What's your pleasure on Saturday: Jesse Hart vs. Joe Smith Jr or Jaime Munguía vs. Gary O'Sullivan?

I think Hart will try to keep it long, move a lot and attack in spurts. If Smith catches him clean he'll get him out of there but unless he does so early it will have to be a come from behind KO because he's not skilled enough to box with Hart and he's too heavy handed not to get him out of there if he's landing with any kind of consistency.

I was trying to find out what Smith's reach is but I couldn't find any info on it. Hart actually looks the bigger of the two of them which surprised me given how he's the one whose moved up in weight. And has a long reach at 77.5''

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Joe will land, and clean, and the first clean shot that lands, he rips Hart's jaw clean off. He also can KO him late, hell, he knocked B-Hop clean out of the ring in the 8th and almost KO'd Bivol in the 8th or 9th with a glancing blow. Trust me here, this ain't no flight of fancy on my part because I'm a Smith fanboy. I had very little faith in him against Bivol, but Hart is just so damned easy to hit. and here's the catch, he's VERY undisciplined, which will be his downfall.

 

I've always been of the opinion that Hart's a bit of a dangerman who will lose via stoppage to fighters you'd expect him to beat and upset 1 or 2 you'd expect him to lose to. He's long and rangy and he has power in both hands and he catches you with sneaky shots you don't see coming. I'd expect Smith to beat him, but likewise, as I said, I've also been expecting Hart to score an upset or two against fighters I'd favour to beat him over the course of his career and the only way I can envisage Smith winning is via stoppage which he's more than capable of doing.

 

Do you want the Predator card tomorrow night?

 

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