Ike Ibeabuchi is back?

[Britkid]

Ike Ibeabuchi Hires Koncz, Wants To Gain World Title Shot -Boxing News

How will this work out?

Hopefully nothing comes of it and Mr President concentrates on staying mentally healthy and keeping his life on track away from boxing. Maybe in due course, if he is that type, he can train fighters.

[erics44]

I hope it works out and we see him in a big fight

[Master]

Give it a couple of months.

Ike Ibeabuchi is back.... in jail.

[El Kabong]

Well he's 42 years old, he's going to have to regain his license which might be more difficult for him seeing how he has had mental issues.

I'm not sure what he'll offer, I know he won't be the same fighter as he was...and really I don't think he was so unbeatable during his prime, I think Holyfield and Lewis would have handled him because they were tough but were also very smart in the ring.

[Britkid]

Well he's 42 years old, he's going to have to regain his license which might be more difficult for him seeing how he has had mental issues.

I'm not sure what he'll offer, I know he won't be the same fighter as he was...and really I don't think he was so unbeatable during his prime, I think Holyfield and Lewis would have handled him because they were tough but were also very smart in the ring.

I took the opinion he was successful because of his illness. No sane man walks through David Tua's punches. And even then Ike was almost outworked by Tua!

Ibeabuchi was a decent size, good chin and a fair puncher, that probably gets you on to the fringes; top 30/40 in the world. His illness helped him develop a fearless style and took him to the next level and get the fancy on side; without the illness he would of been at best, another 'Duncan Dokiwari' level fighter.

[El Kabong]

I took the opinion he was successful because of his illness. No sane man walks through David Tua's punches. And even then Ike was almost outworked by Tua!

Ibeabuchi was a decent size, good chin and a fair puncher, that probably gets you on to the fringes; top 30/40 in the world. His illness helped him develop a fearless style and took him to the next level and get the fancy on side; without the illness he would of been at best, another 'Duncan Dokiwari' level fighter.

Different countries tend to produce similar styles of boxers with certain style traits that become almost stereotypical.

Looking at Sam Peter, David Izon, Friday Ahunaya, Duncan Dokiwari, etc it seems to me that had Ibeabuchi NOT been a mental case and NOT done the horrible things he did and NOT gone to prison he would have eventually become slow on his feet, slow in delivering his punches, he'd keep a good solid chin, but he'd be limited, a plodding 1 big haymaker at a time power puncher....I think Holyfield would have made him look amateurish, I think Lennox Lewis would have boxed circles around him, and eventually he'd lose to someone shocking like a Michael Grant or Shannon Briggs or Tony Thompson....someone would just catch him at a time where he would be fighting like he just visited a buffet.

That said there was no evidence of him heading that direction other than my seeing that exact same thing happen to the aforementioned fighters all of whom are from Nigeria same as Ike.

[C.J.Rock]

I took the opinion he was successful because of his illness. No sane man walks through David Tua's punches. And even then Ike was almost outworked by Tua!

Ibeabuchi was a decent size, good chin and a fair puncher, that probably gets you on to the fringes; top 30/40 in the world. His illness helped him develop a fearless style and took him to the next level and get the fancy on side; without the illness he would of been at best, another 'Duncan Dokiwari' level fighter.

Different countries tend to produce similar styles of boxers with certain style traits that become almost stereotypical.

Looking at Sam Peter, David Izon, Friday Ahunaya, Duncan Dokiwari, etc it seems to me that had Ibeabuchi NOT been a mental case and NOT done the horrible things he did and NOT gone to prison he would have eventually become slow on his feet, slow in delivering his punches, he'd keep a good solid chin, but he'd be limited, a plodding 1 big haymaker at a time power puncher....I think Holyfield would have made him look amateurish, I think Lennox Lewis would have boxed circles around him, and eventually he'd lose to someone shocking like a Michael Grant or Shannon Briggs or Tony Thompson....someone would just catch him at a time where he would be fighting like he just visited a buffet.

That said there was no evidence of him heading that direction other than my seeing that exact same thing happen to the aforementioned fighters all of whom are from Nigeria same as Ike.

Did you ever see Ike fight?? He was nothing like those fighters you mentioned. I saw most of his fights from ringside. Watched Curtis Cokes transform him from a crude brawler to a great boxer puncher. He would have been champ without a doubt

[erics44]

Well he's 42 years old, he's going to have to regain his license which might be more difficult for him seeing how he has had mental issues.

I'm not sure what he'll offer, I know he won't be the same fighter as he was...and really I don't think he was so unbeatable during his prime, I think Holyfield and Lewis would have handled him because they were tough but were also very smart in the ring.

I took the opinion he was successful because of his illness. No sane man walks through David Tua's punches. And even then Ike was almost outworked by Tua!

Ibeabuchi was a decent size, good chin and a fair puncher, that probably gets you on to the fringes; top 30/40 in the world. His illness helped him develop a fearless style and took him to the next level and get the fancy on side; without the illness he would of been at best, another 'Duncan Dokiwari' level fighter.

what?

ive never heard so much stupidness in my life

[mrbig1]

What a fucking waste. He was well on his way to gain a title shot. The demons in his head got the better of him.

[Britkid]

Well he's 42 years old, he's going to have to regain his license which might be more difficult for him seeing how he has had mental issues.

I'm not sure what he'll offer, I know he won't be the same fighter as he was...and really I don't think he was so unbeatable during his prime, I think Holyfield and Lewis would have handled him because they were tough but were also very smart in the ring.

I took the opinion he was successful because of his illness. No sane man walks through David Tua's punches. And even then Ike was almost outworked by Tua!

Ibeabuchi was a decent size, good chin and a fair puncher, that probably gets you on to the fringes; top 30/40 in the world. His illness helped him develop a fearless style and took him to the next level and get the fancy on side; without the illness he would of been at best, another 'Duncan Dokiwari' level fighter.

what?

ive never heard so much stupidness in my life

Then look back at some of my posts on the subject in the last 15 years I have been in the Forum, I am pretty consistent. He was a decent plodder with a mental illness who should not have been fighting.

[C.J.Rock]

Well he's 42 years old, he's going to have to regain his license which might be more difficult for him seeing how he has had mental issues.

I'm not sure what he'll offer, I know he won't be the same fighter as he was...and really I don't think he was so unbeatable during his prime, I think Holyfield and Lewis would have handled him because they were tough but were also very smart in the ring.

I think anyone that was kept heavily sedated for 14 months in jail would have mental problems don't you. All those years in jail have taken a great career away. If he could come back in the shape he was in when incarcerated he would dominate the HW scene today