Proksa vs Mora - Analysis and Prediction

In general I agree with the breakdown. I see this as a fight with two possible outcomes:
-a fight where there will be a few rounds clear for both guys and a few toss up rounds with a debatable decision being awarded to... Proksa. Fans of defensive movement and countering will favor Mora.
-OR a fight where Proksa overpowers Mora and either wins almost every round past the first couple or even stops Mora. Mora has done just enough over the past few years to stay relevant enough for the fight to have meaning, but I really do think he's well past it. He had trouble with Vera and I think Proksa hits a lot harder than Vera; although durability, effective pressure, inside fighting, etc. could all possibly lean Vera's way. We've got to keep in mind that Proksa has also looked like trash since the awesome Sylvester win.

I tend to lean with my first option, close debatable decision for Proksa.

 

Proksa said that should he lose to Mora, he knows his career as a contender is over, but I doubt he looks good vs Mora, just a bad stylistic matchup

 

I really believe Proksa is underrated since the Hope loss.
My idea after watching that fight made me rethink Proksa's ability to overcome adversity (early cut by headclash made him drop a class if not two), but that doesn't mean he was a hugely overrated fighter at the time like some say.
Most guys in the RbR still had him winning actually, and the rematch didn't leave much room for doubt he was well above Hope's level.

Losing to GGG that way was kinda expected because of that aforementioned ability to overcome adversity (in this case, taking huge powershots from one of the biggest punchers P4P).
But Mora just has not much pop in his hands and barring The Latin Snake makes it a dirty fight, I can't see much adversity coming Proksa's way in this one.

I bet he can implement his "everyday man's Maravilla" style like he's used to, and might even be the fist to stop Mora. Or win a close but decisive UD.

 

I also think that Proksa will win pretty easily.

 

Kinda this ^

Lotta folks kinda write fighters off after a coupla of losses without looking into the circumstances. Proksa was proving himself a capable fringe level contender, and there's no reason to believe this has changed.

I see him winning in some style, if perhaps not 'comfortably' - Proksa will probably never get his hands on a belt, but is good enough to make an OK living from boxing.

 

:yep

 

depends on how much GGG took out of proska, the guy took a thrashing from golovkin

 

I agree that it should be close and that Proska will probably get the nod. I suspect the ring rust will hurt Mora early as he'll start slowish(which he generally does anyway) and Proska takes the early rounds with Mora having a decent finish to make it interesting. Neither fighter is likely to stop the other but obviously Proska has the better chance of the two of pulling it off if it were to occur. Mora is not as boring as advertised given the right matchup, but unfortunately with two kind of awkward fighters in there it's likely to be pretty ugly this time. A nice matchup on paper for FNF though.

 

Theres a chance mora just frustrates him into lunging face first. I read somewhere that GP is basically self taught and it shows. So unorthodox its unreal. Mora SD

 

What the ****!?!?!? :blood

:rofl Proksa looks fancy using his jerky quasi-slickness against stationary and lower-level opposition, but it pales in comparison to genuine slick defensive styles like the one employed by Mora.


...and I ****ing hate Mora, and do actually like Proksa. It's just ridiculous to say Proksa has the edge in counter-punching or that defensively they're even close.

 

I hate the guy passionately, but must begrudgingly admit his D is quite adept.

He doesn't just run. He uses head & upper body movement, gets his arms in the way, picks shots off with slaps, rolls with punches/into clinches, etc.

Proksa just does the flashy hands-down jerk-away showboating daredevil stuff against slow/inaccurate opponents to dazzle the crowd but I wouldn't say he's great defensively overall. With him it's more prestidigitation than substance.

 

Proksa wins by TKO about rds 7 and 10.

 

:huh

More has never been stopped. Now if it was Golovkin...