Is it true Jennings took 9 rounds and got floored off Dimitrenko?

Yes. Jennings did not look good to me last night. He fights too squared up and doesn't leverage his punches.

 

Is it true you are asking the members of an opinion forum to fact check an easily independently verifiable piece of information?

 

In a technical sense, but that belies the actual nature of the fight. Dimitrenko has a ton of raw physical attributes, just his lack of chin and heart always do him in. He was winning against Pulev until late in the fight too before he gave up. Competitive against chambers. Parker was the only time he really looked bad, and he'd been semi active for years, but had the big granat win more recently coming inot this fight.

Jennings looked resilient and skilled, showed to me he's still the same fighter that was considered a top 5 hw when Ortiz stopped him.

 

Yeah the part where Jennings "struggled" just strikes me as more a hiccup than anything. Okay-to-pretty-goodish small heavy (well-rounded but with no standout attribute) laboring to a nonetheless very comprehensive victory over a mediocre-to-okayish super heavy (with sundry flaws and nothing major going for him but power) and having a few minor speedbumps along the way. I certainly wouldn't say Jennings underperformed all things considered or that his stock from prior to when they fought plummets or anything. It was sort of just exactly on script.

 

Yes, and Fury just went 10 rounds with Pianeta. Sometimes the underdog wants to fight. IB summed up Jennings pretty well BTW.

 

I guess this leaves us no choice but to conclude that Joshua is better than Wilder.

 

Dimitrenko i compared last night to Primo Carnera. Just a big strong guy with a basic skill base and not much else. Less heart and toughness than Carnera but pretty much the modern day version of him. Jennings is frikking TERRIBLE! It drove me crazy how he would throw a nice jab not follow up, leave his feet planted and just lean back at the waste to avoid punches. Just awful!

 

Jennings underperformed in his last 2 fights. He's a smallish heavy so he needs to have better skills than the rest to even have a chance. I'm not sure if I'd rate him in the top 30 now let alone 10. He doesn't really know what to do in there to break down a fighter, and he has less confidence to boot after being knocked out.

 

Out of interest when was Jennings considered a "top 5" heavy?

 

^this. Jennings is solid, but i wouldnt be holding my breath for him to crack any of the heavyweight top 10, ever. When looking at your other US heavies... Wilder, Miller, Breazeale, Ruiz jr, Kownacki, Martin, i dont think Jennings beats any of them, and when looking at his record, i think its clear he prefers the smaller heavies and has trouble against the genuine heavyweights. Amir Mansour might be a good next opponent.

 

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Might've been a bad stoppage from the ref. Dimintrenko wasn't really knocked out.

 

Three KD's in a three minute span of a fight where the KD'd guy was losing almost every round...

It was a legit TKO.