Looking Back At Sergei Liakhovich

There's no way he would beat Joshua. Joshua is a guy who put in a serious title reign. Joshua is just worse than Fury and the K bros, which is forgivable.

Liakovich made noise by beating Friday and followed it up by getting knocked out by Maurice Harris. He then came back by decisioning Guinn and Brewster, two fighters were badly lacking in their ability to bank rounds, and followed it up by getting knocked out by Briggs and effectively finished by Valuev.

The only guys in the top ten who he'd have a chance against would be Ruiz, who doesn't fight enough and can be a lethargic blob on any given night, Ortiz, who was a far superior boxer to Liakovich but is now ancient and hits the deck too easily, and Whyte (if he counts), who is past prime and sucks. I wouldn't back him to win 2/3 or better against those guys.

He was around prime Michael Hunter's level at his peak.

 

Forgot about his war w Brewster will save it and hope he's doing well today. Too many of boxers we grew up with and/or witness since they were green fall victim to bad health. I get its likely but still aint easy to see guys ya like be in such critical condition.

 

Too chinny, not physical enough, sometimes out of shape.

Andy probably didn’t take him seriously and Helenius had his limits.

None of that means he couldn’t have good fights and wouldn’t beat some fringe guys.

Liakovich against Rivas and Gassiev would potentially be classics.

 

The best HW fight of the 21st century IMO. There were others that were bigger events, but Liakhovich-Brewster had so much sustained action, and it wasn’t really sloppy either.

Liakovich had a field day with the right hand to the body. Brewster suffered a detached retina in that fight and his left side of the body must have been so battered.

 

Did Glazkov drop off the face of the earth after that fight?

I know he blew out his knee, but athletes come back from knee surgery all the time. What happened?

 

He became a truck driver.