What was your overall impression of Williams in the first Quintana fight? Do you think it was just a matter of Williams overestimating him and we boxing fans should just sweep this one under the rug as an insignificant loss.... or do you think Quintana has designed the blueprint to beat Williams? Do you think Williams will continue to struggle against guys who use lateral movement and counterpunch effectively?
Imo i thought Williams didn't prepare right. He look out of shape and cut his hair to a mahawk. Now i don't get why people say Quintana wasn't prepare in the rematch if he was still the underdog?
I didn't like Williams at first and when he lost I thought there goes his 15 minutes of fame but he bounced back like a real champ including his extremely impressive performance versus Winky Wright and now I am on the bandwagon
I thought he was overraed before the fight. He IMO overlooked Quintana and didn't train right,trained just to make weight and it showd. Anyway his defense is poor and he eats hooks like they are breakfest.
If you've boxed at a high level before, its clear that Paul had an off night. He wasn't moving his head after punching, he had a ton of tension in his back and chest, and his jab wasn't authoritative or consistent, the hallmark of his overwhelming style. Quintana didn't so much have an off night in the rematch as he did a really stupid gameplan. He came to fight an aggressive version of the 1st fight, and a prepared Paul wrecked him.
Wasn't Paul in training camp for 6 months before the Quintana fight because his fights kept falling through? I imagine this could have had something to do with his performance.
Put him in there with Sergey... the man Williams has been ducking for a long time now... let's see what happens.
watching the fight i was like jesus this guys getting straight up exposed by carlos quintana. i mean quintana gave him an ass whooping that night. what changed my mind was his attitude in the post fight interview. he was calm as hell and took it like a man. you could tell he just had a bad night and he was still immensely confident in himself. i could tell he took it as a learning experience and it definitely seemed like he was just gonna come back stronger.
He looked unprepared. He didn't have definitive game plan, nor was he making any adjustments (he kept getting hit with those right hands all night), thus the results showed. Maybe he started to believe his own invincibility up to that point-but he certainly got a good wake up call that night. Because it was more due to indolence, than Quitana being any better, so it didn't change opinion about Williams one bit-that is it will be tremendously hard for anyone from 47 to 54 to beat him.
Petey ain't been duckin ****. Serg is getting his shot. He might even be next. And some dumb ***** like you who don't know what the **** you're talking about wants to claim he's duckin someone? Prove it idiot. When has Dizzy tried to get a fight with paul and he outright said "No"??? Only recently has he agreed to travel to the US and fight him, since no one in their right mind is gonna fight a belt-holder over in Germany... You should probably shut the **** up and go back to that Roy Jones thread where you claim Marquez is more dominant than Roy.
I think it was largely a blip. Besides, he's not often going to meet another southpaw with the specifics of Quintana. I can't think of anybody with that combination of lateral movement and precision counterpunching in his weight classes. Perhaps Dzinziruk comes closest, but he's not a mover. You could never say for sure until he comes up against a quality counterpuncher with good footwork. Nobody immediately springs to mind, and even then we must allow for a certain degree of improvement that Williams has made, and take into account not everybody is going to deal with Williams output and unorthodoxy quite so easily.
