Mikkel Kessler joins Sauerland Event - SMW Tournament to be announced on Monday!

this tournament has the makings of superb match ups. I love it, and can't wait. Also love the fact that Kessler is finally free from palle.

 

He's had a career full of "toon"-ups. Unless he's been in jail for the past four years he doesn't need anymore tune-ups.

42 fights and 30 years of age, he's more than exhausted all of his allotted "gimmes".

Those cartoons he's been fighting are all described as his "mandatories".

Time to get busy. The clock is ticking on his career.

 

He will fight his mandatory Perdomo as a tune up to keep his WBA title before entering the tournament.

 

When you've been out the ring for so long, any and all fighters need a tune-up, regardless of the opposition they had faced beforehand.

Besides, you say his whole career had been a tune-up. A tune-up to WHAT exactly? Froch? Dirrell/Ward? As if Dirrell and Ward were chomping at the bit for a title fight back then. Do you actually realise how idiotic you sound? I'm sure you don't, so someone with an iota of sense may have to beat it into you.

 

It is getting pretty pathetic. In the past, fighters had 100, even 200 fights. So there are many bums interspersed over a career.

Today's so-called "champs" are having fifty fights with only a half-dozen being meaningful.

Ridiculous bull ****.

 

Shut up ya wanker.

I'm complaining because these fighters are spending too much of their career fighting poor comp.

Is that so difficult to comprehend?

 

What other comp were there that were willing and in a position to face him at 168? Answer the ****ing question, don't run away from it.

 

Run away from it? What are you babbling about?

It isn't like he has faced some murderer's row of talent in his career.

No one is interested in him adding a few more mediocre scalps to his already long list of mediocre scalps at his age and with his experience.

It has long been a crap division but there is no excuse for him spending one moment more with the half ass talent he has faced in the past year or so.

 

what other top, willing opponents were there for him to fight at 168 for fight? Granted, Sartison hadn't achieved much (although he's not a bad fighter and might do something in future). And suddenly you're talking about the past year? WTF happened to him "fighting tune-ups all his career"?

You ****ing imbecile.

 

Are you kidding me?

You actually ****ing think that ANY of the young talent and others in the division wouldn't have been happy to face Kessler instead of seeing Haussler and Sartison get those fights?

YOU actually think those bums are the only men with the balls to have entered the ring with Kessler?

GTF outta here.

The problem isn't getting opponents before now. IT is his team's unwillingness to take a high risk low reward fight. That is business. That doesn't mean that MANY guys would not have taken that challenge if offered.

Ya ****ing **** head.


Avoiding tough fights is the very definition of the champs at 168 for a decade and a half.

 

Nobody apart from Froch mentioned a damn thing, and Froch wasn't quite in a position to do so. Yes, Palle is a ******** that isn't interested in giving Kessler any kind of top opponent. But there was no-one around anyway. Fact.

 

SO, if I gripe about more wasted time where Kessler faces another easy mark (for him), you find that objectionable?

Kessler has been looking like he could get to 50 career fights and into his mid-30s (the end of his prime) with Mundine and Calzaghe as his only fights of consequence. Now he gets to fight Perdomo (a guy who has lost to Sartison and Veit). That is some challenge moving from the southpaw Calzaghe to the 18-fight southpaw Perdomo.

He can fight Perdomo in the gym at home if he needs the work. He can find significantly better comp if he wants a challenge as an athlete.

He has had enough bums over his career to pad his record as well as his bank book.

 

Any other fighter at 168 have as many top 20, top 10, and top 5 opponents at 168 than Kessler. No.

There's depth there. A lot of it. No elite wins, granted. But these fighters that you dump upon were the best around that were available to fight Kessler.

When Kessler was beating the likes of Beyer, Mundine et al, who else was there available for Kessler to fight? Come up with some ****ing names....

 

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