Better than Byrd??? You can't be serious. What do you guys think about the Golota fight? Austin at a career low weight could cause some problems for the now very slow Golota.
He's a fair boxer when he tries, for example against Donald and Goofi. Being at a career low weight might make him more mobile. Golota looked very slow in last fight and could possibly be outhustled here. I'll still take Golota by decision just based on his more natural aggression, but might be a close fight.
Tough fight to get a call on, because McCline has the size and experience to dominate and Mollo may still be shopworn from the Golota loss. And yet, McCline ability to fight like a frightened 5'4" guy under aggression can't be discounted, and Mollo can certainly fight aggressive.
Mollo is not too bad, I don't guess. He's just not on the world class level, and never will be. He is entertaining, but very amateurish when faced with good competition. He looked like a club fighter, as he was huffing and puffing, and falling all over Golota.
I like Mollos gutsy approach, while often a bit arrogant he is never short on balls, but against Jameel it will be very hard going if Jameel wants it more..
I'm on McCline at -180 I just don't see Mollo winning if the fight goes past 2 rounds. All McCline has to do is jab and keep Mollo on the outside early on. Mollo will get tired just trying to get inside... and though both fighters are known to get worse the longer a fight goes I see Mollo tiring quicker. I'll take a tired McCline over a tired Mollo after seeing Mollo nearly collapse against Golota. By the way, one point that hasn't been mentioned is that Golota could only see out of one eye for the entire 2nd half of their fight and Mollo couldn't do **** to capitalize b/c he was so gassed. If a washed up, one-eyed head case can handle Mollo I think a washed up 2-eyed McCline can handle him.
You'd think McCline should still have enough to outclass Mollo, especially since Mollo can't throw a short punch to save his life. On the other hand, he's been making a habit lately of pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. How he found a way to lose the Peter fight is still mindboggling.
Jameel is a wonderful person. Just an awesome human being and he deserves this as much as anyone in the heavyweight division. His problem is his killer instinct. He needs to unleash it and be the aggressor everytime he steps into the ring. He has all the tools and I look for him to use them properly in this fight. Place the bet!