So Wladamir Klitschko is fighting a #38 ranked boxer to duck Pulev

37 yo Lewis......and yeah, Lewis got the W, but it was nothing close to a destruction.

The 38 yo Wladimir will show the 37 yo Lewis how to properly handle a guy like Leapei who is not much better than a 35 yo Tua.:nono

 

Well, i wasn't taking wladimir into the equation, wlad can outjab peoples with longer reaches than him.

But my point still stand, as far as i know Pulev's reach should be 80 inches, which is a long reach.
The two inches reach advantage the long reached Thompson had on him didn't help him nor did make his jab better than Pulev's.

 

Im pretty sure Lewis could beat Leapai...NOW.

Thats right, 300lbs 48 year old LL would beat current Leapai.

Also what are you talking about 35 year old Tua? David Tua was 27 when he fought Lennox.

Also Tua was in a totally different league to Leapai, they only thing that makes them similiar is their ethnic background.

Tua beat John Ruiz,Oleg Maskaev,Hasim Rahman, and Michael Moorer.

They are not remotely close in their standards.

I wouldn't rule out the Tua that fought Ustinov beating Leapai now.

 

You are totally right.

 

Tsk. Nobody considers the Leapai fight a big or an important one. Wlad is just coming from a win over the olympic gold medallist and number two in the division. In the next months he'll face Pulev, and next the winner of Arreola/Stiverne II. The winner of Fury/Chisora will be next.

There's no reason to get mad if Alex Leapai has managed to become mandatory in an ABCDE belt.

I mean, those things happens, look at Wilder, he is ranked #3 by the We Be Crooks organization since months without having ever faced a top 30.

But i'd bet the screaming little whiners here wouldn't be as mad if Wlad had to defend against Wilder instead of Leapai.
Which would be a weaker fight, anyway.

 

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Actually it was just last November when Leapai beat him. That is a fact.

 

Boytsov sucks

 

-The bottom of the top 10 usually gets filled out with guys that have been dominant against the fringe for the past few decades now. Wilder is in the bottom 10 for the same reason right now.

-But I wouldn't rate those individual scalps over the Boystov win.

-I wouldn't put Scott over Boystov last year.

 

In retrospect it doesn't look good, But at the time he would be a considered a better scalp than Kingpin, an overweight Chisora, Madalone, and a washed up Cunningham.

 

You are killing me. Are you kidding me or are you the next american super ignorant and stupid idiot?

 

I do not dispute Leapai beat Boystov in November. Boystov was not ranked in the RING top 10 at the time. He was ranked 48 in the IBO ratings and had been as high as 8 in those rankings, but he went years without fighting anyone in the top 50 and became non-compliant, hence falling down the rankings. I just looked at today's RING rankings at Heavyweight, they do not have Tony Thompson in their top 10 which objectively is hard to deny.

 

Boystov's best win is against Taras Bidenko who was ranked 18 at the time and that earned Boystov his top 10 ranking, he really has beaten only 2 fighters in the top 50, the other was Robert Hawkins who is a journeyman but pulled off a win against Dominic Guinn, Boystov beat Hawkins in his next fight....whilst all this might sound bizzare its nothing new the ABCs ranking are crazy at times. Currently Luis Ortiz is the WBA number 2 he is 20-0 which sounds great but 19 of his wins are against opponents outside the top 100 and his best win was defeating an #89 ranked fighter, Ruslan Chagaev is the IBF number 3, since his August 2011 loss he has not beaten anyone inside the top 60.

 

Boytsov is sloppy and just plain shitty.