Deontay Wilder vs Murat Gassiev

I would expect Hammer to lose every round to an athletic, 6'7, elite amateur who carries power. Hammer had beaten Teper 2.5 years prior to the Ortiz fight and KO'd Price 2 years prior. He lost to a 37 year old Povetkin 15 months prior but would you expect anything different? Most would have expected Hammer to get stopped at the time and had he been well past his best he would have been, if not by Povetkin then surely by Ortiz or Yoka. Several months prior to the Ortiz fight Hammer had KO'd a 19-0 Wallisch in 5, which is not hugely impressive but he did not do worse there than the likes of Joyce or Gassiev, who got to Wallisch after he'd already been KO'd 3-4 times.

I don't agree that Wlad was in his prime in 2006. He was coming off a shaky performance against Peter and was not far removed from the Brewster loss, which had badly knocked his confidence, especially as it was so close to the Sanders defeat. I do not doubt though that as tentative as he was (and we can see it in the first Byrd, Ibragimov and Chambers fights) a younger, fresher, less rusty Wlad on his win streak would have had far too much for AJ. I cannot deduce from any of the pictures though that Wlad was in "terrible shape", he looked in excellent condition and his weights were entirely in line with what they'd been from 2000 onwards. I maintain though that the key problem was mental rather than physical: even at 41 Wlad had vastly more ability than Andy Ruiz but Ruiz didn't let AJ off the hook whereas Wlad did. It would have been an ATG win for old retired defeated Wlad in Britain to beat 27.5 year old AJ no question but modern athletes, especially ones who keep themselves in great condition, can go on at a high level for longer and experience is proportionately more valuable than it used to be. In Wlad's case he also had a genetic advantage over most; even his more cavalier, injury-prone brother was still an elite HW at 41.

 

Vitali was not injury prone unless these shoulder problems and when he get older, back problems. He was former KBer and I suspect he had shoulder problems maybe cos this.

Ofc Wallisch for Gassiev looked easy matchup.
I suspect that Gassiev just is doing what his manager and promoter are telling him to do.
For Gassiev looks that biggest problem was his inactivity period. He did not had fought too long time and therefore had been removed from active ranking ( alphabets and boxrec too had marked him as inactive ) positions.
If you are in such situation, you do not have too much options: he fought this albanian dude cos this enabled him to get been ranked again as active boxer. This was first step.
This his last fight managed him climb up in rankings.
Everything thus far had been done properly.

Will se Gassiev next fights.
I think it depends from his manager and promoter: he will box vs guy they will feed to him.
Will be this some bum or no, we will see.

 

Obviously Gassiev wins

 

Gassiev will not be a force at heavyweight, he doesn`t have enough skill, he has never been in with guys that big.

 

Doesn't matter when you're in against Wilder tbh.

 

Oh sssh you Lemon

Fury got up didnt he

Its not as great as you make out

 

This is propaganda at its finest

 

As big as 215lbs Wilder?

 

Nobody Gassiev`s size could have taken that shot except Ali.

 

Wilder punches harder than any 215 pounder in history.

 

Wilder never knocked out a fighter as strong as Chisora.

 

You can not prove that

 

It wouldn't matter if he had.

Dubble will play spindoctor with absolutely everything relating to heavyweight boxing in order to make Wilder look less **** than he is... And only people who DKSAB ever buy it.

It's a shame because outside of heavyweight stuff he can be a thoughtful poster, but he's so hopelessly biased that it's pointless engaging with his crap about heavies.

 

I couldn`t care less, Gassiev has never been among the top P4P fighters, he`s not on Usyk`s level.

 

Thats a totally different topic you've raised