Danny Green vs. Krzysztof Wlodarczyk & Chris John vs. Stas Merdov RBR

:shock: Wow.

Holy ****, that would rule. It would be massive in Poland, right? Couldn't that fight potentially sell out any venue in the country?

 

Chris John has weird stamina.

It's tremendous through 9 or 10 rounds - with nary a sweat broken, moment of involuntary oral inhalation, or skipping a beat in his boxing rhythm.

Then he starts unraveling in the 11th and 12th, slowing down, heaving, and getting hit a lot. EVERY TIME. To an extent against Marquez (more in the 12th), twice against Juarez, against Yordan, now against Merdov. Chris John in a 12 rounder is always dramatic toward the end.

Usually when you tag someone as having "bad" stamina you think of pure front-runners like Judah who are only good for 4 or 5 rounds, or guys who fade about midway through the championship distance and visibly diminish by the 7th or 8th...

John is a total enigma. Brilliant for about ten rounds. Past that, a punching bag. Every time. :? It's like he has exactly thirty minutes of perfect boxing in him and then his carriage turns into a pumpkin.


He's probably not in the camp that wishes to hearken back to the days of 15 rounders. In fact, he'd be a sow rooting in **** if they allowed world titles to be contested over ten.

 

Ingenious thing about the KO:

All night Wlodarczyk lulled Green into thinking the left hand was harmless. Pawed jabs for most of the first half, almost no hooks, and (and here's the bait) ALWAYS threatening with the right. It was his main weapon, to the point where you could almost say Wlodarczyk was a one-handed fighter through most of ten rounds.

Then he spies Green leaned back on the ropes in perfect range for a big hook and with arms half-raised dead center in front of himself anticipating a right hand attack, and KA-POW!

 

This is the thread to do it in:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=362960

This thread tells you how:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187471

 

From the Aussie forum:

Had Wlod not yanked that left hook out of his back pocket, he'd have been screwed. :-(

He'd fought to a 95-95 draw on my card through ten and clearly had the momentum, and was in full Operation Shock-and-awe intimidation mode. There's no way Green was winning the 11th or 12th. So Wlodarczyk would have deserved 115-113 but given those cards EVEN IF THEY GAVE HIM the championship rounds (which they might not have, against all reason) he'd have still lost a unanimous decision of 115-113, 115-113, 114-113. More likely they would have swung them to Green just to "make sure" and Wlodarzcyk would have gone down in history as succumbing to Green by scores of 117-111, 117-111, and 116-111.