Denis Shafikov vs. Rances Barthelemy Dec 18th

The only way he is going to land a punch is by getting inside. This was agiven. Well its a conundrum, Barthelemy shows excellent boxing skills against some styles, but he gives up many advantages and looks miedocre now twice against higher work rate solid fighters. In my opinion both of these fights he didn't HAVE to fight on the inside and have a lot of punches landed to where it was kind of ugly, unnecessarily, Barthelemy has shown to possess the skills to fight and box off the back foot all night long, however something about a high work rate brings out some kind of comeforward lets go to work/war style, that just is not effective for his skillset. But being that he's got two victories now which were iffy, he will probably only learn the hard way against the next opponenet with a similar workrate. So it is good to know this about him for the future or for betting purposes