May 4th in Kinshasa, for the WBC's vacant Silver cruiserweight title. Pérez is ranked #10 by the WBC, and Makabu #4. The winner very likely finds themselves in a position to compete for the world title vacated by Oleksandr Usyk as of his impending move up to heavyweight. Southpaw versus southpaw. Two powerful, compact heavyweights with big power and just enough vulnerability to make this a real crapshoot.
Makabu might go down once or twice, but he'll get back up, grind own Ismaikel and stop him late. It'll look like a scrappier version of Makabu-Mchunu.
How many flush Bellew hooks did it take to put Makabu down for the count? And does Perez hit harder than Mchunu or Kucher?
Perez going the distance with breidis is impressive stuff, makabu would have been starched early doors. Perez is just tougher. And yes Perez does hit harder than mchunu he's a weak puncher and a small CW. Baffled you think otherwise.
Perez hasn't sown a ton of power at CW thus far. He couldn't stop Tapia, and his shots seemed to have little effect on Briedis, who granted, does have an iron chin I don't think Makabu has an iron chin or anything, he clearly can be hurt, but he does well against fellow southpaws, his defense isn't that bad and hits hard enough to keep Perez honest and Perez's hands a home a little more. I think he probably hits a little harder than Briedis as well. Its a 50/50 fight IMO.
Yeh it's not cut and dry. It's hard to know how hard makabu hits though as he only has one good stoppage win on his record. Perez atleast fought decent hw comp.
Makabu has that stereotype African glass jaw like Tete, Indogno, Mchunu, Klassen, Bakole, Durudola, Kalenga, Kayode., Abolaji, Kamanga
Stereotype, wtf are you talking about? The guys you listed cover almost the whole spectrum of punch resistance, there's no common thread whatsoever.
