Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

so huggie managed to stop a guy seth mitchell would have planted in the ground in one round.

 

Damn people are crazy about Sirenko and he still faces tomato cans.

 

Otto Wallin - Robert Helenius is apparently in negotiations.

 

Otto Wallin trying to clean the North?

 

Helenius should retire! If one didn't know who is who, watching his last fight could think that Helenius is the journeyman against 93kg! in that fight Yury Bykhautsou(the real journeyman for russian boxers) http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/541166
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It was one of the worst scores. Helenius obviously lost.

 

How Helenius never matched up with Wilder I'll never know.

Tall name fighter with good optics, but a shadow of his past self due to injuries (that most casual Americans would have no idea about). If ever there was a Wilder candidate ... he was it. Must have not been top 15 WBC, and no way to work himself in ... only reason I can think of.

 

They did offer the fight for Helenius at least twice, lol!

 

Really. Maybe Helenius' people figured that no-one knew much about Wilder or cared, and there's no money in it. Wait it out and try to cash out on someone better.

 

People on here prematurely overrate heavyweights who have an aesthetically pleasing physique it seems, they did it with that Polish blackboy heavyweight too.

I do think he's a good prospect though, but it's way too early based on his very poor opposition for some people to be saying he's the best prospect or one of them, or he'd beat the top guys,etc.

 

Actually Ugonoh is not that bad, he was just too green for the fight that he took.

 

Apparently Barry tried to get him out of it, but Haymon said unless he stepped in for Szpilka(who pulled out) he would cancel their contract. He had never fought anyone near Breazeale's level up until that point, and while Breazeale is technically horrendous for a top 10 fighter, he's tough as hell and hits pretty hard. Izu clearly had no clue how to pace himself at this level, and Breazeale is the sort of fighter that can't just be blasted out, Joshua was hitting him at will and it still took him 7 rounds. In that fight he showed a lot of potential and a lot of vulnerability. His punches honestly seemed to have more of an effect than Joshua's, and he's very fast for a heavyweight. He's also definitely packing some major glass and and is prone to succumbing to his "warrior spirit" and just going for it. If he's learned from the fight and develops a style more suited to his physical attributes, he's a dangerous prospect for anyone. He's also a total glass cannon, which makes him a very marketable fighter even if he isn't very successful.(like Price)

 

So many compliments for Breazeale...look at his fight with Mansour(who at his 43 y.o.give only 1 round to Breazeale).And the one with Fred Kassi.