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Cyclops wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 05:39

orbtastic wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021, 05:08 It could be behavioural rather than physical trauma.

He didn’t take the loss well and everything after that point would suggest it’s psychological, given his very outward shows and public outbursts.

Contrast that with say, late career Jermaine Taylor or meldrick Taylor and it’s quite clear that it’s very different behaviour.

When you think punchy or punch drunk you think garbled speech patterns like James Toney or Bobby chacon. Or marked physical deterioration like Ali or roach.

It's much, much easier for my conscience watching the sport to come to the conclusion that he was just a massive dickhead all along and the subsequent money and long knockout streak massaged his enormous ego into thinking he was some kind of superhero and he has been psychologically absolutely destroyed by his embarrassing loss.

A lot of this stuff was there before Fury anyway: the Eyes Wide Shut Illumanti consumes, the grandiosity, his inability to form a proper sentence, the "I'm part human and part hybrid" line, punching mascots, strangling strippers, booooommmmb sqqquuuuad, the way he just stood square in front of a fat, out on his feet Stiverne with his hands down before knocking him out and then throwing the ref around the ring when he pulled him off, saying he wanted to catch a body multiple times, actually bringing Charlie Zelenof, a 5'9" former lightweight who has never beaten anybody and is clearly mentally ill, to his gym to beat him up, on camera... None of this is indicative of an intelligent, nice, well rounded individual.

Can you imagine working out in the same gym as him? If you didn't know who he was and him and his mates were jumping around and screaming and making train noises? "fornicating hell I hate that group of lads with the big loud geezer. They only ever do chest and arms, don't they? Thank God they're gone!"

Dioufy wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 06:52 Found it.

Dioufy wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 09:43 I suspect not. 240lbs is 108kg and although that’s fairly heavy. Most gyms in the UK have multiple people who do that for reps and sets who weigh less than Froch does.
If you can bench 108kg you definitely don’t brag on national tv about it when you’re supposed to be an elite athlete.
I’m guessing he can bench 150kg plus… maybe… which is good but we all know how much of an ego Carl is.
Should’ve said 180kg and that’s impressive for anywhere around 13st and more believable.
Froch will always be a Froch tho.

Counter-puncher wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021, 05:18 agreed, it seems to me a switch has gone on/off, his insecurities have been exposed/exacerbated, and he's projecting (or at least trying to project) at an absolutely furious rate by way of compensation. It's one of those weird paradoxes where the bloke doing all the talking pretty clearly doesn't know that the more he says and the louder he says it, the less credible he becomes... i suppose that is what gives it the cringe quality.

Dioufy wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 06:52 Found it.

snake33 wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 23:04 Even Breland couldn't teach Wilder technique.
He is a right hand, period. Unless that lands he's done.
And as the injuries mount up that will go away too.

coghaugen11 wrote: ↑07 Jul 2021, 07:55

snake33 wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 23:04 Even Breland couldn't teach Wilder technique.
He is a right hand, period. Unless that lands he's done.
And as the injuries mount up that will go away too.

He doesn’t have a right hand. Never seen him throw one.

A right swing that’s six foot in length, sure. Only works against sacks of shit, punch bags or scared old men.

asmund wrote: ↑06 Jul 2021, 20:34 I benched 130 kilos X 8 when I was 25.

I dont know how much it helps in punching power.

asmund wrote: ↑12 Jul 2021, 18:34 It certainly wont hurt in one-punch-power? More muscle mass, higher weight.

asmund wrote: ↑12 Jul 2021, 18:34 It certainly wont hurt in one-punch-power? More muscle mass, higher weight.