In-Shape heavyweight sighting

His head looks smaller than Pacquiao's with double the bodyweight so i guess we can assume he's clean.

Although his fights might be boring to some people, that guy is a fucking tank, i can understand a lot of opponents shitting themselves before the bell.




Chambers:

 

What were the weights?

 

Wlad looks in shape and not much else. Many heavyweights have more imposing builds.

 

Like who??? ::


You're a clown...

6 foot 7 wide shouldered massive arms and almost no fat. Name five... There's MAYBE one or two in the top 15 of the four ABC divisions.



Weights were 244lbs and 209lbs.

 

Chambers is a damn small heavyweight if he's that soft at 209. Hope he does well, but he's gonna be dwarfed.

 

Yeah, I think Chambers may have a bit of trouble absorbing Wlad's shots,.. especially the left hook if it gets through.

 

I'm actually quite interested how such a small guy with a bit of skill might do against Wlad. I suppose we have Byrd as a measuring stick but I was never any sort of fan of Byrd, I hope Chambers can have a bit more success.

 

I'm afraid we will see a lot of jabs early. Wlad could fight a puppy Golden Retriever and wouldn't throw a right hand until the middle rounds these days. Then he seems to have a hard time hitting moving targets these days.

I don't know why he dominated Byrd that clearly, Byrd couldn't be as elusive or slick as i thought he was.

I think it depends on Chamber's ability to get really badly frustrated because he won't have much offensive success i would guess and will eat the hardest jab and more of them, than he ever had to.


If he has a great gas tank and keeps trying to get to Wlad the whole time he could survive twelve rounds (for that he might have to run a bit more) or even make Wlad look bad on a couple of occasions but i think in the end i think people will say damn... didn't think it would be that easy.

Or maybe he does a Calvin Brock on Wlad. Make him look bad and add a highlight-reel KO at the same time. Or maybe he goes allout and KOs him in the first round... Easy fight to predict. ::

 

Well given his conditioning its´safe to assume he doens´t take EPO. :boohoo:

 

I think he's doing fine lately although he's clearly not a workrate monster but then i can assure you how much concentration can exhaust you and i believe Wlad is one of those highly alert boxers...

But hey - no EPO! :bears:

 

His hairline has also receded slightly so I think it is safe to say that the lad is not doing the same follicle-boosting shit as Manny Pac.

 

Also, look at the creases in Chambers midsection.........thats where his fat rolls when he sits down.

 

::Good spot

 

As REED Types, Larry Merchant is Somewhere MASTURBATING to this Visual Image...



REED:hammert:

 

Chambers looks pretty much in shape. For him at least. :bears:

I hope he does well. He has the potential to give it a real go, and it would be nice to see someone give one of the brother's Klit a bit of a workout...

MTF

 

If Chambers thinks that Wlad is Dimitrenko II then he is in for a rude awakening.

 

Sorry but Chambers looks to be in only moderate condition. Not horribly fat, but a bit of chub around the gut, clearly didn't work too hard in training camp. Or at least didn't watch what he ate all that well.

For a guy like Chambers who even when he is in good shape has workrate problems (due in part to style), it would seem to me imperative that he come in to this fight better than ever before in terms of conditioning. He's going to need it to have a chance.

How come all these lighter weight guys come in at these sick weights, looking ripped as hell, but most heavies can't even come close? Is it as simple as they don't have to make weight, so they just say "fuck it"? I once thought that maybe it had to do with lots of guys at lighter weights being hispanic, and maybe their body types or work ethic allowed them to get in such great shape. But then Chris Arreola came along.

 

Not all heavyweight champs have been in impeccable "shape", and, at heavyweight, the rules change for what "shape" is. George Foreman was fat in the mid 1990's but his style did not need muscles or need for him to be ripped.

Tim Witherspoon was pudgy when he whacked out Frank Bruno, a Mr Olympia look-alike.

Ditto Sanders when he beat Wlad, and absorbed shot after shot vs Vitali.

Tua made a career out of being heavy, and got away with it 90% of the time.

Buster Mathis was a fat slob who lasted 11 rounds with Joe Frazier, and actually beat him for the Olympic slot.

Joe Louis was an all-time great, and was clocked by fat slob Galento.

 

Oddly enough, I was watching a few Bruno re-runs on DVD at the weekend and, my God, I had almost forgotten just how ripped and muscular the big nut-job was. He had those grotesque, triangular muscles linking his shoulders and his jaw for fuck's sake...

And YET, despite all of this, Bruno spent almost every major fight he had slumped over the top rope, his glass jaw smashing dramatically all over the ringside observers.

Go figure.

MTF ::

 

This is why I qualified my original post by adding 'for him at least'.

Bearing in mind that 'Fast' Eddie Chambers is usually referred to by a slightly shortened moniker and that I entered this thread expecting to see him looking, as usual, like a fucking blamanche, he is is good shape IMHO.

Comparatively.

MTF ::

 

Scientists have figured it out and and actually identified the gene responsible for it.....it's the SGL30876...the Statuesque Glass Jaw Gene, as it is also known. Herbie Hide had it and Pele Reid had it. Frank had a ridiculous physique and absolutely very little in the line of resistance or stamina.

 

I'm surprised you didn't add ol' David Haye to the list...

MTF :crafty:

 

His physique is shit.

 

Sorry, my bad...



MTF :laughing:

 

I guess. "Good for Eddie Chambers" is about as good as Eddie Chambers gets. I just look at the weigh-in pics and I try and think about how Chambers could possibly pull off an upset. The answer is not a 2 round knockout, IMO. It is more likely he keeps the jab up at a high rate all night, and as it goes long and he welts up Wlad's face, he eventually starts to come on and put combinations behind it. Now that Wlad holds so often, he doesn't get fall down tired anymore, but he definitely tires as the fight wears on.

Unfortunately, unless Chambers is in "fight of your life" shape, he will wane as the fight goes on, and his workrate (which is already suspect) will decline as well.

 

Dude....I shit thee not....his deltoids are too small...he would fucking FAIL badly in ANY body building contest on grounds that his proportion is shit. I couldn't believe it when he stood beside Vitali, how lacking in shoulder width David is. He has the same triangular shape my upper body has. All neck lats and no shoulders. The other thing is that the vascularity in his shoulders look suspiciously like a guy who spends time lifting weights to get bigger. I bet Vitali spends fuck all time in a weights room.

 

How many other current HW's would succeed in a 'body building competition'?

I was talking about HW boxers who were well defined but had no chin. I wasn't talking about Mr Universe contestants.

With the exception of Big Frank, obviously.

Anyway, be all of that as it may, by almost any other standard you cannot describe David Haye as having 'a shit physique'. Chris Arreola has a shit physique, for example. For that matter, so do I.

Haye does not.

MTF :nono:

 

I disagree,.. I think there is absolutely no change in Pacquiao's appearance, none whatsoever, a monsterous sprout of the eyebrows, on enlarged facial bones in the course of three years is absolutely normal.. I also don't want the commission to ban the usage of wrigged wraps, performance enhancers or a baseball bat if they can get away with it, because Chambers is a black hero and is precious to the pride of black fans so I want whatever it takes through the course of flagrant corruption, to allow Wlad to achieve the outcome that benefits my hateful needs. :crafty:

 

Yes, but do you think Chambers can win?

 

I don't understand how fighting the HW champ can't motivate Chambers to get in shape. I'm not asking for a bodybuilding body, but FOR FUCK'S SAKE!! Don't show up with a beer belly either!!!