Eddie Chambers vs. Amir Mansour

This all Philly* brawl has been heating up on Twitter! :bbb

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Mansour turned pro over three years before Chambers but was incarcerated while 9-0 (6) in mid-2001, when the already more active Chambers was 7-0 (4). Upon his comeback, Mansour feasted on bottom-feeding opposition for over three years before making his television debut with an impressive showing over Kelvin Price on NBC Sports last December. Since then, Mansour has reappeared twice on the channel, swapping knockdowns in a loss with USS Cunningham and knocking out unheralded but wily and game Cameroonian tough guy Fred Kassi. Ironically, the level of competition faced by Chambers, which reached world contention heights during Mansour's imprisonment and continued to soar higher for the bulk of his comeback upon release, took a nosedive around the same Mansour's finally picked up: the end of 2013. Since his loss to much smaller Thabiso Mchunu @ Cruiser last August, the victims of Chambers have read like Mansour's resume prior to even facing shot Dominick Guinn in 2011.

(*Mansour resides in Wilmington, DE and was born in Salem, NJ but has been often billed as hailing from the City of Brotherly Love, trains in a gym there, and has fought a combined third of his career in Philadelphia and its suburbs of Allentown & Bethlehem)


They are stylistically as different as you could ask for, not to mention at opposite ends of what is considered a heavyweight's prime, one a knockout artist southpaw and the other a right-handed jab specialist, with identical height and reach. Not a bad match-up if trash-talk spills into the ring.

 

I think class would tell. Even though his time with the Fury clan has caused him to scale back his grade of challenges to a novice's, there is too much skill on Fast Eddie's side.

It would resemble Mansour vs. Cunningham, minus all the knockdowns.

 

By KO, though?

Remember, it took even Doc Steel-Hammer until the very last minute (er, five seconds) and he invested a lot more work over eleven and change than Mansour - only ever past ten once, and with seemingly not the best gas tank in spite of a not so tremendous work rate - has ever put into a single night. :think

 

You might be onto something. It would definitely explain what the heck they're doing with him over there, in the land of bangers 'n' mash. (Behold! Top Yank Heavyweight In Action, Live On The Undercard!!! - uttered by a carny barker with a ****ney accent. Classic loss-leader type stuff...you may as well come on in for the dollar slushie, since you're gonna sink your whole paycheck into the scratch tickets somewhere anyway.. :deal)

 

Everybody should hop on Twitter and start egging them on! :stir :deal :bbb

 

He wasn't very fast at Cruiser.