Jared Anderson?

[Spicoli]

Being honest I'm between very solid believer and well now I have no idea on his direction. And it's not based on the fight itself with Martin. He clearly showed he has some holes down the middle and repeated bad habits pulling straight back high. But I think some of the immediate backlash has gone off the rails. 1 fight and 2,3,4 stumbles off heavy shots does not define a career and render a 15-0 fighter as "hype job" write off. Some fans today have a microwave short attention span mindset trying to finish the story when you're only in the early chapters. Flip thru any random top heavy over last couple decades and you will find a 'tough' fight and opponent that sprung up in development...that's the entire point! I'd rather see an acid test with a few burns taken this early than a guy who incorporates his flaws into style because they were never addressed or admitted to.

But the biggest problem and concern for me as a fan is the talk of retirement in 3 years. That is a stop and side-eye moment, honestly cannot wrap my head around it at all. Looking to have a goal is good, an idea and plan...but boxing doesn't work like that. Things get turned upside down and the next thing you know you've lost six months to injury etc. Setting time constraints and definitely not for a 23-year-old who is at the spear tip of a 'new generation' coming in hot. The division is in shift and putting a deadline on natural progression and development is setting snare traps for yourself. You just have to be all in on a long-term drive. Hopefully it was just that..talk. But it's not something a young learning fighter with big potential needs to be repeating. It'll be interesting going forward.

[Dark Lord Al]

He is a chin up bully, he will get chinned very soon as opposition improves. He has some moves and speed but that's about it.

[Big J]

This fight is better for Anderson than all his previous pro fights
It highlighted his faults
He went the distance
Got his chin checked
& won clearly on the cards
Hope he's back in the gym working on correcting

[TitoFan]

I had predicted an upset by Martin, but Jared proved me wrong. Good test for him. Now that he's passed it, I can see him doing great things in the division.

[palmerq]

Good thing for Anderson is that he's only 23, he'd surely struggle against the top guys right now but he's pretty young and could probably correct a few things, he held up well energy wise over ten rounds v big guy who was fighting back, took a few whacks and won, obviously he needs to improve but he has time. Fury got knocked over by a few lesser guys in his young days too and he really improved a lot as he got older, there's hope for this big baby yet.

[Primo Carnera]

It's not a bad thing that the hype machine has slowed down a touch since the weekend , it'll do him good. lots of Potential , but a long way to go yet.

[TIC]

jared is set to return on august twenty sixth against andriy rudenko. i like the activity