Fighters whose skills/style you admire but whose persona you dislike, and vice-versa?

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I had some hope for him at some point to beat Pavlik, probably wouldn't have happened.

One of the most overrated fighters and punchers around. I never subscribed to the myth about his power until he fought Froch, and I put a bet on, I'm a right plank.

 

I think he does hit hard, G.It's one of his only real notable strengths i'd say.

 

Fleaman once compared him to Julian Jackson, and I heard a few other people say similar things. He didn't hit that hard.

 

He is not very good though.

The whole Middleweight and Light-Heavyweight divisions are really poor at the moment. Middleweight has some good potential though and a pretty good champion. Light-Heavyweight has the worst linear Light-Heavyweight champ ever though, an old great, and a talented but severely flawed Chad Dawson.

 

at the moment...james degale...i think he is very very skillful and i think he has the potenial to be one of the great british super-middles....but i dont like his persona one bit.

 

Froch-Kessler was a great fight actually.

 

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:blood Julian Jackson?

Fleaman is cool and knowledgeable, but I also raised an eyebrow when he favoured Darchniyan to beat Donaire in a rematch. Hopefully he has changed his mind since then.

I thought Dirrell practically won every single round in their fight bar one towards the end. Still, getting outclassed by Froch says it all.

 

Barrera/Mckinney was a spectacular fight. :happy

 

Hm, Abraham is one of the fighters who fell from grace because he started to buy in his own myth. Why he still is looking the same now as a few years back , he isn´t anymore. Watch some of his older fights. He actually would employ a tactic. And it was not about knocking his opponent out. When the knockout came it came but his goal was to win on points. He invested in decent body work early to take over in the midrounds and dominate the late ones. He also had a decent jab and some upperbody movement. His footwork was never good but better than it is now. But after Miranda II it started to change. He stopped doing things he was good at, like body punching or fainting - crude but efficient, watch Miranda II, he faints some wide, looping left-hooks and lands short, straight rights. This has to do with his mind set. He lost his hunger and instead now he was a highly lauded champ - huge in Germany, everybody knew him, only the Klitschkos were bigger - and everybody said he could and would stop anyone. He started to believe that and the more he did the less he was doing in the ring. Just waiting for the one big punch to put his opponent away. This works against mediocre opposition. Even against some good guys with his power - and he has big power, no doubt. But how do you want to land that punch without any tactic at all? Without doing anything else he was good at? You can see his trainer getting more and more frustrated even in his later mw defences and not reaching him anymore, not like he did in his earlier days. Hell, against Froch Wegener called him a coward - for someone like Abraham this should be a huge insult - and he didn´t care. And then when Froch beat him, proved him that he can´t put away everybody with that one punch ... I think he is broken now. Just like Hamed was against MAB.

 

It wasn't difficult to see that Abraham's style would eventually become his downfall. I think most were just surprised that the eventual shutout came against Carl Froch who was supposed to be there to hit. Abraham couldn't figure a way past the jab at all. A rudimentary schooling by Froch which was quite embarrassing for Arthur and especially his trainer who was livid after the bout.

Dirrell was basically doing the same thing for 10 rounds but in the end he did not quite "survive" the distance. To Abraham it did not matter how bad he looked as long as he took out his opponent.

Still, even in the 12th round against Froch he had a moment where he stung Froch a bit. The man's power is legitimate but his skills are not. It was an enjoyable ride though for a person who viewed his career from beginning to end, unfortunately there was little development in between.