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Ruthless-RKO wrote:

Although, at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Satuday night, Tony Bellew seemed intent on fighting David Haye next, even staging some showbiz wrestling style baiting, it appears the WBC cruiserweight champion would, ideally, prefer to fight someone else first.

Bellew, who has been the WBC champion since May, harbours ambitions of a unification fight next, taking on Denis Lebedev.

'The dream fight is Denis Lebedev, it really is, but the dream is very hard to make.

'In an ideal world my next fight would be Lebedev and then maybe him. But I'll be honest, I really don't know. We'll see where it goes.'

'I might have to bypass Denis Lebedev and the dream of being undisputed unified champion, and just go for it and try to be heavyweight champ - I think it sounds a bit better to be honest.

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IMO, Lebedev will do worse than Haye.. Guys an ugly machine.

In the know 85 wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

Although, at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Satuday night, Tony Bellew seemed intent on fighting David Haye next, even staging some showbiz wrestling style baiting, it appears the WBC cruiserweight champion would, ideally, prefer to fight someone else first.

Bellew, who has been the WBC champion since May, harbours ambitions of a unification fight next, taking on Denis Lebedev.

'The dream fight is Denis Lebedev, it really is, but the dream is very hard to make.

'In an ideal world my next fight would be Lebedev and then maybe him. But I'll be honest, I really don't know. We'll see where it goes.'

'I might have to bypass Denis Lebedev and the dream of being undisputed unified champion, and just go for it and try to be heavyweight champ - I think it sounds a bit better to be honest.

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IMO, Lebedev will do worse than Haye.. Guys an ugly machine.

If he's talking about fighting lebedev it's because he's poo scared of his mandatory!!! MARIS BRIEDIS! Why he never mentions BRIEDIS should say it all really, he's trying to fight anyone except his mandatory. Says a lot about the Latvian in my opinion. He'd crush Bellew and probably lebedev too!

boxing_rocks wrote:I don't think Bellew is scared of anybody. Breidis is unproven and could be just another Kudryashov kind fighter.

crusader wrote:Briedis is significantly better than Kud (faster with his hands and legs, more fluid, can lead and counter rather than just lead, etc.) and had no problems taking the kind of shots that Durodola stopped Kud with.

He can be caught, especially with right hands, but to my knowledge has never been dropped or seriously hurt.