Round-by-Round: Lawrence Okolie vs. Michal Cieslak - 27 February 2022

[Ezzard]

Is it right that a fighter can just throw and cling over and over and over?

Good luck to Okolie. I think he has the advantages of all the other cruisers. Hope he unifies. But he will need to be carefully matched at Heavy because his style won't work there.

He's like a guy who worked out a special move on a video game to always win. But he's not had to master other aspects of his game. At Heavyweight it won't work.

[margaret thatcher]

He's like a guy who worked out a special move on a video game to always win.

love that analogy, i know it well from experience

[Ruthless-RKO]

He's like a guy who worked out a special move on a video game to always win.

love that analogy, i know it well from experience

Yeh pretty good that.

[margaret thatcher]

i remember one of the early mortal kombat games, there was one dude who you could spam the same long range move repeatedly. i think it was jaxx smashing the ground to knock the other guy down. any arsehole who got him could ruin the game and continually get flawless victories

[Ruthless-RKO]

i remember one of the early mortal kombat games, there was one dude who you could spam the same long range move repeatedly. i think it was jaxx smashing the ground to knock the other guy down. any arsehole who got him could ruin the game and continually get flawless victories

Same thing with E Honda on Street fighter on my Sega..

Press two numbers repeatedly and his arms were coming off his body and attacking his opponent.

Always won easy with him

[CaptainSpacerod]

He should stay at cruiser as long as he can. Better to be a big fish in a small pool than vice versa.

Who would he trouble at HW ? I mean is it absolutely nailed on that he’d beat those lads who fought for the Scottish HW title ?

[Ruthless-RKO]

He should stay at cruiser as long as he can. Better to be a big fish in a small pool than vice versa.

Who would he trouble at HW ? I mean is it absolutely nailed on that he’d beat those lads who fought for the Scottish HW title ?

Only thing HW has to offer him if big money..

But he should try to unify or become undisputed .. what’s his rush.

[CaptainSpacerod]

He should stay at cruiser as long as he can. Better to be a big fish in a small pool than vice versa.

Who would he trouble at HW ? I mean is it absolutely nailed on that he’d beat those lads who fought for the Scottish HW title ?

Only thing HW has to offer him if big money..

But he should try to unify or become undisputed .. what’s his rush.

Agreed. I think his rush is that he can’t be arsed struggling to make the weight anymore at cruiser.

If he wants big money he can have an eliminator with Briedis for the right to face Jake Paul

[mickey1975]

I doubt he's getting huge money whatever he does. He's a very big, boring cruiserweight.

[forcefraser]

i remember one of the early mortal kombat games, there was one dude who you could spam the same long range move repeatedly. i think it was jaxx smashing the ground to knock the other guy down. any arsehole who got him could ruin the game and continually get flawless victories

Same thing with E Honda on Street fighter on my Sega..

Press two numbers repeatedly and his arms were coming off his body and attacking his opponent.

Always won easy with him

I used to use the green nasty with ginger hair. Mashed a button as fast as i could and he turned into an electric ball. Unbeatable

[Ruthless-RKO]

i remember one of the early mortal kombat games, there was one dude who you could spam the same long range move repeatedly. i think it was jaxx smashing the ground to knock the other guy down. any arsehole who got him could ruin the game and continually get flawless victories

Same thing with E Honda on Street fighter on my Sega..

Press two numbers repeatedly and his arms were coming off his body and attacking his opponent.

Always won easy with him

I used to use the green nasty with ginger hair. Mashed a button as fast as i could and he turned into an electric ball. Unbeatable

Did you watch the Street Fighter film from 94? Van Damme and a few others?

They have a scene of how he becomes green.

[forcefraser]

Same thing with E Honda on Street fighter on my Sega..

Press two numbers repeatedly and his arms were coming off his body and attacking his opponent.

Always won easy with him

I used to use the green nasty with ginger hair. Mashed a button as fast as i could and he turned into an electric ball. Unbeatable

Did you watch the Street Fighter film from 94? Van Damme and a few others?

They have a scene of how he becomes green.

I saw it, mainly to get a glimpse of Minogue in that outfit. Poor old green nasty was tortured into greenness through brutal imagery.

[NoScoutingReports]

Just watched Guerfi v Gill without knowing the result, absolutely unbelievable! Gill was in all sorts and taking a lot of punishment, thought Guerfi's offence looked sharp all night but what a shot to turn it around, incredible. Tremendous heart from Gill, he had taken a lot of clean punches after being dropped and can't imagine he was going to last much longer pinned in the corner like that.

Yafai is a real talent, probably took a few too many hooks for McCracken's liking due to a disregard for Bautista's power but he was comfortable regardless, Bautista a tough tough fighter with zero quit in him. Interested to see Galal's next steps in the pro game.

[Counter-puncher]

I actually thought Gill mostly did a great job of looking after himself when he was on the ropes. His body movement was good, he was slipping enough shots that Guerfi went back to centre ring to bring him out of that shell, and he was looking to time that right hand, third time was a charm with that shit having landed decently with it twice already, so not really a lucky punch.

[maverick23]

He's like a guy who worked out a special move on a video game to always win.

love that analogy, i know it well from experience

That perfectly sums up my time on Street Fighter!

[daz74]

Just watched Guerfi v Gill without knowing the result, absolutely unbelievable! Gill was in all sorts and taking a lot of punishment, thought Guerfi's offence looked sharp all night but what a shot to turn it around, incredible. Tremendous heart from Gill, he had taken a lot of clean punches after being dropped and can't imagine he was going to last much longer pinned in the corner like that.

Yafai is a real talent, probably took a few too many hooks for McCracken's liking due to a disregard for Bautista's power but he was comfortable regardless, Bautista a tough tough fighter with zero quit in him. Interested to see Galal's next steps in the pro game.

just watched the fight (i knew the result but didn’t know the exact round of the ko),
what an absolute quality fight !
respect to both fighters …
and to Jordan for getting up from the MMA move getting planted on this effing head !
looking forward to following his career

[Delta Jay]

I actually thought Gill mostly did a great job of looking after himself when he was on the ropes. His body movement was good, he was slipping enough shots that Guerfi went back to centre ring to bring him out of that shell, and he was looking to time that right hand, third time was a charm with that shit having landed decently with it twice already, so not really a lucky punch.

Bear the end of the round before the stoppage, he landed a couple of well timed shots what started giving him belief, which I think was instrumental. I think Guerfi was trying to get him out his shell as you said, but that stopped him bringing his hands back to his chin on some of the combos.

[dookus]

i remember one of the early mortal kombat games, there was one dude who you could spam the same long range move repeatedly. i think it was jaxx smashing the ground to knock the other guy down. any arsehole who got him could ruin the game and continually get flawless victories

Same thing with E Honda on Street fighter on my Sega..

Press two numbers repeatedly and his arms were coming off his body and attacking his opponent.

Always won easy with him

I used to use the green nasty with ginger hair. Mashed a button as fast as i could and he turned into an electric ball. Unbeatable

Reminds me of fornicating Eddy in Tekken 3, whom any novice could turn into a whirling mass of spazzy death by just mashing the kick buttons

[keirw]

He's like a guy who worked out a special move on a video game to always win.

love that analogy, i know it well from experience

That perfectly sums up my time on Street Fighter!

me too, my brother learned how to do the hand slap move as the sumo wrestler and I could never get near the c**t

[BigDoofus]

Is it right that a fighter can just throw and cling over and over and over?

Only if he is the home fighter with a British referee.
I don't know why Alexander warned him at the start of the 12th after he'd been doing it all night and he had no intention of taking a point off.

[maverick23]

love that analogy, i know it well from experience

That perfectly sums up my time on Street Fighter!

me too, my brother learned how to do the hand slap move as the sumo wrestler and I could never get near the c**t

I was either Balrog and went for the big right hand all the time or M.Bison with one of his specials.

[Ruthless-RKO]

I remember there an an Indian with long arms and legs.

Ryu the karate guy. There was also Ken who white karate clothes.

The guy that Van Damme plays in the film.

Kylie is in the movie as well as one of the two women.

The green guy. The boxer. There was a guy who danced with the disco lights.

Another who was near the water.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Memories

[keirw]

Vega was badass, he used to climb the cage wall and jump at you.

[forcefraser]

Okolie is a bad watch.

He needs to give himself more distance and use his jab to set up his shots.

Doesn't seem to have much variation on his shots and his inside game is non existent.

Imagine him against Fury? 6ft 9 inches of inside fightingness. He'd be taken apart