Spence is cheering for Gausa
3/26 PBC on SHO: Tim Tszyu vs Terrell Gausha / Michel Rivera vs Joseph Adorno
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Bigblackted4
Superstar
Good while it last
Bigblackted4
Superstar
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
Yeah that should be fireworks for as long as it lasts
The tall kid..Fundora or whatever his name..he's in the 154 division too?
114-113 though is not a score in this fight though
Bigblackted4
Superstar
chunky_mcdaniels
All Star
Right.
Breaks fighters down mid rounds via intensity volume, rather than one punch ko (kinda a bit like Spence in that regard.)
But a smart trainer/camp/fighter can find the perfect counters against him imo and get him outta there.
Clean, clean, vicious counters are available for opponents if that's how he's going to design his fights at the higher level.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
This was the night of bad fight plans.
Adorno kept backing up from a taller, faster, rangier Rivera while eating jabs. Rivera has holes in his defense but Adorno usually didn't move into positions from where he could counter with hard shots and he wasn't working enough. You can't just bank on finding that big shot somehow the whole night.
Gausha too, he scored a surprise KO in his last fight and with the flash KD now dude must believe he's a KO puncher. At least he stayed in range to counter but fighters playing possum like how he did for almost the whole fight works very rarely actually, you either KO or seriously hurt the other guy or you gonna get outworked while you are trying to play possum on the ropes.
Tszyu didn't cut the ring down, whenever Gausha tried to move a bit and feint he could make Tszyu hesitant but mostly he just invited pressure behind a tall guard with his back on the ropes hoping for a KO shot. But banking on a KO as a game plan without being a big puncher is just idiotic.
Not saying that any of them would have actually won by a better game plan but it really seemed they just picked the wrong tactic from start and they stuck to it regardless.
Adorno kept backing up from a taller, faster, rangier Rivera while eating jabs. Rivera has holes in his defense but Adorno usually didn't move into positions from where he could counter with hard shots and he wasn't working enough. You can't just bank on finding that big shot somehow the whole night.
Gausha too, he scored a surprise KO in his last fight and with the flash KD now dude must believe he's a KO puncher. At least he stayed in range to counter but fighters playing possum like how he did for almost the whole fight works very rarely actually, you either KO or seriously hurt the other guy or you gonna get outworked while you are trying to play possum on the ropes.
Tszyu didn't cut the ring down, whenever Gausha tried to move a bit and feint he could make Tszyu hesitant but mostly he just invited pressure behind a tall guard with his back on the ropes hoping for a KO shot. But banking on a KO as a game plan without being a big puncher is just idiotic.
Not saying that any of them would have actually won by a better game plan but it really seemed they just picked the wrong tactic from start and they stuck to it regardless.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
Yes, Tszyu is gutsy and tough, has a great volume and he can mix his combos up too but as of now he loses to the best guys imo. Castano beats him at his own style, Charlo finds that big shot and knocks him out and Lubin moves well laterally, outboxing Tszyu.
I think he'd beat Fundora in a war though, probably grinds Harrison down as well. Tszyu vs Madrimov would be an interesting clash. Or let's say Conwell.
Bigblackted4
Superstar
You need real power to stop him from throwing though
wtf i missed it!!!
First time seeing Tszyu fight a full fight. I’ve only see highlights of his fights, and he’s a lot more crude than I expected. A guy like Gausha gives up ground so easily that you can get lulled into just running in on some Bald Bull shyt; but Tszyu’s defensive soundness, how square and available he is to be hit, some of the poor footwork —surprised me. For a guy that has been boxing for essentially all his life, his defensive orientation from where punches/counters are going to come from when you throw certain punches is well below average. He doesn’t have that defensive “punch sixth sense.” How far he goes will really come down to how resistant his chin is if this is his how he fights going forward.
