Huck vs Brian minto may 1!

Seriously? What's with Huck facing American heavyweight journeymen who move down to cruiser?

I suspect Minto will be weight drained at cruiser. Huck probably wins about as easily as he beat Richards.

 

Huck's really bringing back the bum of the month club.

Well, I guess it's better than the usual Cruiserweight plan of fighting once every 3rd year.

 

He'll do alot better than Richards, you're right on that. :thumbsup

 

WHy wont he fight the nr 1 ranking guy In Lebedev? That would be something to wait for.

 

damn iam pulling for minto man he got me as a fan after that arreola fight. There was a point where he realized he couldnt win so what did he do? he started throwing as many punches as possible....my kind of fighter.

 

The guy probably hasn't weighed less than 200 pounds since middle school. He's only fought as a heavyweight as a pro, and he was a linebacker in college football, so he'd probably need to take off some muscle or drain a lot of water weight to make 200. I don't care if he looked soft or wasn't that big, someone isn't going to be at 100% if they're fighting at the lowest weight they've been at since they were a teenager.

 

Brick, I'm surprised you feel that way.

Dropping the weight to me seems a long overdue move for Minto.

It would benefit Chambers the exact same way - freeing them up to use their quickness and optimize their strength without the spare tire. The only time it's a bad idea is if someone has bulked themselves well over the HW limit, past the point of no return (like Toney) or waited until they were shot like a clay pigeon to cut down (like Byrd).

Minto, like Chambers, is still young and this is an encouraging sign. Eddie's probably going to stay at HW and keep chasing his world title dreams, but there's time for Brian to make noise at Cruiserweight and he might do just that.

He'll go to war with Huck, and he'll gobble up power shots to land his own. Huck will not have experienced anything like it.

Style-wise, it could develop into a macrocosm of Gatti-Ward (obviously that's a very ambitious statement, and I don't want to say that it'll be anywhere near as exciting as any installment of the trilogy...but it'll be a damn exciting slugfest and maybe the best CW battle in a while if both guys are really up for it).

 

Minto's 35. He's not young. He'd be dropping to his lowest weight since he's a teenager. And he's not quick either. I don't see how dropping helps him utilize any quickness, because he doesn't have much. Yes, he's probably better off fighting guys closer to his own size, but this seems like a lot to bite off for his first fight south of heavyweight. Remember what happened to Chris Byrd when he tried dropping?

I actually thought the same thing you're thinking for Huck-Richards. I actually rate Richards better than Minto. Richards has always been a slugger, willing to take a few shots to get off his own. That worked for about one round, and then as soon a Huck really sat down on a punch, he was gone, probably in part because he wasn't used to fighting at such a low weight.

 

Lets maybe see a Cunningham rematch after this.

 

Well to me, Minto always seemed to beat the bigger guys to the punch. Even the ones that beat him, like Krasniqi and Arreola - their size and strength was more than he could handle, but in exchanges you could see how they were lucky to have those advantages, with how much Minto was getting off compared to them.

He wouldn't be the quickest at 200, but then neither is Marco himself. Brian always punches his heart out, and sits down on most of his attacks - but his power never really made an impression on the big boys. He wouldn't necessarily lose any of that power (he's certainly got 20lbs of expendable fat, right around the midsection) and you'd have to think if he was burning down the right way, with a good team including a good nutritionist (assuming he began the work in the winter, and he has until May) - he could wear his newly trimmed frame well and probably move a bit better, and perhaps even be able to pack a little more pop. He'd need to, to get Huck's respect - otherwise with his durability and earnest no-retreat style he will just be a bloody mess of a punching bag until the final bell or a mercy stoppage.

I'm not convinced of his chances - optimistic more than anything else. You could be right, he might show up looking like the walking dead and get blasted in two minutes. He could, however, turn out be a good and effective Cruiserweight (more effective than he's been giving several inches and a few stone on average) and if he is this could be a barnburner.

Minto isn't a model of technical grace, but he does put punches together better than Richards, and will therefore have a better chance IMO of finding a target to hit cleanly after walking through the fire.

 

Minto has weighed as low as 205. I'm guessing he wont be draining himself at all. Just training hard and a good diet.

 

Byrd was shot to begin with and Byrd used his speed to get out of the way of slower punches but at 175 the slowest guys are about as fast as the fastest heavyweights. And dropping to 175 were he looked like a Victoria Secret model is different then dropping to cruiserweight. If he did that I doubt he'd have been drained at all.

And considering Minto didnt turn pro til he was 27 its just your speculation that he hasnt been 200 or under since he was a teenager.