This guy has such a crazy resume, if you look at it closely. Leaving aside that he went 20-0 (11) against mainly losing records before getting thrashed by a succession of decent to very good fighters in a 3-10 skid... Look at the guy's weight. :scaredas: Starts in '96 at 176...four years later he's fighting future heavyweights and light heavies at 160 (his low peak coming against a can at 157) until Robert Allen brought his world crumbling down - then shooting up a full stone to 174 six months later, right back down to 160 against Ikeke - within a month! - then a triumphant return four years later against an 8-35-1 cruiserweight at 186. Down to light heavy for a few fights, then another brief, winning excursion back up to 190 and then down again to light heavy to lose to Jaidon (all within four months)...and several others. His third trip up to cruiser this past October (this time with a 197 lb body), was not a date with a can, it was a date with Vadim Tokarev, who broke his strange and remarkable little streak of occasionally getting sick of losing at lower weights and scoring a single victory at CW. 40 lb range with regular fourteen pound jumps back and forth in short intervals (in the most recent case jumping TWENTY FOUR pounds in nine weeks). What the ****! Clearly the guy fights for a living...does he not have any conditioning or nutrition regimen? Does he just not give a ****, willing to do whatever he needs to do to get to whatever weight to fight whoever's offered (and have the ability to physically withstand this wild fluctuation)?
Thats pretty amazing. I noticed something similiar whilst trawling boxrec about Chris Henry, the bloke who just challenged for the vacant WBC interim title against Diancou. http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=291302&cat=boxer It seemed so weird I asked a boxrec editor to investigate it for me and at first he didnt think it was the same Chris Henry but whoever inserted it seems to think it is. What happened is he weighed in at 173 pounds for a light heavy title fight, some regional belt. Then less than a month later he weighs in 25 pounds heavier to fight some guy who has 60 pounds on him for some heavyweight regional. Exactly 2 months after that he comes back down to 175 to fight another 12 rounder. So within a 3 month period he has gained 25 pounds, fought, lost it again to fight again. Pretty impressive or bizarre, which ever way you want to look at it. He must really cut some weight to make lightheavy, which is sorta believeable because he looks big for the weight and fought at 183 in his last fight. Which was against someone half decent and on T.V, so he must have been in alright shape.
That is nutty. I liked how he took care of Williams, and heard the Diaconu fight was actually pretty close. Never really looked at his prior history. Let's have Henry vs. Hayes, at cruiser or a catchweight of....whatever! Somewhere between light middle and heavy.
Henry impressed me a lot but I hadnt seen him so I had no expectations about him. He looked like he was coming close to stopping Diacou late in that fight and Adrian just edged him in the end, which isnt what everyone thought would happen. He would decimate Hayes I imagine.
