Siarhei Liakhovich: what went wrong

Not clinching in the last minute against Briggs went wrong.

The idiot just had to stand until the final bell.

 

What went wrong is he's simply not that good.

 

He was.

The Brewster war cost him a lot physically and the Briggs fiasco a lot mentally.

 

Once Briggs pulled the race card on him, that was all she wrote .

 

Kimbo Slice would embarass Liakhovich and stop him.

 

I remember the week of his win over Brewster the main page had an article about him vs Wlad. He was taken seriously as a threat

In hindsight the Brewster win might have been a fluke given the retina injury though he himself had to endure a lot

The Briggs fight he underperformed and got clubbed late

He faded probably enjoyed his money and stopped enjoying his training

He did give Helenius a good 4-5 rounds mighta been ahead when he started getting battered

Shoulda called it a day when Wilder turned him into a seizure victim

 

Don King and multiple bouts of inactivity where he was out of the ring for well over a year, it was a similar situation to Kotelnyk. Liakhovich was ranked #13 in the WBO and was supposed to be an easy voluntary defense for Brewster but pulled off the win and was punished for it.

Also in the Briggs fight they stopped the ring clock in the last 25 seconds or so after Liakhovich went down so when he was knocked out of the ring the fight should have already been over. Even if this disgraceful corruption didn't take place and the time wasn't expired he should have received a 20 count yet they waved it off at 7 when he started to sit up and try to climb back in the ring.

Most blatant corruption i can remember seeing, Americans will do anything for a HW belt.

 

He wasn't! Wins over Ahunanya and Guinn! How far did they go? In his prime he was a 'good' heavyweight, in any normal boxing universe minus multiple title belts he would never have been champion. A win over Brewster is not really a big deal. Brewster was getting smashed by Wlad until Wlad fainted and a win against a 'past it' Golota not to mention 'squeezing' by Meehan. Seriously, Brewster was one of the most overrated heavyweights. So in reality, Liahkovich beat who he should have beat and lost to who he should have lost to.

 

Not sure if serious. Liakhovich would embarrass Kimbo even if he were 50, Kimbo is a complete joke of a fighter. He wouldn't even last one rd with Ruiz, nevermind win several and see the bell like Liakhovich did.

 

He shouldn't have to Briggs.

 

This

 

"Fighter cannot be saved by the bell" is commonplace, although I don't know what the regulations were for that fight. If that were the regulation, the stoppage was completely justified since serge was trashed and unfit to continue--doesn't matter how much time was left bc the red isn't supposed to consider that.

 

GTFO....he could have had 2 minutes....he wasn't getting up and back in the ring.