Horse wrote: ↑08 May 2018, 16:43
Finn wrote: ↑08 May 2018, 16:00Povetkin fought him because he needed to fight after the drug controversy and no doubt it came with the sweetener of Eddie hearns stable including AJ being dangled. Let’s face it why the hell would AJ or wilder want to face him? He’s too far down the pecking order for Parker, and Whyte would probably fight him if there was no one else about but he’ll be eyeing up ranked opponents for a mandatory position.
It’s not a case of him being ducked it’s a case of him offering zero risk to reward. Unless he drops tondomestic level where he would be a big scalp for domestic level fighter, but like I said he’s likely to blow them away. The only real names he could pull are guys like debois and Joyce who would maybe interested in having name on their resume.
So no one is ducking him then?
I really don’t know what your point is Horse. I asked who is going to want to fight him? Then outlined reasons why I think he is in the “who needs him club”.
He has no risk v reward ratio, no ranking, isn’t capable of commanding big purses and also won’t generate interest as an opponent in any high profile fights.
You stated he’s fought povetkin, that’s great but I also outline how he managed to get that fight and that fight if anything sent a message out to other top heavies that price isn’t worth the hassle.
Ducking to me is him being in direct contention with another fighter and them avoiding him. That’s not the case here, the issue for price is he’s in limbo and doesn’t really have any way of getting on the ladder up highly ranked fights again.
