You should have told him he is a ko waiting to happen. To be serious, i was shocked when i saw my first Banks fight a few weeks ago vs. this Rossitto guy from italia. He looked horrible. After this first impression i cannot picture him doing anything impressive.
Banks got a gift against Rossitto in Hamburg in a fight where he gassed after 3 rounds. If he gasses early against Macca he won't have to worry about the judges because he will be fast asleep. In a way I agree with him, his only chance to win is by early KO.
Of course he can get a decision over here. Tim Bradley got the decision over here. Andreas Kotelnik was a mile up on the scorecards before he KO'd Gavin Rees. The rest of Europe is the problem especially Germany, you can win every second of every round over there and still lose by a shutout.
He will get knocked out early. But good he will go there optimistic-minded. Bad he will go down soon after the first bell.
Infact, on recent evidence you are more likely to get robbed in America full-stop. Some recent debacles. Spinks, Ngoudjo, Calzaghe getting only a SD, Soto disqualified on some bull****, Mijares getting unexplainable scorecards. A nice mixture of hometown bias and/or incompetency
Britain actually has a better reputation for giving gift decisions to foreigners coming to the Uk.. Strange isnt it.. Remember Billy Hardy from Sunderland doing easily enough in Sunderland to beat Orlando Canizalez for the world title, then having a home town decision go against him , and that was actually in his home town of Sunderland... Its happened a lot.. Even abroad.. Lewis got the draw against Holy because a London Judge gave a round against him when the others didn't.. Weird country ours is.....
Banks is awful anyhow and i just hope he is better prepared than he was in Germany last time out.. He was very lucky to come away with anything..
It's good that he sound confident, but he has to perform better than he did in his last fight. I've been waiting for Banks to really look special, but I'm still waiting. I'm hoping he can put it together against Enzo.
I'm loving how the first few noobs on here are basing their entire analysis of Banks on his last fight. That was the worst I've ever seen of Banks, he was fighting a southpaw on short notice. I know Enzo is not as dumb as these ESBers so he will be studying several of Banks' last fights, and will not underestimate him.