Yep. A Briggs upset would just substantiate the division is full of "C" level athletes and even the 2 at the top are completely overrated (on ESB - no one even rates them as anything above pedestrian in the US). Here we know that if talented large sized athletes were pursuing professional boxing both bros. would have been embarrassed and quit years ago. Shitty division ... weak athletic talent. Sport has been on such a long many generation decline.
Hey Shannon, welcome to EBS...I wish u the best of luck and hope u bring the title back to America...I feel u have no shot but I will be rooting for u..
I understand that, and I think it will end inside too, but again, the point is, unpredictable old age, these guys are not what they used to be against higher quality opposition. I'm not counting on early stoppages from either.
Rocked by an over-weight past-prime Lewis and holding on by the time the fight was stopped. Hide wasn't even a HW, he had to weigh in with weighted shoes and full clothes on to. Sanders rocked him badly to the point of which Vitali ran away, and possibly knocked him down aswell. Peter, Arreola and Williams are irrelevant. None of them landed anything of note. His chin is not as proven as some like to think. I'm not saying he has a bad chin, it's obviously very good, but some act like he is unknockoutable. And before you say it, no, I'm not saying Briggs does the job. This is a joke of a fight and Briggs shouldn't be in the ring with any titlist. He's done, he should be on the club circuit continuing to knock out journeyman because he's going to gas within 2 rounds.
The possibility of Briggs landing a monster shot on Vitali is very possible. However, knowing this, Vitali will probably choose to keep his distance and move a lot in the early rounds. He will try to get Briggs into a stamina battle, and we all know what happens to Briggs in those kinds of fights. Klitschko is way to cerebral not to have a game plan and just try and take out Briggs with power (remember Wlad vs Sanders and how it effected Vitali vs Sanders).
Lewis was old, lazy and still beat the crap out of him. If a prime Vitaly can't beat an over the hill Lewis, is he that good...:think..or maybe Lewis was just that great.
Lewis also actually threw punches in combinations. Briggs doesn't. You're not going to cut anyone up throwing one punch at a time.
Yeah, that uppercut Lewis hit Vitali with had absolutely no snap on it... Vitali was never rocked to the point that he had wobbly legs and he never was down in a professional fight. Name me one other HW boxer with that attributes.