I suspect that Briedis should stop Okolie in distance to get win vs him in U.K. The same if fight vs Cieslak in Poland. __________ Well, at first I will believe that Briedis will fight again only after he will climb in the ring and will start to box. He now didn't had fought 9 months ? and if for 20-30 y.o lad this is not imperssive ring rust, for almost 37 y.o boxer this does means a lot. Briedis looks that today is 36.5 years old. These talks about HW, then CW again? Dunno. In good shape Briedis might be more dangerous than Cieslak for Okolie. Looks that after Dorticos fight they attempted to get Makabu fight, then these talks about fight vs Okolie and greedy eddie c o c ky until IBF ordered mandatory in Cieslak. I think if they had negotiated Okolie fight before IBF had installed mandatory in Cieslak, IBF had agreed that title defense fight might be vs Okolie cos they encourage unification fights.
Well, promoter does have more impact than language and am superstar background too. Loma had ol Bob who had get him a title shot in 2 nd pro fight. Usyk had to rack 9-0-0 ( all wins via stoppage ) pro record and while being backed by Klits he get to fight for a title vs Glowacki in Poland where then tickets sales with him ( Glowacki ) very good. Basically in short, to fight vs tickets seller in his country. Briedis is more former am kickboxer rather than am superstar or star boxer converted into a pro boxer. W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 (Coimbra) - Wikipedia W.A.K.O. European Championships 2008 (Varna) - Wikipedia He racked 21-0 pro record until get fight vs Huck in Germany in event where Huck was co promoter. Then from these fights in his record 9 were done aboard: U.K, Germany, Greece, U.S, Poland, Russia and only 1 from these fights he had won via decision ( in Greece ). 2 most notable hometown fights : vs then 20-2 35 y.o Durodola and Venter too didn't had lasted all distance. It is difficult to get something good and high if the boxer isn't former amateur boxing star, superstar, ofc promoter too is important thing here and sorry, better is if you are from proper country. With large fanbase and population, from large nation ( preferably ). Maske from Germany, despite was am superstar like Usyk, had looks that 19-0-0 pro boxing record until he get his first World Title fight.
Okolie had the shi'iest style in boxing, naa'meen. He smothers his own work. Did Dr. Octopus blame the loss on being drained or being too big for cruiser? I didn't watch the whole fight.
Briedis will make this guy go insane to the point where even being disqualified for breaking the rules. Mairis made it so difficult to Usyk, being smaller, that their fight was a draw in reality.