Stop Overrating Postel!

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  1. Cafe

    Cafe Sitzpinkler Full Member

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    If Postol can knock someone out with an arm punch, imagine what he would do if he put his weight behind it? This dude would punch harder than Foreman and Klitschko combined.
     
  2. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    He didnt actually ko lucas.
     
  3. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    And I you want to know what a guy like that can do when he has actually a good boxing technique and boxing IQ, you only have to look at tommy hearns.
     
  4. BASHar Asad

    BASHar Asad Active Member Full Member

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    Hey Charcoal: Why don't you give us all a preview on how visually offensive you find Oleksander Usyk's boxing. There must be a myriad of things he does that somehow offend your skewed sensibilities.
     
  5. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    who?
     
  6. big moose

    big moose Active Member Full Member

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    or, to put it another way,

    "People considering Lucas a good fighter is something beyond me.

    being beaten by Armpunching down to the s****heap"
     
  7. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    Well, yes, you're right.
     
  8. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think Crawford has a higher skillset than Postol.
     
  9. Super Hans

    Super Hans The Super Oneā„¢ banned

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    I see what you did there. :lol:
     
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  11. elchivito

    elchivito master betty Full Member

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    Postol should have been warned from the early rounds for the excessive clinching, not 4-5 rounds after. Lucas hurt him early too, but didn't follow up to finish him. And when Postol wasn't clinching, it's like Lucas forgot how to infight, rarely went for the body. Since the Molina fight, Lucas wasn't the same. He ko'd Soto and Peterson, 2 fighters better than Molina. The explosiveness and killer instinct not there anymore.
     
  12. Imperial1

    Imperial1 VIP Member Full Member

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    Postal will lose in his first title defense
     
  13. lepinthehood

    lepinthehood When I'm drinking you leave me well alone banned Full Member

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    Lol this will be quoted in a few months time. :)
     
  14. lewis gassed

    lewis gassed The Bronze Dosser Full Member

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    What about GRJ beating Loma that you predicted? :lol:
     
  15. des3995

    des3995 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    While I think people are tending to overrate Postol at the moment, they were underrating him prior to this fight. While his size was clearly a factor, he had to execute the gameplan to make use of it, and he did, so give hime credit for that. Molina was also much bigger and look where he ended up. Size alone does not win fights. Molina may have had a fee moments of success, but aside from him catching LM with the KDs, it was not sustained. It was limited to a few brief moments.

    The only relation to Khan is the way both guys try to keep the opponent at the end of the jab and tie them up when they try to move in. But that isn't specific to Khan, and not so much the way Khan fought with Freddy, but does now.