[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]This is the same half blind guy who expositioned with Tyson!! How the hell can any commision let him fight?!?! And he's at 360 lbs!!!!! Good God!! This content is protected [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Can someone elxplain this to me?? He's BLIND in one eye for God's sake!![/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] WBC International heavyweight titleholder Oliver McCall (#2 in WBC rankings) and Juan Carlos Gomez (#4) presented themselves well prepared and in perfect physical shape at the official weigh-in at Kroyman's car dealership for their big clash this Friday night in Berlin's Estrel Convention Center. "The Atomic Bull" weighed in at 235 lbs. while "The Black Panther" brought 228 lbs. 9 fights are scheduled for arena's "Champion's Night" featuring 5 heavyweight bouts and 4 international championships. The show starts at 6 p.m., Gomez and McCall will step into the ring at about 11 p.m. (German time). The heaviest fighter of the night will be Corey Sanders who lived up to his name T-Rex by weighing in at a massive 358.5 lbs. Sanders faces promising German heavyweight prospect Steffen Kretschmann in the co-main event who went over the scale with 234 lbs. The lightest competitors are Cuban Olympic Champion Yuriorkis Gamboa and Samuel Kebede from Ethiopia who both weighed in at 132 lbs.[/FONT]
Heck..they should let Iran Barkley fight again. This is nuts. This is how someone gets hurt, thus hurts the sport of boxing.
Is he really half-blind, or is that just some trick that he pulls with his eye?? I can't imagine that they'd let a guy who was confirmed blind to fight. Whether blind or not, Sanders was never a good fighter, and hasn't gotten any better with age. It seems as if he's being fed to this German prospect to pad his record with "name" opponents. Unless the German is not very good, Sanders probably gets dispatched pretty quickly.
Sanders's eye got royally ****ed up against Golota on the most highly watched fight on Tuesday Night Fights (USA). He fought several times after that...the most notable was when he dropped Maskaev like a ton of bricks a few years ago around St. Patty's Day. T-Rex Sanders is gunnin' for Glass Jaw Oleg! :good
Tyson blew this guy away last year in there exibition match, I really wanted to see it was in ohio I believe.
Golota did that to him??? Jeez, you think I'd remember that fight. I was a religious viewer of TNF for the better part of 15 years. Is is really true that he cannot see out of the eye. Can he even bring his pupil into view??
i remember reading he has sight in that eye but im sure its not at 20/20 lol....still he should call it a career unless hes one of those fighters who's broke and has nothing else to fall back on
His left eye got jacked by Golota's barrage of hard right hands while Sanders was against the ropes in round 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=It8EKIoZdpU This was indeed the bloodiest fight of the year. In that second round, blood was literally spraying the crowd and commentators as Sanders was getting pounded against the ropes. After this fight, Sanders had a detached retina and his doctor told him never to fight again.
That was one win where Golota will never get due credit, but he fought very well that night. Sanders never came as prepared and determined as he did on that night (like so many Golota opponents before and after, they always seem to up their game against the Foul Pole). Sanders did come back a few years later to knockout Oleg, but that wasn't the same version of Sanders who fought Golota back in '98. Don't get me wrong--I'm not by any means claiming Sanders was a world-beater, but he was definitely more than a journeyman, and that was his best effort I'd ever seen, including his KO win over Maskaev.
This fight was not the 'gimme' for Golota most boxing viewers had in mind. In fact a couple of weeks before the fight I read an article in Ring Magazine which basically predicted Sanders is going to surprise everyone and beat Golota. Sanders was coming off a couple of fairly impressive wins, had recently switched management/trainers and Golota was supposed to be his "Goloto, my lucky lotto". Sanders came into this fight in the best shape of his life weighing 266 lbs, fairly lean for his gigantic 6'6 frame. After this fight, Sanders was very disappointed he didn't beat Golota and basically let himself go after he learned of his detached retina. Even so, an out of shape Sanders KOed Oleg Maskeav a couple of years later.
And although I don't believe Maskaev is nearly as good as many here at ESB would like to believe, that an out of shape Sanders KO'd Oleg illustrates the type of fighter Sanders was capable of being--especially when motivated, as he was against Golota.
