Big Possible Fights in 08 + Breakout stars !!!

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Carl Froch - Expect him to be a serious contender at SMW when Joe vacates. Underrated for some reason, I assume it's because he's brash and annoying. He has great power and is very accurate with his punches. Has obvious flaws, but Kessler aside I don't see many problems for him in this division

David Haye - Not so much breaking out, he's the best cruiser on the planet, but kicking on at heavy. I'm convinced his chin will be better at heavy, similar to Cotto moving up. Different taking heavyweight punches, but I think he's going to have so much speed and time to pick his punches. He can really do some damage

 

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Paul Briggs is not a break out star, he's an unskilled slugger. Like what said Dawson said about him "he likes to bowl over".

 

paul briggs... unskilled.

you really are an idiot. :bart

 

He is unskilled, do you honestly think a guy who "bowls over" and puts his head down with no defense is skilled? The fact that he went to war with Adamek, shows that Adamek was unskilled too. That's why Dawson exposed his ass, I'm really tired of hearing about these wannabe A level fighters thinking there actually break out stars.

 

froch- kessler froch would knock him out. he may even be losing on the cards at the time but froch has accuracy and power. (and from nottingham:nut )

 

Paul Briggs cannot achieve what he has in his life through a lack of skill.

give me a break

 

I'm from nottingham aswell mate but, froch needs to tighten up his defence before fighting kessler

 

yer maybe so. he has skills but i dont like the way he drops his hands. he can be great if he improves his defence

 

Two more fights to add to the list:

Katsidis-Diaz (9th February 2008 )

Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez (15th March 2008 )

He'll never have beaten everyone, because there will always be people asking for a fight. But yes, I agree that beating Cotto would be a significant victory for PBF. I'd say it would be bigger and more important than beating Hatton. This is definitely a fight to look out for. If it happens, it just might be the fight of the year.

Hatton-Cotto would be very entertaining. A great one for the fans. I suggest Cotto takes Hatton first, and then goes for the Mayweather fight.

Definitely looking forward to it. I personally have this fight on 50-50, but many people think its a clear Calzaghe win (and some think its a clear Hopkins win). It's going to be up there with the Mayweather-Hatton type of fights. This is one fight that deserves media attention.

To be honest I think Katsidis is going to be beaten by Diaz when they meet in February, and after that I can't see him getting any high profile fights.

It's looking like Thaxton, Romanov or McAllister, from how I see it, but I reckon he can beat all three of them, and after that he should definitely take a break to train before going onto world class fights.

 

I'll give him credit, he has a tough chin and good power, but he achieved what he did through a bunch of tomato cans. The guy is unskilled in terms of top fighters in the light heavyweight divsion. He bowls over and has his head down when he's swinging his punches, I saw his fights with Adamek that's what he did, the guy looks like a club fighter. Sorry but in order to be a star or an elite fighter, you need to have top notch skills, and in this case of Paul Briggs, he severly flawed in his fundamentals.

 

Andre Berto may make some moves before the end of 08.I like him.

 

ok, perhaps very determined also..... but there is surely some natural born SKILL there

http://paulbriggs.net/Bio.aspx

 

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