So Why Is No One Giving Glen Johnson A Chance?

This guy Johnson puts good performances but not good enough, this is how we can summarise him. He has 15 loses, maybe 5 of them unfair, still has loses in double digits. Bute will punish him and win a clear UD.

 

The only evidence I've seen of a shaky chin was at the end of Andrade 1, and I think that fatigue was the issue there.

Anybody can be caught with the sweet shot and Glen has a decent punch. But I don't see him getting to Bute.

This could be Glen's last major outing.

He'll be lucky to hear the final bell in this one.


Bute by stoppage, 7 - 10.

 

i think he gets hit just under an average rate. His glove defense is minimal as he hangs his right glove low. He's good good footwork which he maintains a fair amount of spacing to mitigate attacks & staying in the pocket too long. And he's got great head movement. He still gets clocked good once in a bit. As he tires down in the later rounds, his head movement slows down a bit more. This is when a good glove defense is valuable, which he doesnt have...

I think vidiots think fighters have glass jaws if they're not a pressure fighter or dont lead with their head first... whether these fighters have glass jaws or not, they're smart fighters for mitigating unneccessary damage to their head, and i can respect that.

I mean, if you go so far as to label those who wholly avoids damage as glass-jawed, Floyd Mayweather would be the king of Glass Jaws. But i dont think he's got a glass jaw at all. He proved that in his last fight. Ortiz's left was coming in faster than he anticipated, and was actually getting nailed early on by it. Yet, he never showed any affect from them. Andre Ward is another one. He has taken big shots from Edison Miranda & Authur Abraham, yet he does a great job limiting any type of damage... I dont consider him to have a glass jaw for doing so....

 

Age, location and Bute's most vulnerable look on the big stage I've seen, with Andrade, I've heard that he was rather ill, leading into that match. That combined with outright **** luck for Glen and the fact that he rarely clearly wins against the best, even disregarding the judging, it's sensible to assume a loss.

I never write Johnson completely off (one of my favorite current guys, actually), and I still hold Bute, who I think is very good (absolutely love those fully-loaded body shots), under a certain level of suspicion, in terms of just how good he might be, but it's clear Johnson should be a considerable underdog, while a top ten man anyway, I'd judge. I think the Johnson of Froch and Green probably beats, even now, Abraham and Stieglitz. And, since they're top ten Ring-ranked guys, it's certainly not like I think this isn't respectable match-making. It's just adding up everything, I have to assume Bute takes it. Not just favour him, slightly, but assume outright that he wins. If he doesn't, I've overestimated him, I suppose. But, like I said, I haven't made up my mind for certain on the man. I do assume he's top notch, though.

 

the guy fights with his hands down.if his chin wouldnt hold up he had been ko at least 3-4 times by now.except andrade 1,when he gass out i didn't see him in any trouble stoping fists with his face.i think you started this thread to point out that bute has no chin.there are at least one hundred more threads with that topic,no need to open new one.

 

Seems that you think Johnson will win!

 

And couldn't KO Zuniga what Bute did in 4 rounds

 

You're right

 

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:deal Berrio know how to pack a punch

 

Can I take your post as one of mines? I'd just add that Bute has been developping his glove defense in the last year. For the moment, his reflexes were enough to avoid almost every punch (Bute's opponents ofte say he's vey tough to hit) but Larouche is preparing him to face some fast fighters and he may need to do things differently against them. Usually, Bute begins with a high guard and as soon as he has found his distance with his opponent, he lowers his hands. When I see his hands down, I know he's comfortable. It's a very good sign for me.