Lemieux in perspective

He will need to make serious adjustments though.

I mean how about a solid jab? Everyone goes on about his offensive ability, but I've yet to see him establish and impose himself on an opponent with his jab.

 

Lemieux hasn't actually showed a "skill set" he's so used to getting in there and putting them away instead of boxing. Nough said

 

A poor mans Katsidis.

 

His power is definitely not overrated, Rubio's experience showed by how he was able to cover up and stay calm. He literally rope-a-doped lemieux

 

Not to take anything away from Rubio. He was obviously the opponent in this fight, even though I thought he'd win.. But he is a natural 154 pounder with losses to guys like Ouma, and first-round blow out loss to Kofi Jantua.
What that tells me is that Lemeiux is finished as a top-level prospect. Take a look again at the fight. Rubio was never in trouble, always in control of himself and just waiting for his opportunity. When he saw, he won pretty easily.
Obviously this loss doesn't end the career of a 21-year old, but it does prove he's not a top-level talent.
If the fought again, it would end sooner. Rubio would know he doesn't have to wait so long next time because he's so far above David as a boxer.
Seriously. Repeated views of this fight will show that it was actually a pretty easy fight for Rubio.

 

Looking back I wonder if this is what Rubio thought he would do in the Pavlik fight. He kept talking about this 'secret plan' he had.

 

Rubio couldn't make 154 now. Period. Weight draining may have helped him lose at the lower weight.

 

I never saw Rubio fight before tonight, but it could be. I honestly thought he was just trying to survive until he come out in round 6 guns blazing

 

Well, with hindsight it is easy to say it was a good strategy against Lemieux who had never been deep into a fight. With Pavlik he would have been crazy to think that would work at that time because Kelly had never shown any indication stamina would be a problem.

 

THe thing is that Lemieux didn't hit Rubio with anything flush while rubio was swinging at the same time. Rubio blocked around 90% of what Lemieux threw because he saw it coming. U have to set people up. Anyone can be offensive and defensive at times. The better fighters can do both at the same time. Rubio is a limited guy and the only reason he beat him was because of flat out poor strategy starting with no body punching on a guy who wants to play punching bag. Rubio hit Lemieux while he was swinging and lulled him to sleep with the jab before starting to throw the straight over it. Lemieux has some good tools but needs a good trainer to get his footwork and head movement good enough to put him in a position to hit opponents with shots while they are swinging themselves because that's what wins fight.

 

He needs to create angles that his opponents won't see + his power = lights out, he reminded me of tyson at times when he gets close enough and places his feet to get good leverage on those bombs, but he fired away at rubios guard instead of set ing up and countering at angles.and if rubio would have thrown the upper cut straight down the middle more he would of tagged him often.

 

It might be interesting to watch Rubio/Lemieux back to back with Rubio/Pavlik. He was inactive in the first rounds of each. I know one difference for sure was I remember Kelly splitting his guard with a at least one big punch. I'm pretty sure he worked the body also but it has been a while. I just remember in the first him actually working Rubio over on the ropes and then standing back. Not something that is characteristic of Kelly when he has someone on the ropes. Like I say, it has been a while and if I can get a copy of this fight maybe I'll watch them back to back and compare the early rounds.

 

Here is a real perspective.


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