nikka is better than people give him credit for. if he had more skill
Bika is solid & he had momentum going into that Ward fight. He had a KO streak going.
so did i..i just started up boxing again around that time..i was trying to get my physique just like this man..the heavyweight version..i had that nikka's everlast handwraps...jeff was outchea beating these nikkas asses while joe wasnt looking quite as spectacular..i thought the cypher was about to be complete
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The reason why I changed my pick to Joe the week of the fight, was because I binge watched some Lacy fights & studied them. He would win these fights, but he had to work so hard to do it. I was like nah I don't know if Jeff can do it."
Not me friend as a kid my uncle always told me when a puncher goes up against a boxer bet on the boxer every time. All these fights where dudes are over nikkas power like Walters/Loma, Lucas/Bradley, GGG/Ward, kkkov/Ward. Unless the boxer is flabby or there is fukkery involved I'm pickiing the boxer every time.
That's true, but for that particular fight, people thought Joe was past it. He was probably just unmotivated & needed a guy like Jeff to bring that out of him.