Giant British heavyweights seem to be a thing now a days with the likes of David Price, Tyson Fury and Richard Towers all getting plenty of attention, though one name that often seems to be forgotten is the emerging Scottish fighter Gary Cornish. Stood at 6'7" Cornish is another giant from British and is yet another fighter who is intent on making his name in the heavyweight division.
Despite having only had 9 amateur bouts (winning them all, 6 by KO) Cornish, known as "The Highlander" has had the hype machine going crazy with his manager Tommy Gilmour believing Cornish could become the first Scottish Heavyweight world champion. Maybe that day will come one day though for now Cornish, with Gilmour behind him, is taking baby steps and slowly being shaped into the fighter that Gilmour wants him to be.
Cornish made his professional debut in April 2011 by stopping Preston based Heavyweight journeyman Howard Daley in 2 rounds. Cornish then followed up that impress victory by stopping Hastings Rasani in 4 rounds (due to a cut). Impressively just 5 months later Rasani would score a draw with former World title challenger Albert Sosnowski. In September of '11 Cornish would head the final bell for the first time as he scored a clear points victory over the tough Rolandas Cesna.
In Cornish's most recent fight (November 2011) he would rematch Hastings Rasani, this time in an 8 round bout. After dropping the Rasani twice in round 3 Cornish failed to stop the Zimbabwean though took a wide decision with the score of 80-71.
Tomorrow night (Saturday January 21st) Gary Cornish will face the busy Latvian Remigijus Ziausys on an under-card bout at the Liverpool Olympia. Ziausys' record reads a rather ugly 20-46-3 (10) though he has proven himself to be a durable fighter having only been stopped once (by former European Cruiserweight champion Alexander Frenkel). This is despite facing fighters including Dereck Chisora, Alexander Kotlobay, Robert Helenius, Mariusz Wach, Bogdan Dinu and Giacobbe Fragomeni. Whilst we all expect Cornish to win, a stoppage victory would really be impressive from the giant from Scotland who will tower some 9 inches above his Latvian opponent.
Whilst I've not found any footage of Gary "The Highlander" Cornish, we will hopefully see highlights of his fight with Ziausys on Sky TV on the undercard of David Price v John McDermott tomorrow.
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Friday, 20 January 2012
Monday, 28 November 2011
Edmund Gerber
This coming weekend is a boxing fans dreams with a huge number of notable fights. Seriously just look at this list of great fights:
Robert Helenius v Dereck Chisora
Alexander Povetkin v Cedric Boswell
Jhonny Gonzalez v Roinet Caballero
Prince Aaron v Brian Rose
Abner Mares v Joseph Agbeko II
Anselmo Moreno v Vic Darchinyan
Pawel Wolak v Delvin Rodriguez II
Brandon Rios v John Murray
Mike Jones v Sebastian Andres Lujan
and of course Miguel Angel Cotto v Antonio Margarito II
Though if you were just thinking it was just a night of big high profile title fights, you'd be wrong, a number of emerging prospects fight on the same night, the most interesting (in regards to the heavyweight division) is quite possibly Edmund Gerber (17-0, 11). Gerber is one of the younger prospects in the division at just 23 years old though is also one who, outside of Germany, hasn't really received much hype despite being a 4 year pro.
Gerber turned professional way back in 2007 and has slowly been improving and racking up victories. Sadly he has a number of things going against him, most notably his style which isn't the most fun to watch, in fact at times he can appear downright lazy. Although he may seem dull he does possess solid skills and genuine 1 punch KO power which he showed in fantastic fashion in his last fight as he sparked Yohan Banks.
When it comes to Gerber's potential he's incredibly young and it's perhaps going to be a while to see him become the complete article, though what we have seen has been a real mixed bag. He's scored a solid stoppage over Rene Dettweiler and shut out Zack Page as well taking on a variety of British journeymen (such as Lee Swaby, Carl Baker, Colin Kenna and Paul Butler) though has yet to really mix it with any solid European level guys. Whilst he does have time on his side it would be nice to see him step in with someone like Yaroslav Zavorotnyi who will come to win and could act as a marking stick somewhat.
Gerber's next fight takes place on the card in Helsinki (which also plays host to Helenius v Chisora and Povetkin v Boswell) and will hopefully be featured on Box Nation in the UK. Although Gerber faces the veteran Marcus McGee (23-18-0-1, 7KO's) it does give us a chance to compare Gerber to David Rodriguez (who was taken the distance by McGee) and hopefully marks the start of Gerber's progression through the levels of opponents.
An updated piece on Edmund Gerber can be found on boxingprospects.info, click here for that.
Video below courtesy of deebak777
Robert Helenius v Dereck Chisora
Alexander Povetkin v Cedric Boswell
Jhonny Gonzalez v Roinet Caballero
Prince Aaron v Brian Rose
Abner Mares v Joseph Agbeko II
Anselmo Moreno v Vic Darchinyan
Pawel Wolak v Delvin Rodriguez II
Brandon Rios v John Murray
Mike Jones v Sebastian Andres Lujan
and of course Miguel Angel Cotto v Antonio Margarito II
Though if you were just thinking it was just a night of big high profile title fights, you'd be wrong, a number of emerging prospects fight on the same night, the most interesting (in regards to the heavyweight division) is quite possibly Edmund Gerber (17-0, 11). Gerber is one of the younger prospects in the division at just 23 years old though is also one who, outside of Germany, hasn't really received much hype despite being a 4 year pro.
Gerber turned professional way back in 2007 and has slowly been improving and racking up victories. Sadly he has a number of things going against him, most notably his style which isn't the most fun to watch, in fact at times he can appear downright lazy. Although he may seem dull he does possess solid skills and genuine 1 punch KO power which he showed in fantastic fashion in his last fight as he sparked Yohan Banks.
When it comes to Gerber's potential he's incredibly young and it's perhaps going to be a while to see him become the complete article, though what we have seen has been a real mixed bag. He's scored a solid stoppage over Rene Dettweiler and shut out Zack Page as well taking on a variety of British journeymen (such as Lee Swaby, Carl Baker, Colin Kenna and Paul Butler) though has yet to really mix it with any solid European level guys. Whilst he does have time on his side it would be nice to see him step in with someone like Yaroslav Zavorotnyi who will come to win and could act as a marking stick somewhat.
Gerber's next fight takes place on the card in Helsinki (which also plays host to Helenius v Chisora and Povetkin v Boswell) and will hopefully be featured on Box Nation in the UK. Although Gerber faces the veteran Marcus McGee (23-18-0-1, 7KO's) it does give us a chance to compare Gerber to David Rodriguez (who was taken the distance by McGee) and hopefully marks the start of Gerber's progression through the levels of opponents.
An updated piece on Edmund Gerber can be found on boxingprospects.info, click here for that.
Video below courtesy of deebak777
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Bogdan Dinu
If Denis Boytsov is the prospect nearest to being the complete article and the most experienced heavyweight boxing prospect out there then Bogdan Dinu (7-0, 4) is the fighter who is still in his proverbial boxing nappies. The 25 year old from Bucharest, Romania has had a very stop start career which has seen him amass only 7 fights since his debut way back in April 2008, though he had remained a name that the hardcore fans have known about for a while.
Dinu, like so many others made his name as an amateur where he competed for his native Romania with varying degrees of success. Dinu's real success as an amateur came in the early years of competing as he won the U17 World Cadet Championships in 2003 and a bronze medal at the U17 European Champions the same year. He later added the silver medal from the European Junior Championships in 2005 before his amateur career seemed to stall somewhat. His amateur days were ended in disgrace however after being thrown out of the World Amateur Championships in 2007 as he, along team mates Ronald Gavril and Gabriel Julian Stan were thrown out of the competition and banned for life for shop lifting.
In 2008 Dinu made his professional debut and defeated the durable Stephane Tessier by 4 round decision and by the end of the year he had added the names of Shawn McLean (UD4) and James Pratt (KO1) to his record. All three of those fights were on notable cards held in Romania and headlined by pretty well known Romanian fighters (Such as Jo Jo Dan and Adrian Diaconu). Though much to the disappointment of the boxing world Dinu's career somewhat stalled with only a single fight in both 2009 and 2010.
Sadly for those who were excited about Dinu's early days they've had little in 2011 to get extra excited by, he's again only fought once, though the actual performance was incredibly impressive and has shown that he is developing well even if it has been away from the eyes of fans. In that fight Dinu swiftly stopped Awadh Tamim inside a round on the undercard of Lucien Bute's IBF Super Middleweight title defence against Jean Paul Mendy. It was that fight that really caught the eyes of fans, as the 6'5" Dinu showed fantastic movement, blinding handspeed and more than impressive shot selection which saw some dub him a future Klitschko conqueror.
Whilst I doubt Dinu and either Klitschko will ever share a ring together it's hard not to be impressed from the videos available of Dinu. For a 7 fight (7-0, 4) novice he's showing all the right things inside the ring even if his activity has been lacking. Dinu may well be the best kept secret in heavyweight boxing, but he's also one of the more notable heavyweight boxing prospects in regards to raw talent.
Dinu will look to improve to 8-0 this coming weekend when he faces Canadian Eric Martel Bahoeli (7-2, 4) on the undercard of Lucian Bute v Denis Grachev.
Video thanks to LionAssociation
Dinu, like so many others made his name as an amateur where he competed for his native Romania with varying degrees of success. Dinu's real success as an amateur came in the early years of competing as he won the U17 World Cadet Championships in 2003 and a bronze medal at the U17 European Champions the same year. He later added the silver medal from the European Junior Championships in 2005 before his amateur career seemed to stall somewhat. His amateur days were ended in disgrace however after being thrown out of the World Amateur Championships in 2007 as he, along team mates Ronald Gavril and Gabriel Julian Stan were thrown out of the competition and banned for life for shop lifting.
In 2008 Dinu made his professional debut and defeated the durable Stephane Tessier by 4 round decision and by the end of the year he had added the names of Shawn McLean (UD4) and James Pratt (KO1) to his record. All three of those fights were on notable cards held in Romania and headlined by pretty well known Romanian fighters (Such as Jo Jo Dan and Adrian Diaconu). Though much to the disappointment of the boxing world Dinu's career somewhat stalled with only a single fight in both 2009 and 2010.
Sadly for those who were excited about Dinu's early days they've had little in 2011 to get extra excited by, he's again only fought once, though the actual performance was incredibly impressive and has shown that he is developing well even if it has been away from the eyes of fans. In that fight Dinu swiftly stopped Awadh Tamim inside a round on the undercard of Lucien Bute's IBF Super Middleweight title defence against Jean Paul Mendy. It was that fight that really caught the eyes of fans, as the 6'5" Dinu showed fantastic movement, blinding handspeed and more than impressive shot selection which saw some dub him a future Klitschko conqueror.
Whilst I doubt Dinu and either Klitschko will ever share a ring together it's hard not to be impressed from the videos available of Dinu. For a 7 fight (7-0, 4) novice he's showing all the right things inside the ring even if his activity has been lacking. Dinu may well be the best kept secret in heavyweight boxing, but he's also one of the more notable heavyweight boxing prospects in regards to raw talent.
Dinu will look to improve to 8-0 this coming weekend when he faces Canadian Eric Martel Bahoeli (7-2, 4) on the undercard of Lucian Bute v Denis Grachev.
Video thanks to LionAssociation
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