If he wants to keep his draw streak intact, he better start. The fact that a crusty old gassed quasi retired half dead Pimp had him reeling, I'm pretty sure even Joe Smith Jr. would blast him out of there. I'm not sure Jack can even legit beat Sullivan Barrera.
Gvozdyk is a smooth boxer but he stands straight up not a lot of head movement so he better be well trained to stay at range as much as possible early . I don't think this fight is a gimme for Gvozdyk . Adonis still has the power .
Al Haymon ruined an amazing puncher's career (Stevenson) with inactivity and pointless matchups for five years. All that while destroying is fanbase, he could barely gather 2k if he had fought at home in Montreal or Quebec and people would have been there to boo him. They convinced the pimp that flushing 5 years down the drain at 35 was good business. It was never good business for him, they where just waiting and manipulating to get the belt into to a Floyd boy. And Jack failed at grabbing the ripe fruit while having the dice stacked in his favors, in neutral ground. Because that is what Toronto is and i am pretty sure the crowd must have been smaller then the sum of the media personel covering Jack. Jack was lucky the get the 114 scores, above 114 is a hard sell even tought Stevenson was lucky to get out on is feets. So all the Jackboys screaming fraud, sham, robery and what not you are not looking at the right place. Now lets see how Haymon/Floyd manipulate , bribe and abuse influences to foundle Gvozdyk deep and hard out of that title. Can he take it as long as Alvarez? Will the WBC start to feel like it should act like a respectable organization? Will it be in 2019, 2020 or later? Haymon/Floyd are so good at leaving on our apetite we will get months to speculate it.
Was only thinking about Smith Jnr last night,do hope we see him again as he gives such great fights to watch. If there’s one guy who in your mind strikes you as mr average it would have to be Jack,I don’t even mean that in a derogatory way it’s just that when he was winning I always thought he’s achieved more than he should of.....hard worker for sure but average.
Ducked his mandatory Callum Smith when he moved up and has only fought two shot fighters since Reminded me of when my boy Floyd wisely avoided mandatory Junior Witter when he moved up to fight Sharmba Mitchell
Smith has the skill of somebody who started training last week. But at least hes only 28 years old. And isn't breathing like a choo choo train after the 6th round. LHW is turning into the geezer division. Everybody spends half the fight just trying to get more air and breathes like a grandpa. Smith, Bivol and Gvozdyk are the only non senior citizens left at 175. They probably give them all a good run for their money because they can actually breathe after the 6th round.
Technically he's not the mandatory (Alvarez is) but the Interim champion. That makes his case for an immediate fight with Stevenson even stronger. If the WBC doesn't enforce this fight now, they're a disgrace (or a joke, at least).
And I also have some questions for Gvozdyk (and TR as well, actually)... Was it so f***ing hard to get on a plane and to attend the Stevenson-Jack fight in person? To get some PR, to tell people that you actually exist? Maybe to wave your belt on camera, etc. ..?
Actually, as soon as he schedules himself to fight Gvozdyk, people like you will be first in line to call it a joke fight.
Gvozdyk has that fluid, precise straight right to catch southpaws, and he won't make the dumb Jack mistake and let the old man recuperate and wrestle with you in clinches and use his power at close range.