They may be a similar age but Takam looks to be diminishing, his stamina fading. I'd pick Duhaupas to pull the upset on points.
This is an example of the wide middle of the HW division where all types of competitive fights can be made.
Takam is a fav for me, but after the Parker fight he looked a bit faded. His stamina was terrible and that's usually his strength. Maybe he is past his used by date, and it wouldn't surprise me if Duhaupus won. So Takam just, close dec
This matchup is really Wilder Povetkin cloaked in a wolf in sheeps clothing. You already know who posters will pick to win, lmao. If you like Wilder, Wilder...Povetkin, Povetkin. ****en dump truck brain.
Takam by solid UD, Takam gassed a bit in later rounds against Povetkin as well - his style is high pressure and constantly coming forward, just a lot of guys don't live with it so you don't see it. Parker and Povetkin did live with it, Povetkin had now illicit PEDs in his system to make it look more convincing. Takam is not knocking JD out, though and it will no doubt be a lot of work still.
Why do I get told to STFU? He was the one that posted a stupid comment, I just responded with a fractionally less stupid answer. Taking that criticism on board though, I am starting to consider leaving this place - there is some gold in here, but I'm clearly losing my patience with the amount of rubbish you have to read through here to find it. For now I'll slap myself on the wrist for being dragged down to it and try and raise the tone with a bit of sense, and see where we go. Carlos Takam has brought some of the biggest fight I've seen to his matches in the last few years. Whether he is peaking or not is beside the point, he has shown me absolutely no sign he'll give up unless he's KTFO... and that only happened against someone on PEDs. Accusing him of just showing up for a paycheck in any of his recent fights is clearly because someone has either been observing a fight with some kind of bias, didn't actually watch the fight, or just DKSAB.
Takam ain't stopping Duhaupas. Nearly 50 y.o. Holyfield hit harder than Takam - ask Francois Botha, who was KO'd by Holy in 8th while winning the fight, and took a punch after punch vs Takam for 11 rounds 2 years later. But Takam is pretty good, skilled boxer and he probably wins this by comfortable points margin.