Oscar Rivas knocked out Bryant Jennings. how good is he?

Breazele perhaps but not Kownacky. Kownacky is technicly better and have more power. Rivas would have speed advantage and he is a bit faster but you have to favour Kownacky because of his ring generalship and superior skill, power.

 

I want to see Rivas/Andy Ruiz Jr. They have fought in amateurs, so another fight between them would be nice and it would sell.

 

It was an ok win considering Jennings isnt a real good fighter. If he beats guys like parker or real risk guys like ortiz who ko Jennings in 7 rounds than Rivas will show me something .

 

He has a win over Ortiz's best opponent so let's say he's top 6-7. It worked for Luis....
Perhaps if he get's battered by Wilder we can make him solid top 5 worldwide.

 

Lol that doesn't work that way especially when ortiz ko Jennings in 7 rounds while it took Rivas 12 rounds to ko Jennings? Come on.

 

He is a massive threat to anybody outside the Top 4 (Fury, Joshua, Wilder, Ortiz). And even against them i do not see him getting blasted out in a few rounds as he is tough as nails, can punch, has a good work rate for a HW and natural boxing skills because of his amateur background and south american boxing school. Obviously he is lacking some things like a good stamina (he probably has to lose some kilos) and height but i doubt he would be an easy opponent for guys like Whyte, Parker, Breazeale, Kownacki who are considered to be Top 10 opponents these days. I would definitely see him beating Breazeale and most likely Whyte, Parker is a tougher matchup as he is a better boxer and moves well and Kownacki is just as tough as him and a coming foward guy so this would be entertaining but i favor Rivas as he is the better boxer in general but nearly 50/50. Would love to see him matched vs. some Top 10 guys, maybe it was the right time for him to beat his best opponent yet to increase the level of opposition. Let's see what happens next, Rivas is definitely a guy to watch out for. If he improves some things he has the tools to be very good. And he is still young and has some good years left in his prime.

 

He isn't very good and was losing pretty badly to Jennings until a late comeback.

He's like an imposter version of Tyson in 2000.

 

Bull****. We can discuss about scorecards and scoring the fight, yeah, i do not say he was winning comfortably and many guys had Jennings up in the RBR but two of three judges had Rivas up on the cards at the time of the stoppage so "losing pretty badly" is simpy wrong.

 

You don’t seem to understand what “until a late comeback” means.

 

No. I don't understand it in the context of Rivas vs. Jennings as Rivas would have won anyway on the judges cards, even without that stoppage. So you can't call this "a late comeback" and i do not understand this, right.

 

I hope he's not on roids but I'm not too confident about it.

 

I thought Jennings was winning handily. Made Rivas look a little pedestrian for most of the fight. Going into the 12th, I thought he looked spent too so it was extremely disspointing from Jennings' point of view to get blitzed like that right away. Still, credit to Rivas. He didn't give up and his power seems to be decent.

 

Good comparison.

 

Not impressed, he pulled it out of the fire against Jennings though.
He's very limited and would get outboxed by Fury, Povetkin and Ortiz, destroyed by
Joshua, Whyte and Wilder, beat down by Miller, I don't even think he'd beat
Breazale.

Sadder tale is Jennings, always thought he had the tools to be a consistent top 5 guy IMO but
I don't think he's gonna reach that..........think he's solidly B, B- level now.

 

Jennings is the biggest Ortiz's win. And without Ortiz Wilder only has Stevern. I'm not gonna mention his 'draw' against Fury.