Saturday, March 18, 2006
Heavyweights fight
Nikolay Valuev probably wouldn’t be undefeated if those decision wins of his hadn’t been staged in Germany. I like the fighter, and he seems a good guy, but it remains to be proven that he’s worthy of being called a world heavyweight champion. So we’ll leave him aside, he had a defence scheduled against Calvin Brock or Owen Beck, I don’t remember which, but it’s been put back because of injury so he’s on Boxrec as defending against ? on 3rd June. It’s rather appropriate, it is probably answering the questions that is his biggest challenge.
The nice thing though, is that Valuev aside, all the legitimate champions have fights scheduled within about a month. Tonight James Toney and Hasim Rahman clash in what is generally seen as the decider for the “true” HW champ, although I’m not sure it will prove either man much better than Lamon Brewster and Chris Byrd.
Nice to see though, Brewster is scheduled against Serguei Lyakhovich on 1st April and Chris Byrd is scheduled against Wladimir Klitschko on 22nd April. I’d fancy the defending champions in both contests, and I’d then love to see Toney take on Brewster, whose fight with Luan Krasniqi is one of my favourites of recent times. Of course, as they say, boxing is boxing...
The nice thing though, is that Valuev aside, all the legitimate champions have fights scheduled within about a month. Tonight James Toney and Hasim Rahman clash in what is generally seen as the decider for the “true” HW champ, although I’m not sure it will prove either man much better than Lamon Brewster and Chris Byrd.
Nice to see though, Brewster is scheduled against Serguei Lyakhovich on 1st April and Chris Byrd is scheduled against Wladimir Klitschko on 22nd April. I’d fancy the defending champions in both contests, and I’d then love to see Toney take on Brewster, whose fight with Luan Krasniqi is one of my favourites of recent times. Of course, as they say, boxing is boxing...
