James Degale- Not aggressive enough!

[ykdadamaja]

I have warmed to De Gale since he has been on channel 5. he only just lost to Groves and the fight could have gone either way. I think both have progressed well for the limited fights they have had and there is no way De Gale will get a fight with Froch as he is with another promoter. He has been interviewed in boxing news this week and his best bet would be Biko.

You mean with Sakio Bika? I can like that fight for him. It's a BIG step up. But Bika is beatable, he punches hard, but very beatable.

Bika's last outing vs. Perriban showed me that after all of these years, Bika's skill level is going to be what it is- like a Ricardo Mayorga. Very awkward and very wild.

If Degale boxes and moves then this can be a very easy UD for a belt for him.

[Master]

I have warmed to De Gale since he has been on channel 5. he only just lost to Groves and the fight could have gone either way. I think both have progressed well for the limited fights they have had and there is no way De Gale will get a fight with Froch as he is with another promoter. He has been interviewed in boxing news this week and his best bet would be Biko.

You mean with Sakio Bika? I can like that fight for him. It's a BIG step up. But Bika is beatable, he punches hard, but very beatable.

Bika's last outing vs. Perriban showed me that after all of these years, Bika's skill level is going to be what it is- like a Ricardo Mayorga. Very awkward and very wild.

If Degale boxes and moves then this can be a very easy UD for a belt for him.

that would set up a good fight with Froch/Groves or even the middleweights below like Macklin and Murray.

[nuggetdotcom]

James Degale's gob is pretty aggressive, that's about it.

Groves has come on leaps and bounds since their fight, and Froch has no good reason to give him a shot.

He's a nightclub fighter who just picked the wrong promoter because he thought it would be easy life, then he met George Groves. He will never recover from that because of Groves significant improvements in performance since.

Master fight selection and judgement by Adam Booth at the time I think, yet again he stuffs one up Warren.

[Dark Lord Al]

DeGay made his pro debut as Olympic champion and he was booed by a British crowd in his first fight.
That sums him up for me , he just isnt that good a pro , doesn't fight enough and he thinks he is way better than he actually is.

[erics44]

DeGay made his pro debut as Olympic champion and he was booed by a British crowd in his first fight.
That sums him up for me , he just isnt that good a pro , doesn't fight enough and he thinks he is way better than he actually is.

he was booed because he is a nob, not really anything to do with his boxing ability

[Dark Lord Al]

DeGay made his pro debut as Olympic champion and he was booed by a British crowd in his first fight.
That sums him up for me , he just isnt that good a pro , doesn't fight enough and he thinks he is way better than he actually is.

he was booed because he is a nob, not really anything to do with his boxing ability

He was booed because he talks big and fights like a twat.

[ykdadamaja]

Hey... I notice he still gets booed from his own crowd. The Groves fight could have gone either way. I think they handed it to Groves because Groves showed more heart in the ring and more positivity about the fight.

With that being said, there is NOTHING wrong with DeGale's skills. He has decent power. What he doesn't have is the right fighting attitude.

All the talk aside, someone like a Naseem Hamed had oddles of bad attitude- but he more than made up for it in the ring with exciting and convincing wins. You know why? Hamed came to fight- and fight hard and be aggressive and hit people.

DeGale needs to learn that OR get out of the ring.

On this current path, he will be a non-descript Olympian who "may" win a minor belt, or even a piece of the world title, but nothing more.

He has the talent and skills to be much more than that.