Tonight we may have lost a world champion, but I think we gained a legend

Ola afolabi fights very similar to James toney very good chin and upper body movement its a shame about his work rate

 

In the run up to this fight he was sparring Tyson Fury

 

I'm afraid not. Great chin but nothing else. Lets look at the facts for what they are, Enzo was about 7 points ahead on the scorecards at the time of the stoppage. If he'd had an ounce of sense and had not dozed off he would have won an easy points decision. Comparisons to James Toney are ridiculous, like I pointed out in another thread, he got hit with every shot Enzo threw. He tried to slip and roll with the punches like JT but he neither has the reflexes or the fluidity to be succesful with this approach.

Credit where it's due, it was a great victory for him. The reality, however, is that he's a pretty limited fighter who managed to get a great victory by his good punch resistance and decent power.

 

You must have been watching a different fight to me mate.

He got hit by every shot Enzo threw? Ola used his reflexes to dodge quite a lot of Enzo's punches early on in the fight and covered up well and rolled a lot of Enzo's punches late on, meaning he was very rarely tagged by one of Enzo's big punches.

 

Check out how many body shots landed, it was crazy. One hard ass mofo definitely but actually succeeded in slipping very little of Enzo's shots.

 

Well it is very hard to dodge body shots when on the ropes! Even when he was getting hit to the body, Ola still had a nice defence meaning Enzo could not get a free shot and hurt Ola as much as he wanted.

 

I don't agree that he has a good defence. I don't know what the stats are but I'm sure if you check the amount of shots landed they would be plentiful. Enzo landed plenty to the body and head but just couldn't trouble the guy at all. Hence he started to panic and where his troubles began.

 

Not being able to hurt him was a problem for Enzo, but he also got frustrated with the 'clowning' about from Afolabi, which resulted in him getting tired out, because he was throwing unnecessary punches.