Mads Larsen?

[moses]

Did some of the experts on here see Mads Larsen yesterday? How do you rate his performance?

The danish commentator called him the third best SMW out there. I know it i biased, but how far off is he?

[van the man]

hes certainly not third best...yet anyway!
top 10 but going forward

[PeterNielsen70]

[quote=moses]Did some of the experts on here see Mads Larsen yesterday? How do you rate his performance?

I’ve seen almost all of Larsen’s and Kessler’s fights. I wasn’t that impressed with Larsen’s performance last night. He was hit early and was a bit shaky, but recovered fine of course. He seems to slow but still he has a nice balance. But I’m not sure if he can stand the kind of pressure he will face against present top-10 fighters in the SMW-division. He will have a lot of trouble against e.g. Mundine, Bute, Inkin, Froch, Andrade, Lacy just to mention a few….And he will stand no chance against Kessler or Calzaghe. :-(

[elias]

He'd be knocked out by Froch and would lose to Bute, Munshite, Lacy, Inkin, Kessler and obviously Calzaghe.


He'd be around the tenth best in the division, but not any higher than that.

[Fat Tony]

#3? No way. I don't think he's top 15 yet.

Who should be next?

A ten-rounder against

- Manfredo (is scheduled to fight against Green, so it won't happen)
- stablemate Danilo Häußler (Berrio refuses to fight Häußler, so I can see it happen)
- Tatevosyan (the guy who beat Markussen but was outclassed by Bute and Froch)
- Christian Sanavia (beat Markus Beyer some years ago), I don't know how good he's nowadays.

Velasco was competitive against Brähmer (I had it 114:113 in favour of Brähmer, but one could score it 113:114, too), but I don't think Velasco is a top20 smw. And this fight was some weeks ago and Velasco's eye was completely closed in this fight, so it's possible that he wasn't at his best against Larsen.

[deram]

Currently I think he is around no. 15 at SMW which is a very deep division. At his best he was top 3.

I hope he can polish on his game and get top 10 or maybe higher.

[dumdane]

Currently I think he is around no. 15 at SMW which is a very deep division. At his best he was top 3.

I hope he can polish on his game and get top 10 or maybe higher.

But he's not young anymore. He lost what could have been 3 of the best years of his career (with time needed to rebuild his status/abilities perhaps closer to 5 years) fighting legal battles against Mogens Palle.

I doubt he'll ever get as high as top 5 again.
Would love to see him prove me wrong though.

[Odo]

[quote=moses]Did some of the experts on here see Mads Larsen yesterday? How do you rate his performance?

I’ve seen almost all of Larsen’s and Kessler’s fights. I wasn’t that impressed with Larsen’s performance last night. He was hit early and was a bit shaky, but recovered fine of course. He seems to slow but still he has a nice balance. But I’m not sure if he can stand the kind of pressure he will face against present top-10 fighters in the SMW-division. He will have a lot of trouble against e.g. Mundine, Bute, Inkin, Froch, Andrade, Lacy just to mention a few….And he will stand no chance against Kessler or Calzaghe. :-(


You are quite harsh on him,mate!

Larsen needs 2-3 more fights in order to get off the ring rust of his long break from boxing.
I havent seen the full fight of Larsen vs Velazqo yet,but according to the news he showed a very decent performance against a capable opponent who had made the water very hot to another supermiddle weight contender(Braehmer) in his previous fight.

[boxfan99]

Did some of the experts on here see Mads Larsen yesterday? How do you rate his performance?

The danish commentator called him the third best SMW out there. I know it i biased, but how far off is he?

Claus Borre should be ashamed of himself for making such a disgustingly biased statement.:twisted: The guy further humiliated himself by claiming that Kessler had outclassed Lacy.:wall

It is still hard to rate Larsen, but I would probably place him around no.15 right now with a good chance of entering top 10 soon if he remains focused and keep stepping up the competition.

Something worries me though, he didn't manage to make weight up to this fight (not a good sign when it comes to Larsen), and he seems to have lost some pop.

[Odo]

Claus Borre should be ashamed of himself for making such a disgustingly biased statement.:twisted: The guy further humiliated himself by claiming that Kessler had outclassed Lacy.:wall

It is still hard to rate Larsen, but I would probably place him around no.15 right now with a good chance of entering top 10 soon if he remains focused and keep stepping up the competition.

Something worries me though, he didn't manage to make weight up to this fight (not a good sign when it comes to Larsen), and he seems to have lost some pop.

I,too,would place him around nr.15 right now.He seems to be on the right way to bigger fights.Besides he has a very capable coach and the help of a very profesional team.

[PeterNielsen70]

[quote=PeterNielsen70]


You are quite harsh on him,mate!

Larsen needs 2-3 more fights in order to get off the ring rust of his long break from boxing.
I havent seen the full fight of Larsen vs Velazqo yet,but according to the news he showed a very decent performance against a capable opponent who had made the water very hot to another supermiddle weight contender(Braehmer) in his previous fight.

Velazco presented a wild and rather dangerous right swing in the fight, and he also had a decent left jab. Larsen however slowly took the ring centre and in some respect controlled the fight with some nice timed right jabs. After being caught early, Larsen took round 3-7 with in little margin I think, just doing enough to win the rounds. Both fighters did nevertheless have a lot of respect for each other, so the fight never really opened up, until the 8 and final round where Larsen did managed to put a little extra pressure on. But Larsen looked very exposed for a straight right each time he threw his jab. He’s already 34 and I don’t think he’s got either the mental or the physical ability to becoming a factor in the division again. But we’ll see.

[Odo]

[quote=Odo]

Velazco presented a wild and rather dangerous right swing in the fight, and he also had a decent left jab. Larsen however slowly took the ring centre and in some respect controlled the fight with some nice timed right jabs. After being caught early, Larsen took round 3-7 with in little margin I think, just doing enough to win the rounds. Both fighters did nevertheless have a lot of respect for each other, so the fight never really opened up, until the 8 and final round where Larsen did managed to put a little extra pressure on. But Larsen looked very exposed for a straight right each time he threw his jab. He’s already 34 and I don’t think he’s got either the mental or the physical ability to becoming a factor in the division again. But we’ll see.

Thanks for the fight report,nielsen! I guess that you watched that fight live in Germany,didnt you!

[PeterNielsen70]

No – actually I saw the fight live in Danish television. But it’s correct that the fight took place in Germany, as Larsen now has shifted to Sauerland Promotion.