Verno Phillips vs. John Duddy In Oct.

[OumaFan]

Actually not a bad post by Bilbo

I would still pick Verno in this one actually, Duddy's just too open to being hit. I guess he could outwork Verno though.

[OumaFan]

For what its worth boxingscene has Duddy's manager on there saying this fight is not set. That he's going to go to the Alcine-Santos fight to see about one of them as a possible fight. Guess we'll see.

[TyBuff]

I dont think the weight will bother Duddy as much, he has a new trainer and a conditioning coach for the first time. Read an article that were his trainer said that making 154 wouldnt be a problem because they are getting Duddy to eating better foods, plus he weighed 158 for his last fight. I think Jnr Middle will be great for Duddy, the division is wide open and would be easy for somebody to come along and dominate.

[Hulk]

My money is on Phillips even at this age. He's always had a field day with sluggers and power punchers. Particuarly ones as easy to hit as Duddy.


I remember when Phillips layed a beatdown on my boy Teddy Reid couple years back.

[No Contest]

Time to shit or get off the pot, this is going to be Duddy's breakout fight. Should be a good fight. Verno is not shot, he won't have to chase Duddy around like Spinks so let the fireworks begin, when the smoke clear duddy will have his first legit belt.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

Time to shit or get off the pot, this is going to be Duddy's breakout fight. Should be a good fight. Verno is not shot, he won't have to chase Duddy around like Spinks so let the fireworks begin, when the smoke clear duddy will have his first legit belt.

AGREED!

[p4pking]

I think Phillips will probably take this one, assuming he doesn't just totally get old, which is always possible. He looked ok against Spinks though, thought that it was actually a pretty bad decision even though I really watned him to win. Having said that, he hit Spinks with a lot of good shots and was competitive in every round. And Spinks is extremely hard to hit clean, if Phillips was shot he wouldn't have done as well as he did in that fight. Phillips has always been a good volume puncher who can keep a high pace up all fight. Duddy, imo, is not a very good prospect. I won't give him the garbage tag as obviously he can fight in the scheme of things, relatively speaking. But I don't see him beating anyone at the top level. He's not championship material just yet, doubt he ever will be with the way he gets hit.

[DBestBoxer]

Time to shit or get off the pot, this is going to be Duddy's breakout fight. Should be a good fight. Verno is not shot, he won't have to chase Duddy around like Spinks so let the fireworks begin, when the smoke clear duddy will have his first legit belt.

AGREED!

DITTO!