Murat Gassiev vs Erkan Teper 22 July Moscow

I hope to see the drug fraud Teper brutally KO'd

 

Vs then old and turned from very slow boxer to surprisingly slow boxer in giant Valuev >300 lber Haye looks that more had damaged his hands than this huge giant. No offense here, I had mentioned in some threads about Valuev vs Klits that I think they had won vs him on points and stoppage win might be most likely only due to cuts not KO.
Giant was slow and landed on Haye almost nothing, therefore he lost decision.
Btw I had read up some bunch with giant's fans posts and these too usually had scored fight for Haye by UD.

Vs Chisora, who really is 245-260 lber Haye punched effectively while being then ~ 217 lbs.
He was more effective vs Chisora than Usyk and Parker, also Fury in their first fight vs Chisora.
While not ideal ofc, small for HW Haye had punched enough hard to drop ~250 lber down.

 

The thing is, he's only 27, he wants to settle in at Heavyweight and hes got plenty of time compared to someone like Usyk and hes coming back off a few injuries as well.

 

Wow, what a good shout. Pretty much a guaranteed Gassiev knockout against a well known Heavyweight.

 

Yeah. Better if he will climb up slowly and maybe this inactivity for him too will be good.
If compare how f****ed shoulder played on Vitali ( was not good even when he yet was undefeated ).
27 for HW is young, some lads turns into a pro when they are 30 etc. He isn't >35 y.o and should not make weight for weight ins, this does matters damn a lot for body and nerves.

 

I really enjoyed watching Gassiev fight, was curious to see how he'd do at HW, legal issues or not it had been very disappointing - if it was indeed legal issues I hope they got resolved and we can see him get some ring rust off and then move into some big fights

 

Age doesn't matter here. He's a pro for 10 years. You can at least expect a decent opponent. Teper is a fat glass jawed bum with zero skills. And off the juice he probably has zero power anymore. It's a horrendous fight and Gassiev will get another TKO1/2 finish here. What's the benefit being in the ring for like 4-5 minutes in a total mismatch? If he wants to settle in at HW you would expect him fighting guys who give him some rounds. So your explanation is a nice try to protect Gassiev and the horrendous matchmaking here but it's a fail. Based on your logic i'd expect a guy like Kingpin Johnson calibre as his opponent tbh.

And regarding the injury talk...either he's healthy or not. He already had one gimmick fight a couple of months ago. Now he's getting another. And i expect him to fight more and more guys of that level.

 

Glad to see him atleast back in the ring. Hopefully he will be more active after this.

 

This does nothing for Gassiev but enhance the highlight reel - but yeah, gives us the joy of Teper being smashed.

 

And I do not. (LOL)

Gassiev is the guy who pulled out of a fight with Jerry Forrest last year because he "wasn't ready." Then never rescheduled. He also had a fight scheduled with Joey Dawejko and pulled out on a week's notice, citing a sore shoulder, and then never rescheduled that.

I have always been a big fan of the heavyweights. And I give them a lot of slack most of the time (as most will say about me), but for the life of me I have no idea why people think this Gassiev is great.

Is he waiting for everyone to get old and retire? Is that the plan here?

Because, for years, people on this board have said that cruiserweight class was going to take the heavyweight division by storm. And I'm just not seeing it at all.

 

Sparring stories are always fun. But I remember when all the top fighters were raving about how dangerous their sparring partner Ishe Smith was.

In the last three years, this is Gassiev's lone fight.

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I don't see anyone in that ring who is going to beat most of the heavyweights today.

 

Good boxer , but he wants to cash out in heavyweight division . Don't think he will become champion.

 

Gassiev had been champ and ranked highly at CW.
Then he looks that had decided to move to HW after fight vs Usyk.
Appeared that looks most likely he was injured later after WBSS, were rumors that he maybe will need surgery.
Looked that maybe they initially hoped to get over with rehab only, later still surgery and long rehab had happened.

If boxer is not active too long, his ranking is gone, especially before this modern covid era.
Not likely he is able to generate enough money for someone to be worth risk with if he was from top 100, not alone higher.
So he get this lad and now next boxer? Even good that he get these.

It is not like with Usyk, he when moved up had moved up as undisputed in lower weight class + with The Ring belt and he had vacated these belts in order to move up.
Usyk looks that had scheduled to fight with some boxer who had been pulled out from fight by boxing orgs or like this and get this Witherspoon as late replacement cos this stuff.
Then he get Chisora after this fight.

Ofc for Gassiev even till Chisora as opponent is relatively long road: ranking and $ they are able to pay to book Chisora for example to fight with etc.

Maybe like Vitaly, I hope that not so " healthy ".