Erkan Teper vs. Derric Rossy

...a nice little slow heavyweight slug-fest penciled in for a lazy Sunday afternoon, fittingly. Going down in ~12 hours.

Anyone believe in El León? He is 5-5 in the last five years (since he broke his bad slump in 2011) but that even record doesn't paint a complete picture. Three of his victories - Walker, Hanks, and Muralimov - were varying degrees of upsets, and even in his losses Rossy acquitted himself well for the most part. Dawejko was held to a SD and Glazkov to a MD, and he dropped Stiverne early. He is a long way removed from the stiff-looking college football crossover that was schooled and stopped by Eddie Chambers early on. He's a legit spanner in the works now, at 36, with a considerable rise in his ring IQ almost in direct inverse correlation with the erosion of his athletic prime.

Teper meanwhile is a lumbering oaf whose exposure I've been awaiting for quite some time. Edmund Geber 2.0, was my stated impression of him when he first started popping up on EuroSport undercards. That hasn't changed even as his level of competition has begun to improve a bit. He's a big slow clubbing goon with average skills at best. He only has an inch and change on Rossy, and the last time he fought someone close to his own size that wasn't glass-jawed David Price he got a gift (Duhaupas).

:think

 

Been sparring with Parker, apparently...

http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/427441-derric-rossy-more-everyman-than-journeyman

:bbb

 

High stakes in this one...the winner probably gets next crack at Wilder after Cristobal. :yep

 

Yeah but I'm not sure Teper has ever looked particularly more impressive than Bryan...or than Muralimov when he was still undefeated.

 

Bryan fought tonight, incidentally, on the non-televised Guillermo Jones vs. Garrett Wilson undercard in PA. He outpointed Galen Brown, returning from eleven months on the shelf after he beat Rossy (his fourth outing in 2015)

What awful management. He is probably in truth about on par with Breazeale, yet one guy is getting massive paydays being fed to Joshua in a packed arena while the other is collecting dust and then facing an old fat journeyman in front of a dozen people. :think

 

Ooh, yet another where the "journeyman" could prove to be a real banana peel for the carefully protected big/younger/undefeated guy with the lazy habits.