AT 36 - Is TUA STILL a THREAT??

sad, but yes.

does he not want to box anymore? what's his mind like today?

 

Sometimes breaks in your career is good to have. He's got to have that hunger. Man, if Lewis didn't ruin him...he would have just been unstoppable IMO.

I hope he still has it. The HW is just not fun to watch these days.

I watch that Ruiz KO once in awhile on youtube. I'll have my pointer at that certain point and just click, watch and click again...fun in a sick way.

If Foreman can do it, so can the Tuaman.

 

Nah he wasnt really ever that good. Against Lewis who admittedly was a great champion it was a total shutout. He never won a round...he has a left hook and thats it. Lewis said all he had to do was be careful and keep his right hand up and he was safe...of course he was cautious all the way through the fight and didnt wanna take chances but Tua looked incredibly limited in there. Good fighter but never quite good enough back then...maybe now he's older he can do it in the weak division? Possible but i doubt it. Fighers dont get better after long lay offs and age creeping up. They get worse.

 

we will find out oct when he fights shane cameron

 

Great power and a great chin can even get someone with very limited abilities to the top at any given time. That's boxing. Tua has as hard a punch as you can have and as good a chin. You never know. I would have loved to see Tua/Arreola. That would have been like firing two cannon balls into each other.

 

If he has the drive I think he can get towards the top end of the division: I highly doubt he'll be champ, or even a titlist, but you never know. He has a granite chin and a left hook that spells disaster for anyone that it lands on.

He'll never beat a Klit; he could maybe get his hands on the WBA title, should/when Valuev loses it (Tua's left hook + David Haye ....). Or maybe he'll end up getting the WBC somehow when Vitali leaves the sport (I imagine next year after 2 or 3 more fights).

 

He is 36 so what? Vitaly is 38. Inactivity ruined him, not age.

 

Not at all, the only threat Tua "is to him self".....nut

 

Tua is still a great puncher, with one of the best chins in the business. His lack of interest to fight these days, makes him another wasted talent IMO.

 

Fighters age differently.

 

His inactivity may or may not have hurt him.

As others have said, I question how good he ever was.

With the division the way it is, I think he could, if he applies himself, at least earn a title shot.