Cook to the boil, Weight cripples AAA

Cook looked good tonight. Busy, energetic, landed a sprinkling of accurate punches throughout the fight. Arthur looked pedestrian. I held the belief that Arthur's bigger frame would wear down Cook after the early rounds - this didn't happen.

 

Arthur was ****, from what I saw of it. To be honest, I am not overly shocked by the result. After the Foster Jnr fight it was as clear as day that Arthur was no longer a SF...blindingly obvious. Despite making the weight without looking like a terminally ill patient this time, it still didn't mask the problem.

If Arthur doesn't move up now he's a fool. He'll never be top dog in the LW division, but there are some good fights to be had there, as long as he can still get them now.

All credit to cook though, sounds like he put in an inspired performance, and it certainly seems a weight he can do well in.

Arthur vs Khan as a make or break at LW is the way to go. Doubt Warren will do it though. He'll no doubt put Khan in with extremely average fighters for a while to bounce back, and to be honest...I just don't think Warren cares all that much about Arthur!

 

AAA is ****ed at that weight and should have moved up long ago, a pale shadow of even a few years ago, so so lethargic, on the flip side you had Cook looking strong at that weight but cant be overly impressed due to how rubbish AAA was.

 

combination of the weight and the fact Arthur is not all that good. We all saw what happened to Cook against a real world class fighter in Luevano.

 

Indeed. But Cookie has balls of IRON. He kept getting back up so we know full well he has the fighting spirit in him. Iv seen Cookie grit his teeth in EBU wins and just chomp on the bit and keep going despite being hurt. His a hungry fighter who is simply better than AA because he wanted it more. This is what happens when you have had smoke blown up your ass for the best part of your career. Weight aside the facts remain Arthur just simply isnt that good.

 

yeah totally agree. As a Scot I can't be too disappointed, partly because could never warm to Arthur and felt he was too much of a big-head, also because I like Cook who has never has that red carpet treatment.

 

Mitchell stated on Buncey's show that he would never fight Cook.

 

As well as Cook boxed, and he really did well, I don't feel it would've taken a massive amount more effort from Arthur to have rallied to a knockout win in this fight.

I don't even think it's quite so much an issue of weight-draining as of tactics. While Cook let his shots go in 2s, 3s, 4s, far too often Arthur was all 1s. Heavy shots for sure, but still single.

A more committed attack, an earlier awareness that he'd have to get through a lot of incoming shots to drive home his own, and Arthur could've won this. But his usual slow start and a lack of fireworks cost him.

 

I was in the hotel Gym where AA was cutting his weight on Thursday afternoon, he was in a bad way trying to drop 7lb, didn't look healthy at the weight for me, really nice guy though. Hope he can come back at 135. also heard that Wayne Mc only spent 4 days with him for this fight!.

 

Before the fight Cook looked and spoke like a confident man. Arthur much less so. I'm no expert on those things but the vibes seemed strong.

Lots of consideration has to be given to the weight issue. Can't understand why fighters insist on fighting weakened, it makes no sense to me.