Evander Holyfield vs Sultan Ibragimov, Old School fighting.

You used black alot, which has nothing to do with anything. I do feel however if Holyfield can use some of his rough house tactics in this fight, he might confuse Iggy into fighting a different kind of fight hes not use to.

I personally think Holyfield wont have enough to do what he wants in the ring against a better technically sound fighter like Iggy, Holyfield in his prime would kill this guy, too bad that was 15 years ago.

 

I think Ibragimov will win. My mind says SI will box Holyfield down and stop him around 9. My gut, however, is saying Ibragimov takes out Holy dramatically early, like in one or two rounds.

 

My gut is telling me that this won't go 9 or 10 rounds, both guy's are really gonna rough each other up and go for a KO, Holy has used his head as a battering ram, and potential weapon in the past, Sultan a southpaw will have to keep that in mind, i can see that concrete head splitting open Sultan's dome- i hope he has a good cutman:huh
Also this fight being in Russia if Sultan has Holy hurt will the ref pull the plug early and stop it prematurely? i can't help thinking about what happened months back when Calzaghe, stopped Manfredo, the ref jumped the gun..:-(

 

Funny thing is, I have read a lot of things about Holyfield lately, reporters slamming him, saying his reflexes are shot, he's to old, slow, etc. when actually in his last few fights he's shown fast hands, feet, and excellent reflexes. His chin has held up well (to a monster right from Lou Savarese), his skills look to be intact, he has bounce in his step in the later rounds (most young heavies these days are gassed in a couple rounds), and he's highly motivated. I don't think he's delusional at all, I think he has a real shot in his fight with Sultan. Want to see a shot fighter? Watch Ali-Berbick. Ali was 39, had a glazed look, slurred his words, lacked snap, and balance. Holyfield displays none of those things, he's looked very good in his last few bouts, and from what I have read, looked sharp in camp.

 

For Holyfield to win he needs to fight black?

He needs to fight the blackest of black, like the great Audley Harrison , right jackass.

Your poetry of Audley Harrison was classic, then him getting KTFO. How did it go ," he is black , he's back", blah, blah , blah, ( he is on his back, lol ) .

 

god damn! holyfield is OLD! he fought lou who is also OLD! that's why he looked okay. seriously folks have got to wake up and realise not matter what a fighter achieved years ago, they cannot simply turn back the clock everytime.

many ATG and HOF figthers have lost badly when they got old. but some "uneducated" fans fail to see it could happen to their fighter atsch

if looking good against maddalone and lou savarese is the signs that he will beat ibragimov then it is the holyfield fans who truly believe he will win, that are the uneducated ones :good

 

The thing is Savarese and even Bates landed a couple of wicked shots on Holy, wicked enough shots to wobble him, Ibragimov most likely is going to carry a more potent arsenal with him, not only that but Ibragimov is going to be attacking from unconventional angles.

Holyfield coming in at an unusually low weight has me thinking something is up. Maybe the real deal ate a bad meal or has a stomach flu. He might not be at 100% in a fight that requires him to be at his best. He was also conspicously absent from the final presser. :barf

 

Polonium perhaps?

Damnit, here I was all ready to pull the trigger on the over 10.5, and you guys are reminding me of all the valid conspiracy angles...

 

Don't hate.

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after rewatching sultan vs briggs last night, i have more respect for sultan. although briggs fought a stupid fight, ibragimov showed really good speed and technique. that said i believe if briggs would have mixed it up, pressured and brawled with sultan his power would've been too much. holy doesn't have briggs' power but he has good power and he will take it to sultan all night. i think its a 50/50 proposition. anyone else think sultan's more like 6'0 even judging by his weigh in pictures with holy where he looked quite shorter than holy? not that that'll matter too much.

 

Probably his low bodyweight has more to do with the fact that Holyfield
is no longer juicing. You really think that cruiserweight Evander
suddenly becomes a heavyweight with a physique of a Lee Haney
or Arnold the Terminator almost overnight back in the early nineties?
This guy has been a steroid freak for years which gave him the size
and power to compete at the heavyweight division. Now with the
drug policies and tests well in place and the feds going after the
cheaters like Marion Jones the sprinter and the 350lb-400lb. benc-
presser/boxer Shane Mosley Holyfield can no longer get his fix and
so is back to his original, normal size and fighting weight. He will be
destroyed by the natural, fast and talented heavyweight Sultan
tomorrow.

 

Not that holy didn't use everything he could get his hands on but to says he's not a legit hw is wrong. a) he's legit 6'2 1/2 b) he was a very powerful cruiserweight who looked than like he could bulk up just a bit and compete at hw. ibrag might well win but doubt he's gonna 'destroy' evander.