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Given Sam's indifferent form of late (well since the Francis win)... this fight is no longer a for gone conclusion. Bob is probably a tad better than his record suggestion.

Bob's 40 now, but still seems to be in decent form. He's won his last two and has run Okehello, Timo Hoffman close.... His loss to Rob Calloway is a bit of a shocker.

Sam has been looking VERY ordinary recently, for me he was VERY lucky to beat Saul Montana last time... He was fat, slow and lazy. His punch output is poor.

Having said that, he looks to be in better shape this time judging by the weighing photos and his weight is a tad down on his norm. Indeed he is back to his weight he fought Julius Francis.

Be interesting to see if we have an improvement on performance. I'm not saying he has to be on his A game to beat Bob, but he needs to be a bit sharper than what he was last time.

i think you are bang on the button stu, big bob is far more competetive than his record suggests, and he always gets in there to win...and thats a great asset to have. he can certainly bang a bit but samil sam seems to hold a shot reasonably well apart from the odd hiccup.

sam is fitter than his physique would suggest. i think the fight will be competetive for about 4 rounds then sam will pull away on the stretch for a points victory or a last third stoppage win.

rhino222 wrote:i think you are bang on the button stu, big bob is far more competetive than his record suggests, and he always gets in there to win...and thats a great asset to have. he can certainly bang a bit but samil sam seems to hold a shot reasonably well apart from the odd hiccup.

sam is fitter than his physique would suggest. i think the fight will be competetive for about 4 rounds then sam will pull away on the stretch for a points victory or a last third stoppage win.

Agree on Sam's fitness, but his footspeed is atrocious now and his punch output is terrible.

He is this bad I am not sure who has deteriorated the worse, him or Williams.

For both (Willams and Sam) its all down to motivation and desire. I have the feeling Sam is quite happy with international belts and topping/chief support to German cards.

Danny is just plain lazy.

I saw the Bob V Tino fight, and Bob did more that enough to win, even the crowd booed the deicison applauded Bob.

The German crowd really warmed to Saul Montana in the fight with Sam, the decision was booed and Montana definately looked to be doing most of the pressing forward. However i did only see extended highlights.

Sam won a UD12 (118:110, 117:107 and 117:112)

hey..i guess i was right then !!

Major diversity in Mivrovic scores. One judge is certainly implying Bob had point deduction or was put down.

The other judge looks like he didn't dock Bob anything.

I just pasted the scores from fightnews, might be an error on their site.