What are your feelings on USS going to HW?

Adamek would be a good fight for him.

 

Pretty good news. Cunningham isn't a knockout guy and doesn't have the best chin at CW, but a bit of meat on his bones might improve his punch resistance as well as his power. I can't see his skills suffering any unless he totally bulks up with useless steroid muscle.

I'd love to see more CWs try their hand at heavyweight actually. Huck proved that there isn't that great a gap between the top CWs and the top HWs outside the Klits, and with the added exposure that fighting in the HWs brings I can see some absolute barnburners developing that might help to ignite the division.

 

I'm a big USS fan and can only see a move to heavyweight ending badly by brutal KO.

 

He's ****ed.

 

Why not? He can beat Povotkin. Than again most top 25 heavyweights can do that.

 

He won't get a fight with Povetkin. .

He's already been beaten by Adamek. . . Adamek is better suited at HW than he is as well. . .

He gets beat by strong, fast journeymen like Travis Walker, IMO. . .


ALso got most of the younger up and comers against him: Price, Fury, Pulev, Boystov. . .


He doesn't have much mass to gain. . Not like a David Haye who clearly has a bigger frame


Glass jaw. . Not PURE glass that gets completely shattered, but he's a chinny ****. . .

 

He's a former world champion at crusierweight. That alone will push him a head of the line for a championship fight.

 

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Not necessarily true. . He has no fan base. . Brings nothing to the table really. . Unlike Haye who, for all his bitchassedness, was a self-marketing genius (also had the Enzo fight, and post-fight **** talkage really raised his profile). . .

Huck got the fight with Povetkin without having to fight through the HW ranks first cause they had the same promotor, and he's a sell over in Europe, especially Germany. . .


Cunningham is known in Germany, but he's not the ticket-seller - he's the "B-side opponent."


He'll first have to fight his way through the ranks at HW before he gets a shot at Povetkin. . . Just my opinion. . But who knows. . . I think Povetkin beats him anyway, cause I think he's slowed down now, lost some reflexes, and couple that with a weak chin = recipe for disaster.

So, either way he's ****ed. . . He'll get beat by the tough fringe contenders like Travis Walker, and even if he manages to make it to a fight with Povetkin, he'll get jaw cracked open.

 

like you said, not much of a punch...and cant take much of a punch....so it doesnt bode well

 

Depends on who he's fighting and what he tries to accomplish.

If he thinks he can beat some of the top dogs, then think again. If he thinks he has a chance against one of the brothers they better lock him up entirely.
He also would have to avoid punchers like the plague, cause his out of this world recovery skills won't cut it at HW.

 

USS is gonna be sunk by the first better HW puncher he faces

 

The best I see him get at HW is an HBO-fight against Seth Mitchell.