how good is Beibut Shumenov

i only saw him once too on that ESPN card a while ago

 

Easily the best titleholder at Cruiserweight atm. He will beat Steve Cunningham, Matt Godfrey, Johnathon Banks, Wayne Braithwaithe, and Jean Marc Mormeck, but lose to Zsolt Erdei, Denis Lebedev, and a number of other Euro-Level challengers.

 

I was pretty sour on him after the second Campillo fight but the amount of improvement between that fight and the Uzelkov fight was rather dramatic. His lack of head movement, conditioning, fighting in straight lines all improved noticeably.

He was doing his own promoting etc (he promotes a LHW and WW that are quite good) but after the Campillo II fight stopped all his buisiness stuff so he could entirely focus on boxing and it seems to be a good move. Goosen helps promote him now.

 

he's a LHW....

 

He bring alot of action.... always punching.... and his defense is more offense.
Fun guy to watch. But his struggles with Campillo soured alot of people. But, Campillo is a very good LHW. Good chin and it plays well into Beibut's approach.

Hopefully Beibut meets Chris Henry in the ring because I will tell you this - it will be a war.

 

I liked him at the uzelkov fight. Considering his current lack of pro experience he's not too bad. Nice to see a boxer-type with consistent body work.

 

He's alright. Pretty basic, very central Asian style. No fluidity to his movement at all - every movement he has he looks like he's making a full effort. Hard puncher, and he might be the best conditioned fighter out there right now. Didn't slow down at all against Uzelkov, despite the fight being outdoors in 110 degree heat. Has major holes in his defense, although he seems to be improving in that regard, and isn't particularly quick.

Uzelkov was the first fight where he got to train full time without also being the promoter, so we'll see how much he improves now that he's getting real training. But I suspect he'll always look kind of bad against slick fighters. He just doesn't have the handspeed to bother them too much. Right now, he's definitely a top 10 LHW in the world, but also definitely not top 5. As he gets more experience, we'll see how he does. He's an exciting and entertaining fighter, so there are a lot of really good fights he could make.

I actually like him quite a bit on a personal level, even though I doubt he'll ever be an elite fighter. I love how he tried going after good fighters right away after going pro.

 

He is fun to watch, a wreckless wild man who throws power punches like they are going out of fashion, oddly enough, he seems to be able do it throughout the fight and not get tired, although he did get tired against Campillo, a fight he should of lost, but he managed to do it all night against uzelkov from what I recall, BTW, how rubbish was uzelkov ? one paced is a kind way to describe him.

 

I really like him. Having wins over Montell Griffin, Epifanio Mendoza and Byron Mitchell in 8 fights is pretty amazing.

 

Ehhhh, he punches with intensity, but is very basic. Doesn't set shots up, just takes them.

 

Uzelkov is actually quite a good fighter, that fight vs Shumenov he was horrendous and had alot working against him going into the fight. He is usually alot more active than he was in that fight.

 

his demolishing of uzelkov was impressive. he has a good future ahead of him . he is still pretty young.

 

shumenov is a lightheavyweight not cruserweight
he won the title vs gabriel campillo the spanish boy

 

ignore herb he doesnt know much about boxing.