He looks great now, but hell just get fat again and vanish for a few months, he always does this I like the guy i really do (no homo), but he needs to step up man. He coulve been great...
What were the weigh in numbers for Monte and David both? David looked pretty good as far as the pictures go....
Tua 237.5 Barrett 217. Azzur, Tua doesn't go to McDonald's, he patrons Burger King. Get your facts right. Tua in 5.
Then that's what it would display. What it wouldn't display is anything he didn't have when he failed all those times he stepped up to the championship level. The guy couldn't even outbox Hasim Rahman in his prime. He's got some highlight reel KO's, but he's never been championship material, and nothing he could do against Monte Barrett, and an old version at that, is going to prove he suddenly is. No one who has had a professional fight in the 90s is going to be the next big thing at heavyweight. We've got to find a young'un to put our hopes in.
Sorry Azzer. The Burger King man even entered the ring after the ringwalk with Friday. And Tua went to Burger King after the fight to celebrate his son's birthday. He invited me, but I told him I was a vegetarian. What does this fight mean for Tua? Well, it's 1) one step closer to getting out of his three fight deal with MTV. It 2) helps him continue to improve his skills leading towards a title fight. It 3) keeps his #2 ranking with WBO. It 4) pushes Wlad that much closer to a title fight with Tua if Tua wins with an early KO. It 5) allows us Tua fans to watch him in action.
Failed "all those times"??? atsch The guy has 3 professional defeats! One to a top-3 HW ATG, and in one of that man's most impressive career performances no less, another to a prime Chris Byrd while Tua's management was falling apart around him, and another to undefeated Ike, a fight I had Tua winning and that nobody who watched it came away thinking Tua wasn't for real. Sure, he's not championship material, but he does have KO wins over men who went on to take HW titles away from Lennox and Holy. And he's never been knocked off his feet. And he can KO ANYONE in boxing history if he lands right. After Tua half-decapitated him in 15 seconds flat, nobody else even looked like stopping Ruiz for the next 14 years, until he was 38 years old. Tua underachieved because he's short on brains and too trusting, but in the ring he is no joke and never has been. During his career, PLENTY of lesser fighters have been given MULTIPLE title shots. Tua has had ONE, against Lennox, maybe the WORST opponent in heavyweight history for him. And he lost an eliminator against Byrd, and those are all the shots he's been given. :hat
I'm with you Haggis. The claim that "Tua was never championship material" is bull****. He beat Oleg Maskaev, Hasim Rahman, and John Ruiz. Were they "not championship material"? Rahman and Ruiz were two time champions. Ruiz had several defenses of his title, and Oleg won a belt once and at another point he was considered a consensus top 3 guy in the weight class. Tua also was very competitive (in a fight I had him winning) against Ibeabuchi who was also widely regarded as "championship material". Tua always had his strengths as well as his weaknesses. He is what he is. Good power, good chin, can be outboxed, and doesn't have many dimensions to his game. Tua certainly could have become champ and he still has an outside shot even now. I mean, does anyone seriously believe that David Haye can stand up to Tua's best shots? :smoke
Its been on for oven an hour already.... on 3rd fight already... I think they said there will be 6 fights