both have great assets otherwise they wouldn't be where they are today. i simply think kessler will win due to age difference. kessler is strong and has a good workrate and ring movement for every second over every round. joe is definately more varied in his skillset, but you can only keep the tempo up so long when your 35. age is less of a factor as you go up to heavyweights but for a fighter like joe who relies on swarming aggression it will hurt him. i feel joe has faced slightly better comp, but SLIGHTLY! that is my opinion of course but the results are not in favour of calzaghe. in his career joe has nearly lost to robin reid and some reckon he should have lost that fight or made it a draw at least. he's been wobbled, stunned, and even dropped by a couple fighters. he's also appeared far more winded that kessler has in his fights. plus he's resorted to some rough tactics to force his will onto opponents. kessler on the other hand has barely lost rounds to anyone. never been stunned or dropped for that matter and has more authority behind his punches. while he has a back problem i suspect calzaghe's hands will be more likely to break before kessler's back gives in. keesler is so naturally strong he makes it look easy. he never really does any rough house tactics, and never been in trouble. having said all that this is a very good example of where styles makes fights. it might be a back and forth match, but i doubt that. i feel one fighter will have the right tools for the job and slowly wear the other one down. and either dominate him down the stretch or late round tko. i win (and lose) either way as im a big fan of both equally. that's why i feel my assessments are pretty accurate cause i dont have any bias clouding my judgement. kessler has never fought anyone like calzaghe. but the same can be said for joe. kessler is NOT a Veit, or Reid, or Mitchell, or Lacy... he is far superior to all those figthers and he will show this come fight night :thumbsup
Excellent post. Wish i could be as happy regardless who wins as you are - as i accept Calzaghe poses ALMOST as great a danger to Kessler as the other way around. But alas for me a Calzaghe victory would really ruin my day...well...week. So i just really gotta hope Kessler is all i think he is. If not, he's in big trouble... and so am i.
Quote me on this. Kessler will win... Why??? He has a great jab and a superb straight right. The jab neutralizes speed, and the straight right is a southpaw killer. :good Joe's not going to be in there with a slugger that he can pick apart. It's going to be a war that the younger and fresher will win.
Giving only 70% when the coach asks for 110% shows lack of committment. You should have said you'll give him at least 83%...he would have been happy with that! (100% - you collapse at the end of the game and die) (101% - you collapse a minute before the end of the game and die) (99% - you collapse at the end of the game and go into a comma, having suffered a massive heart attack) (95% - you collapse at the end of the game and you suffer a massive heart attack) (93% - you collapse at the end of the game and suffer a mild heart attack) (90% - you collapse at the end of the fight of complete exhaustion) (87% - you can barely leave the field you are so exhausted) (85% - you are more exhausted than you can ever remember being before - you have pushed your phsycological/ emotional boundaries forward and have built character to a great extent) (83% - you are very exhausted -you have pushed your phsycological/ emotional boundaries forward and have built character to a significant extent) (...70% - you pretended to try, but your heart wasn't in it - you thought you were kidding your coach but you were in fact letting yourself and your team down and kidding no one - disgraceful!:-( )
Jeez Blocky.... Thats one hell of a long post. In my business we have a saying that the longer an oponnent talks about his case - the better case we have. The statement marked with yellow doesnt make sense at all. Youre almost unstopable dude....!
:rofl:rofl:rofl - excellent runthrough. In CHJs defence, he did say that he would average 70%, and suggested that it would be better pacing himself.
That doesn't happened mate, it is all wrong. Go out your home and just start sprinting flatout and keep going flatout, when you get tired keep going. I did that once. Just to see what happened You just start to lose you balance, your legs go, you fall, you get up, go on fall again, get up and go on a few more times, until you can't get up again. At this point people intervened.
Did you suffer a massive heart attack? Were you in a coma for months? Were you clinically dead for hours before they managed to resuscitate you? Did you have one of those out-of-body experiences in which you can see your body from the air, the doctors almost about to switch off life-support? NO! So, don't be silly - you weren't even close to 86% of your potential - you barely scraped an 85,2%.