Mundine vs Soliman

The hand that was all fine before the fight, then directly afterwards it was fine, but then later on it was badly injured. The same hand that he threw more often than his trademark jab.

Is this the same hand you're talking about?

Perhaps it might have been a bit sore, but I haven't read anywhere that it required surgery, and Palle saying so (if he did) doesn't make it so. He also claimed Kessler would need back surgery after his fight with Mundine, yet the surgery was never required.

 

And what will Kessler be doing:huh

Is that guy still alive???

 

That was a cop out.

Kessler must of blown alot of money through booked procedures that never eventuated.

 

The thing is, I like Kessler as a fighter, and he usually comes off as a great type of guy. but the injury excuse thing is a bit weak.

 

Why is Kesslers hand OP a cop out?
He didn't use it as an excuse for the loss, he admitted he got outboxed by Joe.
Kessler will be back, better for the loss I suspect.

Rick.

 

This is all true.:good

 

Bull****. he contradicted himself just by mentioning it.

A quote my Kessler in a recent interview...

"Yeah. Of course. The things I could have done different. You always look at that. But as I say, I don’t want to come with bad excuses. That’s why I said after the fight I don’t have any problems with my hands in the fight. But I had it like three weeks before the fight. But I know for the next fight, everything has to be 100%. And I feel that now I lost one fight out of my forty fights, now I know that next time I will be ready. Now I know how to not get so many injuries. I can only get better from my loss and be a better fighter."

Now I know I have to be 100% for my next fight?! Like any boxer didn't know that before.

Sounds like whining, and excuse making to me, though most fighters do it, so we shouldn't judge him too harshly.

 

He had hand problems but he didn't use those problems as an excuse either before or after the fight, for losing. However, he also says that in future, if he had such problems again, he'd postpone the fight. Maybe he is saying in other words that it might have affected him mentally, a bit. A bit of an excuse, but it's not like he says: "if I didn't have these hand problems, I'm sure I could have won!" He is just saying he would have done better if he hadn't been injured...which is obviously true - the injury must have affected him. Yet, we all know, and he does too, that it wasn't because of the injury that he lost. Calzaghe was just better.

 

Fair enough, I hadn't seen that.

Exactly.
Kessler has always appeared very professional and a gentleman, why would you think his hand injury is bogus? What should he say if he has an injury?

I think it's a little unfair to compare Kessler to other whingers like (say) Mundine.

Rick.

 

No worries Rick.

No doubt Kessler isn't in Mundine's league when it comes to **** talking, ect, but imo, saying you've got a crook hand afterwards, and then saying that next time you'll be 100% is making excuses.

I've said it from day 1 that if you get any kind of injury in a fight of this magnitude, at the very least you make an attampt to postpone it. No attempt was made, which is why I'm led to believe the injury wasn't very severe.

 

Indeed. It could not have been so severe as to have altered the outcome...and Kessler must have known that before as well as after the fight.

 

So for the mundine Fight kessler was 73.543%
For the Andrade fight he was 86.456%
For the Beyer Fight he was 94.95%
and the Calzaghe fight (taking the hand into account) was 88.2314%.

So the way I understand it we've yet to see kessler at 100% :yep atsch

As for the operations - he's probably still on the public waiting lists, stindgy *******... :yep

 

Hang on mate, Mundine's had the flu, broken ribs, a badly sprained ankle, an eye injury and a torn bicep to explain away various losses and poor performances. At least Kessler lost to Calzaghe in a better performance than some of Mundine's wins :yep

 

I hear Mundine will be fighting Rocky Mattioli after Soliman then a grudge match against Barry Michael and if Fenech wins in Thailand......:yikes

 

True true.