If it goes to points and buatsi loses every round, you are saying he will get the decision? The Germans were terrible for it. I still stand by the home fighter gets the close rounds but doesn't make it right. It should be an unbiased opinion. The problem with scoring fights it can depend on different things. The cleaner shots, the aggressor, the busier, different judges like different things.
Most likely. Bolotņiks is very watchable boxer and still does not looks that he so lucrative for big business. vs Gas on WBSS undercard he won via stoppage in distance, then was an underdog vs Ekimov ( then 18-0-0 prospect ) like in hometown but with foreign ref and 2 from 3 judges were foreigners, he managed to score UD win in 12 rounder. ekimov still is ranked in top 50 by boxrec today, looks that 42/944 today. MTK tournament: undefeated favorite Ward was supposed to win and even like easy night in the office, he get finished quickly. Burton had been battered too much and barely survived, therefore most likely he get decision. Michel: this boxer looks that was under germans and Bolotņiks finished him. If this had get till cards, I have doubts that he had get decision. Buatsi most likely will attempt finish Bolotņiks quickly and if will fail, he might choose to box for decision win cos Bolotņiks is seriously undervalued just due his record numbers and is dangerous while am boxing credentials Buatsi does have very impressive: even Olympic medal and Bolotniks looks that did not had am fights at all in boxing. For Buatsi and even Bivol most safe and good solution might be to outbox Bolotņiks not to go for stoppage win. Will see, if this fight even will happen. Bolotņiks had won vs at least 5 boxers better than Calic, so there will be risk for Buatsi if he will go for stoppage win, create too long opnenings.
Could be reading way too much into this This content is protected Are they having a dig at Eddie Hearn here?
Zelpha sadly lost his mum I believe - I would be surprised if Matchroom haven’t been supportive, as they are usually very good with fighters’ personal issues. I didn’t quite get why Zelpha left in the first place - he had just come off a good win against Barrett and I think Warren was lining up a fight with Sharpe. Plus Warren and his Uncle Pat have always worked very closely.
Yeah same here, but just seemed odd to do the poster with all the Queensbury logos, and no mention of Matchroom. I was shocked he left QP as well, the Caccace fight was there as well.
So the strategy with Benn is to feed him shop worn gatekeepers who have previously gone the distance with top names. Then when he gets the British stoppage, big him up as being able to do what the elite of the division couldn't. Problem is, I'm not sure how well this will work without the sky hype machine selling it to football fans.
Great Post. I don't think buatsi will go for the stoppage unless it is there. Bolotniks is the best he will have faced. I think a tough points win is the most likely result. You know another more about Bolotniks than me but it is official now. Let's see what happens. Looking forward to it.
Well, maybe cos once I was wrong with my prediction about Bolotņiks vs Nielsen. This was Cruiserweight fight and I had predicted that Nielsen will win vs Bolotņiks easily with wide UD, like all rounds something like 10-9 rounds. I had ground to think like this because Bolotņiks is small for CW and Nielsen with his pro record then 24-1-0 and only 1 loss via decision vs Lerena was with impressive experience advantage, also strong for CW boxer who is good in clinch fight, not older than Bolotniks. I even had opinion that if Nielsen will have difficulties to outbox Bolotniks, he might easily outmuscle Bolotniks. Nope, I was wrong.
Has anyone seen Shannon Courtenay's latest interview? Saying she's not surprised Ball pulled out and didn't think she wanted to fight her anyway...the first time she had COVID so had to pull out and she's only just started recovering from it and hasn't even had a comeback fight. Only got the title because Ball had COVID lol. She's coming across as an absolute melt in the interview, it's new levels of arrogance. I thought she had started changing her tune finally, guess not. This content is protected
Lasted 30 seconds of that.she won't have that belt for long.there's better fighters than her who aren't champions in that weight class.
The other video is just as bad on iFLTV. Completely agree with you. I expect the comments section to be turned off after the next devastating loss.