Boxing

Stiverne has all the talent

Seriously? In every fight I've seen of his he's looked pretty unskilled and has shown nothing other than having a big punch.

I expect Arreola to take this, but if he fights Fury (whose fight with Johnson was also meant to be a WBC eliminator, like this one) he will lose.

Having said that, with two big punchers going at it, this should be an entertaining one.

Vyacheslav Glazkov v Malik Scott on February 23 will probably not be very entertaining, but both fighters are far more skilled than Arreola/Stiverne and the winner of that stands a far better chance against the Klitschkos.

What I meant was out of the two, arreola and stiverne, stiverne has the better skill set, the ability to box if he has to and the better fundamentals. I'm not saying he's the best boxer in the HW division or even near it, i'm just saying i've seen him box at times in fights whereas arreola is a more aggressive come forward fighter (more like a HW version of Antonio Margarito).

As i said, I think arreola will get the KO because he has shown better ability to overcome tough situations and with a fight like this where both fighters have ridiculous power and leaky defenses, both are going to get hit eventually and i expect arreola to come out on top.

I haven't seen much of Glazkov but I did see his fight with Tor Hamer and he looked decent in there. I'm gonna wait till i see a few more of his fights before i make a proper judgement on him though.

Fair enough, Stiverne had a decent amateur career (stopped Price and beat Helenius) but has stagnated in the pros.

Glazkov has all the tools, excellent jabs and boxes well. Scott has excellent speed and reflexes which today's HWs lack, put on an absolute clinic and schooled his opponent in his last fight, but lacks power.

On a side note, Tyson Fury is (apparently) fighting Steve Cunningham next. Cunningham is a good fighter but I think Fury is just far too big for him and his defence and all-round game have tightened up in his last few fights too.

Yeah I was impressed with fury in his last fight. I was also impressed with cunninghams performance against adamek. But fury is no tomasz adamek and i think he's on a different level to cunningham altogether. I think Cunningham will put up a good fight though!

Floyd Mayweather has thrown a potential spanner in the works for Brook/Alexander by tweeting that the latter is the front runner for him in a unification bout. IBF have said Devon will have to drop his belt if he wants to fight Floyd and Eddie Hearn is optimistic that the original fight will take place.

Mayweather vs. Alexander or Mayweather vs. Guerrero? The latter is a much better proposition than the latter but both will be winnable fights for Floyd.

I'm more intrigued by Alexander's alleged fight with Kell Brook, which was supposed to be for the IBF strap and as a fan, more appealing for me. Alexander has a "bicep injury" which it seems conveniently will recover in time, for, I don't know - May 4th?! Brook's promoter Eddie Hearn says he is going to look into this and I hope he succeeds in getting Alexander to face his mandatory rather than go for a big payday and lose against Floyd.

It depends what matters most to Devon; retaining his world title against an up and comer like Brook or facing Mayweather for a pay-check and losing. If it's the latter, he'll have to give up his belt. He's got a much better chance of beating Brook and then facing Mayweather possibly if Floyd doesn't have an opponent for the September bill which is unlikely as rumours suggest he'll go against Alvarez so that might be in Devon's mind aswell.