Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by houmzz, Aug 21, 2014.


  1. The Long Count

    The Long Count Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He'll never have a career like Wlad and next time he steps up he'll likely lose again. I like Price but you can see in his eyes his confidence and the love of the sport are gone. Plus he didn't look much different in technique from the Teper bout this guy just wasn't as good
     
  2. The Long Count

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    I agree a man his size should have some extra weight on him.
     
  3. On The Money

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    The pish about Thompson being on peds, just not true is it. He was on blood pressure tablets ffs. Price got done twice by a guy on meds not peds. :lol:
     
  4. houmzz

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    He blamed that positive test on medication but he couldn't provide answer for drugs he took after doctor gave him medication and his doctor didn't knew anything about that he just blamed whole thing on medication.
     
  5. houmzz

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  6. houmzz

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    Adrian Granat, the Swedish heavyweight boxer called The Pike will be fighting in Kassel, Germany, against Saul Farah from Bolivia. Farah has been in the ring as a professional boxer 82 times with 59 won bouts and 52 on knockout. Adrian Granat tells he knows almost nothing about Farah. The bout on 4th June will be of 10 rounds. Granat is very confidence telling that it will be a short fight of 2-3 rounds. Still The Pike has condition enough to do 15 rounds.

    Granat has been in the ring as a pro 12 times and is unbeaten with 11 KOs.

    Two weeks ago he returned to Hamburg, Germany, where he nowaday lives, from Russia. Adrian was at a trainging camp in Chekhov for 3,5 weeks and made sparring with Alexander Povetkin. Adrian is 2 m tall and he is not impressed of Povetkin even if Sascha is a good boxer. He is small says Adrian and has experience, can hit well, but not impressed even if Granat enjoyed the camp.

    Adrian Granat is a Swedish Viking and has no fear to get into the ring against Sascha.

    The Swedish Dynamite hopes to get a title fight in the end of this year or in the beginning of the next year. Maybe it will be an European Championship. Granat finds Pulev is a good boxer, but even here Adrian shows self-confidence and telling he thinks he is a better boxer then Pulev.

    Granat had been given an offer to fight Michael Wallish, but has not heard anything. He offered to fight without any purse, to fight for free. Still he has not heard anything and he doesn´t believe this bout will happen.

    He is hungry of fighting better boxers, better names, but does even not shouting out he is the best in the world. Yet. At the question about fighting David Haye he tells that it will be too early in his career. Haye is boxing on a higher level as himself he tells. He needs more time before he will be ready for the top ten boxers. Adrian says that even if his self-confidence is good he is even looking realisticly at the things. Adrian means that at the level of top 20-30 boxers is what he can perform.

    At 04.06.2016 we will see Adrian fighting the experienced Bolivian boxer Saul Farah.

    To be known is that Adrian was acting sparringpartner for Wladimir Klitschko as well as Francesco Pianeta. At the gym in Hamburg he is even doing sparring with Ruslan Chagaev.

    The Interview: https://leifpm.co/2016/05/29/interview-adrian-granat-der-granate/

    Source:https://leifpm.co/2016/05/29/the-interview-with-granat/
     
  7. theanatolian

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    There were rumours about Granat getting the better of Wlad in his training camp for the first Fury fight, and now him giving Povetkin the fits in sparring again. Can't wait to see him step up against a fellow prospect/contender.
     
  8. TSoprano

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    Povetkin and Wlad would both knock Granat out in the first three rounds. There is a reason why he is yet to step up. Slightly better than Gjergjaj, nothing more, nothing less.
     
  9. theanatolian

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    You expected him to fight for a world title in his 10th pro bout? What is the reason he's yet to step up? He fought better journeymen than %90 of the HW prospects did so far and handled Kurtagic better than Wallin, Wach, Boytsov, Takam and Dimitrenko did. He's much, much better than Gjergjaj, he's very big, he has a good right hand, good left hook and a very good inside game, especially for his size. He's definetly one of the best HW prospects out there, I'm not even sure If I'd favour Hughie Fury over him if they were to fight right now.
     
  10. houmzz

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  11. Blackclouds

    Blackclouds Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    David Price's offense is good. I really liked that uppercut he landed as the shorter fighter came in. With that chin though he's going to have to learn how to fight negatively and depend on superior conditioning.

    Outside the top 8-9 it's wide open in this division. Looking deep in this division, I'm not seeing anybody that truly impresses on the prospect level yet.
     
  12. houmzz

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    Apti Davtaev/Talgat Dosanov tko 1.Apti did better than Andriy Rudenko(tko in eight round),Alexander Ustinov( tko 4),Grigory Drozd(ud).No one beat this guy by tko 1.He came in at lightest weight in his career at 247¾ pounds,nearly 8 pounds lighter than in last fight.
     
  13. Komaster

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    looking at that price bout id pick takam to knock him out
     
  14. Komaster

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    Ugonoh back July 21 vs tba
     
  15. Blackclouds

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    Great, I'll add him to my prospect list. I don't like adding guys who are like 4-0 to it but he's 12-0. I like to see if they can get passed the lower level first, and ideally pass the eye test. Only exception would be having a high profile and successful amateur career. I did add Oleksandr Teslenko for that reason, and despite him holding his chin way up in the air, he passed my eye test.