Sergio Mora

He is and has been a solid contender for awhile. He would get stomped by Golovkin and beat by some of the other top operators but would give a frustrating night

 

His entire game is "you can't touch me" - but he a) lost Vera I & II clearly, IMO (despite some people insisting they were robberies; although Mora had the higher connect percentage, Vera threw enough more to still have more net contact), b) got dropped by Dashon Johnson (who is a better-than-average journeyman, kind of like a Darnell Boone or Zack Page - and did recently upset the skidding Craig McEwan - but still a journeyman) and c) was put down by the ESPN-level Han and let many of the rounds appear close enough to go either way.

Mora is slipping. His shot to win a title would have been against Taylor. With that falling apart, his window is closed, I think. His reflexes are starting to ebb and without them he doesn't have anything to compete with at the upper echelon - certainly not power, nor work rate.

 

:deal yeah this. Mora is a decent, respectable fighter but he is fringe not an upper tier guy.

 

Chi, did you see my rebuttal?

Mora is no longer very elusive.

Ergo, he's basically done.

Squeaking by Han might be his last hurrah.

 

Mora always been underrated, mainly cos he came from "The Contender" but for a lot of guys, he has a very troublesome style.

 

I agree....I didn't like his performance he looked old & slow for the first time maybe the knee was a problem but he looked very flat footed & stationary which he has never been .....maybe he was trying too hard for the knock out ???
possible but I didn't like his reflexes & movement 'slipping & tripping all over the place' not your typical latin snake performance ??? maybe he is slipping due to age or maybe it was against a awkward opponent Han had a weird martial arts style !
looked awful !!!!
we will have to see in his next fight ???

he could win another world title ....with the right opponent ?
but same as his first title win I don't think he will hold it for long

......hope im wrong

 

I just hope we don't end up getting Mora vs. Soliman in an eliminator - which, unfortunately, is very likely. (given that Soliman is the one that flipped the belt Taylor's way, giving him a claim to be in the conversation, and is ranked #6 besides; while Mora was supposed to be Taylor's 1st defense before prison, and is ranked #7)

1 Hassan N'Dam Cameroon 2 NOT RATED
3 Felix Sturm Germany 4 Billy Joe Saunders England 5 David Lemieux Canada 6 Sam Soliman Australia 7 Sergio Mora United States 8 Eamonn O'Kane Northern Ireland 9 Daniel Geale Australia 10 Curtis Stevens United States

N'Dam N'Jikam vs. Sturm is about to happen for the vacant belt, meaning one will be the champ and the other will fall, probably several places.

That would leave only Lemieux and Saunders ahead of Mora & Soliman in the rankings. The pair of them could wind up #3 and #4 respectively just with the whole list compensating for the vacancies with everyone bumped up a spot.

#3 vs. #4 is hardly unheard of for an eliminator - particularly if Lemieux and/or BJS are tied up in the hunt for another title, or suffer a defeat in the near future.


Mora vs. Soliman would be two shot guys with horrible messy styles to begin with. :barf

 

Mora is dead boring to watch

 

It depends on the opponent. Sometimes he is actually "tolerable".

 

Mora is pretty inconsistent with his performances. The style of the opponent does make a difference, but he really should have lit up Han with combination punching and decent volume, especially in the early going when Han was trying to counterpunch Mora(which is not Han's usual style). Instead, he was mostly doing one shot at a time, loading up more than usual, and not throwing much at all, making even "his" rounds close.

Mora put it all together by his standards on the finale of the Contender in his first fight against Manfredo(it also helped that Manfredo overtrained). In my view, he hasn't had a performance that was as good as that one since.