Lackeos wrote: ↑20 Dec 2017, 22:12
Best heavyweight prospects?
Minimum age requirement: 36
Maximum potential requirement: literally 0 potential
What do you guys think of this prospect Brian Durham? He is only 53 years old, and he has already achieved the impressive rank of #862 on boxrec. All 14 of his losses so far are pre-prime defeats. I have a completely baseless hunch that he is still improving and won't reach his prime until he is 64.
Man, I just checked him out. He is so old he is a ghost!
Spooky!
Right now I would say Joshua, Parker, and Wilder. None of the three are as good as they could be or should be at this point.
To be more accurate, I should say Wilder isn't as good as he should be, and Parker and AJ arent as good as they could be, but are young, especially Parker.
asdfjkl wrote: ↑06 Mar 2018, 14:11
Does anyone have a clue btw what happened to Izuagbe Ugonoh?
After his lose against Breazeale I've never heard about him ever again.
I hope he's oké, or did his promotor simply expect to generate more money from him and didn't expect the loss?
Good question.
I assume they went back to the drawing board, but your right, he should have fought against by now. I know he has been doing a bit of sparring and training with Joseph Parker ( they share Barry as a trainer) but apart from that I've heard nothing
You are going to hear this first from myself and in a few years you will say to me. bloody hell Mimmy how did you see that coming?
So Efe Ajagba, this kid is only 23, unbeaten in 3 fights up to now. Had his first fight last year and due out again on Saturday (10th March 2018) against another novice by the name of Antonio Johnson who himself is 6-2.
So who is Efe?
Efe is a Nigerian boxer, now living in Texas. Only took up boxing in 2011. This kid beat Junior Fa who is 13-0 as an amateur in the Commonwealth games, held in Glasgow in 2014. He advanced to the semi's but was beaten by Joseph Goodall from Australia who incidentally makes his debut sometime this year, April in fact. Ajagba picked up the Bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games that year.
2015 African Games Efe won the gold medal beating Keddy Angnes in the final of the super heavyweight event.
2016 Efe qualified for the summer Olympics by winning the gold medal in the African Olympic Qualification Tourny. Efe was the only Nigerian boxer to qualify for the Brazil Olympics that year. Efe was beaten in the quarter finals by Ivan Dychko, who incidentally fought and was beaten by Joe Joyce in the semis, where Joyce went onto win the gold medal. Ivan Dychko has now turned over and is 4-0 and now fights out of Florida USA.
less regarded, perhaps, but prospects nonetheless:
Darmani Rock
Simon Kean (maybe too much experience for a prospect)
Daniel Dubois (a properly muscled fighter...lol)
Cassius Chaney
Oscar Rivas (again, maybe a bit old but a prospect)
Tom Schwarz
I know he doesn't get much of a mention here, but Junior Fa is fighting Craig Lewis on the 10th.
Going from "needs to train more" to "he's looking fit" Junior Fa could be one of those slow burner prospects who may surprise.
We will see on the 10th..
KiwiRider wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 14:40
I know he doesn't get much of a mention here, but Junior Fa is fighting Craig Lewis on the 10th.
Going from "needs to train more" to "he's looking fit" Junior Fa could be one of those slow burner prospects who may surprise.
We will see on the 10th..
Interesting enough for me to check it out! Thanks! Love the prospects.
KiwiRider wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 14:40
I know he doesn't get much of a mention here, but Junior Fa is fighting Craig Lewis on the 10th.
Going from "needs to train more" to "he's looking fit" Junior Fa could be one of those slow burner prospects who may surprise.
We will see on the 10th..
Interesting enough for me to check it out! Thanks! Love the prospects.
No wucken furries mate.
If you had asked me about Fa a couple of years ago, I would have said don't bother. Since then he has moved to America, got into a lot better shape, taken his boxing as a career, managed to make a buck in sparring, and is more active.
While I doubt we are talking about a future #20 HW, ya never know.
All those island boys seem to have a decent chin at least.
Dwayne Rudenkoslav wrote: ↑18 Dec 2017, 13:25
A level HW prospects - Filip Hrgovic, Ivan Dychko, Oleksandr Teslenko, Sergey Kuzmin, Vladyslav Sirenko , Joe Joyce, Adam Kownacki
B level HW prospects - Daniel Dubois, Simon Kean, Arslanbek Makhmudov, Agit Kabayel, Tom Schwarz, Andrey Afonin, Rostislav Plechko,
C level HW prospects - Nathan Gorman, Tony Yoka, Trey Lippe Morrison, Nick Mazurek, Agron Smakici, Mladen Miljas, Gasan Gimbatov, Evgeny Romanov, George Arias
Good job. though I would say Kownacki is more of a B+, same for Joyce.
KiwiRider wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 14:40
I know he doesn't get much of a mention here, but Junior Fa is fighting Craig Lewis on the 10th.
Going from "needs to train more" to "he's looking fit" Junior Fa could be one of those slow burner prospects who may surprise.
We will see on the 10th..
Interesting enough for me to check it out! Thanks! Love the prospects.
No wucken furries mate.
If you had asked me about Fa a couple of years ago, I would have said don't bother. Since then he has moved to America, got into a lot better shape, taken his boxing as a career, managed to make a buck in sparring, and is more active.
While I doubt we are talking about a future #20 HW, ya never know.
All those island boys seem to have a decent chin at least.
fa too? he was hurt by a 1-1-1 opponent a few years ago though havent seen much snce. heard he was poor vs sam and tai.
though he did blast out some padded record usa guy last time (who then lost his next match by 1st round stoppage as well)
