Fonfara-Campillo in IBF eliminator?

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  1. damian38

    damian38 BigDramaShow Full Member

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    according to ringpolska, this fight is being discussed, 16 August at the Whiite Sox Stadium in Chicago, would be Fonfara's 1st defense of his IBO LHW belt and an eliminator for B-Hop's IBF title

    discuss :think
     
  2. Golden Boy 360

    Golden Boy 360 Boxing's Biggest Cash Cow Full Member

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    Fonfara carries Chicago Boxing on his back. I would go to this fight if it's made.
     
  3. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    I can't see Fonfara beating Campillo.

    ...cleanly, that is. I can very easily see him 'beating' Campillo.

    I certainly don't anticipate him topping Krusher.
     
  4. Txomo

    Txomo Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'd be happy for Campillo. Fonfara saw the Kovalev beating and thinks Campillo is done.

    Lets see.
     
  5. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    I think Kovalev is a beast, so no reason to really think Campillo is all that past it.
     
  6. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    not sure how Campillo gets an eliminator fight having 2 wins in his last 6 fights and coming off a tko loss
     
  7. Vantage_West

    Vantage_West ヒップホップ·プロデューサー Full Member

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    same i still have hope that campillo takes him apart. without fonfara knowing it till the 8th.
     
  8. hungover

    hungover Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I picked Campillo to decision Kovalev (lol) but I'm still sticking with him in this one. I think he can actually beat Fonfara. I underrated Kovalev for sure, but Fonfara isn't really all that.
     
  9. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    I think just about everybody did.
     
  10. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    Not quite everybody. :)
     
  11. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    I actually was going to give you props there, IB... I do remember.
     
  12. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    I mean, I understood why people were riding with Campillo - most often (like now here against Fonfara) I find myself inclined to ride with him as he does have the skills, experience, slickness and savvy to really disrupt most opponents' game and make them look guileless newbies.

    It was just frustrating that so many people refused to
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    regarding Kov and instead went along with their superficial Boxrec analysis: some Russian with a padded-record who is probably being set up for a "gift" over Campillo. :-(

    At least in this case I've seen Andrej Fonfara a few times and know what he's about, therefore feeling confident he doesn't have the needed tools against Tall Dark & Handsome. Nobody seemed to even want to bother doing a minimal amount of video research on Kovalev before writing him off as the victim of an impending schooling.
     
  13. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Word.

    Yeah, I had watched Kovalev/Boone and I forget, one of his others. I liked what I saw, but Campillo had proven it against far better guys. Looking back though, we should have seen the writing on the wall with Campillo, in his previous fight a year prior, getting dropped twice hard in the opening bell against Cloud. And even in his famous Shumenov rematch, Shumenov won the first three rounds easily... Campillo is a very slow starter who had been dropped twice last time out. Kovalev is a monster puncher. Add them together, I'm disappointed in myself in retrospect with predicting this outcome.

    It was just one of those things I guess you either believe in them or you don't. I certainly do now...