Since I've been on here - I'm yet to have any wrong predictions about heavyweights. Well, it comes with territory and knowing yer onions.
When everyone else was screaming Ajagba as the next big thing - I watched the guy and confidently said he's a bum who won't go far. I got attacked by all kinds of posters for it but it's funny how everyone is saying the same thing now within a year.
It's not rocket science - you just need to be able to study boxers and analyse their talent/skill-level. Most boxers, retired boxers and analysts also don't do that and they mostly go by the hype as well. But once you start doing that - you'd see a lot of boxers for what they're.
Ajagba was always too slow, too stiff, too mechanical, his power is average - with no footwork and head movement - to do anything spectacular. You can offset a lot of deficiencies with speed and power. However, you can't teach both and since Ajagba lacks both...that was basically why I wrote him off completely.
When everyone else was screaming Ajagba as the next big thing - I watched the guy and confidently said he's a bum who won't go far. I got attacked by all kinds of posters for it but it's funny how everyone is saying the same thing now within a year.
It's not rocket science - you just need to be able to study boxers and analyse their talent/skill-level. Most boxers, retired boxers and analysts also don't do that and they mostly go by the hype as well. But once you start doing that - you'd see a lot of boxers for what they're.
Ajagba was always too slow, too stiff, too mechanical, his power is average - with no footwork and head movement - to do anything spectacular. You can offset a lot of deficiencies with speed and power. However, you can't teach both and since Ajagba lacks both...that was basically why I wrote him off completely.
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