Ike Ibeabuchi

[El Kabong]

....I refer back to other "devistating" Nigerian heavyweights of the recent past: David Izon, Friday Ahunaya, Sam Peter, Duncan Dokiwari

If Ike Ibeabichi had continued his career without prison, without insanity, without anything else Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield would have ate him alive

And yes I have done a 180 on my stance for this issue but I mean there is a tendency for Nigerian heavyweights to explode on the scene and then immediately become average. In reality Ike had 2 big fights and 1 really solid showing vs a top level fighter at the time in David Tua. Chris Byrd was having his way with Ike until he got caught him. Let's be totally honest, Ike never fought a complete fighter like a Holyfield or a Lewis and I think that would have been his undoing.