Rendall Munroe - The Future

Take on the best competition in Europe at super bantam and try and make the much needed improvements. Try to get a bit more power behind his shots and work on those slow starts, every time he fights I get worried in those early rounds. If he does that and gets a good run of convincing wins under his belt then he can take on some contenders at world level.

 

Dont u think boss sometimes its part of his game plan .... i certainly do on friday evening ... Martinex came out all fired up and Rendall took no chances early doors , covered up defended well and Martinex by the fourth looked devoid of ideas and the gas was already half empty and Munroe slowly took him apart from there on in .... i thought it was a good good performance ...even took a breather in the eighth and was unlucky not to stop Kiko in the final round ....

 

cant remember too well, but was munroe not considered much of a prospect when he was thrown in with andy morris in his 11th fight?

 

no he wasnt but some fighters progress and develop and Munroe is a thinking mans fighter - think bernie hopkins lost his first pro fight and hes not done too bad !

 

True was probably smart gameplan, still it had me worried although Jim Watt's commentary didn't really help! Against Martirosyan I think it was he didn't start too well though and I would like to see him try and get into his rythm earlier because by the second half of fights he looks a lot better although that just might be from wearing out his opponents with his size and strength.

 

Think my Mrs would disagree with you 100% there .... :hey (at least thats what the milkman said !) :rofl

 

If you check out Munroe's last 5 fights its actually quite impressive.

He fought Martinez, who was seen as the best in Europe after his win over Dunne.

Okay, Bouatia was donkey ****.

Martirosyan is ranked highly by the EBU, around 5.

Trotta is ranked 10 by the EBU.

Rematches Martinez.

So he's not going too badly. He's proven himself well worthy of the belt, and on paper...he's the best in Europe regardless of what people say about Dunne.

 

It's bound to happen sooner or later I reckon. The thing is I'm tired of all the bitching and whinging thats gone on about it (people on fourms/maloney and peters) and now I really don't care if they fight. It's the best fight for him financially thats for sure. I'm not too sure whether he is worried about money at the minute though. He certainly doesn't seem to concerned with that in the short term anyway.

A lot of prettty good ideas floating around as to what he could do. If he stays with the EBU which seems to be the plan then Maladrottu will be his only real test in the next year. Mike Oliver is a pretty good idea when he decides to test himself outside of Europe.

I'd guess it will go EBU defence x 2 or 3 - Moderate American/Latino - Good level American/Latino - World Title attempt

I really do think he should go full time though. I know people can see reasons why he shouldn't and say he's doing fine as he is but to maximise potential he should go full time.

Just a thought here but given his size (he's looks huge for the weight) do people think he'd have a problem stepping up to Featherweight at world level? SBW could be draining his power somewhat. I know he's going fine as he is at SBW just wonder what people think of it as an option further down the line

 

How about a fight with Steve Molitor!

 

I'd like to see him defend his European belt a few more times against decent level fighters and then step up for the world title. Simone Maludrottu is his mandatory so that'll probably happen, he's a decent fighter aswell and I think Munroe will learn from the fight. Will probably be his toughest fight to date but I think he can come through it and retain his belt.

Then possibly somebody like Matthew Marsh, I don't think he's great but he's highly ranked by the EBU - at #4 - and he'd claim the British title in the process. Then maybe somebody like Mahyar Monshipour, again pretty highly ranked at #3, he might be mandatory by this point if Munroe beats #1 Maludrottu and then #2 Dunne wins the WBA regular title against Ricardo Cordoba. Again a tough fighter but I think he's past his best and only recently came back, which makes him very beatable, a good name and good learning experience for Munroe.

Realistically if he wants to win a world title it's going to have to be against the winner of Dunne v Cordoba, hopefully for him it'll be Dunne as I think he'd beat him in honesty, I mean Dunne's a good boxer but he does have chin troubles, even if Munroe isn't the biggest puncher, and I think Munroe would always be in a position to land given he's a big super-bantam, and Dunne doesn't have the firepower to keep him off.

That are against Sakata the Japanese guy that has the WBC belt, but realistically he's not going to go to Japan for a world title fight, and Sakata certainly wouldn't go to the UK. And he's not going to beat guys like Caballero or JuanMa.

 

In the official programme from last fridays munroe fight, it stated that if one of the boxers on the undercard 'paul hyland' wins then he is inline for a fight with munroe this summer

 

Does anyone know much about this Japanese lad by the way?

Just had a look at the WBC ratings and they are a disgrace even by boxings very low standards. Has Vasquez retired? I missed it if he did. He's lost his WBC rating completely. Some right slops in their top 20 as well