Whats next for Witter

orbtastic
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Re: Whats next for Witter

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SOUTHPAW wrote:
orbtastic wrote:Feels like he's been around forever. I remember watching him almost 12 years ago to the day at about 1am in a freezing cold Newcastle arena and thinking "he looks a bit good".

His style is one that depends on reflexes and balance and it appears he's losing both so while he's fit and hasn't got ridiculously out of shape it was also a bit alarming how he seemed to gas badly late in the fight.

Reminds of Herol Graham towards the end of his career. Still flashes of it but time catches up with everyone.
Not really.......Herol had just beaten the unbeaten Chris Johnson,Vinny Paz and then floored brewer twice before getting stopped...Junior has slipped well below that....but was world champ nobody can ever take that away from him...well done Junior
Sure, but it was clear watching him that he was slipping.

Don't forgot prior to those 3 fights he'd been retired for about five years and prior to that stopped by Frank Grant and had also lost against Kalambay, being shaken badly at the ropes at end of the fight. That's not good form, and the reason he retired.

Chris Johnson was vastly overrated, his best win was probably Paul Wesley, in fact he never won a significant fight his whole career.

Vinnie Paz...really he wasn't much cop beyond light middle, he was just a bulked up fighter who was just fighting faded names. He's already been brutally exposed at genuine world level @ 168 and had no right to be there.

Brewer was as chinny as they come and Herol just couldn't put him away.
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Re: Whats next for Witter

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It is probably going to take a defeat to a sub British level fighter to signal the end of the road for Witter, and in my opinion that is highly likely to happen.
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Re: Whats next for Witter

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orbtastic wrote:
SOUTHPAW wrote:
orbtastic wrote:Feels like he's been around forever. I remember watching him almost 12 years ago to the day at about 1am in a freezing cold Newcastle arena and thinking "he looks a bit good".

His style is one that depends on reflexes and balance and it appears he's losing both so while he's fit and hasn't got ridiculously out of shape it was also a bit alarming how he seemed to gas badly late in the fight.

Reminds of Herol Graham towards the end of his career. Still flashes of it but time catches up with everyone.
Not really.......Herol had just beaten the unbeaten Chris Johnson,Vinny Paz and then floored brewer twice before getting stopped...Junior has slipped well below that....but was world champ nobody can ever take that away from him...well done Junior
Sure, but it was clear watching him that he was slipping.

Don't forgot prior to those 3 fights he'd been retired for about five years and prior to that stopped by Frank Grant and had also lost against Kalambay, being shaken badly at the ropes at end of the fight. That's not good form, and the reason he retired.

Chris Johnson was vastly overrated, his best win was probably Paul Wesley, in fact he never won a significant fight his whole career.

Vinnie Paz...really he wasn't much cop beyond light middle, he was just a bulked up fighter who was just fighting faded names. He's already been brutally exposed at genuine world level @ 168 and had no right to be there.

Brewer was as chinny as they come and Herol just couldn't put him away.
Kalambay was a fight he won but didnt get it........against Johnson he was the underdog and pulled it off...i guess the piont i was trying to make was he was still winning and boxing at a decent level..... not to what i was watching sunday morning
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