Arlovski training with Freddie Roach is a plus, I consider Roach to be the best trainer in the sport aside from Emmanuel Steward. However, that excerpt from Tim Sylvia is hilarious. I would love to see him match up against a guy like James Toney, he would box Sylvia's ears off.
MMA guys are delusional when it comes to boxing. Rampage Jackson (IMO) has the best hands in MMA and I think he would be a subpar boxer at the most, so what does that say?
Do I think Arlovski could have a successful career in boxing? Maybe. But do I think MMA guys would come into boxing and dominate? Hell no.
All these MMA guys have no respect for boxers - because they have seen the disastrous results of boxers trying to convert themselves into MMA fighters - we'll see how it looks for the MMA world when the tables are turned. Maybe the MMA guys will finally give the respect to the boxers that they deserve.
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Shaw thinks that KImbo can be a heavyweight champ still...lol
http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-a ... you-slice/
The guy has a glass chin....
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“In today’s era of heavyweights, do I believe he’d have a shot at some version of a heavyweight championship? Absolutely. He’d have to get a good trainer, a good strength and conditioning coach to help him get limber, but I definitely can see him becoming a factor in a heavyweight division that is as decimated as my 401k. This guy can punch, and punch really hard. He does certain things that are natural, things even he doesn’t realize he’s doing.
“If he ever learned to sit down on his punches, to plant his feet, how to get proper spacing, how to turn his punches over … look, I admit he’s a novice. But he’s got what I call the `It’ factor. I’m not sure if you can explain it to anyone, but people know it when they see it. And Kimbo has it.”
The guy has a glass chin....
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Well he is going to fight on the Williams/Wright undercard.
I have kinda warmed up to the fact that he will be boxing.
I have kinda warmed up to the fact that he will be boxing.
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