Your oppinion on what happened to Chambers last night

Stamina

 

I see three likely possibilities

1 ) Chambers knew he could not get into a take 2 to land 1 type of fight vs Povetkin, so he opted to cover up like Winky Wright ( and Chambers defense is very good ) then counter when he had a chance.

2 ) Perhaps Povetkin hurt Chambers at some point during the fight, and Chambers became gun shy.

3 ) Povetkin just had too much stamina and guts for Chambers to deal with.

 

Here's a video of the post-press conference with Eddie trying to explain:

http://www.boxingconfidential.com/articles.php?id=3690

 

i dont think it was stamina because he didnt throw enough to get gassed. It looked like he had no heart or desire to win. When he let his hands go he won rounds easy but something was wrong with him

 

Maybe, but just maybe, he felt Povetkin's bodypunches and didn't want to open up...

 

Since he's been a kid, he's looked, and fought that way.:yep If you think he'll drop 20 and fight CW and be tight, you will be :think :think :think a long time. I'd like to see Chambers get more time with Mcgirt and a conditioning coach to IMPROVE. Chambers wants to be a HW. I wouldnt mind the CW scenario, its just not likely.

Few guy's throw like Povetkin in volume at HW! So Eddie fell into a defensive shell and needed to THROW/COUNTER MORE. Chambers has gone the distance and its not as much stamina as mentality.

 

all mental.

Mentally, I think he just was not prepared to go all out for a 12 round fight. The skill is there, but in his best wins, Brock, Guinn, Rossy, he didn't have to work nearly as hard in those fights. Brock was out of shape and it was not too tough to put up a work rate/counter rate that would win him the fight. Guinn, even though Guinn fought at a better pace than he normally fights in that fight, he is still Dom Guinn and is still the laziest heavyweight of the last ten years. And Rossy had a huge cut and nowhere near the output.

No, Chambers had never been in a fight where he would have had to work 36 minutes and mentally he was not up for the challenge. The longer the fight went, the less motivated he was. The last few rounds were all Povetkin.

 

I voted too defensive. But that's his style. He wants to pick his spots but was fighting a guy who is very active. He needed to changed up his style in this fight to have a chance and he didn't. His hand speed is freaken amazing for a HW though. He can touch any HW anytime he lets his hands go.

 

It wasn't much to do with what Povetkin did, IMO. Povetkin took advantage of the situation and did what he had to do, but he did not directly or indirectly create Chambers' ambivalence and lethargy. Not from actual punches landed or the fear of hypothetical punches landed. No way.

 

Well, i would say it did because Chambers is a guy who likes to pick his spots and puts up that guard ala Winky Wright. And when a guy is throwing 900+ punches, you tend to be a bit gun shy because that's not your style to get into brawls. So i would say Povetkin did affect his game somewhat. But i also think he could've simply decided to throw more but he just didn't.

 

In the postfight Sauerland said Povetkin was sick a few days before the fight and almost postponed. For whatever that's worth...

 

I've come to terms with the fact that Chambers just stuck to his comfort zone last night. I guess it shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone (as he'd never been seriously challenged to rise above his typical "half-ass" effort level...and I think it was just assumed that he would the first time he was), but it is disappointing that the event didn't inspire an emergence. There was no big bad boogeyman scaring him away from crawling out of his comfort zone - he just didn't feel like coming out. That's inexcusable on the stage he was fighting on. I've defended his style in the past, but with that much on the line, he needed to zazz it up, and the man just didn't feel like zazzing. He took clean hard shots from Povetkin and blinked them off, just like he always takes a few clean hard shots in every fight (the 'stand in front and make you miss with head and upper body movement' defense can minimize lands, but doesn't do away with them altogether...for it to be efffective you need a good chin to go along with it, a'la Toney). He wasn't hurt, or scared of being hurt. It wasn't a matter of not wanting to mix it up out of fear - when he did make it a brawl he got the better of every exchange. He beat himself. And you could see the "whatever, I'm bored and don't feel like ramping it up" expression creeping onto his face by halfway into the fight - he'd decided he wasn't having fun before Povetkin shifted into high gear.

 

There's no doubt had Chambers simply matched Povetkin's output that he would've won the fight. At least IMO. He landed a bunch of FLUSH right hands in the first few rounds when he was busier. Too bad he didn't keep it up.

 

What happened was he got beat by the better fighter:deal, the Ruskie just outworked, and threw, threw, and threw, and Eddie didn't have the strength, stamina, or the will or punch output, to win..
Chalk up another victory for a Soviet Bloc fighter over an American