Odlanier SOLIS to fight Francois BOTHA on May 30, in Spain - also AIRICH-WILLIAMS

Think you can enlighten me on Solis, Bone?

Everything I've read/heard is that he's another superbly talented but out of shape heavy.

 

Has Botha got anything left in him these days?



I like the Williams vs Airich fight. Airich is a huge puncher and has good potential while Williams has still plenty to offer if he is in shape. I pick Williams to stop Airich by half way but that depends on Williams conditioning.



Williams has a fight lined up against Big John McDermott soon as well.

 

I think Williams is going to get stopped.

 

the guy who handles gamboa and solis are doing a great job.. This is what prospects should be doing instead of fighting 20 cans and get to 20-0 only to get expose once they step up

 

yup yoan pablo hernandez, he was also a medalist and i had high hopes for him. I was suprise he got stop..but thats how prospects should do instead of those prospect like i said get to 20-0, have all this hype surrounding him then gets exposed

 

I take it this means Solis isn't fighting on the US card next week then? I like how Arena has been moving these guys, but I'm sick of them jerking fans around by constantly cancelling and rescheduling their fights each time they can find a better opportunity. At least it wasn't a fight on the televised part of the card.

Botha's only fought once in the last 5 years, so who knows what he'll have left in the tank.

I haven't heard much about Airich before, which makes it surprising that a major promoter is sticking him in with such a good fighter this early. Considering he drew against Mazakin, who Solis destroyed, I'll guess this is too big of a step up, but at 29 years old, I guess it's a step he'll need to make prematurely at some point.

 

Six of one, half a dozen of the other if you ask me. This method just seems refreshing because it's less common. If it were the other way around there'd be complaints about how most guys are brought along too fast. :yep

 

i can see your point but this way i think is better to tell the real deal from the hype. DLH and cotto had pretty good opponents in their early careers (under 15 fights)

 

As has been said, its impressive to see Solis taking on someone on Botha's experience level after so few fights. Seem they have a lets get this thing going, already attitude with Solis.

But with Botha being so inactive, Solis may be able to get a big name on his win column, and only be the tenth fight. Wow.

 

A win over Frans Botha in his 9th fight would be pretty impressive.

Just as impressive as Povetkin's win over Donald.

 

I like this matchup. Even if Botha is over the hill, he outboxed the durable Bob Mirovic with ease last summer. I like to see Solis uses his feet a little more this time. The perfect scenario for Solis is dancing and outboxing a tough Botha for 5-6 rounds until he turns up the heat and knocking the tough south african out in round 7.

Karlo

http://boxning.blogspot.com/2008/01/top-100-heavyweight-prospects.html