Comments Thread For: Xander Zayas targeting 'Towering Inferno' of Sebastian Fundora

[macmike100]

Xayas has been on TV alot. I've been watching him improve. I think he'll give any JM a hell of a fight including the Inferno.

[cruz1383]

You don’t know what you are talking about. Xayas is 22 Davis is 25. Davis had an extensive amateur career, was a mainstay on the national team and won an Olympic silver medal. To say Xayas has more experience is just misinformed. Xayas is a special fighter. He’s only 22 just think about that.

Your right Davis does have more experience and I should have done better HW on Keyshawn but my assessment for a fighter that's slated or wants to fight the number 3 at 154 is definitely not wrong. At the age of 22 he shouldn't be getting hit cleanly with right crosses/hooks that are not setup and he shouldn't have a delay of pulling his left hand back to protect himself. Its not like Zayas didn't have amateur experience either and now has 21 pro fights under his belt.

Don't get me wrong I'm not against the guy I really do like the way he fights. That doesn't mean I wont point out his flaws when i see them. Flaws that a fighter of his hype as the next "PR" star shouldn't have if he wants to stay in contention.

Right now if he got in the ring with a fighter like Fundora he would get tagged with rights and take unnecessary damage he could still win don't get me wrong but at what cost.

Zayas is also a fighter that cant afford to take damage because his power is suspect at best.

[LAchargers373]

Your right Davis does have more experience and I should have done better HW on Keyshawn but my assessment for a fighter that's slated or wants to fight the number 3 at 154 is definitely not wrong. At the age of 22 he shouldn't be getting hit cleanly with right crosses/hooks that are not setup and he shouldn't have a delay of pulling his left hand back to protect himself. Its not like Zayas didn't have amateur experience either and now has 21 pro fights under his belt.

Don't get me wrong I'm not against the guy I really do like the way he fights. That doesn't mean I wont point out his flaws when i see them. Flaws that a fighter of his hype as the next "PR" star shouldn't have if he wants to stay in contention.

Right now if he got in the ring with a fighter like Fundora he would get tagged with rights and take unnecessary damage he could still win don't get me wrong but at what cost.

Zayas is also a fighter that cant afford to take damage because his power is suspect at best.

He’s got more pop than people think and he’s so young and already ranked highly in a very stacked division. I personally think he schools fundora rn. He’s not ready for the top top yet but will be soon

[IAmABoxingGuru]

Xayas beats fundora easily this kid can fight. The best Puerto Rican fighter since cotto

That’s not saying much

[MulaKO]

That’s not saying much

Are you saying Cotto wasn’t a great warrior ???
Or ……

[MulaKO]

Anyway I don’t believe Zayas to be the star everyone is making him out to be , at least not yet if anything
Fundora , who isn’t great himself , will give Zayas problems throughout the fight
One of Zayas’s biggest problems is his punch output and the fact that he doesn’t throw when his opponent is throwing leather at him
Fundora going to pepper him all fight and keep it at close quarters which will smother Zayas’s work
People will try to make Zayas the next coming of Tito and that couldn’t be further from the truth

[cruz1383]

He’s got more pop than people think and he’s so young and already ranked highly in a very stacked division. I personally think he schools fundora rn. He’s not ready for the top top yet but will be soon

He has pop but doesn't know exactly how to use it yet that's why he couldn't get Spomer out earlier when he was throwing those flurries in I think was the 4th then got caught and slightly buzzed. So far It's not a calculated pop that I see. I also don't see varying power from him when a power punch is thrown it has the almost the same power as his other power punches which at the higher levels is considered lacking an essential skill.

If you take the higher level fighters for instance some will throw weaker punches in between harder punch sequences and the more elite will vary their power from punch to punch without much thought (Crawford is a great example).

I'm sure he can learn a lot of that but my thinking is that he is limited on time even at 22 to learn those elite level skills which are not easy skills to learn. Plus who knows if his trainer can even train that to him ?? If his trainer can he should have at least got him to the next level of varying power in between power punch sequences.

[PNUT901]

I love how fans expect every fighter to be perfect and heaven forbid a guy ever gets hit..... Boxing fans are the worst.

[MulaKO]

I love how fans expect every fighter to be perfect and heaven forbid a guy ever gets hit..... Boxing fans are the worst.

I don’t think that Zayas’s problem at all , I think he can take a punch
His problem imo , is his power seems to fade as th?fight progresses

[BustedKnuckles]

With as low as Xander throws, combined Fundora's height, I could see Zayas landing a shot to Sebastian's knee cap

If Zayaz can get the same judge from last night, then nothing will be too low.