Best Heavyweight Briedis can beat?

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  1. Mark Anthony

    Mark Anthony Internet virgin Full Member

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    Okay
     
  2. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    But he had a significantly shorter reach. By your theory or things, that should not be possible.

    Nothing to do with anything. The best guys with the short reach, like Marciano and Tyson, are often the most aggressive, because they force themselves inside.

    Yes, he a other skills that compensate for his poor reach. That is MY point.

    Bulk is not the only attribute any more than reach is. In fact, Briedis challenged Chisora to his face after the first Jai fight, and Chisora turned him down.


    A boxer-puncher like Briedis would have a chance against a lot of guys with better than 75 inch reach, and obviously so.
     
  3. Mark Anthony

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    Tyson was an exception, he shouldn`t have been able to destroy fightes that are so much taller than him but he was just a special athlete, my point about Parker was that he doesn`t figt like Tyson and Marciano against tall fighters, he was pretty negative v Zhang and Wilder, winning by pot-shotting.
     
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  4. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    Maybe a Norton. I think Breidis beats Tunney and Moorer too.
     
  5. MarkusFlorez99

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  6. Mark Anthony

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    Moorer was a good fighter, I feel he would have hurt and sparked Breidis in a good fight.
     
  7. catchwtboxing

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    But your point goes against you, because it shows not only that short-reach fighters can win, it shows they can with multiple styles.