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Post by Paul Magno on Oct 11, 2009 18:23:52 GMT -5
It's a shame that Tua never became what he should've become...a truly granite chin and the heaviest hands in recent memory should've bagged him at least one world title...
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Post by PHONETOOL on Oct 11, 2009 21:19:44 GMT -5
I have always enjoyed watching David Tua fight you really never know what will happen in one of his matches
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Post by Justfish1 on Oct 11, 2009 21:53:21 GMT -5
I think Tua wins by KO 3
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Post by reddog on Oct 12, 2009 7:35:04 GMT -5
It's a shame that Tua never became what he should've become...a truly granite chin and the heaviest hands in recent memory should've bagged him at least one world title... I think a lot of you are living in the past with this thread, but time will tell. Actually, I don't think it will, because David fights about every five years. There's no way this fight will happen. A larger point though is "what happened to David Tua?" Lennox did, yes, but something happened before that. If anyone out here hasn't seen the Ibeabuchi fight, you should watch it immediately. What happened to that David Tua? The one that threw his right hand in addition to the left? I was a big Tua fan as well, until Lennox torched him, and Chris Byrd humiliated him. When you know that only one specific punch is coming, it's pretty easy to avoid. Tua apparently also had significant management problems, but I suspect waning interest in training was a bigger issue. Anyone have insight about the demise of Tua's career?
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Post by Paul Magno on Oct 12, 2009 12:09:28 GMT -5
It's a shame that Tua never became what he should've become...a truly granite chin and the heaviest hands in recent memory should've bagged him at least one world title... I think a lot of you are living in the past with this thread, but time will tell. Actually, I don't think it will, because David fights about every five years. There's no way this fight will happen. A larger point though is "what happened to David Tua?" Lennox did, yes, but something happened before that. If anyone out here hasn't seen the Ibeabuchi fight, you should watch it immediately. What happened to that David Tua? The one that threw his right hand in addition to the left? I was a big Tua fan as well, until Lennox torched him, and Chris Byrd humiliated him. When you know that only one specific punch is coming, it's pretty easy to avoid. Tua apparently also had significant management problems, but I suspect waning interest in training was a bigger issue. Anyone have insight about the demise of Tua's career? I think you hit the nail on the head when you said it was a waning interest in training...Tua was mega famous in the South Pacific and New Zealand/Australia. He was living the life of a world champion without a title...and with a punch that could beat 95% of all potential opponents, he stopped working on some of the finer aspects of the sport and stopped keeping in shape... but, IMO, an inactive, one-dimensional Tua is still on a much different level than Arreola...Chris Arreola is a glorified club fighter, probably at the skill level of Tua's latest opponent, Shane Cameron...
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