Joshua Buatsi vs. Ričards Bolotņiks & Michael McKinson vs. Przemysław Runowski RBR.

Not sure. Bolotņiks is with completely different fighting style than Bivol, Kovalev, Beterbiev etc boxers.

I think he ( Bolotņiks ) is really watchable and very highly usable tool to test is someone euro level or no. Euro level btw is not so low as ppl think. Different years, ofc talent pool too is different.
Bolotņiks long before he had been noticed in western media had been not casual journeyman by U.K criteria.
He had exposed possible prospect, supposed KO artist with 8-0-0 ( 8KOs ) pro record by doing with him stuff more impressive and watchable than Briedis fights or Dorticos vs Gassiev fight. Lad had been punched out of the ring.
He had stopped in first round cruiserweight lad with 11-1 ( 9 KOs ) pro boxing record and looks that 41 ? stoppages achieved in am and pro kickboxing. Dude was CW lad.
Vs Gassanov it looked like 50/50 fight while Gassanov I think does pack not less power than Boltoniks and is vey watchable boxer.
Vs Ekimov? He was underdog: Ekimov had 18-0-0 ( 9 KOs ) pro record and looks that had good ammy school under belt.
Ward? If compare with Gassanov and Ekimov I think was lesser problem for Bolotniks.
Maybe he did not had paid enough attention to training, sorry, I did not had saw any improvements in Bolotniks after this fight.
Burton? If you can't finish Kulikauskis and Sniedze, this is answer here.
Michel? So confident that he will beat Bolotniks cos is under germans? Nope.
Okey, vs Buatsi Bolotniks had failed, looks that his highest ceiling is euro title level and nothing more ever will be.
It is not bad, it is not shame but this is what this is.
Paycheck collected, I only hope that Bolotniks will not attempt to find any excuses and especially to continue to dream about possible world title fights.
This is a bit too much for him, he should get this in his brains. Already 2 X proven in 2 weight classes, there only thing what matters is to get a bit healthy self evaluation.

 

Hope Botolnickis OK after that brutal shot. But he is tougher than i expected. Most people would have gone down by those brutal shots he took early in the fight. He had a good poker face.I got a feeling he might retire.

 

I don't think Buatsi is guy who will force him to retire.
While this stuff is lucrative to assume because Buatsi should be very powerful and had retired Bolotniks.

I suspect that he will continue while he most likely might afford to retire from fighting. He I think should retire and not only cos Buatsi fight.
As far as I had get he had been used by some top CW cats to spar with.
I then did not had interest how their sparings had been done.
I have no clue in what shape for example boxer A, B or C had been , in what shape they were then and no clue had they get vs him by 25% ( they are capable to do even this light level ) or maybe 100%? I have no clue.

Buatsi even isn't most hardest hitting LHW boxer Bolotniks had fought, maybe at best No 2 No 3 from his opponents nothing more.
The problem is that Bolotniks does not looks that had improved since Ward fight by 1 bare percent.
The problem is that I think Buatsi always will be skills wise far better boxer than Bolotniks might dream to be. Not regards to power, Buatsi looks that had improved since his last fight and a lot.
Bolotniks looks that no. His ceiling at max looks euro title level, most likely.

 

Where does he go from here? Bautsi took his soul and it's hard psychologically to come back from a big KO like that.

 

Casual fan post, sorry, flowchart post.

Again, casual flowchart post. Took his soul.
We do not have any kind of souls in boxing. Soul in professional boxing is paycheck. Nothing else.
If you think about God and souls, pro boxing is nothing good.
Do you think your God will appreciate that you hurt other human for a paycheck? If you are not so poor and might find another job or establish business?
God had told: do not do to others things that you do not want to be done on you.
Pro boxing is not so much good stuff if you will research God's will and will have interest about souls and so on.

If he had recovered from Mchunu, might recover also from Buatsi.

While I usually tell guys not to choose follow Satan.
Pro boxing is not God's job.

 

I am not saying Bolotniks is world class but he is capable provided some resistance, durability and adversity for Buatsi which is necessary mentally before you fight for a world title.

 

This I think is not thing you had get from my post correctly. By euro level I had mean't euro title level not as offense.

I will describe you some opponent he had at Cruiserweight.
Not well known Micki Nielsen. His clinch game is better than Mchunu, Makabu, Usyk might dream and he is wery strong lad for his size.
Btw even Lerena is with better clinch game than Usyk for example and with very huge difference here.
Nielsen had steamrolled Buatsi as a pupp if they had fight and he had managed to properly clinch him. He there I think is considerably more skilled than Chisora too and a lot of HW lads and with a glance.
Ofc he isn't Briedis, Fury or Ruiz but it is level close to this.
Nielesn had been then ranked in top 15 by some org and top 21 by boxrec as CW boxer. It isn't joke. It is torture game here.
Mchunu had won rounds vs him, then had lost one round vs Bolotniks and in next round had fooled him in sauce like Briedis loved to use.
Nothing wrong.
Since this he had proved that he is in this level as LHW boxer while being underdog and called a journeyman.
For world champs and claimer for world title level he is a bit too low level.
Maybe like top 21-50 in the world, not more. I hope boxing orgs will rank Bolotniks properly according his real level not some nonsense stuff because I think he is surprisingly overrated.

I think for the same Bolotniks better might be better if he had been ranked properly.
Boxrec today had listed him as #19? at LHW and this looks more properly and better for lad.
In division are ~1000 boxers to be in top 2% between pros is very good and not a shame.
For lad sometimes had been worse if he had been overrated.
Briedis looks that had been ranked properly and test for him like Buatsi for Bolotniks was fight vs 35 y.o Durodola coming out from KO win vs declared prospect with good record and all wins by KO.

I think nothing worse might be for lads career to be overrated and sometimes is better to be underrated by ranking orgs.

Bolotniks was overrated by orgs, we had saw outcome.
Briedis was rated properly or maybe even underrated by orgs then and we might compare outcome.
Briedis vs Durodola ( version then had very good record and was not old, now he is 40 ) versus Bolotniks vs Buatsi fights.

I think it is nothing good in long term for lad if he is overrated by ranking orgs.