People might be sleeping a bit on Afolabi- he has a decent KO over a then-still-useful Macaroni, and stopped Terry Dunstan on the undercard of Wlad vs Haye. His only loss is to Marco Huck by close decision, IN GERMANY, so he pretty much won that fight. He's fighting Brudov this week. Brudov isn't up to much but two of his three losses are to Guillermo Jones and Virgil Hill. With Huck temporarily absent,{and probably not all that much better than Afolabi in the first place} and with YP Hernandez the new top dog, , I'd keep an eye on this guy. He has gotten tonnes of experience sparring with big-name fighters and at 31 is poised to maybe do something big. Let's see how he does with Brudov first. Its for some BS title but the winner is probably looking at a title shot pretty soon. http://news.boxrec.com/news/2012/afolabi-v-brudov-wbo-interim-title-tonight <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nal7KVU-ogQ?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nal7KVU-ogQ?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>
I am assuming it is, when Ringside did the preview they interviewed him too, so....it seem likely. He fought on the last undercard but that was "Box Office" so people might have missed it. He seems a gutsy-classy sort. I'm just ruminating here- we've got a new #1 in Hernandez, and a relatively inexperienced Afolabi did more than OK with home-fighter Huck, throw in the continued exposure to a pretty high level of training and sparring, and you've got a guy who just might be the darkest horse in boxing right now. We know he can fight. If he gets past Brudov I might put a few quid on him if he gets a crack at YP. Jones looks a terrible handful for anyone, he fought Laurent Boudouani twice, before David Reid beat Boudouani, and Boudouani couldn't do a thing with him. He also was robbed vs Johnny Nelson.
Wlad has a classy, nice, moderate, humble approach to capitalism, no Jerry Springer, just a dignified ambassador, he fucks fans as a gentleman. Journalists could put it this way,.. instead of 'playa hatin'.
I've said it many times...if I met either KLitschko I would probably come away with a vague but certain dislike for both of them and their entire scene. There's only one problem with this and it is as follows: I'd have to meet them to dislike them, but I already know how I feel about the "Other Side", knowamsayin? Its one thing to be a cunt. Its something else to be jealous of a cunt because you can't match them for cuntishness. Afolabi seems decent, relaxed, and prepared to garner skills the old-fashioned way, the unfashionable way- as a sparring partner who has desultory opportunities and makes the most of them when they come around. Has a hint of class about him, he made Huck look a right schmuck, more than Povetkin did, IMHO and he didn't need a 20lb weight advantage to do it. Good luck to him.
He puppeteered his cock at the Mormeck pressa,.. "He scared me, he truelly scared me when he said he was going to be the first French heavyweight champion in history" ,.. :scratcher: so I gather there's spare tickets then?..
Dunstan was quality but had two flaws: the Meldrick Taylor mentality and the lack of a chin to go with it. He could have beaten Imamu Mayfield, Carl Thompson, etc etc if he had boxed smart and kept his chin tucked in. Waste really. Thompson was a serious truck and a guy with one of those underrated resumes.At this point in time, he is the ONLY man to stop Haye and Eubank. As Mickey Goldberg used to say.....he never had no management. The "Loss" to Nelson was proof of that. They knew Thompson was Tito-Esque in that he always came back, so they stopped it at the first sign of trouble. Nelson went on to make a small fortune fighting the Petkovic's and Willard Lewis' of this World, while Thompson took the small-time money for the hard fights. Compare their resumes for the period after Nelson "beat" Thompson.....who has the harder fights?? Rothmann, Haye, Sellers, Uriah Grant, Dunstan, Illyin vs Asipeli, Lewis, Arias, Watt, Girard....:shit:
Thompson was a badass. Not the most skilled guy but the personification of heart and guts. The amount of times he pulled victory from the jaws of defeat was insane. Him and Danny Williams are my favourite "non-elite" fighters. I like Afolabi too, the guy has skills.
Williams and Thompson were written off more times than Barclays debt. Both of them had a massive 2004- Williams looked finished after the loss to Skelton before he beat Tyson and got a title shot in Vegas. Thompson highlight-reeled Rothmann and stopped Haye.
