Can Maccarinelli Beat Cunningham?

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 31 Dec 2007, 07:37

With his stoppage of touted Marco Huck in Germany on Sat, Steve Cunningham proved himself a force beyond doubt at cruiserweight. This is a hard working guy who fights anyone abroad. He doesn't always get it right, but he has beaten Rothman in South Africa, Wlodarczyk in Poland and Huck in Germany.

For a cruiser, he's very fast - hits in combination, moves, well. He's also tough, dealing with a lot of holding and mauling by Huck, eventually hurting and stopping the man.

Safe to say he's a known quantity.

I've been very pro-Haye going in to the Mac fight. However, if Macca wins the big fight, he can attract Cunningham to the UK, which is maybe best for the future of the divison and further big fights.

If it ever comes to a Macca-Cunningham unification, how would it go? Would Cunn be too fast and persistant? Would Mac's size and power help chop down a man who IMO hits like a light heavyweight?

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 31 Dec 2007, 08:17

stick to the subject at hand, please.

Captain Hook · Post by **Captain Hook** » 31 Dec 2007, 09:01

Yeah, I'd worry about this down the line...

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 31 Dec 2007, 09:43

Captain Hook wrote:Yeah, I'd worry about this down the line...

the first reply was cocks up the arse...

Could Enzo cope with Cunn's movement?

sendo · Post by **sendo** » 31 Dec 2007, 10:04

Enzo is too slow and upright. He wouldn't have a big height advantage in this fight either which he needs to dominate. I think Cunningham would be slick enough to outpoint him, but probably only by an MD.

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 31 Dec 2007, 10:13

But it's possible he could slow Cunn down, chop him down to speed with body shots...

However, watching Enzo-Braithwaite, Enzo looked very controlled, but almost too much. Would he be able to change direction, cut the ring off, on a moving target?

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 31 Dec 2007, 11:00

Possible, but not sure how hard Enzo really hits - sure he flattens the likes of Gunn & Aizzoui, but he didn't come close to stopping the supposedly shop worn & vunerable Braithwaite did he.

If Wayne can hang around for 12 with Macca, then you'd assume a cagey boxer like Cunningham could as well, and likely come out on top with a points win.

Got to laugh at the Germans report of the Huck fight, take a look at the photos and you'd assume Huck won easily. They couldn't even bring themselves to show a photo of SC landing a single punch!

http://www.boxen.com/themen/aktuelles/t ... eid=811%20

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 31 Dec 2007, 11:58

MightyWarrior wrote:Possible, but not sure how hard Enzo really hits - sure he flattens the likes of Gunn & Aizzoui, but he didn't come close to stopping the supposedly shop worn & vunerable Braithwaite did he.

If Wayne can hang around for 12 with Macca, then you'd assume a cagey boxer like Cunningham could as well, and likely come out on top with a points win.

Got to laugh at the Germans report of the Huck fight, take a look at the photos and you'd assume Huck won easily. They couldn't even bring themselves to show a photo of SC landing a single punch!

http://www.boxen.com/themen/aktuelles/t ... eid=811%20

the bastards.

if Huck won, they were only going to hide him on undercards anyway!

WildWaylon · Post by **WildWaylon** » 31 Dec 2007, 13:11

MightyWarrior wrote:Possible, but not sure how hard Enzo really hits - sure he flattens the likes of Gunn & Aizzoui, but he didn't come close to stopping the supposedly shop worn & vunerable Braithwaite did he.

If Wayne can hang around for 12 with Macca, then you'd assume a cagey boxer like Cunningham could as well, and likely come out on top with a points win.

Got to laugh at the Germans report of the Huck fight, take a look at the photos and you'd assume Huck won easily. They couldn't even bring themselves to show a photo of SC landing a single punch!

http://www.boxen.com/themen/aktuelles/t ... eid=811%20

See what you mean, laughable isnt it, bad losers the Germans - I have a lot of faith in big Enzo who I believe will take over from Joe as the gym star when Joe quits.

n1ebf · Post by **n1ebf** » 31 Dec 2007, 15:59

MightyWarrior wrote:Possible, but not sure how hard Enzo really hits - sure he flattens the likes of Gunn & Aizzoui, but he didn't come close to stopping the supposedly shop worn & vunerable Braithwaite did he.

If Wayne can hang around for 12 with Macca, then you'd assume a cagey boxer like Cunningham could as well, and likely come out on top with a points win.

Got to laugh at the Germans report of the Huck fight, take a look at the photos and you'd assume Huck won easily. They couldn't even bring themselves to show a photo of SC landing a single punch!

http://www.boxen.com/themen/aktuelles/t ... eid=811%20

To be honest mate it's worse than that.........all the action they do show tends to feature Cunningham getting whacked. The Krauts have embarrassed themselves with that display.

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 01 Jan 2008, 07:43

anyone seen the Cunningham-Wlod fights? Ppl may not rate Cunningham quite so highly after those two bouts.

Tykemania · Post by **Tykemania** » 01 Jan 2008, 09:00

I think if this fight was made in Wales that Maccarinelli would have too much for Cunningham - in the Braithwaite fight, Enzo was very controlled because he knew that Big Truck had the power to hurt him, whereas I think with Cunningham he'd be able to walk through most of the shots to land his own - and he certainly has the power for a KO here.

Captain Hook · Post by **Captain Hook** » 01 Jan 2008, 09:03

Autobarn wrote:
Captain Hook wrote:Yeah, I'd worry about this down the line...
the first reply was cocks up the arse...

Could Enzo cope with Cunn's movement?

What the f*** does that mean? Why even bring it up when he's fighting David Haye?

Captain Hook · Post by **Captain Hook** » 01 Jan 2008, 09:06

For the record I think Macarinelli would stop him late :)

fried bread · Post by **fried bread** » 01 Jan 2008, 12:48

Captain Hook wrote:
Autobarn wrote:
Captain Hook wrote:Yeah, I'd worry about this down the line...
the first reply was cocks up the arse...

Could Enzo cope with Cunn's movement?
What the f*** does that mean? Why even bring it up when he's fighting David Haye?

There was a gay porn spammer on this thread. Looks like it's safe to come back on this thread.

josh fg · Post by **josh fg** » 01 Jan 2008, 13:01

I think its more likely to happen if Haye wins cos then Enzo and he will be the kinds of people who will be in line for the vacated titles.

Haven't seen enough of cunningham but think enzo is mecheanical and over rated and tends to like to bully his opponents.

Captain Hook · Post by **Captain Hook** » 02 Jan 2008, 07:03

I wondered what he was talking about!

A gay porn spammer?!

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 02 Jan 2008, 07:07

Captain Hook wrote:I wondered what he was talking about!

A gay porn spammer?!

when the anal sex post was deleted, it sort of took my comment out of context, lol.

Captain Hook · Post by **Captain Hook** » 02 Jan 2008, 09:31

:) No worries mate, happy NY