How Do You Rate Jean-Marc Mormeck?

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Linear and undisputed (i dont believe undisputed titles can be stripped or vacated by definition) cruiserweight champion, good fighter in his prime which was a number of years ago. He is a bad heavyweight title challenger.

 

Good victories over Hill (twice), Bell and Braithwaite, he was seen as the No.1 at CW coming into the Haye fight. However, if I remember correctly they had open scoring in the Bell rematch, and this led to Mormeck "running" in the last third of the fight, because he knew he had the fight in the bag if he stayed on his feet.

At HW i give him almost zero chance against Wlad tbh.

 

very good cruiser. the best half a decade ago.
steady brawler with some tricks and skills that was hard for boxers to time and hard for inside fighters to outmuscle. and knew how to get out the way of shots. but wasn't young even when he was 2 time unified lineal cruiser. against the best cruisers of his day. and gave al of them a beating or at least some trouble. had haye in trouble before getting bowled out.

one of the best career cruisers of our time. wasn't spectacular but got the job done.

 

He was a good Cruiserweight but not even all that there IMO.

 

Bell was seen as the American in the division, which meant he got more respect than his spotty performances before (and after) deserved.

He was getting a hammering in the first half against Mormeck when the Frenchman just seemed to blow his gasket and come apart. It was quite a shock that loss, more for the manner in which it happened.

The rematch was a bit of a letdown. When Mormeck realised he was ahead on the cards through the open-scoring system, he just ran the clock out.

 

For an undisputed champion, he was ****.

 

Rate open scoring its shite, ruins the fight in a way.

 

I rated him at Cruiser in his better years. Even in the Haye fight he displayed how good a fighter he was, albeit he had the style to trouble Haye.

His defence was overall pretty solid, very tight guard, decent hitter, steady pressure. He didn't quite mesh offence with defence though, there was a lot of waiting for the other guy to finish throwing before he threw back about him.

 

Qawi, although no where near beating Foreman, gave the big man plenty to think about for a few rounds. If Mormeck can do the same tonight, I will be very impressed.

 

Yeah i dunno if there taught that but rarely see many Europeans throw counters it's like polite boxing. 'You have a go' 'finished ok it's my turn'. Strange really....

 

Maybe it's more that trainers are always wary if you're not fast enough to punch in between shots. It's a very risky thing punching out of the guard if your opponent's in mid-combo.

I suspect it's because so many fighters get all tangled up if they throw three or four shots. If you punch right after they're more likely to be off-balance and open to the shots.

 

One things for sure though and that's that Mormeck is taking this fight 100% seriously. He looks to be in amazing shape here in this training video.

30 minutes training video.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmh...t=0#from=embed


One of the most impressive training videos i've seen, you can see why he's always in top class shape, it wont be enough though to win but i've probably moved his odds of winning up to 10% from the previous 5% I had before watching that.


Link not working but here's part of it.


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Yeah, I've often wondered why European fighters don't counter at all.

Khan basically shut Kotelnik out by constantly punching (and running too).

Even a good technical fighter like Kessler wasn't the greatest at countering, other than the uppercut sometimes when the opponent was on the way in.

 

Jean Marc will be relieved to hear that - here's what he did when he saw your post:

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