Jirov...another inactive fighter

Jirov is way shot. He has taken way too many punches.

 

Jirov's career has gone downhill since the Toney fight.

 

Yeah the Toney fight ruined him. I miss him though, was damn exciting.

 

Watch this body shot ko of McGroom:

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Beautiful

 

some of those guys have enough money so they dont need to fight unless they want to

 

Jirov was a very good CW champ, good chin, tough as nails, decent boxing skills, and he was way better than David Haye. But he made a big mistake by moving up to HW a couple wins at CW after his loss to Toney. He still was competitive against Mesi and Moorer, good fighters, so I don't think he was shot after the Toney fight, but HW was just not his division. He came close to beating Joe Mesi, who was regarded as the next big thing in the HW division, and he's been on a winning streak since being knocked out by Michael Moorer in a fight he was winning. He's campaigning at CW again, but I think it's too late now, with him being so inactive.
Jirov should have stayed at CW, I mean he showed a lot of heart and toughness in his 2003 fight of the year with Toney, and he won his subsequent fights at CW after that loss. He'd have gotten his title back soon if he stayed there, maybe even unified, and nobody would have ever talked about Mormeck and Bell, and certainly not about Haye. Jirov would have murdered Haye with his relentless aggression and great stamina, he's all wrong for Haye.

 

I've posted this one several times in body shot threads with no response. Absolutely textbook left hook to the body. Vicious.

 

here is a great body shot ko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYyBWbHfvo

 

True. Mosley definitely fits that description, plus his fight with Judah got cancelled.

Cunningham is just falling victim to King's habit of keeping some of his fighters on the shelf.

Winky's probably in good shape moneywise and is just being picky about when/who he fights. At his age, their is nothing really wrong with that.

I thought Jirov had retired.

 

Michael Moorer finished Jirov as a top tier fighter, after that he just faded away, he had balls of steel, heart, stamina, a great body attack, but too many tough fight's caught up with him..

 

Jirov was a sparring partner for that guy who KOed the faded shell of Chris Byrd. Jirov took too many punches early in his career, he's done.

 

Tua is the one I don't understand. But, Jirov probably lives his life in a good way, hasn't blown the money he's made, and doesn't need to fight right now. I don't know how old Jirov is, but I miss his fighting too and hope to see him fight one more time again.

 

Early in his career? Toney landed a bunch of punches on him and he was never the same, but that was 6 years and 31 fights into his pro career. No one had even challenged him up until that point.

The thing that hurts Jirov's legacy is that he never really beat a top fighter at Cruiser as a champion. Arguably his best title defense came against Dale Brown, a solid contender, but never a champion.

It's a shame, because with his pressure style he could have most probably beaten JC Gomez and/or Johnny Nelson, the other champions of his era. A win over those two would have been huge and given him a better legacy.

 

I asked about Jirov a few weeks ago..I really miss seeing him fight.Thst guy was a born fighter