Thread: Has Manfredo's showing and seemingly new hunger changed any minds?

Although he beat a limited guy, McCrary is also pretty tough. I was actually pretty impressed and figured it would last well into the 7th.

I was just wondering if the seemingly hungry Manfredo who seemed to loss interest after Calzaghe has changed any minds on whether or not he can take a valid shot at a belt.

IMHO a good showing in a Bika fight would be the berometer as I'm not sold after this win, although somwhat impressive.

He's calling out Bika and I think by the way he looked in the McCrary fight and Bika's style it could be pretty interesting.

I think Bika would kick the shit out of him personally

.....POB, you're a sad sad man. At least the fighters I like are actually good


Manfredo is limited, he seems to have skill at times and then he seems to lack heart or the balls to stand and fight. He just can't seem to get it all together on one night.

Sergio Mora ruined him

Originally Posted by Kel

I think Bika would kick the shit out of him personally

It's quite the possibility. Bika is a throwing machine and when he catches you(which he will) you better be able to maintain.

Originally Posted by Lyle

.....POB, you're a sad sad man. At least the fighters I like are actually good


Manfredo is limited, he seems to have skill at times and then he seems to lack heart or the balls to stand and fight. He just can't seem to get it all together on one night.

Sergio Mora ruined him

Lol, F**k you, Lyle...

I do agree, though.

He can't put it all together in one night.

....the girl he was with in the ring after the fight was nice looking, I'll give him that !! (at least i heard she was, the wife does read this shit)

i saw the fight POB and was equally impressed..

with that said, i still, and will always be until proven wrong, in the "believe it when i see it" mind set with manfredo.. he had his chances, and he blew it both times.. Now he realizes the chances that he had, and seems hungry, but i still don't think he has what it takes at this point to become a top contender..

If he was fighting 160, i'd say maybe.. if he was able to go below 160 he'd have an even better shot, but i just don't see it happening at 168.. He does not have any exceptional defensive skills, and he takes a lot of short punches on the inside.. He has decent power but at 168 it is nothing to brag about.. No doubt the guy has skill, he just has the wrong style and is too small for this weight class, plain and simple.

Originally Posted by RP33

i saw the fight POB and was equally impressed..

with that said, i still, and will always be until proven wrong, in the "believe it when i see it" mind set with manfredo.. he had his chances, and he blew it both times.. Now he realizes the chances that he had, and seems hungry, but i still don't think he has what it takes at this point to become a top contender..

If he was fighting 160, i'd say maybe.. if he was able to go below 160 he'd have an even better shot, but i just don't see it happening at 168.. He does not have any exceptional defensive skills, and he takes a lot of short punches on the inside.. He has decent power but at 168 it is nothing to brag about.. No doubt the guy has skill, he just has the wrong style and is too small for this weight class, plain and simple.

Oh, I entirely agree... I don't think he'd be able to do anything at 160. 154 he could but not 160. Guys like Sturm and Abraham would cut him to ribbons... Less dept at 154.

I also agree that he's not exceptional in any one area. He is a decent all around fighter who shows flashes of good things but as Lyle so elequently stated he can't put it all together in one night, sadly.

He puts on one more showing like he did against Lacy or Calzaghe in front of an international audience and he may as well stay in RI.

Originally Posted by RP33

i saw the fight POB and was equally impressed..

with that said, i still, and will always be until proven wrong, in the "believe it when i see it" mind set with manfredo.. he had his chances, and he blew it both times.. Now he realizes the chances that he had, and seems hungry, but i still don't think he has what it takes at this point to become a top contender..

If he was fighting 160, i'd say maybe.. if he was able to go below 160 he'd have an even better shot, but i just don't see it happening at 168.. He does not have any exceptional defensive skills, and he takes a lot of short punches on the inside.. He has decent power but at 168 it is nothing to brag about.. No doubt the guy has skill, he just has the wrong style and is too small for this weight class, plain and simple.

I agree, if he'd managed to stay at 154, or even 160, he could've been a much more accomplished fighter. He was never going to be elite, but I think he would've been much better served at the lower weights.

With this showing Manfredo has changed my view of him , i now think he is very poor , as opposed to fucking useless

Peter Manfredo freezes on the big occasion, simple as. It's the sole reason he won't be a top fighter. For some reason it winds me up that Jeff Lacy was there for the taking on 8/12/07 an Manfredo done sweet fuck all. Maybe fighting on HBO PPV freaked him out.

Manfredo is just not that talented. A hard worker though.

Although his fight with Lacy was close, he could have easily been declared the winner.

Manfredo has his level, if he fights a class above he loses, a class below he'll look good. He doesn't seem to have the hunger and drive to overcome the guys a little above him at the moment which is what he should strive to do.

I must admit that when I saw the word hunger in the title I assumed he'd leapt to Light Haevyweight.

Peter should operate at 154.
A fight with Duddy would be good for both.

In all fairness to Manfredo, he was not even given a chase to warm up against Calzlappy. I think the ref knew Calzlappy injured his hand. I will even go as far as to say that this was already planned just in case.
If you hurt your hand, let me know, then swarm and smoother Manfredo with a bunch of smoke and mirrors and do the angry penguin slap on his azz and I will stop the fight.

Not to mention that Freddie CockRoach just left Peter hanging, on the biggest night of his life.