This matchup is proposed to headline a January 11th ESPN card. This is a great proposition seeing two not very technical sluggers go at it. Should make for a memorable occasion if anything.
I like Smith ever since he beat Fonfara and retiring Hopkins in hilarious fashion.Needs a win though.
Hart will be violently knocked unconscious here. Stylistically, Smith is all wrong for him. Top Rank are making a terrible mistake here. Yeah, Hart just beat Barrera and Barrera beat Smith, but boxing doesn't work like that. It wouldn't shock me if it literally followed the formula to the letter of the Fonfara match, only sloppier.
He does indeed, and in a firefight he tends to have the advantage so I'm rooting for him here. This one should not be going the distance anyway that's for sure.
I favour Smith too, Hart isn't a good outside boxer who'll move plenty so he's probably going to get caught with a big one and be nailed to the canvas. The Irish Bomber will make his long awaited resurgence I believe.
Seems quite appropriate, although I wouldn't mind Gvozdyk taking a relatively soft touch following that brutal bout he just had.
Bingo, you'd have to be nuts to put him back in with a dangerous puncher after that rough azz fight. That's managerial 101 of a fighter.
Of course, everyone needs a confidence booster after a hard fight like that. It only makes sense. Facing one dangerous puncher, losing to him, and then fighting another right after would be potential career suicide.
I don't like Joe Smith at all but I feel like he flattens Hart. Jesse Hart is a really weird fighter to me. He fights with jittery energy (can barely describe his style). He's off balance alot, he squares alot, his hands are down, he tries to tie up. He's really a KO waiting to happen. Not a fan of Joe Smith but he can get you outta there. He'd have an abundance of opportunities to land clean. No way Hart makes it 10 or 12 the way he fights.
