I think Rubin Williams should hang'em up. He was nearly totally controlled by just a mid-class prospect in Gutknecht and was stopped on wobbling legs after 2:45 min of the 5th round. Williams was just to inactive and ineffective with his punches which showed no effect to Gutknecht, who himself learned a thing or two about defnece over the last 2 years as he improved! I give him a shot at the European title at 168 in maybe a year...he might be on a level with Sartison already...
Good scalp for Gutknecht! Gutknecht used to be among the upper echelon of German amateur fighters a few years ago,but since he turned pro I havent seen a single convincing fight of him. I am not sold on him at all.He will soon encounter his match in one of his upcomming fights. Unlike Gutknecht his stable mate and friend Vitaly Tajbert has showcased his skills quite impressively within the last 15 months. Tajbert looked better while losing a close fight to world fighter Gulyakevich than Gutknecht while beating all his foes in front of his fists.
This one was pretty much a one-sided fight which Eddy clearly dominated from the start. He's still a bit flat on his feet but improved defensively, staying out of Williams' range most of the time and delivered some pretty accurate blows to his opponents chin. Though, Gutknecht lacked variety, he barely went to his foe's body, which was pretty much exposed when Gutknecht foreced Williams into the ropes...so he's still a lot to learn...
Thanks for the info,tom! I am going to look for a proxy server so that I can watch Boytsov's and Kotelnik's fights live on www.boxing.de
He was rejected from participating into the "contender" series because of bad conditioning and terrible hand eye coordination.
W8 a sec, i thought that guy got killed in a drive by shooting about 8 months ago. I know for deffinate that one of the contender guys who got rejected died and they were a former olympican. do u know who died then?
Sori Rhoshi Wells is the one that was killed, he's the one that had the hand eye co-ordination problem on the contender trials
