The majority of pundits & fans say other wise, was it competitive? Yes, was it close enough to warrant a split? Hell no. Even the sky crew had george in a wash against the home town favourite. Selby may have deserved a split in the schoolyard game of tips.
He would have declined at a bare minimum 10% since the kambosos fight, with a long layoff of over 1.5 years. another camp and a 12 round loss on the boxometer going from age 33 to 35. the combination of physical decline, long layoff plus the loss of confidence in taking yet ANOTHER loss which effects the most important aspect of boxing which is the mental part. The majority of aging fighters get worse as they age and lose more fights especially movement reliant fighters who rely on their legs.
It was the same fighter, man. Problem was the different fighter in the opposite corner, who put it on him in a way GKJ isn't capable of. There's a reason a bunch of us expected Lemos to be the first to stop Selby, and it wasn't the number in Lee's L column per se or the period of inactivity.
I might be wrong but i seem to recall SKY having Lee win It was not the greatest of fights so cant recall much Anyway ,point is he aint unbeatable i guess
Haha, so lee selby was basically 1 fight away from retirement after fighting george. So your going to tell me if lee takes another 17 months off and fights again at almost 37 yo he will be the same fighter as the fighter who fought lemos? Ok mate gotcha
He took the beating of his life from Lemos, so, he probably won't be the same fighter going forward, no. (He's retired, but, for argument's sake.) There were twelve months between the Burns and Kambosos fights. Gee, twelve months of inactivity at almost thirty-four years of age. Are we sure that wasn't just Lee Shellby in there with GKJ? Let's not forget that your argument was something along the lines of 'Kambosos took Selby's soul', which clearly isn't the case if you look at their bout. It was a tough but hardly scarily attritional fight. A younger Lee (by over two years) had a much rougher time with Warrington at a more active period in his career — he fought three times in 2017 going into the Warrington bout in the first half of 2018, whereas he hadn't fought in a year when he encountered Kambosos. If inactivity catastrophically depletes every fighter in his mid-thirties, can you tell me why you're bigging up the October 2020 version of Selby (besides national bias, of course)? Lemos beat Selby because he was too big, too strong and had the stuff to impose that on him like nobody else had prior to their bout. Lee didn't look significantly removed from the guy who fought George. The guy in front of him brought it like George can't bring it, and that was the striking difference.
Seems my memory serves me well, . Be honest, this whole argument is based on your need to talk up the version of Selby your countryman fought, so as to boost Kambosos' résumé and promote him as some kind of killer. Because he's an Aussie and you're an Aussie. You must be scared that Lemos is going to eat George's lunch if George gets by Haney, huh?
Nahhh dude ya talking bollocks, the soul thing was tongue in cheek for the most part, but george did take a good slice of whatever was left of it. George beats lemos ass, its a style matchup that favours kambosos.
I don't see that Selby would've been any more mentally affected by the Kambosos bout than by the Warrington bout. If Lemos wasn't facing the real Selby, neither was George. You're definitely scared of Lemos, my fair dinkum friend. In all fairness, not without good reason.
You got me. I do very much like and respect Lee Selby. (Not a raving fanboy, though. Bet big against him vs. Lemos, and not because I believed George had taken his soul. ) My post was so nice, you had to quote me twice. Have a good one, sport.
