i wouldn't take much notice, this thread is nationalistic ,xenophobic garbage. it has lumped 4 different fighters together who all fight differently and classes them all the same, it then says anyone who supports one of these fighters supports them all. complete xenophobic garbage
tavoris cloud , hopkins won 8-4 over him,. stevenson couldn't stop him, artur broke he's jaw and stopped him in 2 alexander johnson is a tough fighter, wen on to get a draw with olympic gold medalist mekhontsev, artur stopped him and campillo was coming off a win over williams jr before beterbiev ruined him beterbiev is the truth
Noones power can get them through every fight at some point someone will take it away with their own advantages whether its their defense, chin, counter punching ability etc. From looking at beterbiev I don't see anything else in the toolbox, whereas I have with bivol and gvozdyk
Barrera is a good solid fighter but he would never beat Ward or Kovalev, if I was him aim to beat beterbiev and Alvarez so he can have a crack at Stevenson who's old and inactive.
How am I a xenophobe if j just said Bivol who is unproven looks the goods? I clearly said two EE prospects look impressive and two don't to me anyway, so far I was right about 1 who got ko'ed yesterday. This thread was made because a lot of guys picked Shabranksy to beat Barrera and go on to be ducked by Ward but he couldn't even make it past the first hurdle.
Well gvozdyk ko'd Chilemba so he's definitely got something and Bivol for me is gunna be the dark horse, what I saw in that Valera fight showed me he has a lot in his toolbox.
when you said in the opening post 'flat footed ee guys will get found out' you made a generalisation based on zenophobia. if someone made a thread eg flat footed americans, glass jawed brits' it would be equally xenophobic beterbiev is technically brilliant, cuts off the ring excellently, has very good foot work and super human power. no one gets that far with just power. Khudyrasov is an examples of a fighter with just power, beterbiev is nothing like him
i hope so, i just want to see big fights, don't care about anything else. Actually the only people i ever give out about in boxing are usually the ones stopping the best fights getting made
Think it could be a perfect baton changing type fight. Adonis is expected to fight the Alvarez-Bute winner in April which will be a big Montreal fight. If Beterbiev keeps busy, and Adonis wins in April it then sets up a huge Montreal fight between Stevenson and Beterbiev. Adonis goes out on a big pay day and Beterbiev picks up the WBC belt. Seems perfectly logical turn of events
I meant what it says the 'flat footed' EE fighters will be found out e.g shabranksy, kudryashov chakhiev & in my opinion Beterbiev, the non flat footed ones your Usyk, Loma, Kovalev, gvozdyk and bivol will do well. I wasn't tryna put them all into one box, but a lot of EE fighters share a similar style just like the Cubans, the slick black Americans, the come forward Mexicans etc. Of course there are exceptions though and I don't think any style is superior to another.