Erkan Teper - New heavyweight sensation?

I think your'e being overly critical.

Yeah, Sprott and Rogie arent contenders, but they've hung around for a while right on the fringe. Both solid journeyman types, and still quite capable of beating guys who arent somewhat special.

While I don't rate Teper as a top 20 as the OP suggests boxrec does, I wouldnt say he's less than a Dimitrenko type.:think

 

hopefully

 

Nobody has ever done that to Rogan. Although, he is about 43/44 now.

 

I don't know if it's true or not but I heard in the magazine Baltic Today! that Charr's dad said in Balticese that Charr stole Teper's pet kitten a few times.

 

He's not even fit point blank

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Not pet kittens. Heh. I meant purses.

 

They're both ripe for the picking at this point. Lots of young heavies would blow them both out like that.

Charr knocked out prime unbeaten Oloukun with a body shot. Out for the full count of ten. Oloukun after several more losses' worth of wear and tear (of which three were also by stoppage) went eight with Teper without suffering even a knockdown.

Erkan Teper is no better than Edmund Gerber, who just retired after getting found out as being well short of elite. He is no faster than Gerber, no more powerful, no cleverer, and no harder to hit. Exactly as good - or bad, depending on whether you want to see the glass half full or half empty.

He is hardly some new 'sensation' or a monster puncher. Everybody take a cue from Teper's punching technique and footwork and slooooow down.

 

I'm not. I've seen a lot of Teper, more than I would've preferred to really, since his pro debut against Zeller. Just about his entire career has been televised on the undercards of Sturm & Oener shows, and I think I may have seen every single match.

His opposition - starting with Zeller - has been dire until last year, and he failed to ever look even remotely good to distinguish himself against tomato cans. Even when pitching shutouts or getting stoppages, it was more to do with how lousy the grade of dancer partner was than him doing anything special. He looked especially horrible against Robert Hawkins, winning every round and dropping him twice but showing a deplorable lack of finishing skills...or skills, period. He improved a bit in stopping Gospic, but still took 9 rounds to get the job done and lost a few of those...and Gospic was KTFO in a mere 2 by ancient Skelton as well as by feather-fist Aurieng.

Salif came in horrible shape and was diving onto the canvas from rabbit punches in the clinch. Teper looked awful until the stoppage; Salif was just worse. As bad as can be, really.

Perk was his first ever real live body with a beating pulse, and he 'stopped' him only via injury after four.

Then he outpointed the shell of Gbenga Oloukun, whose scalp is no longer any great prize.

...and now in the span of a few months he scores consecutive KO1s over Sprott (38 years old, eleven of his twenty-one losses by stoppage) and Rogan (42 years old, four of five losses by stoppage) and suddenly he goes from an Öner house-boy used to put loyal Turkish butts in seats but totally obscure in most of the globe and viewed by virtually every diehard analyst knowledgeable of the European scene as nothing but an eventual bust with no prayer of getting within a tier or two of world class, to some "monster punching sensation"? :rofl

This is surreal.



Anyone top 50 has a chance to quickly blast out Sprott or Rogan currently if either of them plods into the wrong shot. (and Teper does have a halfway decent R hand, I'll give him that...but again, not a special R hand...maybe packing half the power of Helenius' and more comparable to Gerber's or Charr's)

Don't overrate Sprott's little Cinderella run in the last Prizefighter, either. He was shaken up early by Wills in the quarterfinals, but the very rusty Wills (having only fought thirty seconds in over two years) gassed. In the semis he faced a Minto wearied from the close Little battle, and was still hurt again in the 2nd and nearly kayoed. In the finals, Gavern - another one whose energy conservation leaves much to be desired and who blew his load with Toney - had nothing left for him and was injured.

 

You are the definition of a bandwagon fan. Gullible folks like you are why promoters get away with padding resumes and producing fraudulent contenders like Pianeta.

Two KO1 victories over guys that have generally not been knocked out that fast (but who are both extremely old and worn-down and have been stopped a combined fifteen times now) is no basis on which to call him exciting. You know what that says to me? It says you had never even heard of Teper or seen him in action before he knocked out Sprott and Rogan. If you had, there is no way you could refer to him as exciting. He is exactly what turns many people off from heavyweight boxing. My only 'problem' with him is that he is very, very, very bad and now all of a sudden being hyped on the strength of a pair of results that, when you consider the circumstances, are not as special as they seem.

Yeah, they're both familiar names. Yeah, they both had reputations for being tough outs for a long time. Guess what? Not anymore. In 2013, those quick knockouts don't mean what they would have a few years ago.

Also, if you look at his career in whole instead of focusing on barely two rounds' worth of extremely flattering work, you see that he is neither a legitimate prospect with hopes of attaining even the level that Rogan and Sprott once reached prior to deteriorating to near uselessness, let alone the pinnacle of the sport - nor is he particularly fun to watch. In fact, if you watch just about every Teper performance where he isn't being spoon-fed an old rotting fish in a barrel to put on the canvas in a hurry, you will find yourself hard-pressed to come up with a less exciting heavyweight.


Funny you should use the word "tepid" because that is EXACTLY how I've always described his style over the years. :yep Tepid Teper.

 

...as for Teper knocking out Chisora and Pulev... :rofl atsch

They both deal with him in shorter order than he dealt with Sprott & Rogie. :deal

 

IB also thinks that Stiverne is ****...

 

He is good enough to soundly outbox Arreola. (wooooow! :roll

...but not good enough to avoid losing several rounds to Ray Austin, lucking out when the 40-something's tank ran dry. :hi:

Another case of a bandwagon spiraling out of control based on a very small sampling. In this case, one night. At least Teper's current hype is based on two distinct performances. :yep :!:

 

Meh fighters improve. :roll: