Agit Kabayel vs prime Luis Ortiz

Fair enough, but... beating Joe Joyce twice by stoppage and then brutally KOing Wilder is nothing to sneeze at. Then when you take into consideration, 2 of his losses were razor close, 1 of which he should've won. His record looks a little more impressive, and yes... is a legit contender's record. Because let's be really honest here, who would you pick to beat Zhang even now? Fury does poorly against southpaws, Joshua the moment he goes down, he's concussed, Dubois' defense isn't good enough to avoid getting KTFO, Hrgovic has regressed drastically since they fought, Bakole's gas tank is as bad as Zhang's, Chisora got wobbled and dropped countless times against Parker, Okolie is glass jawed garbage, Anderson, Ajagba, Huni, Wardley, Gassiev, Hunter don't have much of a chance.

Kabayel beat him, because he's both damned good and had the perfect style to, end of story.

Now, I don't want to sound like a hypocrite in hyping Frank Sanchez, since I said months out that Kabayel would walk right through him. Also I've been denigrating Sanchez on here for years, calling him a hype job that will lose the moment he faces someone who can cut the ring off effectively. But still, most HW's can't cut the ring off for ****, and Sanchez even now is probably a stylistic nightmare to some even in the Top 10. His win over Ajagba is aging quite nicely. So yeah, I can't stand Sanchez and think he's torture to watch, but a win over him is still decent. Same goes for Makhmudov, sure I was also saying he was a bit of a hypejob, and picked Kabayel to beat him as well. Still, no one had the balls to take the fight to that lumbering twitching Frankenstein's Monster until Agit did, and once he did, he folded like a cheap suit. But as we saw against Vianello, who acquitted himself well against both Torrez and Ajagba, it took a hell of a lot more from a guy like Guido to get him out of there, and that was from a sustained beating, he didn't put him down thrice and legit stop him. So at the very least, Makhmudov is middling and could still probably pick up a win over a guy like Anderson, Yoka, Charr or Pulev. So while no, not a great win, again... it's decent, and Makhmudov is a big puncher, so it took balls of steel, and a solid chin to take that approach.

So in my opinion, Kabayel is clearly world level, incredibly versatile, adapts exceptionally well and I have a hard time picking against him against anyone other than Usyk. Granted, I've believed in him a lot longer than most people, I even picked him to beat Chisora when he was a nobody. But with his recent spate of wins, I think he's proved more than enough, to at the very least, give him the benefit of the doubt in some of these fantasy match ups. Including against Ortiz, who while I'm a big fan of the Cuban, I have a hard time seeing it go anyway other than how the Zhang match did.

 

Ironically, I picked Agit to beat Chisora, Makhmudov, Sanchez and Zhang, the only guy that's worried me for Agit recently was Smakici. See, because I was a fan of Agron going into the match as well, and I knew who raw brutal power he possessed. Of the 19 KO's in 21 wins, some of them are nasty, especially when he damned near killed and retired Lenroy Thomas. I had a feeling that Agit would take him lightly, not respect the power and walk into something big from a southpaw KO artist. But if anything, that match convinced me that his chin was world class, because Smakici caught him with about 3 rabbit punches to the back of the head flush, then teed off non stop to his temples, cheeks and chin for about 20 seconds with massive knockout shots, to the point where he literally gassed himself out, and Kabayel never legit left his feet. Even then he went into the ropes, it was because Smakici pushed him. Then how did he react to that? He got up, immediately headed right back into the line of fire, without fear and proceeded to beat the **** out of Smakici and almost stop him in the same round. So yeah, not sure why you keep dropping this little nugget of horse****, because it's meaningless, if anything it validates how ****ing great his chin really is.

 

You conveniently left out Zhang. Who's even more similar, a southpaw with excellent timing and far greater power than either Smakici or Ortiz.

 

Oh I do... and far better.

But hey... whatever you need to do to convince yourself otherwise. Have at it!