Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
he's faaaaaaaaar removed from being competitive at the top of the division.
I'm not so sure.

Ok I agree that just working by logic in our heads that he appears to be far from it because he was inactive and in his 40's.

But if we can just analyse his last 3 decent level fights.

Firstly he stopped Siarhei Liakhovich.
He then lost a fair UD to Ibragimov
Then losing to Vitali is not the worst thing.

Ok he hasn't fought anything but bums since he returned, but he does look in better shape than he looked in those 3 fights.

I am not being hasty because I like him, if he was waaay overweight and trying this I would say hang it up fella, give it a rest and move on.

But I don't think it would be like that I think he would do a half decent job against Wlad and to be honest I think he deserves it as he is probably the only real fighter left from our last decent generation of HWs.

One last push for him and then let him fade, I think for everything he has given to boxing, the excitement, the shocks, his pretty damn good fight with Foreman :P he should get this.

Hell it is the most exciting thing that has happened in HW boxing for me in a while.