'Fast' Eddie heads to Cruiserweight

One of the better technical boxers in the heavyweight division Eddie Chambers has recently changed course in order to ressurect his career. Eddie has only lost to top level heavyweights: Alexander Povetkin & Tomaz Adamek on points, and Wladimir Klitschko by a very late KO. Eddie has achieved a great deal in the heavyweight division in spite of his diminutive stature. His move to cruiserweight could spell success as the division is slowly but surely seeing its talent head north to Heavyweight (Marco Huck, Tomaz Adamek, David Haye, and Steve Cunningham have all left the cruiserweight class).

I believe this move is a positive one for Chambers and could see him win titles. Eddie has fast hands and a very good defense. However, there are still tough matches to be had at cruiserweight: Guillermo Jones, Denis Ledbedev, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, Ola Afalobi, Yoan Hernandez, etc.

I believe this move will really pay off for Eddie, he's only got to lose 10 pounds to make the limit and I think he can easily do that as well. What do you think about this?

No wonder he wanted Huck to stay at cruiserweight.

Had Chris Byrd wanted to he probably could have been the best cruiserweight ever.....had he wanted to of course.

Eddie Chambers can still win some titles, I think his power will show a bit more at cruiserweight.

He hasn't taken alot of damage and could def pull it off. Its a choice if he wants to make better money (?) but settle on being a runner up at heavy or call himself a Champion. Cruiser is generally a pit stop and not many come down. I remember McCroy basically salvaging a career for a strap after bad run at heavy. Norris held his own at hvy but dropped too. Alot of his capability at hvy was playing the humming bird , somewhat like a Chris Byrd but it could be a two way street with punches coming faster etc. For all of the bigger guys Byrd faced I still think he was hurt the most in his early fight with Arthur Williams, a cruiser. And of course Ibeabuchi :shinner:

Great choice from eddie, I really like him he's a very good boxer but when you look fat and weigh 210 pounds then you are in the wrong division, he's just too small for heavyweight I guess that is where the money is though.. I hope he can make some good money at cruiserweight and win some titles too it looks like his natural weight.

Amazed it's taken him this long to realise he should be a Cruiserweight.... I'd like to think he'll do well there too....

With as fat as Eddie LOOKS one could think why hasn't he attempted to make 175? Then again I think after a certain point you just hit your limit to how low you can go and still be effective, because Byrd tried that as well and didn't do well at all so cruiserweight is a good choice.

I'm interested in how this works for Eddie

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Originally Posted by palmerq

Great choice from eddie, I really like him he's a very good boxer but when you look fat and weigh 210 pounds then you are in the wrong division, he's just too small for heavyweight I guess that is where the money is though.. I hope he can make some good money at cruiserweight and win some titles too it looks like his natural weight.

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http://www.brickcityboxing.com/media/chambers_01.jpg

Doesn't look that fat at 210 to me. Against Peter he looked fat (but then again peter was a blob in that fight too!) Chambers weighed 223 lbs for peter, ridiculous! Chambers should maintain his fitness more. All this diminutive crap is just nonsense....by K2 standards he is small but by any other standard he isn't really...

Here's an extremely fit chambers @ 202LBS.

http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/6151...2adamek002.jpg

I wish him well though. Managed correctly he'l take a belt at CW. But he is capable of operating in both divisions with ease IMO. Just more chance of a belt at CW due to the lack of K2. Good fighter eddie though, id love to see him expose Seth Mitchell!

i think the reason he looks fat is because he has a big old donkey butt. He looks like he's wearing diapers under his trunks.