British Prospects & How far will they go?

Those are pretty terrible prospects. Never seen Bellew fight or I can't remember him having fought. Groves looks okay but his style might get found out on the world stage. The rest still look incredibly poor though Brook is looking better and better. Gavin and Cox look solid but not special.

That is a poor line up at present but some of them have the talent to really imrpove.

 

Its a bit to early to tell with the olympic lads. Skillwise, Gavin and Saunders seem sound but unless you have a Mayweather/Whitaker level of defense you need a decent chin and heart along side that skill to achieve anything at world level. Until these lads are tested in a tough fight we will never know if they are good enough to do anything on the world stage.

I do like Brook and Cox though. Although Cox is also untested yet but early signs look good.

Fury could also do something to. I never bought into the over hype of him. I thought he made to many mistakes but the guy is very young and he showed alot of heart against McDermott so maybe if his promoters hold him back a bit and he kncukles down in the gym to perfect his craft he could do something on the world stage. He has got loads of time so theres no point rushing him.

 

There are my best guesses :good

 

I'd say they all need to be matched far harder to be able to tell.

 

Stephen Smith looks as handy as many of these. He should be in this company.

Gavin, DeGale, Groves, Bellew are the stand outs IMO.

 

Billy Joe Saunders? WBO Champion

James Degale? WBO Champion

Frankie Gavin? WBO Champion

Kell Brook? WBO Champion

etc, etc

 

theres definately going to be some good friday night fights coming up. for entertainment my favourite are cox, murray, saunders, brook

 

Just see what the general thoughts are of our prospects at the moment?

Derek Chisora? - Will probably scrape a British Title no Further

Tyson Fury? - Pure wank ! If he gets past british i'll be suprised !

Tony Bellew? - From what i've seen should be looking for world honours.

Goerge Groves? - I think he looks good. Hopefully word honours, but defo Euro level

James Degale? - Probably Euro level. Tough division and I'm not sold one bit on him

Tony Jeffries? - Euro at least - Hopefuly world

Billy Joe Saunders? - Would like to see him step down in weight. looks good for Euro but I dont think he ever looks fit enough to be able to last. I know looks are decieving but he looks fat for the weight !

Kell Brook? - World Level. Think probably our best prospect for a title out of these at the moment

John O'Donnell? - Will be beaten by Brook easily. British MAX

Jamie Cox? - Not seen too much of him

Frankie Gavin? - Super talented. Euro at the very least. Probably world.

The future does look pretty decent in Britain, theres atleast a handful of should be world champs

 

Who is Brook winning a title off? Unless they find/wait for a soft option he'll be found out. He leans back with his chin in the air still, and I'm absolutely convinced he hasn't got the reflexes to really pull that off like Hamed did, and he hasn't got the awkwardness of Witter/Nelson either. When he's facing a non-cab driver with some power he's in trouble.

He ain't better than Andre Berto and Berto has had worlds of trouble with fringe fighters. It's a tough division. Imagine Berto in with Brook's competition he'd look like a killer too.

 

I think he'd beat Cotto in a year or two

And thats not a joke either :good

 

If Brook beats Cotto I will eat my own fingers.

 

You missed a couple other fighters like Cleverly, who I feel will reach world level (division is dire at the moment), Vassell, who could and should go beyond domestic level, Travis Dickinson, beat Groves twice in the am's, looks heavy handed with quick hand speed and should reach European level and one of the Walsh brothers are decent - not sure which one though, I get mixed up...

Of those you mentioned, in my opinion, the most promising are:

Groves
Jeffries
DeGale
Gavin
BJS
Bellew

Least promising in your list:

O'Donnell
Chisora
Cox
Fury

 

BJS needs to lose some weight. He should be a welterweight at his age. If he's at ****ing super middle now is he gonna be a heavyweight when he's matured?

 

KENNY ANDERSON u seemed to miss him :-(