British prospects stepping up too early?

Not so much that its too early, more that they are skipping a level and wasting too much time at domestic level.

 

In general they stay fighting lower level opposition to long then when they make a make a step up its to big, each fight should be a bigger test than the last fight instead of making 1 giant leap

 

Would be nice to spend more time at euro level aswell.we seem to want to breed unbeaten kids that have 20 or so bottom level contests,a couple of low risk'testers' that are billed as risky.then onto the world stage,-not a great way to go about things imo.

 

I'd say maybe Dereck Chisora. He's a good fighter and has given some great fighters some tough fights. When he stepped up to fight Vitali he'd only fought at British level and fought one over-hyped guy in Helenius whose only was Euro level. If Dereck would have had more experience he possibly could have beat Vitali or maybe even Haye. Hope he rebuilds and comes back.

 

Yes, I've gone on about this in the past. Bridging fights between British and world level are crucial but not enough fighters have them. And this lack of experience really hinders British fighters if they do end up reaching world level.

For all the stick I give them, Matchroom seem to be the only ones doing this. Look at Frampton's progression - tough Mexican guy who gave him rounds, faded ex-champ in Molitor and then Kiko for the European. Brook followed a similar path. If Kell had stayed with Frank he'd have gone from the likes of Philip Kotey to a world title.

Talent alone isn't enough usually. Those fighters that are good enough to challenge at world level need these tests. There are some exceptions like Ricky Burns who went from domestic level to taking on Rocky Martinez.

 

Yeah but Burns made up for that by dropping down a few levels to compensate.

 

people were critical of eliminator after eliminator but the way Brook has been brought through has been perfect.

 

Yeah I agree with the others who said the problem isn't that they step up too early but the gap in quality is too big when they do step up. Also, if they step up and take a loss it doesn't necessarily mean the journey was badly managed. Sometimes they're just not good enough. Sometimes fans go on like a fighter has a divine right to reach the top and start making excuses when the fighter loses.

 

I think boxers turn professional to late here. We don't often fight for world honours til late 20s early 30s. I think that's the reason we don't have many multi weight champions because there body has grown to its biggest size by then.

I'd prefer tough fights early on to establish what level everyone is really at

 

I think the fight on hand for most is to gradually step up in competition rather than take the leap of faith

 

British prospects have it too easy. Trigger happy refs chewing off their own fists to jump in as soon as a clean shot lands means when they finally step up to decent referee level and an opponent doesn't just roll over or get britishly stopped they have no plan B and don't know what to do. You see this in Khan a lot when his 100mph flurries don't work and also in Brook in the Jones fight.

So no, I don't think they're stepping up too early; I think they're having it too easy at the level they're at.

 

Wait until he meets Alexander.:yep