudo-controversy and pathetic excuses we've come to hear on occasion. Mikkel Kessler won a lot of fans after the Calzaghe defeat as he really handled himself with grace. Adamek's got nothing whatsoever to be ashamed of. He gave it all he had, was expected to fall some way short and this was proven to be the case.
  13. Is he realistically going to be able to get ready for a world title fight three months after his previous fight? Not to mention the fact we don't know if negotiations took place. I doubt Povetkin will face either of the Klitschkos as long as Teddy Atlas has something to do with it.
  14. Haye was only hard to hit against Wlad simply because the boxing ring was in Hamburg, and David "My Little Toe" Haye was moving somewhere near Flensburg. Easy to be hard to hit when you stay miles away from the opponent. Better otherwise ignored to be honest. This is his way of stoking up interest in another yawnfest to bolster the retirement pot.
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