School me on Eddie Chambers

Good fighter, nice handspeed, good boxing ability, decent power but was undersized for a modern heavyweight. Good performances were his fights with Samuel Peter and Tomas Adamek (where he got robbed fighting with one arm).

I don't think he was a wasted talent; he got the most out of his ability. Chambers had good wins over Guinn, Peter, and Brock. He was never going to beat the men he lost to (Klitschko or Povetkin).

 

Good boxer, slick, undersized against the larger heavies, plus his lack of punching power puts him at severe disadvantage. I thought he was robbed against adamek where Eddie fought with one hand (I was impressed) and I believe if he had the discipline he could've held a title and did well at cruiserweight.

 

Didn't you just ask this on BS?

 

It was so funny when he picked up Wlad and slammed him

 

Quick-handed, fleet of foot, excellent jabber, high engine but never incautious, great control of distance in his prime which often helped giving up ranginess as well as brawn.

His best performances are:

Rossy I
Brock
Peter
Dimitrenko
Povetkin (1st half)



Worst is Mchunu. :verysad

 

Washington? :think

 

Nah, he gets a pass for that one because he was shot and had been feasting on bums for years under the Fury banner with his skills deteriorating from lack of serious competition.

In the Mchunu loss, though, he was coming off a strong performance versus Adamek in which many felt he was robbed. He went in arrogantly thinking his speed against heavyweights could translate at cruiser and sought to outbox a smaller man at his peak, underestimated him badly, and got schooled.

 

Um, he's fast?

 

Furys sparring partner

 

He put on an Octoberfest hat after beating the sh** out of Dimitrenko over in Germany. Probably his finest hour.

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos...winning-the-wbo-eliminator-picture-id88822695

 

You can always ask him personally, he posts on here sometimes. :good

 

I always felt Chambers was a good heavyweight, an underrated win for Wlad, and seemed like he could have done a bit more with his career than he did.

He was a little small for a heavyweight but had solid skills and speed with a nice jab. Not a lot of power but probably a bit more than his ko % would indicate.

Peter, Brock, and his schooling of Dimitrenko in Germany were good wins. A semi-relevant Guinn and an undefeated ko of Rossy were decent wins as well.

He lost to Wlad when Wlad was near his peak so no shame there. He won some early rounds from Povetkin before fading so nothing wrong with that loss either. Those were 2 of the best heavyweights of his era.

He lost to Adamek with an injury in a very even fight(I thought Chambers won) and against Washington he looked like a pretty faded fighter at best and a shot one at worse. The one bad loss in his career was to Mchunu. Mchunu is a good fighter but the problem was how easily Mchunu made it look. I think he underestimated him but its still his worst loss.

After the Wlad fight he was 28, a top 10 heavy,had picked up some nice wins, and only had the losses to Wlad and Povetkin on his record so he had put together some nice work in his career to that point.

It was after the Wlad fight that his career seemed to run off the tracks. He started fighting once a year and then went on a 2 year run of beating up journeymen in Europe. I know there were some injuries in there but you can't help but think he could have done a lot more in that 5 year period than he did.

Overall a good heavyweight who put together a nice career.

 

Good skills, a good chin, but had none of the intangibles that it takes to win. If you have no power, you cannot beat top competition with throwing a small number of punches. He also had no chance against Klitschko or any good big heavyweight. I see that he did try a fight at Cruiserweight and apparently found out he doesn't belong there either.