Chris "The Wolf" Thompson just stopped Shaun "God's Warrior" Potgieter in the 7th round of a gritty chest-to-chest war for the South African heavyweight title.
Zurdo is such a punk, hes ducking Jai like crazy. Jai need to move HW in my opinion the unification just ain't lining up unfortunately. I wonder how he does at HW is he a Usyk/Holyfield or is he a Gassiev.
This content is protected At only 98kg Surov looks physically very strong. His tempo and high work rate is quite impressive. Also looks to have filled out a lot since last years championships and is growing into his man strength.
I saw a video from one of Opetaia's team who said they literally go down the IBF rankings and ask everyone to fight offering them a career high pay day for a lot of them and only Nyika and Squeo actually put their hands up. I'm not sure how true that is, but I can believe it even with a title and payday on the line, Opetaia put both of them in the hospital and who knows if they will be the same afterwards.
Upper level guys Billam-Smith, Riakporhe and Ramirez have all shown how keen they are and there is a similar amount of disinterest from those below. Opetaia is probably the most man in boxing at the present time.
Kind of a must-win for both. Ibeh has a ten win streak on the line; if he loses to 43 year old Washington (who's fought once in over two years and is 3-6 in his last nine) all his momentum is out the window. Washington, on the other hand, is out of time. It's beat Ibeh or retire, really.
Rocky Fielding has pulled out of the Glanton fight. Marcus Browne will now step in and face Glanton......The fight is still in Nigeria for some reason, even though both are American.