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Contender season 2 runner up, Steve Forbes is in line for a bout with WBA Light-Welterweight champion Gavin Rees. Communications are believed to be under way for the fight to happen and the fight would be a very good contrast of styles. www.stevieforbes.com
Thanks for posting this T. And welcome to the forum.
I think Forbes beats him well tbh! Unless theres a dramatic improvement in Rees before then!
Hey cheers for the welcome mate, and yeah i think Forbes beats Rees, would be good to see him champion again.
Ya it would! Rees is an ok fella, iv got nothing against him, but to be honest any admiration i have for him is bourne from the fact that he's an undersized guy at Light Welter. I feel he should drop to Light weight really.
CC mate
Hopefully Forbes can win this I really like the guy. ;D
I had a thought last night....
Enzo C's main guys....
Joe Calzaghe, Enzo Maccarenelli, Gavin Rees, Bradley Pryce...
They're all guys who enter the ring witha nice loose physique and never look musclebound or cumbersome...Looks like they don't use weights.
Just a thought.
i agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by leftylee
Rees is a game fighter, there's no doubt about that, and he'd go in there 100% with an Enzo Calzaghe plan backing him. However, when he won the belt it was against a jaded and uninspiring Souleymane M'baye, whilst Forbes will undoubtedly have much more desire and will than that guy.
On the other hand, Forbes is probably less of a challenge than many of the other guys who are in the division and would love to get a shot at Rees. I reckon Rees would give Forbes a run for his money, but just get edged out on the stretch.
Based on ress' past performances, forbes beats him in a close one. But they say a champ improves by 25% once he wins his title....
I'd much ather see him fight Demetrius Hopkins
The thing is, I think Rees has stumbled into this title a little prematurely, and still has some work developing to do to be a decent champion, so going for the harder fights straight away would be a little suicidal on his part, so beating some contenders (maybe there was a pun intended) before some really big fights, like D-Hop, would probably be best for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sugar_Shaw
Thing is Forbes was apparently very competitive against D-Hop and many people claim was robbed..so with that logic it wouldn't make sense for Rees to fight Forbes either. I do hope Forbes takes it though. Nice guy and a good boxer.Quote:
Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
I think with both Forbes and D-Hop they are both "gimmick" fighters to some extent these days, with Forbes having been in The Contender and D-Hop in the vast shadow of another "Hop" who may or may not fight Calzaghe. It's a different thing being competitive and actually winning, so that's why I'd prefer Forbes for Rees at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Althugz
And it sets up a potential Wales v Hopkins bill, with Calzaghe v B-hop and Rees v D-hop. Does the Hopkins clan have a decent heavyweight to go up against Maccarinelli?
rees is the worst fighter to EVER hold a belt
You were coming out with this bullshit last time, without actully ever seeing him fight? Still the same is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by SalTheButcher
Hasim Rahman, Lovemore N'dou, Carlos Maussa, Malcolm Klassen, Silvio Branco. We've had plenty of worse fighters holding world belts. When it comes to biased posters...you're up there with Royal son. :sadclick:Quote:
Originally Posted by SalTheButcher
no, i looked at his record and said his opposition was shitty, and that he would get destroyed , i never said HE was shitty, just that he hadnt fought anyone to give reason to believe he had a legitimate chance of winning, what i saw in that fight was the WORST form i have EVER seen in a title fightQuote:
Originally Posted by skel1983
none of them are half as bad, you guys are seriously blinded by nationalism if you dont see how bad this guy is, his form is embarrassingQuote:
Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
Come on now,Sal is the man around here!NOWHERE NEAR as bad as Royal. He doesn't like Rees style,that's all! I have to see this Rees style,someone post a link please?Quote:
Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
If you actually watched the Forbes D-Hop fight you'd know that Forbes won that fight by a country mile. He won at least 9 rounds on my card he completely dominated.Quote:
Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
He followed it up with a win over former super prospect Bojado as well so right now I'd say aside from Malignaggi and Hatton Forbes is the best fighter at 140 right now.
I'm suprised it's happening but Forbes will romp to an easy win if it happens. He'll completely outclass Rees although whether he will get the decision is another thing entirely. ::**
I know, nobody likes a champ with an 0....cause that's just insulting to other champs right? In his five fights since returning from suspension, he's beaten the WBA title holder (comprehensively), one guy who was a decent British contender and three warm-up, keep-busy opponents. I don't see that any worse than Shannon Briggs' bum of the month keep busy fights until he got a world title shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by SalTheButcher
I'm not proclaiming him to be Ricky Hatton or Muhammad Ali or anything, but I think you're just exaggarating because you don't like British fighters. For example, how can he be the worst fighter to ever hold the belt when he outpointed the champion so comprehensively.
Souleymane M'baye was a decent fighter. But that's about it. Beating him can only carry you so far. The records of the other opponents Rees has beaten are indeed terrible.
well yehQuote:
Originally Posted by Violent Demise
that was why it was such a shock that he got the title shot and the win.
he'l lose to pretty much any half decent challenger
but good on the little man for winning the title in the 1st place.
i dont hate british fighters, hatton is the man, and he beat mbaye cuz mbaye didnt do shit, its got nothing to do with who he has fought, that was only the reason i doubted him before i saw him, he has HORRIBLE form, and thats something that i refuse to overlook, its the main reason i think calzaghe is so shitty, rees has possibly the worst form ive ever seenQuote:
Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
You're being one-eyed about this though Sal, I mean look at Demetrius Hopkins' form...he's got maybe three decent fighters on his record, so if we're going strictly on form I don't think Hopkins warrants a shot at the title. FFS, how on earth did he get a world title eliminator with a guy 23-10-3....And as for Forbes, before he ended up on TV he was fighting guys with shitty records too, and with two defeats in his last three, maybe he shouldn't be getting a shot either.
Rees was lucky to get his shot, but if you refuse to overlook form with Rees, you got to apply the same filters to future challengers too.
I agree with SalTheButcher and Bilbo spot on you guys.
Rees is shit and will get KNFO by any half decent fighter. ;D
AHQuote:
Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
theres a miscommunication here
your thinking of "form" in the british sense
im using the word to refer to the punching form, how good his punches are, how well he throws different punches, his ability to get power out of his shots not based on strength, i feel he has the worst from ive ever seen
HaHa CC Sal The only reason Gavin beat M'Baye is M'baye is an old man who was not arsed about world titles and shit, you seen it in his fight before Rees against Kotelnik he did'nt want to be there and looked awful but I admit I do admire Forbes he is a class act and would easily beat Gavin Rees.
By the way on the 9th of March 04 Gavin Rees fought Carl Allen then with a record of 21-0 while Allen was 18-36-5 and Rees got KNOCKED DOWN HAHAHAHAHAHA
WORLD CHAMP MY FUCKIN ARSE ;D
I just think that anyone who goes in against Rees is going to have to work hard, cause Rees will outwork a lot of fighters After all, he's probably not got the power and the technique to floor guys at light-welterweight, but he is going to work hard for 12 rounds and land some punches in every round.Quote:
Originally Posted by SalTheButcher