Tua does a POOR job of getting inside. That's the problem. Decent head movement to avoid the jab, but keeps coming forward while the opponent maintains distance. They've been working on correcting this in training, with Tua going after his opponent much quicker, and throwing punches in bunches. He now has the conditioning to do it. Hopefully, Tua will have learned from LL. He only has to catch W. Klit once. V. Klit is a different story, but he may be there for the taking as he gets older. He's 38 now.
fast? yea sure, sharp? meh, but powerful? not really. wlads jab is effective where lewis' jab was a weapon. lennox threw everything at tua but the kitchen sink and didnt even so much as stagger him. i just dont see how a safety first and some what timid wlad could keep someone like tua at bay. honestly, the way he fought iggy and sam peter, would land wlad on a stretcher if he fought tua that way. he would he have to be the most aggressive he's ever been, but the leads to another question. can wlad fight aggressive with a devastating puncher such as tua putting him at constant risk???
thats because peter was a terrible hype job, people compared him to a young tyson for christ sake! tua on the other hand has proved when he hits you once with whatever he lands on you, the fight is over. tua doesn't need hype men to speak for what he did in the ring, we've seen it first first hand:shock:
I would defiantly want to see Tua vs any one with a belt would be a great fight to watch and very hard to call
Tua vs Peter or Arreola would be best value matches. Wars. Ruiz is the fight he needs to take for the $$$s. Meehan is the most immediate fight he needs to take. He needs to fight a Klit for the belt.
All 4 fights would be good to watch. Not too sure about the Ruiz one i must admit,but the ranking he holds must be worth the fight i suppose. My favorite would be to watch Tua vs Arreola. I believe Tua will make mince meat of him.
Stormy, I say Ruiz because of what happened last time, and how every American who's interested in boxing will pay to see it happen again. American's hate Ruiz, and see Tua as his daddy. It would be hard to get Ruiz, and even harder to get Arreola Down Under due to his fan base in LA.
i think Tua would prefer to fight for the WBA or WBC title,but hes on the short list to fight for the WBO championship so he will take what he can get in the mean time eh. I can see problems aplenty for him when fighting both the klits. Tua better have prepared some good answers to the questions those guys will be asking him when they finally meet up.:deal
I'm going out on a limb, and predicting Tua faces Sam Peter next. Assuming the next fight is in NZ, no way Arreola comes here. CK has said no to Rahman and Meehan. And he has to have a name guy in the US to draw in the US $$$s on PPV. Ruiz would never come over, and he's in line for a belt challenge. Johnson and Chambers and Povetkin are spoken for. Peter is in decline, and looking to cash out. And people would pay big US bucks for it.
WTF is Haye doing on that list. 1 hw fight gets him 3rd? I noticed on boxrec that he was listing 3rd overall hw. I really must have missed something.
Other than the Klits is there anyone that Tua would struggle with. No one comes to mind bar perhaps the 7 foot giant
