Corrie Sanders Discussion

Sanders is a very dangerous fighter who could bring hell to certain fighters (as someone else said, Wlad was never beaten like that and probably never will), but he was a bit of a one-trick pony and not likely to win if you were still standing by the 5th.

The kind of all-in fighter, a high risk low reward match that Wlad's management shouldn't have taken on short notice. The Vitali Klitschko fight was an excellent one, though. Very entertaining.

 

Dude, that is nonsense,

Hasbeen was never a A level fighter , period. Wrestling with Obed Sullivan, going life and death with the Journeyman Sanders or getting waxed by the ultimate underachieving one trick pony Tua is not A level work under any circumstances. However he did get a raw deal in the Tua fight.

In the Lewis fight both looked like **** and were hoffing and puffing until one mediocre chinned fighter sparked the other mediocre chinned fighter. As a matter of fact until he landed the telegraphed right he was about ready to cry and quit because of the little cut he sustained.........

Sanders hitting as hard as Tyson ? LOL, put the pipe down, if Tyson would have hit WK clean like Sanders did WK would have gotten up ONE TIME max and that is being generous, he would have been counting stars almost instantly. While I am not of the opinion that WK's chin is glass but a clean Tyson blow will throw the breaker in his circuit, guaranteed, and it ain't resetting within 10.

 

No he wasn't the only reason Rahman won was because Lewis came into a high altitude fight unacclimatised to high altitude, where as Rahman had been at altitude for 6weeks

Altitude is a killer if you didn't know

 

So you are saying Lewis was out of breath in 4 1/2 rounds of boxing? Maybe if the fight went into the later rounds, this would have been a factor. On film Lewis did not seem to be tired prior to the KO.

 

This is a good summation.

What irritates me about Sanders is that he could have been much better than he was.
He should have done what Botha did, which was move to the States and benefit from top-class training and sparring. Instead, he chose to remain anonymous and did not develop his natural talent. It was often rumoured that Sanders was barely ever in the gym.

Botha was no world-beater, but he did quite well for himself and managed to carve out a decent career, one he would not have had staying back home.
Sanders was miles better than Botha and had he moved Stateside early in his career, we could well have been talking about a very different Sanders both as a fighter and in terms of legacy.

But the thing is, no matter how good his potential, he remained lazy and somewhat unambitious - and no training can fix that. That comes from within.

Still, I can see what Russell's saying...he had some very decent tools and did wreck some solid fighters, and both Rahman and Vitali knew they were in a fight when they fought him.

 

I agree completely,

If Sanders was ever to be a world class entity, then he needed to be managed according to world class standards. The unfortunate truth of the matter was that he wasn't...

On a different note, I know you live in South Africa, and I have developed an interest in some of South Africa's better heavyweights, ie. Coetzee, Coetzer, Botha, Knoetze, Sanders, etc.. Seems to me there was some real talent over there at one point. Lots of big punchers, and so on and so forth. I find it interesting that Frans Botha, Corrie Sanders and Pierre Coetzer all co-existed during the 90's and not one of them ever met the other.

Have you ever heard of a Nigerian fighter by the name of Friday " The 13th " Ahunyana?

 

Lewis clearly looked gassed and lethargic early, he was nearly as bad as the version who beat Vitali Why was the rematch at normal altitude so very different?

Bottom line is yes Rahman was prime when Sanders beat him, but its still the same version who copped a pasting from Holyfield and soon after lost to Ruiz

 

Lewis was outclassing Rahman before he got sparked. It looked to me like Lewis just got careless because he was having such an easy time with Rahman.

 

Corrie Sanders could definitely crack. For as flabby and unathletic as his body frame was, he had some sick power! And he was fast! I would have loved to see him fight Tommy Morrison.

 

Sanders looked pretty good against Wlad, especially for being 37 years old. He showed up around 225 Lbs which wasn't bad for him.

 

He was never that toned or physically sculpted in any way. He was kind of like Gerry Cooney was in his prime - in shape but sort of soft and pudgy.....

 

He had a 40inch plus beer belly, I bet he could take most HWs in a beer drinking a pie eating contest. Having a bodyfat under 20% doesn't equate to taking steroids

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YboPBVOHn9Q

Superb performance against Lennox Lewis' heir-apparent as you say, the 1st knockdown in the 2nd round, that straight left right down the barrell onto Wlad's chin shows you how hard he could punch, genuine one-punch power. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc_x562-D_U

I love this fight. As short as it is it's great action, that bit where Sprott gets hit, drops his arms and then shakes his head, comes back with a great left right combo that nearly drops Corrie, and then them trading before Sanders catches him with a straight left that sends Sprott sprawling across the ring trying to stay up, before you see Sanders' super quick hands go to work and put Sprott down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hQtC6_XEzg&feature=related

Another great stoppage, again it's the straight left that does the damage, straight down the middle and sends him sprawling for the knockdown, and then he takes some big shots in the corner before the ref rightly steps in.