Óscar Rivas vs. Carl Drumond

Any hardcores from this forum gonna RBR for this fight?

 

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He will breeze past him

 

Rivaa has some decent/good victories in amateurs. He has beaten undefeated Mike Wilson and Andy Ruiz jr by a 16:4 score.

 

On the downside, he has a 1 round TKO loss to Damien Sealy but Rivas can become a mandatory challenger if all goes well. He definitely is one of the best up and coming prospects. Also, I firmly believe that he can beat Andy Ruiz in pro ranks as well.

 

Rivas just turned 30? Some of those losses are so long ago, that I don't even think they can be factored into considering whether or not he has suspect punch resistance. I pointed this out in a thread when talking about prospects with stoppages in the amateurs as teenagers-early 20s. In many cases they can be written off as growing pains, and as a result of not being completely physically developed while facing full grown men with a wealth of experience. This is evident in Tua/Savon... Tua was stopped fairly brutally but showed a caste iron chin in the pros and wasn't dropped again until shot to bits and in his 40s.

 

NOOOOOO! Didn't happen. I refuse to believe it(even after witnessing the video) it was a kick to the leg as he says himself!












On a serious note though... That would have stopped pretty much anyone in their tracks, and he also had a TKO loss to Maskaev I believe(or was it a sparring session)? Who never would have come close to stopping him in the pros even if he landed his best blows.

 

There aren't many big punchers in the division and he has shown good chin so far but he has to be careful anyway because someone like Jennings can tag him with kd or ko punch, so he better move that head like he does now.