Comments Thread For: Michael Conlan back to winning ways but doesn?t impress against Asad Asif Ali

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Matt Christie reports on Michael Conlan's shaky comeback win and the undercard of a card in South England.
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[1Eriugenus]

Some fighters never recover from a stoppage loss & Conlan is one of them. You're doing well, moving sweetly, doing the things you've always done & then you get sparked. After that you start to doubt yourself. You're more hesitant, less fluid, there is more harmful adrenaline build-up, it just doesn't flow like it did. Instead of just doing what you need to do you start second-guessing, 'but suppose I do that, what will he do'. At this point, TBBH, you need to look at another career.

[shenmue]

He's been finished for a while, he's deluded if he honestly thinks he can win a world title. He's only going to get brutally stopped again at world level, surely he knows this, is he desperate for money?.

[LG Motel 22]

Man Conlan is a smooth fighter but that Lopez fight was hard to watch, he gives is all hope he hangs it up asap for his sake. Plenty he can still contribute in the world of boxing

[NihonJim]

Conlan just doesn't have it physically.

He's too frail, doesn't have any natural power.

Amir Khan is the closest comparison but Khan at least had insane hand speed and being very thick IQ wise helped him because even after being sparked he maintained ridiculous overconfidence.

Conlan needs to be managed very, very carefully, only put him in vs boxer types with little power, navigate the rankings in very deliberate fashion. He doesn't have the robustness vs anyone who's going to make it a war.

[1Eriugenus]

Amir Khan is the closest comparison but Khan at least had insane hand speed and being very thick IQ wise helped him because even after being sparked he maintained ridiculous overconfidence.

Is true. Poor Amir was a great talent that was always sadly lacking between the ears.

Conlan needs to be managed very, very carefully, only put him in vs boxer types with little power, navigate the rankings in very deliberate fashion. He doesn't have the robustness vs anyone who's going to make it a war.

IMO he needs to hang em up. Keyboard warriors like us would be terrified by the power that 'pillow fist' guys like Shakur actually put on a man. At the higher reaches of boxing really there are no guys without enough power to cause a shot fighter serious damage. That is the sad truth, Conlan is a shot fighter.

[PBR Streetgang]

I always suspected Mick would struggle in the pro ranks. He was guided well early on with matchmaking that allowed him to garner some success in the professional ranks.

He looked good against Leigh Wood up until getting brutally sparked out. After that, it's been downhill for the Irishman.

[1Eriugenus]

I thought he boxed beautifully v Wood. I had him 2 up going into the 12th. That was the highpoint of his career & it slid rapidly downhill afterwards.

[1Eriugenus]

Contrary to everything Bread will say, I also only had Meldrick 2 up v Chavez & Chavez put one horrible beating on Meldrick in R12, meaning, contrary to all the rubbish from Breadman, if Richard Steele had not stopped the fight, it would've been a draw NOT a win for Meldrick.

[MulaKO]

He's been finished for a while, he's deluded if he honestly thinks he can win a world title. He's only going to get brutally stopped again at world level, surely he knows this, is he desperate for money?.

That is exactly my thinking ; he doing it for another payday
And what better than to
sell a farce
Hey everybody else is rockin’ with that schtick