Cleveland Williams vs Brian London Primes

This is your whole problem. You bang on and on and ON about what you see on Boxrec, but fights aren't fought "on paper" and nor are they won there.

Let's have your technical breakdown of the factors in this fight that make you see it as being so close.

 

I know that. Note that i've never said you said you would win the fight, just that you see it very differently from everyone else, and so perhaps you would like to explain why?

Form can indeed, but scrambling together all of the information on a fighter's losses and saying "he might lose" is a spastic way to judge a fighter's form retrospectively, and that's what you've done.

Lets look at that fight.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwomhydKtc0[/ame]

You can see the problem with your take straight away. In the first clinch, it is Valdes who has his gloves outside of London's arms and London who pushes away. In the second clinch at 0:18 it is Valdes holding again. London again pushes away. Valdes, in his last ever pro fight, is basically doing a Hopkins, throwing a punch, and then falling in with it, trying to smother and supress a smaller foe with his superior bulk. London isn't "mauling his way" through anything, he's trying to escape these clinches. His strategy, clearly tipped in the first few moments of commentary, and perfectly displayed in the footage, is to make Valdes move a lot, to fight a mobile fight, to jab from the outside and remain active. It's a high-powered punching strategy, not a mauling one.

0:30, Valdes again wants to clinch, London again pushes him away.
0:35 Valdes wants to maul, London pushes him away.
1:15 The two strategies meet as Valdes tries to fall into a clinch but London moves away jauntily, jabbing.

There was some mauling in this fight, though not as much as you seem to think, but most of it was instigated by Valdes. There might be mauling against Williams but only if Williams fancies it.

Also note that this mauling exhausted London, who wasn't physical enough for this type of fighting anyway. Note too that Valdes is dominating the close up exchanges by the end of the fight.

Finally, note that London suffered a cut in this fight - you guessed it - in the mauling.

So basically, your suggested strategy for London is to fight in a way that Nino Valdes made him fight in a fight where he was tired after only seven rounds and beaten specifically because he was forced to fight in this way. I think it's fair to say you may be off slightly here.

And London losing to this more proven fighter in his very last fight when he had eye trouble proves what exactly?

Which fights was Williams cut in?

London is **** inside. You are making this up.

Going off film Williams looks much better and London is a clear favourite.

This is why London is losing the poll 17-2.

Or does the impact of Tyson's career also make people think false thoughts about Williams?

You are a fantasist.

 

Prepare to be underwhelmed.