Maris Briedis Returning in March Possible move to Heavyweight

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  1. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member

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    Adamek had the right fights leading up to his demise against Vitali. Even his fight against Arreola was close, and Arreola was a descent Hw.
     
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  2. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Charr has been stopped 3 times in 35 fights and one of those was on a cut.

    The sequence of punches that Povetkin knocked him out with would've sparked your boy AJ out cold for a fortnight and Charr ate a lot of huge flush shots from the massive punching KO artist Povetkin before that too and obviously that was a much younger Povetkin than the one who fought AJ.

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    Briedis put Charr to sleep, something no one else has ever been able to replicate and it's also something AJ has never done to a single one of his opponents even though he's 240-250lbs of ripped brick excrement house lol

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  3. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    I can see a similar path being plotted out for a Briedis now. Look at the WBA rankings for instance. Victories over Faure (to crack top-10), Dinu (nudging closer to around 5) and Bryan (the current number one contender, somehow) put him in line as mandatory within three very winnable contests.
     
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  4. drenlou

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    Like i said they got to do some careful matchmaking just to get him to contender status. We'll see man, for me his size is going to be too much of a disadvantage for him once he starts fighting real HW contenders.
     
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  5. chico g

    chico g Let's watch some Sesame Street...lmao Full Member

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    None of these puny cruiserweights have a hope in hell against fighting these big beer belly behemoths. Feed him to Breazeale, and let's get this over with!
     
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  6. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Oh yes, let's do so. :D
     
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  7. RB1702

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    Do you really think Breidis hits harder than AJ? I think I may have had this argument with CST80 before as well. He was saying Breidis and Gassiev hit harder than Joshua.
     
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  8. Badbot

    Badbot You can just do things. Full Member

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    I think it makes sense to move up from a monetary point of view.
    Heavyweights get paid!
    He could likely make as much fighting a lesser Heavyweight than what he would make against a top Cruiserweight.
     
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  9. Surrix

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    If Breazeale had in the ring 213 lbs 30-32 y.o Briedis he had been KTFOed.

    Most likely.

    If they get right fights and even not mandatory title fights.

    Yes.
    Why. Interesting, at least get not only chin but also back of the head tested by Glowacki.
    Glowacki really behaved like a girl. Interestingly he didn't had problems like " dirtyboxe is bad " when he fought Vlasov.
    Glowacki dirtyboxe is levels above Salido level there.
    Still he filled appeals about fight's result, of course, dude was not capable to get this Briedis down even with full power rabbit punch and then get down from not full power elbow.
     
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  10. Serge

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    AJ wouldn't have sparked Charr out if he'd fought him, let alone sparked him out cold on his face with a single devastating shot because, like I said, he's never put anyone to sleep in 25 attempts even though he's a massive unit.

    You can read into that what you want but my point is that this ''small'' Briedis hits very hard indeed when he really sits on his shots and he possesses the speed, boxing ability, skill, movement, counter punching ability, resume, and toughness to at least warrant enough respect to be taken seriously as a legitimate contender up at HW as have the similarly sized Uysk and Hunter. I agree he's left it too late for my liking to move up though.
     
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  11. RB1702

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    Do you think he hits harder than Joshua though? That was my question. Also how do you know AJ couldn’t do that to Charr. If he caught him right with a shot he didn’t see coming he definitely could.
     
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  12. Surrix

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    You had missed a lot valuable stuff to see if you had such opinion about CW division top fights.

    His resume at least is not full with 37 y.o + and you A.J fan might be bought with names on A.J resume.
    I no.
    Did you even had sparred very hard and more than 8 rounds?
    I do know that my 38 y.o version had nothing much to offer for my own 35 y.o version not alone 32 y.o version.
    You no and post these surnames and hope that A.J is some prime Foreman?

    A.J is hometown protected boxer who together with ref defeated Parker.
    You are A.J fan and do not see how full with out of prime opponents his resume is.

    Best shape/ skills level boxer A.J had in the ring was Ruiz.:D
    34 y.o Povetkin or Klitshko had KTFOed A.J cold if he had to fight with their 34 y.o versions. Without hometown ref he maybe had lost fight vs Parker.
    Referee defeated Parker not A.J. :D
     
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  13. RB1702

    RB1702 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Is English your 4th language?
     
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  14. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    That's neither here nor there. I'm sure AJ has more weight behind his shots because he's a lot bigger and heavier than Briedis but the point is none of those HWs Charr fought could do that to him so Briedis' lack of true HW size by this modern standard didn't prevent him from sparking a durable giant like Charr out cold.

    No, AJ hasn't ever done that to anyone, even down at scrub level, and he wouldn't have done so to Charr either
     
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  15. RB1702

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    Who do you think Briedis would beat at heavyweight?
     
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