Alexander Povetkin Vs Marco Huck & Dominik Britsch Vs Roberto Santos fight breakdown

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  1. Samurai's Slice

    Samurai's Slice ESB Legend Full Member

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    This weekend top heavyweight Alexander Povetkin will face off with Former Crusierweight champion knockout artist Marco Huck. In the co-feature feather-fisted boxer Dominik Britsch will take on journeyman Roberto Santos for the EBU European title.


    Fight info:


    Location: The Porsche Arena in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


    Date: Saturday, Feb. 25th, 2012


    Television: ARD ( Germany ), EPIX ( USA ), Boxnation ( UK )


    Undercard Info: Light hitting Middleweight prospect Marcos Nader and talented HW prospect Edmund Gerber in " showcase " bouts. ( Very excited about Gerber, He seems to have real talent.


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    Alexander Povetkin Vs. Marco Huck: Both big names, But I gotta admit this fight doesn't intrigue me too much. Povetkin is a big Heavyweight with natural power there. Huck is a small Crusierweight knockout artist. The key word is Crusierweight, I just can't see him bringing that power to heavyweight to fight a big guy like Povetkin. The fight will be determined at the weigh in's when people start freaking out saying " Damn, Povetkin is huge compared to Huck ",


    Anyways yeah Povetkin is coming off a great performance verses Cedrick Boswell where he won a good KO in a few rounds. Proving despite not being a KO artist he does have enough power to stop a natural Crusierweight like Huck! Huck should move directly back to Crusierweight after this bout. Where he has his brutal KO power and the possibility of being the best. Povetkin on the other hand needs to fight a Klitschko after this. He is clearly the third best at heavyweight and has some big wins to Chageav, Boswell, Chambers and some other top guys. He has as good of a chance as anyone at beating them.


    Prediction: Huck is too small for Povetkin. He gets destroyed. Povetkin TKO 9.


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    Dominik Britsch Vs. Roberto Santos: Might as well hand Britsch the Euro title. Santos is a journeyman! Britsch is fairly limited but has decent boxing skills and will make a good " European Champion " level guy but he is no future world champion. I thought he lost to tough journeyman Billy Lyell. Lyell was pushing the fight but then again Britsch did land more effective combos. Tough fight to call but that didn't prove too much on Britsch's end. Still I think he'll easily outbox Santos. Win a UD or a late ref stoppage TKO.


    Prediction: Britsch outboxes him. Wins an easy UD or late referee stoppage. Britsch UD 12
     
    Samurai's Slice, Feb 24, 2012
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  2. Vysotsky

    Vysotsky Boxing Junkie banned

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    I agree with what you say about Povetkin's power but you're way off when talking about the supposed size difference. They're pretty much the same height and Huck will be at least 215, maybe as much as 220+ while Sasha is around 225. Guys like Huck, Hernandez, Afolabi are HW's as much as Povetkin, Boytsov, Chagaev are. The disparity in skill between the two is going to be the only real factor not any size difference which is basically non-existant.
     
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  3. WildStyle

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    I'm quibbling over who to go with in the Huck-Povetkin fight. HW bores me to tears but it has been heating up here lately. If Huck-Povetkin can make a good fight, it's a good start for the heavies in 2012.
     
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  4. Malden

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    Also, it is for the EBU-EU title. Not the EBU(THE European Championship) title proper. Not much interest for the EU and EEU (External European Union, the f...) So that is why we Britsch against a journeyman. Britsch also gave up his IBF Intercontinental title a few weeks ago, so as not to fight Benjamin Simon in Turkey (Sauerland lost the pursebid)

    Proksa is the guy who have the proper EBU title, after defeating Sylvester.
     
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  5. Samurai's Slice

    Samurai's Slice ESB Legend Full Member

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    :oops:
     
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  6. Malden

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    All those belts :-(
     
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  7. jc

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    Ignore the belt and this is an interesting match. Im not completely sold on Povtikin by you have to side with him beacause Huck has done nothing at heavyweight. I think Povetkin could stop him late, would like to see an upset though.
     
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  8. Malden

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    Pretty convinced that Povetkin wins. Better do for my wager as well :lol:
     
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  9. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Nice stuff.

    Honestly, I'm excited for Povetkin/Huck. I like Povetkin, and seem to respect Huck more than most here on ESB. I'll be giving the winner a lot of credit. If Huck wins he will have accumulated a victory better than anything Haye or Adamek did at HW, and if Povetkin wins he will have a very legitimate undefeated record with big wins over Byrd, Chagaev, Huck, Donald, Boswell.

    I am looking forward to the EPIX broadcast with Cleverly vs. Karpency.
     
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