Johann Duhaupas ends his career

He went 11 rounds with Wilder and didn't go down. Hopefully he is in good health because he took some losses recently

 

Alright, decent gatekeeper career.

 

Good for him at the age of 41. Tough man in his prime, had his chance at the world title and also KTFO my boy Sugar Rob Helenius.

The scariest people are the ones you don't know about. - Deontay Wilder on Johann Duhaupas

 

Come on man.

1. Duhaupas even in his prime was a punching bag with very good durability. Skill-wise he was always limited and nothing special.

2. Zhan clearly wanted to get some rounds in. When he's on he looks really good and would have literally killed Duhaupas.

 

Duhaupas put together a really nice career for himself, particularly considering four of his seven losses came against three notorious PED cheats - Erkan Teper, Big Baby Miller and Alexander Povetkin - and also Tony Yoka, who was banned for a year because he simply wouldn't take multiple PED tests when asked.

Duhaupas never really recovered from the Povetkin loss, when he flew to Russia on one day's notice and took on a guy who had failed drug tests that whole year and shouldn't have even been allowed to complete.

Johann put together a nice run after the Wilder loss and had knocked out Helenius. If he turned down the Povetkin fight he likely could've gotten a shot against Parker for his WBO belt in 2017 instead of Cojanu or Hughie. He'd likely have done better than either.

Good tough fighter. One of the better French heavyweights in boxing history.

An actual victim of PED use by other boxers.

May have won a belt in a second title shot if he hadn't crossed paths with juiced to the gills Povetkin.

Best of luck in retirement.

 

He had a good run at euro level.

 

Somewhere NEET is raising a glass to one of his favourite contenders ever

 

Good, I was getting worried he’d end up like Danny Williams or Michael Sprott.

Duhaupas had a pretty decent run in 2015-16, was a true throwback fighter. First he dropped a controversial 12 rds decision to Teper, probably a roided Teper, 3 weeks later he beat Charr, he showed incredible heart against Wilder and even had some success(the French pastry chief as Wilder haters liked to call him may have been the one to lay out the blueprint for Fury as he made Wilder look uncomfortable on spots by pushing him back) then brutally KOd Helenius and snatched his O(some people have been listing Helenius as a quality win for Whyte, ignoring the fact that Robbie was coming off of a loss to Duhaupas who did a much better job on him).

Taking the Povetkin fight on 1 day notice was probably a mistake though, that fight took a serious toll on him.

Anyways, best of the luck for the future.

 

Yes but the HW euro scene is pathetic.

Let's be nice here...he was one of the better Euro HWs in the past 15 years...

Hopefully he stays retired and won't come back for a quick payday here and there.

 

Yeah, you've got to be able look 'under the hood' of a career like Duhaupas' to fairly assess it - the sum was greater than its parts. His was more than decent but easily dismissed if you don't know boxing...

 

Decent journeyman level fighter. Good luck in retirement.