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Old 19-03-2016, 16:53   #139
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Re: Boxing/MMA

Bit inactive but I guess I'll get it up to date.

Anthony Joshua - Someone made the absolutely horrendous move of landing him a Title fight against Charles Martin on April 9th. I actually believe he can stop Martin, but again he could indeed lose this fight and be left ruined. Martin is hardly world class. This isn't a step up in fairness, this is far too quick and should he beat Martin and become the World Champion I think they need to reflect on the can of worms they've just opened. There'd be a 16-0 Heavyweight with no credible opponents waiting at the top of a chain of mandatory challengers that include David Haye, Deontay Wilder and so forth. There is no good ending to this. Anthony Joshua will be floored by both Haye and Wilder inside 5 rounds.

Anthony Joshua is nowhere near ready for the power and speed of Wilder and Haye. If Dillian Whyte is rocking his chin then you can rest assured Wilder or Haye will take it clean off his face. Eddie Hearn is a mad man.


Haye has a fight penned in for May, Shannon Briggs keeps making claims Haye keeps knocking him back and if true I can't really blame him, Briggs needs to be gone. Haye is too quick and far too powerful to be fighting a 44 year old man. See the Vitali Klitschko fight against Briggs, it was atrocious it was allowed to go the distance. Briggs shouldn't be anywhere near a boxing ring after that never mind someone even quicker who will land twice as many punches. Great heart but needs to really hang it up. Haye will go the route of mandatory challenger for the IBF title and thus forcing Joshua into vacating or fighting. This is what I mean by stupidity on the Joshua Camp.

Fury still has that rematch with Klitschko penned in at some point, no doubt we'll see postponements and what not. I'm expecting Groves vs Froch II, Fury will come in with the same plan against a man that's studied him relentlessly and then be neutralized. If Fury comes in with something completely different, he'll catch Wlad once again off guard and expose him.

Amir Khan opted for Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and is jumping weight. Great move and hopefully he can settle in or return back to WW. It's also a shining example of why Kell Brook seriously needs to do a lot more before calling out the likes of Khan and Mayweather. The opponent difference is hilarious.

Canelo or Kevin Bizier, not that Kevin Bizier is fighting Brook in the next fight and has 25 wins against unknown fighters with 2 losses coming to none other than Jo Jo Dann. Quite incredible. Brook can lap up the British hype all he wants and lay claim to things that he has no business claiming but the reality is any true boxing fan knows he's currently not worth anything to the boxing world unless he starts putting on actual PPV fights and not scraps with Taxi drivers he found in Canada.

With that in mind.

Expected results and future fights.

Joshua wins a sketchy fight or gets knocked out himself - This one worries me. I hope he does win but there can be nothing great to come of it for the immediate future, I can't see him getting away with ducking Wilder, Haye, Fury or even Klitschko for very long and that's troublesome this early in his career. He has everything needed to be Lewis II but dear lord have some patience. I'm all for moving up in opponents given the status of some of our boxers but hold off throwing him into a shark tank!

Haye wins vs unknown. He'll not be fighting anyone that great, it'll be a knockout early on and another step towards Joshua/Wilder. If it's Briggs then it shows you how deluded these fights can get.

Brook wins vs Bizier, this is daft. just daft, another shining example of sitting in your backyard calling out prime fighters who have no interest in you and then taking on someone 20 levels below you instead. He has no intention of working his way to Khan, Canelo or anyone else on top of the WW food chain. A typical bum fighter. Anyway he'll win, he doesn't have a choice either, if he lost to someone like Bizier, his career would be in tatters.

Amir Khan vs Canelo (Either way) Could Canelo trouble Khan with power? I'm unsure, can he even land a clean punch? that's probably the better question. could go either way but I doubt Canelo is taking Khan on points. If Canelo can't land then Khan schools him for 12 rounds.

Fury vs Wlad, honestly have no idea which way this goes, said above it's completely dependent on game plans and cited Groves vs Froch II of a shining example of trying to repeat the same plan a second time round.
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