Any word on Enzo Maccarinelli?

I'd love to see him take a rematch with Haye in the MMA Cage.

Maybe they could stage it in Oceana Swansea Nightclub on the Kingsway during their MMA fights.

Both Haye and Enzo - fancy themselves as Cage fighters.

And considering the history between the guys - and they would be both novices in the cage - they should make their MMA debut against each other and make some good money.

Also - it should take place in Swansea - cos last time Enzo had to go to Hayes home town of London to fight him.

 

Enzo is carrying on i have heared this from the man himself just going to have some time to rest he is doing alot of work with the yound ametures at his gym.
May even tempt out the light heavyweight division but i think mac wants to get back in with the crusiers. As the fights he has lost he aint been losing on the score cards in any one of them not even the haye fight least he came to have a good crack at him. And he was beating frenkel easy if he werent such a brave guy and crowd pleaser he would of just jabed frenkels head off for the 12 instead of bombing for every round. But thats Enz wheres his heart on his sleave and is always thinking of putting on a good show for the crowd very very brave man.

 

The bottom line is - Enzos chin has been cracked - in fights he was holding his own in or winning.

Swaby - he was beating him - until he got KO'd.

Haye - he was holding his own - until he got Ko'd.

Aflobai - he was beating him - until he got Ko'd.

Lebdev - Enzo didnt even show up that night - I think that was just a guy who looked like him.

Frenkel - beating him - until nailed with a monster punch.

he cannot do much to improve his chin at this stage.

But his biggest flaw is - the way he jerks that chin up in the air - thats when he got nailed by Haye and Frenekel - he needs to sort it out.

 

Not the Hatton defence!

 

Enzo should definitely quit. He's been brutally knocked out 5 times now. That's more than any other decent boxer out there and if that ain't a sign that professional boxing just isn't for you anymore then I really don't know what is. I like Enzo he's a good guy and has great passion for the sport. He was always willing to get in there with the best but he's had his chances now and it's too late. In another world he could easily be the number 1 at cruiser right now but sometimes it's just not meant to be unfortunately.

 

The Haye fight - the first round was scored about 10/10 - even.

 

When your opponent's just stood there waving at you and then knocks you out as soon as he throws a few decents punchs, I don't think it's much of an argument to say you were 'holding your own' at all.

 

I agree mate.

All I am saying was - he held his own in the 1st round - cos not much happened.

When the fight warmed up - Haye started landing heavy and the gulf in class became clear.

Think Enzo would be smashed again if he fought Haye in a boxing ring.

But it would be more interesting if they fought in a cage fight - grappling on the floor, etc- cos they are both novices.

 

Enzo would probably get destroyed even quicker in a cage fight. Haye would knock him out instantly stood up and he's the bigger guy so Enzo would have trouble taking him down. From what I'm aware they've both trained pretty similar amounts of time at different forms of MMA so neither really has the advantage unless Enzo is secretly great at jiu-jitsu.

 

It wouldn't be interesting, it would simply be bad for Enzo's health.

I know you've turned your back on Enzo now, but you really wouldn't want to see him take one of Haye's big punches with those MMA gloves now, would you???

 

Ive also heard that he will carry on. He's a top fighter and if he can tighten his defence up then he has a good chance of going far atleast european level, but i don't know whether he can do that at this stage. He's a performer and a great KO artist and he may have to leave that behind if he changes his style.

 

Maybe I'm giving Frank too much credit, but I have the feeling that he wouldn't promote another Enzo fight. He said following the last KO that he believed he was done, and he made him a fortune during his career.