Frank Sanchez the favourite over Efe Ajagba

That is strange. I don't particularly rate him either but Ajagba does have game-changing power and Faure won't be hard for him to find.

 

Frank Sanchez doesn't have a great ring iq because he'll let fighters of the hook regularly when he has them at his mercy on the ropes.

A lot of Sanchez's fights he's had could have ended sooner if he had a better ring iq and punched harder.

He might be the better boxer of the two but not by a great deal.

 

It's 50/50 fight and I would favour Ajagba if odds are so good.

 

Doesn't surprise me since Kliadze dropped him he hasn't looked good and not really improved. No head movement, no lateral movement, not quick at all and if a former cruiser can drop him that easily then his chin is average at best. Yes he has power but so did David Price, it's easy to look good when your opponent doesn't fight back and Sanchez will be a step up against a guy who will take it to him.

 

I expect my country man Ed’s Ajagba to knockout Frankie Sanchez. Was not impressed with what I have seen of Sanchez.

 

Yeah seems like ppl have cooled on ajagba I bet on him bc I think recency bias and perception is skewing the odds

 

Frank Sanchez is a better all-around fighter. That's why.

Kind of reminds me back when Cedric Kushner was stockpiling bunch of young heavyweights. Hasim Rahman. Duncan Dokiwari. Shazzon Bradley. Lamon Brewster. Lawrence Clay-Bey. Monte Barrett. And he just sort of grabbed Fres Oquendo as an afterthought.

Early on, he decided to throw Oquendo in with Rahman Green to see which one he was going to keep (because Green had lost early on). Even though he was undefeated, Fres was the underdog. And Oquendo won an upset.

Then he put Oquendo in with Dokiwari, who was the big killer like Ajagba is now. Another sink or swim scenario. Ajagba was scoring scary KOs. Shockingly, Oquendo won.

Then they threw Oquendo in with Cliff Etienne, who was considered the hot ticket when he beat Lamon Brewster and Clay-Bey in exciting slugfests on HBO. HBO was super high on Cliff.

Oquendo dropped Etienne SEVEN times and all but ended his career.

Seemed like they were just trying get Fres to lose, and he kept winning. Then they threw him in with Izon - who was supposed to fight Rahman for the title when Hasim upset Lewis. But Lewis went to court to block anyone else from getting Rahman first.

So they threw Oquendo in with Izon, and he destroyed Izon, too. (LOL)

Finally, they tossed Oquendo in with David Tua, and after Fres moved out to a big lead - after eight rounds Fres had won all eight on one card and six of the eight rounds on the other two cards -- as soon as Tua rocked him in the ninth the ref hurried in and stopped the fight.

But, Oquendo got a shot at the IBF title against Chris Byrd not too long after that, and, AGAIN, Oquendo appeared to score the big upset. Even HBO, which was hyping Byrd, thought he lost. But the judges screwed up.

I kind of get those vibes from Frank Sanchez. I think people are going to underestimate him, and he's just going to keep winning for a while.

(NOW, after I wrote all that, he'll probably lose. LOL)

But it feels like a similar situation is unfolding with him.

 

Fast Fres was the master of the upset and the master of getting robbed of the upset. Why wasn't his obviously superior ability appreciated?

 

Frank Sanchez is 29? Boy, he looks 45.

 

Had to have begun smoking Cuban stogies in diapers, like a black Baby Herman from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

 

Everyone thinks the Cubans look old. Tyson Fury and guys like Nathan Gorman look like 50 year olds at the gym.

 

Shazzon Bradley! now there's a name I haven't heard in quite a while, former football player who was immensely strong and used his strength to throw power punches, saw him training once , he was a brute. I believe he encountered eye problems that made him retire , probably all for the best, it's so hard to start that late and if I recall correctly any footwork gave him trouble.

 

I miss those Heavyweight Explosion cards. Not all were great. But they were fun.

 

Gorman somehow looks like a baby and an old man simultaneously.