David tua's impressive amatuer record

One dimensional? pretty much...A bum? Never.

I dont think his amatuer record is that surprising considering he fought mostly in Oceania, which is the weakest am region in the world. Where most of the heavyweight talent from Australia, New Zealand and the pacific islands go into the more high profile sports in the region.

His defense essentially sucks for a guy who was once supposed to be the heir apparent but his chin is iron so it did not matter so much.

Prime Tua probably would lose to this cautious version of Wlad just as clearly as he did to Lennox...I think Vitali deals with him also...He would be in the same position he was in his prime IMO, a top contender who falls short of championship material and loses to the best slickster contenders who are semi-durable that are around.

 

Yeah I dont agree with it...He proved he was far from it with his long list of crumpled heaps on the canvas.

 

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Two Ton Tony beats him for that distinction hands down.

 

Heavier doesnt mean fatter.

You are saying this guy

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And just so you know thats in his pineapple haircut days as his fight with Lewis was approaching.

And besides Galento was 233 when he fought Louis, Tua was 245 when he fought his Lewis. Not quite 20 pounds difference is it.

 

I didnt say he had no defense, I just said it sucked for a top level fighter.

You make a good case though...I probably judge him more on his later work where he basically plodded forward eating shots looking to just land his left.

 

Tua's footwork and speed were worse than his defence. He was more open to the body than the head, but not many except Byrd took real advantage of that because they were scared to bring their hands down due to Tua's power. He always kept his hands really high across his ears, and actually did some subtle leaning away from punches which took the velocity out of em.

I think the problem was he moved like a hippo in the ring. He was lacking so much mobility, he was always there infront of you. So it was easy to time him and hit him with a straight shot. But I think he blocked quite a lot, its just it doesn't look good when a guy can stand and hit you easy...

 

Horrible balance, horrible crude slugger with one punch in his arsenal.

Lewis already exposed him, and he didn't have the heart to make it a brawl, which was his only way to win that fight. Rahman exposed him twice (in their first outing, Tua had to cheat in order to prevail), in the rematch Rahman not only whipped him whilst being out of shape, but he put him down in the 12th round. Like Merchant said "That was more than a slip, that was a knockdown no doubt!"

Chris Byrd was literally like a division 1 player in the 4th division of a football game, he never had to dig deep in order to win, he just outpointed the crude slugger without much effort.


Oh and Jeff Wooden, you may wanna download that fight, I had that fight a draw. Tua basically couldn't handle a regional bum fighter.

He's a bum, and he'd never be a champion in any era, yeah.. I said it, Peter would probably school this midget.

 

A bum...for christ sake. Why can't you just be a "good" or "okay" fighter anymore?

 

Too bad Tua got sidetrack with legal issues.

 

Wlad would toy with him, literally toy with him.
Vitali would slaughter him, unlike Lennox Lewis.. Vitali would come forward and finish the job.
Valuev would outbox David, and that tells something about David :rofl:rofl

Chagaev, Povetkin, Haye and Ibragimov would all have boxed David's ears off.


Basically, Tua never beat a top fighter in his prime, he never beat a top- tier fighter, and we all know why.. because hes not capable of doing so.

Moorer? Puhlease, Moorer was a ticking timebomb by the time David got a hold of him. Ike? Ike beat Tua, it was close but Ike's ridiculously overrated.
Maskaev? hahaha get the hell out of here, look what Kirk Johnson did to Maskaev, look what McCall did to Maskaev.. all those guys are better than Tua.

 

ROFL.. interesting. That never happened in the pro game. He was so small then.