This content is protected Also a good candidate for being one of the most brutal fights I've seen in the past 5 years and very well may be a warm up to the type of beating we're going to see in a little more than 24 hours.... Don George absorbs more punishment in a single round here than a travelling, have gloves will fight Euro-journeyman going through the UK will in a career. Frightening, career shortening stuff to be honest. A prospect called Gumby or McCumby or some **** like that recently stopped the corpse of Don George in one round... but then tested positive for a steroid I believe. SO using the ABC logic of boxing I've sussed out that Truax has power equal to that of a doped up fighter... He's a damn stud in there! If these here were horses you'd be well advised to bet on the one that doesn't have a bum leg... if you know what I'm sayin'. Just a nugget of wisdom from little ol' concerned birdie.
Truax is a bit underrated, oddly more so after his upset of DeGale (with a lot of people having the knee jerk reaction that it must have been a fluke and he's really trash a fit and prepped DeGale will take out without issue), and is being somewhat disrespected by the bookmakers at 11/4 despite being the champ.
The first hand straight right hand that Truax times, and nails, George with is a fight ender... If prime George didn't have a cement head that first punch would have ended the fight. That was a nasty shot, the timing and placement of the punch that wobbled him near the end of the round was more or less perfect. Also, gotta remember Truax nearly put once middleweight kingpin Jermain Taylor into the same late round la la lah land as what a prime Arthur Abraham and Cobra managed... and Truax has certainly improved since then. Truax will never be a Froch level talent, obviously, but he's certainly a well matched one in this particular bout and he packs a lot more of a "whallop" than you'd think initially looking at his stoppage ratio.
He's not elite, and never will be, but that's really besides the point. Certainly any kind of one I'm trying to make. Their first match could not have been any more heavily in the favor of Degale, what with the location, travelling, so on and so forth. Truax hardly dropped a round and secured a fifth round that really could be considered a 10-8 round. He's just solid and steady, through & through, and that's more than anyone's been able to ask of Degale for years now to be quite honest. I think the gig just might be up.
