bowie tupou

[buster007]

as per another forum, i wonder if anyone knows how he is going in the lead up to his next fight with danny batchelder in las vegas. danny seems reasonably durable so it should be a good test for bowie.

[El Raincoat]

Good fight for Tupou. He seems a decent prospect, always in magnificent shape. No big rush but as you say this is a step up should give us an idea where he's at.

[toppity]

I just check Danny's record. He has a bundle of experience for a 32 year old. It will be a big test for Bowie.

It's not on Boxrec's schedule yet though

[Marlin]

Didn't he get done for roids after his fight with Toney?

[ftpromotions]

Seems a test for Tupou. Has anyone seen him since he's been in the USA? Only saw hi m the one time with Tutaki I think and he was quite powerful but extremely raw.

[buster007]

it was cancelled because it was the support bout for dawson - tarver for memory.

tupou doesn't have another upcoming fight yet by the looks of it.

[Brute]

Last night Bowie stopped Stacy Goodson's in-house punching bag Marcus Rhode in 1.21 of the first round in a scheduled ten rounder at Buffalo Run Casino, Miami, Oklahoma (no, not Florida).

When are they going to give Bo a decent opponent? He is still unbeaten after 17 fights with 13 KOs, but with this kind of opposition it looks meaningless.

[Marlin]

Bowie needs the chance to steo up, that is what he went to the US so they should give him a test. He has potential lets see how far that will take him.

I reckon he should come home and fight Solo.

[ryan711]

the fight with Danny Batchelder is back on,on the 9th of may, on the Dawson Tarver card.

[Brute]

I just check Danny's record. He has a bundle of experience for a 32 year old. It will be a big test for Bowie.

It's not on Boxrec's schedule yet though

Boxrec gives Batchelder's age as 35. He seems to have gained a few birthdays in a hurry. His recent record has been pretty poor.

[ryan711]

new guy for bowie on the Dawson Tarver card.Chris Koval 24-5

[toppity]

new guy for bowie on the Dawson Tarver card.Chris Koval 24-5

interesting

[buster007]

there was an article recently about danny batcheldor which had him talking himself up and saying bowie was in big trouble when they fight each other. wonder what happened hey?

here it is:http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Bob/Bob033109.htm

[toppity]

there was an article recently about danny batcheldor which had him talking himself up and saying bowie was in big trouble when they fight each other. wonder what happened hey?

here it is: http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Bob/Bob033109.htm

fixed

[Brute]

there was an article recently about danny batcheldor which had him talking himself up and saying bowie was in big trouble when they fight each other. wonder what happened hey?

here it is:http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Bob/Bob033109.htm

Maybe his mouth over rated his hands. He has had a poor run lately. 5 losses in 6 fights, twice KOed. When did a boxer ever say he was going to lose a fight? If you let yourself think you are going to lose, you might as well not turn up.

[toppity]

there was an article recently about danny batcheldor which had him talking himself up and saying bowie was in big trouble when they fight each other. wonder what happened hey?

here it is:http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Bob/Bob033109.htm

Maybe his mouth over rated his hands. He has had a poor run lately. 5 losses in 6 fights, twice KOed. When did a boxer ever say he was going to lose a fight? If you let yourself think you are going to lose, you might as well not turn up.

there is a difference between being confident of your chances and being an idiot. Some fighters just don't know the difference

[ryan711]

Bowie Tupou is down to fight Demetrice King on the 31-07

[oliverfennell]

Last night Bowie stopped Stacy Goodson's in-house punching bag Marcus Rhode in 1.21 of the first round in a scheduled ten rounder at Buffalo Run Casino, Miami, Oklahoma (no, not Florida).

When are they going to give Bo a decent opponent? He is still unbeaten after 17 fights with 13 KOs, but with this kind of opposition it looks meaningless.

Scheduling Marcus Rhodes for 10 rounds is like scheduling an alcohol amnesty on Australia Day - an exercise in futility!

[buster007]

should be a good workout as king has only the one ko against him by shannon briggs.

[Brute]

Batchelder is fighting "Goofi" Whitaker on the 17th of this month.

[ryan711]

came across this on the web.

Count Bowie Tupou, the unbeaten Las Vegas heavyweight, among those who are underwhelmed by the current state of his weight class, once upon a time boxing’s marquee division.

Neither of the Klitschko brothers (Vitali and Wladimir), who control parts of the eternally fractured heavyweight championship, has captured Tupou’s imagination.

Forgive Tupou if he’s also less than enthralled by Ruslan Chagaev, designated by one sanctioning body as something called the “champion in recess.” (No kidding.)

When Tupou discusses his future as a heavyweight, he leaves out the bluster so often embraced by his peers in boxing. He won’t “call out” any prospective opponent. Tupou wants to become the world heavyweight champion, and he’ll tell you so in a manner that’s open, thoughtful and matter-of-fact.

“No one in the heavyweights really impresses me,” Tupou said. “If you want to talk about someone who impressed me, you have to go back to Lennox Lewis when he was the champion or Mike Tyson when he was the champion, back then.

“Today, it looks to me like no one out there really has that kind of passion about boxing.”

Tupou, who has won 18 fights (14 by knockout) since turning pro in 2006, sees himself as the man who can bring new life to the division.

Tupou is training at the International MMA Fight Club gym on West Spring Mountain Road in preparation for a July 31 bout in Temecula, Calif. The fight, a scheduled 8-rounder against Demetrice King, shapes up as another stop on the road to a world title shot that Tupou hopes to secure by 2011.

“I want to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world; that’s what I really want,” Tupou said. “To do that you have to have the passion and the game. It’s what I want the most.”

Trainer Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, who began working with Tupou last year, thinks he has his fighter on track for a world title bout within a year and a half to two years.

“Bowie’s strength is his phenomenal speed for a heavyweight, for a man his size,” Mustafa Muhammad said. “He has a great jab, and we’re developing and working on that jab every day. Some heavyweights, they’re ponderous with their jabs.

“Bowie has a jab that reminds me of a Muhammad Ali jab, because it’s fast and it hurts. He can throw two or three or four of them in a row, all with the same velocity, and they’re all very effective.”

An opportunity to fight for a world title belt would be the payoff to a calculated risk Tupou took by moving to the United States late in 2006.

A native of the South Pacific island kingdom of Tonga, Tupou grew up in Australia, where he played professional rugby and had his first nine professional boxing matches.

He also fell in with the “wrong crowd” as a young man, Tupou said, and ended up prowling the streets, drinking and looking for trouble as a teenager. His conversion to the Mormon religion in 2004 turned his life around, Tupou said.

“I realized I needed to change,” Tupou, 26, said. “I was a troubled little kid. I had turned my back on school, and I thought hanging out and running around all the time was the right thing to do.

“Becoming a Mormon straightened my life out. No drinking, no partying. Since then, I’ve felt a spirituality around me and in my life. It’s helped me focus and become a better person.”

After first arriving in Los Angeles from Australia, Tupou and his wife, Georgia, have lived in Las Vegas for more than a year. His departure to the United States caused a stir Down Under, Tupou said, because he had been generating excitement in boxing circles.

“There was a lot of stuff in the media when I left, but it was a decision I had to make,” Tupou said. “I knew coming here would allow me to learn more about boxing and give me more opportunities in the sport. It was a sacrifice, but I wanted to make that sacrifice for my boxing career.”

Tupou, who stands 6-foot-2 1/2 and whose weight has fluctuated throughout his career, weighed 256 pounds in his last fight, a third-round stoppage of Chris Koval in May at the Hard Rock Hotel. He figures he’ll weigh about 260 pounds for his next bout.

“With his size, I want Bowie to be a great body puncher, and that’s what he’s been doing,” Mustafa Muhammad said. “He’s sitting down on his punches and going right to the body and breaking these guys down. If you stand in front of him, he’s going to knock you out, that’s the bottom line.

“I see him working his way to the point where he’s on the same playing field as the Klitschko brothers, because they’re not invincible. They can be hurt. But you have to have the right athlete to hurt them, and I believe in Bowie I have the right athlete.”

[buster007]

he's fighting this weekend.

[Brute]

There is something on Bowie's Facebook site about the fight being moved to a bigger program on Saturday Night in Palm Springs. I do not know if this is current or not.

[ThePunisher]

Tupou got k.o.ed in the 2nd round.

[Hounddawg]

Tupou got k.o.ed in the 2nd round.

He lost.......?