Is any active fighter with just 27 fights have as good a resume as Cunningham? Guillermo Jones (SD Win) Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (SD Loss, MD win) Marco Huck (TKO Win) Tomasz Adamek (SD Loss) Troy Ross (TKO Win) Enad Licana (UD Win) Yoan Pablo Hernandez (TD Loss) He also has wins over guys like Wayne Braithwaite (past his best but still a puncher) and Sebastiaan Rothmann.
Andre Ward? Arthur Abraham Allan Green Sakio Bika Mikkel Kessler Edison Miranda + Carl Froch (assuming the fight doesn't get cancelled)
Cunningham is up there. CW is a very competative division. Steve has flaws (average chin, but excellent recoup powers, can be outboxed as Ross showed), but he isn't afraid to challenge anyone, often in their own backyards. No doubt in my mind he wanted the Haye fight. Steve Cunningham should have a large following imo, because of his skills, toughness, ability to both box and brawl and his resume of course. Not to mention that he is always entertaining to watch. Too bad Adamek, Haye and now Huck left. This would have been a cracking division had they stayed.
Thats a pile of junk. Cunningham has faced G.Jones, Wlodarczyk, Adamek, Huck and Hernandez. Not one of these hard hitters could stop him. Yeah sure, some of them knocked him down, but Cunningham always recovered very well each time.
So? Tasting canvas in every major fight indicates he wouldn't recover against a proper HW. In fact, he hardly recovered vs. Hernandez. I would've waved him off.
Against Hernandez, Cunningham recovered superbly. He got a charitable count from the ref, but came back strong in following rounds. As for his prospects as a HW, although Cunningham is a born cruiser, he wouldn't do as badly as you believe as a heavy. Banks was ktfo by Adamek and has yet to be blown out as a heavy. Haye has a **** chin and hasn't done too badly either.
Banks hasn't fought anyone at HW (granted, Walker hits fairly hard, thing is, he doesn't hit ****) and unlike Banks Cunningham has shown a vulnerability in his punch resistance at multiple occasions. Haye's chin ain't half as bad as advertised. He took a crushing right hand in round 5 vs. Wlad and matrix-moved back and recovered perfectly. Chambers took the same shot (I was ringside for both) in round 2 and was dazed from then on until he got brutally KTFO. As a matter of fact, Haye's been down only three times in his career. That said, don't get me wrong, I like Cunningham. I don't even believe an iron chin is crucial for success as proven by RJJ, Wlad, Hearns, Tito and so on but it shouldn't be ****ing china and to be honest, Steve's chin is closer to china than to an average chin. This doesn't bode well for a HW career. Furthermore, I disagree on the matter that he recovered superbly. He looked fine from round 3 onwards but that's not the point. He didn't look recovered at the end of the 8-count and should've been waved off. An average HW puts him to sleep. STFU limey noob ******. How did you accumulate thousands of postings in 4 months? ****ing armchair athlete.
Jones won Huck is trash and was green as hell ross was winning and Cunn ducked him In addition to a below average chin he's feather fisted unlike Haye. SC woulod be murdered at HW, look at what Adamek could do pressuring him, imagine what a legit HW could do.
Not within the 8-count apparently. I dunno why you act so surprised that Cunningham has the better boxing skills. He was always going to outpoint Hernandez, the question was whether he would be able to dodge Henandez's right hand all night long which wasn't answered at all. He sure didn't evade it in round 1 and could've been out cold even in the closing seconds of round 12 so I refuse to acknowledge the TD as a pure robbery (I had Steve ahead as well obviously) but as a horrible mistake by the doctor to not let the fight go on. It could've gone either way due to Cunningham's poor chin.
