Eddie is a really cool guy, i've talked to him a few times on facebook. The Tony Thompson fight should be a comfortable decision win for him.
I totally agree with that in principle and you can add the Mitchell-Mollo fight to that as well, Chambers-Thompson shoud be televised before either of those. But, HBO did the other two and this is a Showtime card and I think Showtime hasn't shown any opening fights with their Super 6 fights unless it was another Super 6 fight. So, the wrong heavyweight fights are getting shown but I do understand why, atleast this time.
He'd do very well there. If a top 10 heavyweight didn't make more than a top 2-3 Cruiserweight, that's where he'd have wound up.
Showtime is not showing this fight, no way! They usually have a two hour block of time and they will spend the first hour reminding everyone how cool and hip they are for putting together their super six tourney. Not unlike how they did things last night before their bantamweight tourney final. It is also not like they will be showing Wlad's fight when he faces the inevitable winner. For what it is worth; Chambers should outbox Gumby Thompson pretty easily. Is Steward still training him? That will be awkward for Eddie when Steward tells him to go pound sand as he works with Wlad in their rematch.
Hopefully they make it a great fight. Maybe TV networks take notice, they both deserve some exposure.
I wish Chambers wasn't going to fight Wlad again, he didn't win a single round last time, & got sparked unconscious... Stylistically, due to Chambers being a light-hitting counterpuncher, fighting Wlad will always be a gross mismatch.
I still think he will be a force at heavy. When the Klitschko´s are gone, Chambers has a very good chance to get one belt or another. He won´t be a dominant champion like Wlad or Lennox, but he still will earn more money and recognition as a heavyweight champion. Imo he would at least be competitive against any heavyweight not named Klitschko. And i´m not even sure if that does count for both Klitschkos. I have the feeling that he would me much more competitive against Vitali than he was against Wlad. Just my take.
Nothing wrong with that. I like to see Eddie Chambers fighting the winner of Povetkin / Chagaev. This would be a much better move for Chambers. Thompson should fight Helenius for the IBF Mandatory for Wlad.
I agree with this. :good Chambers-Povetkin II & Helenius-Thompson would make very good close fights, where the winners get to fight Wlad.
Chambers vs. Thompson is already for the IBF mandatory. I'd like to see any combination of the top 5. The IBF rankings are: 1 Eddie Chambers 2 Tony Thompson 3 Robert Helenius 4 Chris Arreola 5 David Haye 6 Maurice Harris 7 Denis Boytsov 8 Kali Meehan 9 Alexander Dimitrenko 10 Jonathon Banks Ring Rankings: C: Wladimir Klitschko 1. Vitali Klitschko 2. Tomasz Adamek 3. Alexander Povetkin 4. David Haye 5. Ruslan Chagaev 6. Eddie Chambers 7. Alexander Dimitrenko 8. Denis Boytsov 9. Robert Helenius 10. Chris Arreola ESPN Rankings: Wladimir Klitschko (56-3) In a masterful performance, Klitschko made David Haye look like a fool as he easily dominated Haye for a virtual shutout decision win in their July 2 unification bout. Klitschko, who made the 10th title defense of his second title reign, didn't get the knockout but he still embarrassed Haye, who did little more than run in a miserable display. Klitschko is the king of the world with nobody remotely in position to challenge his authority as the heavyweight champion of the world. Next: TBA. 2. Vitali Klitschko (42-2) Klitschko is a big favorite to keep his belt when he defends it on Tomasz Adamek's turf in Poland in the fall. As it stands, Klitschko has one belt while younger brother Wladimir now owns the other three titles. The brothers have no intention of fighting each other, so we'll never know which one truly is best. But one thing we do know -- they are Nos. 1 and 2 and nobody else is even close. Next: Sept. 10 vs. Adamek. 3. Tomasz Adamek (44-1) In his final tune-up before a fall title shot in his native Poland against Vitali Klitschko, Adamek easily dominated Kevin McBride to win a lopsided decision. On to the big one. Next: Sept. 10 vs. Vitali Klitschko. 4. Alexander Povetkin (21-0) Povetkin, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist who gave up a mandatory shot against Wladimir Klitschko and a career-high $2 million-plus payday last fall, will take his first serious fight since 2008 when he meets former titlist Ruslan Chagaev for a vacant paper title. Next: Aug. 27 vs. Chagaev. 5. Ruslan Chagaev (27-1-1) Chagaev, a former titlist, will face Povetkin for the WBA's "regular" title now that Wladimir Klitschko has unified belts. The winner of that fight will be as fake a heavyweight champion as a $3 bill. Next: Aug. 27 vs. Povetkin. 6. Tony Thompson (36-2) Thompson moved a step closer to a title shot against Wladimir Klitschko (who already knocked him out in the 11th round in 2008) with a third-round destruction of Maurice Harris in a May 27 elimination bout on ESPN2. Thompson is supposed to face promotional stablemate Eddie Chambers in a final eliminator. Next: TBA vs. Chambers. 7. David Haye (25-2) Haye talked for three years about how he would violently destroy Wladimir Klitschko when they met, but when they finally did in a July 2 unification fight -- one of the biggest heavyweight bouts in years -- Haye was outclassed as Klitschko made him look like an amateur in cruising to a lopsided decision. Haye, who was scared to mix it up and ran for most of the fight, further disgraced himself when he pathetically blamed the loss on an injured little toe. Next: TBA. 8. Cristobal Arreola (33-2) A trimmed-down Arreola (236 pounds) won his fourth fight of the year (and third since May 21) when he routed durable veteran Friday Ahunanya for a lopsided decision July 9 on the Paul Williams-Erislandy Lara undercard. Arreola will be back to headline a card on Mexican Independence Day. Next: Sept. 15 vs. TBA. 9. Eddie Chambers (36-2) In Chambers' first fight since suffering a massive 12th-round knockout loss to Wladimir Klitschko, he scored a knockdown and outpointed Derric Rossy in February in a rematch of a 2007 fight Chambers won by knockout. The win set up Chambers for a final eliminator against Thompson with the winner becoming one of Klitschko's mandatory challengers. But even if Chambers gets the rematch with Klitschko, he won't have a prayer this time, either. Next: TBA vs. Thompson. 10. Alexander Dimitrenko (31-1) Dimitrenko, whose only loss was by decision to Chambers in a July 2009 title eliminator, is slated to defend the European title against British journeyman Michael Sprott (36-16) in August in Germany. Next: TBA vs. Sprott.