Tua vs Barrett II Redemption

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Firstly If you have to name a rematch with 40 year old Monte Barrett "Redemption".....then you know you are in trouble!

Tua is wishful thinking if he thinks that beating Monte Barrett....however "spectacular" is going to earn him a title shot with Wlad!

Barrett has been Koed all too easily relatively recently by Haye and Solis.........and that was in one fight with Barrett not two.


The ONLY chance Tua will have of getting a title shot would be to KO a string of young unbeaten upcoming fighters......not old "never was" fighters like Barrett!atsch

 

Agreed! :thumbsup

 

Tua had a bad shoulder apparently......well apparently....

 

Agreed. Tua simply having to rematch a 2011 Barrett says Tua is done and should probably hope he gets a big fight sooner than later. I agree with your post except for the part about Barrett being a "never was". Barrett isn't going into the hall of fame or anything but he was, for a few years, a solid fighter. From the late 90s til around the mid 2000s Barrett was either a top ten or borderline top ten guy. He knocked a few prospects off along the way.

 

I hear what you are saying about Barrett......maybe it's me being bitter because I lost a whole heap of money when Barrett beat the then undefeated hot prospect Dominic Guinn!:-(

I guess what I mean by "Never was" is that Barrett perhaps did beat a few "prospects"...... but those "prospects" actually didn't turn out to be much after all.
To me Barrett was a solid tester for the likes of Joe Messi etc......but not much beyond that.:good

 

I am interested in this, most certainly.

I think Barrett will outbox Tua and win a decision, with probably a couple KDs in the process. Tua is a shell of hls former self, as is Barrett, but he's got more left than Tua.

 

I saw that fight, too. Long time ago. I think it was on a Joe Mesi undercard, right?

 

Not too sure........but I do know my pockets were much much lighter that night!:twisted:

 

Yeah, I remember Barrett upsetting Guinn and getting the ball rolling on the downfall of Guinn's once promising career. He was a good test for top prospects, guys like Guinn and Beck got beat by Barrett while Mesi got by him. I'll always be grateful to Barrett for putting an end to that awful push Top Rank was giving to Tye Fields at one time. Barrett ko'd him in one round and Arum finally put an end to his Tye Fields era.

 

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Yes, agree.

 

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If Chisora beat Fury he was going to get a title shot lol.

Between the two of them they have beaten sweet f all.

Tua's had 1 shot in an era where every man and his dog has had multiple undeserving shots.

If Tua takes Barretts head off he will have proven his past few performances have been injury hampered. Why not give Tua one last pay day? There are way less deserving people out there i can think of.