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Sergey Rabchenko is happy to give Brian Rose a shot a his EBU light middle weight title as long as they get past Vitu & Webb. Ive not much seen of Rabchenko to be honest only when he beat Rhodes, but this must be a good oppurtunity for Rose considring his form.
any views.

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/2012/uk-b ... o-sam-webb

Ouch!

Iv not seen too much of rabchenko myself although i did meet him at a pr event and tried to have a word with him, couldnt meet a nicer kid although his english is limited he tried his best to answer everything i was askin him.

from what I have seen, I imagine Rabchenko would mallet Rose.

Total difference in power here I can see Rabchenko marching through Brian.

Big ask for Brian IMO but he must not look past his next fight with Webb @ Blackpools Winter Gardens next month.That has the makings of a good match as he looks to make the Lonsdale belt his own.

I think people are overating Rabchenko a fraction. He might start as favourite against Rose but he didn't great against Pryce. He is obviously a good EBU level fighter, but people are calling him a world champion in waiting and world class when I think he has a while to go before he proves that.

I believe he was losing the fight to Rhodes (officially) at the time of the stoppage, and Rhodes clearly had one eye on retirement I feel.

I'm quite a big fan of Rabchenko and am looking forward to seeing him on the Hatton undercard on Saturday. I'd favour him heavily over Rose.

He did look impressive against Rhodes. More so then i expected at the time.

I think it would be wiser if all fighters concentrated on their next fight instead of all this looking beyond shit.
I like Rabchenko, but PR wise this is a bad move by his advisers who quite fraNkly are being disrespectful to Vitu.
OK if he beats Vitu start calling out but until then ...........

On Saturday's performance Brian will confortably beat rabchenko

Adam1991 wrote:On Saturday's performance Brian will confortably beat rabchenko

I wouldn't be so sure just yet. Lets see how Rose deals with Webb first.

There you go.
Pre fight he was looking beyond Vitu and then just scraped over the line.
All of Sergey's PR is done for him because his English is very limited at the moment, so whoever decided to call other fighters out days before fighting Vitu ..... bad move.

Even on that performance i'd comfortably back Rabchenko.
Rose wouldn't be able to stand up to the shots that Vitu did and wouldn't be able to get out the way as fluidly either. Rabchenko isn't ready for the best, but he'd walk through Rose.

I agree Lenny.
However all the signs in the Vitu fight for me were of probably a not too good camp, and a bit of complacency.
Maybe he missed Ricky being in the corner, and maybe missed Ricky being 100% with him during the training camp.
Add to that a bit of arrogant calling out of Rose.
Anyway he got the result so perhaps lessons learnt for when he steps up the opposition.