I'm the new Bernad Hopkins - Lovemore N'Dou

[DavidPayne]

A smashing bloke. Speaks about Hatton, Witter, Warren, Harris, Gatti, Mayweather et al....


Lovemore speaks to thesweetscience.com
http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-a ... interview/

[MightyWarrior]

Good interview Dave, the guy's a real road warrior.

[THEBUTCH]

The guys a bit of a throwback in that he will fight anyone it seems.

But I swtich off when I read him saying he would have stopped Cotto had it been for this, that and the other.

Also, I don't believe it was politics that what beat him against Sarmba. It was the fact that he was up against a classier opponent who had extra gears to move into at crucial times and won fair and square.

To say they're all avoiding him is rubbish, but I could accept he may not be the first choice on everyones shopping list.

[DavidPayne]

Butch,

I agree the comemnt about Cotto is a stretch but he was more than competitive throughout and he did push Mitchell very close.

He would be an ideal gatekeeper for Witter or Hatton and thats not to discredit Lovemore who could arguably start favourite against Junior and would push Ricky the whole fight.

[THEBUTCH]

Indeed. Him and Witter would be a worthy eliminator of some sort and I'd have preferred him over Stewart for Hatton.

I don't dispute he gave Mitchell a good contest, far from it, but win the fight? And to suggest politics? I don't buy that part.

[stujones]

Butch,

I agree the comemnt about Cotto is a stretch but he was more than competitive throughout and he did push Mitchell very close..

Given what Cotto did to Pinto and likely to do to other world class fighters at that weight I was mightly impressed with N'dou's effort. I thought it was a very close fight (Cotto by 1 or 2) and it could have gone either way.

Rocky II has been on tele recently and my thoughts on Cotto vs N'Dou were similar to that of Apollo's on his first fight with Sly. "He won, but he DIDN'T BEAT HIM".

I wouldn't mind seeing a rematch, Cotto would probably win but N'dou would give him a fight and a few scares everytime they met. The guy deserves a few more big pay days, like Leijla he won't go away.

[steve689]

Lovemore is a good fellow, after a win earlier this year over Kinatchai "13 Coins" of Thailand he went to a ringside Kostya Tszyu and apologised for some comments he said about Tszyu while trying to goad him into a fight....a classy guy.

[stujones]

Mitchell did a much better job with N'dou than Cotto did. In hindsight that was now a damn good performance, people were saying "Oh Mitchell's shot, he was struggling vs N'dou".

[glittermonkey]

Good interview.

I still wouldn't mind seeing him in with Hatton, he's a better fighter than Stewart, that's for sure. I couldn't see Stewart lasting the distance with Cotto.

I agree with THEBUTCH, his defeat against Mitchell had nothing to do with politics, he was narrowly beaten by a better fighter. Which was what happened with the Cotto fight aswell, he just wasn't quite good enough to win. I like N'Dou though, he's a solid top ten fighter who always gives value for money.

[jamesmcdonnell]

Cotto did pick up a broken rib in that fight though. It emerged immediately following the fight, and in fact I and a few others at ringside something change in his demeanour around the 4th round. With hindsight it was clear that he was guarding a fractured rib and that hampered his performance.

N'dou reminds me of Tackie a lot, not a lot of variety in his work, but too tough to be treated with disdain by anyone in the division.

[steve689]

N'dou is very similar to Tackie but i would even go so far as to say he is perhaps more versatile and less one dimensional than Tackie.

[mrbassie]

He's far better skilled than Tackie, equally tough. All he lacks is ko power.
Good fighter.

[Manos de Oro]

N'dou is very similar to Tackie but i would even go so far as to say he is perhaps more versatile and less one dimensional than Tackie.

Exactly how I see him. He can ask more questions of his opponent than Tackie.

[Sweet P]

Ndou is a far better boxer than Tackie, I think he will struggle against the very best but on his day who knows.

[THEBUTCH]

Would this be the same Lovemore N'Dou who pulled out on the dangerous prospect from South Africa recently. Of course, Lovemore will allow himelf an excuse, but no one else is entitled to one it seems.

[knightshadeau]

Would this be the same Lovemore N'Dou who pulled out on the dangerous prospect from South Africa recently. Of course, Lovemore will allow himelf an excuse, but no one else is entitled to one it seems.

The only fight Lovemore has "pulled out" of recently is due to a payment dispute with promoters. What fight are you refering to? Or could you be talking about his cousin Philip N'Dou, who has retired for health reason?

[dbf]

wasnt it Ndou who had a broken rib and not cotto?

[jamesmcdonnell]

No, it was Cotto, I was at ringside (smug grin), he was noticably carrying his arms in by his ribcage, and then they announced that he broke it in the 2nd I think it was after the fight. You could see that he had busted something, and N'Dou did land a very hard body shot early on.

[dbf]

i guess they both had busted ribs then

from the interview that was linked at the top:

"I gave him his toughest fight yet, it was a great fight but I came in on 12 days notice for that. And then the rib injury. I’d have stopped him if not for the rib."

[THEBUTCH]

I can't spell the South Africans name, I thinks his first name is Isaac. He's rated extremely highly and Lovemore pulled out on him and the South Africans were not happy about it.

It just doesn't sit that well when you pretty much slate your competition about not having the bottle to face him, then he goes and does this.