Zhilei Zhang to fight Agit Kabayel for WBC Interim Title, Joshua eligible to fight Winner.

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  1. MorvidusStyle

    MorvidusStyle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    AJ beat nobody after Usyk losses. Gets a title shot with Fury but denies it.
    Gets another title shot against Dubious, gets destroyed.
    This puts him in line for yet another title shot. Kabayel has to beat Zhang to get the title shot, AJ has to exist.
    This corruption is just comedy now.

    The only good thing here is that if Zhang wins he might KO AJ cold for us.

    After Zhang KO's AJ, AJ will get a shot at the winner of Usyk and Fury.
     
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  2. CroBox29

    CroBox29 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Before the fight with Dubois, Joshua criticized Hrgovic and said that he is not that good, while Joshua looked much worse against the same opponent, Joshua is a brand and as such he will get opportunities as long as his career lasts, while other fighters who deserve an opportunity will be forced to wait, I hope that he will really fight with Kabayel or Zhang so that we can witness how one of them crushes him...
     
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  3. The Cryptkeeper

    The Cryptkeeper Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Kabayel far too smart to walk into Zhang and wins by mid-late stoppage or very wide decision.

    Zhang is criminally overrated in here. Kabayel is a class above in my opinion.
     
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  4. Komaster

    Komaster Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I see zhang as a different animal. Knocks a clean Kabayel spark out imo.

    Biggest puncher in the division will have a guy walking into him all night.

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    Joyce is sorta the same fighter as Kabayel. All pressure but with even a granite chin.
     
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  5. LenHarvey

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    Good fight, though I'd have preferred Bakole Zhang.
     
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  6. UmarIFLUmar

    UmarIFLUmar Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think Zhang has too much size and power for Kabayel but age is going to catch up with the old man eventually.
     
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  7. The Townsend

    The Townsend Zeus. Full Member

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    Either way AJ losses to both IMO. I think Kabayel on points.
     
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  8. Sks476

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    Chinese power can win this for Zhang.
     
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  9. lobk

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    How does AJ get a shot? It is the WBC, Getting knocked out in your last fight makes you a contender for the belt.
     
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  10. JunlongXiFan

    JunlongXiFan Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He went down vs Smakici
     
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  11. Shazzar23

    Shazzar23 Demetrius Bivol Full Member

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    Gotcha, thanks. That doesn't bode well for him. The upsetter might get upset.
     
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  12. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Kabayel ate about 20 unanswered shots from Smakici whp has a KO 90% and whilst he was hurt and the referee ruled it a KD when he was sent reeling into the ropes, the final shot which looked like him sent him reeling landed on his back and even if it was the shot before that which did so to act like he has a weak chin after weathering a sustained assault of unanswered shots from a big puncher is crazy. That sequence proves the complete opposite. Most HWs would've either hit the canvas hard or been stopped by a sustained assault like that.

    Big Bang could flatten him in a round but that's not because Kabayel has a weak chin. It's because Big Bang is a much bigger 20st man mountain who is arguably the hardest puncher in the division and bare minimum top 2 o 3.
     
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  13. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I don't think Zhang is overrated. He's extremely dangerous for like 4-5 rounds. Make it past that, he's quite beatable.
     
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  14. Reinhardt

    Reinhardt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That is my opinion as well, I like Kabayel by stoppage or UD. Kabayel has the skills to avoid Zhang's big punches. I hope the odds favor Zhang as I'll bet the other way.
     
    Reinhardt, Dec 4, 2024
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  15. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No problem with Zhang/Kabayel that's an excellent fight and would firmly entrench one as a top 5 guy....................why is Anthony Joshua in line at all? At this point he's tenuously hanging on by a thread at even being top 10 (I personally have him at # 9). I would at this point actually argue that someone 11-15 that's technically ranked under him is more deserving of a shot than someone who's been prepackaged multiple times and probably now nearing his post-prime
     
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