Lawrence Okolie vs. Chris Billam-Smith

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"The Sauce" or "The Gentleman"?

Poll closed May 27, 2023.
  1. Okolie on points

    75.0%
  2. Okolie by stoppage

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  3. Draw

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. Billam-Smith on points

    0 vote(s)
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  5. Billam-Smith by stoppage

    25.0%
  1. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    Topping a cruiserweight all-British doubleheader airing on Sky, twenty-seventh of May (the co-main is Mikael Lawal vs. Isaac Chamberlain for the BBBofC strap). WBO cruiser world title on the line, Okolie's fourth defense.

    CBS has vocally criticized the fighter many refer to disparagingly as "The Octopus" in the boxing media, noting in particular his fan-unfriendly style. His lone professional defeat, however, came against the stylistically not dissimilar Riakporhe, so hopefully the Dorsetine has learned in the last few years how to better deal with that sort of spoiling.

    Common opponents include:
    • Isaac Chamberlain (Okolie defeated him via UD10 in 2018; Billam-Smith via UD12 last year)
    • Russ Henshaw (both men dispatching him via KO1 just a couple of months apart in 2017)
     
  2. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    Give the Riakporhe-Billam Smith match a watch. It was a gift to Riakporhe, like the Massey fight. At the time of the stoppage due to eye damage, and I had CBS up 95-94 (96-93 is fine as well), and he was starting to mount a comeback after being dropped.
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    So if he could take Richard's power, who is arguably more heavy handed than Okolie, he stopped Glowacki faster. Then he might be able to take Okolie's. Although the grabastic piece of cephalopodic **** will still most likely grope him to Bolivian. Although if CBS can muscle him to the ropes and unleash a furious flurry of hooks to the head, there's always a possibility he can take this fradulent glass jawed pugilistic molester out.
     
  3. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    :thumbsup: React-poor should have narrowly lost both of his 2019 decision victories (95-94 CBS is the right card, as is 115-114 or thereabouts for Massey) ...but my concern was that if he's doing enough to just skate by Riakporhe on a fair card, he needs to improve a LOT to distinguish himself from Okolie, who pulls all the same BS as Riakporhe to make you look bad in the judges' eyes.
     
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