Arslanbek Makhmudov

Who is he fighting next? Danny Williams?

 

Peter is 100 years old and was out of shape. I want to see Makhmudov against Joyce, Whyte, Potvetkin or someone with a pulse before talking about Wilder, but he has a lot of potential.

 

I always get this guy mixed up with Majidov

 

At least he's keeping fairly active, unlike Dychko who's fought twice in 2019.

 

He is too slow a too wide-open for Wilder. He doesn't cut the ring off effectively. I actually think Majidov would have had much better chance of getting to Wilder's chin first than Makhmudov. Magidov's ability to cut the ring is impressive unlike Makhmudov's one

 

I want to see Arslanbek and Majidov fight in the Top 10 next year

I think Arslanbek has a chance against Wilder tbh.....

 

Hand speed is slightly underrated. His footspeed is sloth-level slow. And his artillery........ EVERYTHING he throws has a warhead at the end of it. Brutal, savage power. Wide open on defense. We really dont know Jack about his chin until he gets hit with a huge shot by a big puncher, and if it passes that test we gotta see if he can sustain taking heavy contact because he's as hittable as they come. Literally no defense, but his offense can ve so frightening that it really hasnt mattered much yet. As far as skills go though I think he might actually be slightly underrated, at least offensively. I saw on his amateur record he got TKO'd innthe amateurs by compatriot Omarov, who fights at HW and SHW in the am's but primarily as a HW. I dont know what took place, but if he can't take Omarov's shots -- Wilder and Joshua would hospitalized him, assuming Joshua gets his balls back and wears his big boy pants.

He could potentially be a significant nightmare for Usyk, Hunter, Povetkin, and I think he and Joyce is about 50/50. Joyce couldnt fight his usually fight against Makhmudov or he would get planked bad enough to make ESPN's top 10 of the year, but he has the skills and pedigree edge and also a slight speed edge I think.

 

Can't argue with a lot of this. He did show more to his game against Jonathon Rice than he has in most of his pro fights. More patient, Better defense, jab, ability to cut off the ring. Needs to work on those more though.

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