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Meth Damon

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Any heavyweight worth his salt would have knocked the pair of them out within the distance.

Haye's complete lack of finesse was quite laughable to watch; even before he injured himself, he was throwing looping punches that Stevie Wonder would have seen coming. For Bellew to demonstrate an utter incapability of getting a static, immobile target out of there, and to then talk about fighting a proper heavyweight in Wilder, he probably should retire because he's blatantly lost it.

Back to fighting bums on Dave for Haye.

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All credit to Bellew winning the fight but some of the praise he's receiving is over the top. He was surely behind on cards. When injury happened and there wasn't much difference to when Bellew went down and when Haye got his first 8 count. Now he wants top heavyweights. As poor as Haye was that went 12 rounds it was am easy Haye win.

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In the build up to fight bellew was reminding haye at every opportunity that he was a small heavyweight. Dont know if it was the adrenaline that lead to him calling out wilder right after his win. Think that would be a step to far and would struggle against one of the bigger heavyweights. Would imagine wilder would fancy it although would he be willing to travel or would bellew need to go stateside. Mite be a chance for him to headline a vegas bout

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In the cold light of day, Hearn and Bellew will see that the only realistic options for Bellew are a rematch with Haye at heavy or to return to cruiser and defend his title. The weekends fight was the biggest in Bellew's career by miles and he won't do as big business against Wilder or Parker. There's a story about the rematch, you can sell it, another PPV, maybe at Goodison. Haye looked old, slow and stiff even before he hurt himself, imagine if Bellew fought the winner of Wlad v AJ?

I don't want to see a rematch though. Bellew isn't a heavyweight and Haye should retire. He has had a great career, I've followed him from the amateur days, when he had Solis in the deck in a World Championship final onto him being the hot prospect coming undone against Thompson and then to cruiserweight champion. As a heavyweight he had some good performances - I rate the Valuev showing, although it wasn't an exciting fight - but came up short.



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Photo doing the rounds a few weeks back of Fury. May seems optimistic...


He's been spouting pish (as usual) on Twitter hinting at a comeback quite a bit the last couple of days. Hope he does make a comeback and gets an absolute beating from a nobody.
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11 minutes ago, dumbarton82 said:

Is a rematch against stevenson a possibility for bellew. Gets him chance to correct 1 of the defeats on his record and if can get stevenson over to uk sure he would fill goodison again. Really intrigued to find out what bellew does next

No. Stevenson won't be moving up to Cruiserweight and there's 0 chance of Bellew ever making 175 again, can't see that fight happening at all.

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Is a rematch against stevenson a possibility for bellew. Gets him chance to correct 1 of the defeats on his record and if can get stevenson over to uk sure he would fill goodison again. Really intrigued to find out what bellew does next

Stevenson 39 now (didn't realise he was that old!) so can't see him moving up. Bellew as well going for Wilder or Parker then retire. Potentially become a heavyweight champion of the world, or at least get a decent pay day.
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16 hours ago, NorthernJambo said:

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Photo doing the rounds a few weeks back of Fury. May seems optimistic...

An out of shape Lennox Lewis isn't half towering over Fury.

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I wonder how many tickets Fury will sell for his comeback fight, if it goes ahead.  He doesn't have a license at the moment, I understand and is still facing charges about PEDs.  

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