[Boxing- Australia] 4.6/ 23:00 G.Kambosos- D.Haney
Haney, who will enter with a three-inch reach advantage, is as perfectly well-rounded as any top fighter in the game today. He's expected to hold both a speed and power edge over his opponent and has shown he is nothing short of a technical master as it pertains to his control of distance and the various ways he can win the fight.
The real question comes down to whether the big stage and the pressures that come with traveling halfway around the globe to be the hated visitor inside a massive stadium will have any negative affect on someone as young as Haney.
Although Haney's recent wins over Yuriorkis Gamboa, Jorge Linares and Joseph Diaz Jr. have been impressive, and far and away trump anything Kambosos has done beyond the Lopez win, critics haven't forgotten the final rounds of the Linares fight. Haney was wobbled by a power shot late and was forced to hold and circle away from danger until the final bell.
Kambosos, and his aggressive style of combination punching at close range, has the potential to be the perfect Kryptonite to break Haney in the same manner he did against Lopez by forcing the fight into a brawl and proving to be the more scrappy competitor. The bigger problem, however, is that Kambosos found a willing partner to stand and trade with him in Lopez, whose mental state appeared to be compromised in that fight amid a whirlwind of personal turmoil outside the ring.
Will Haney be as willing to take the fight to the lone areas in which Kambosos can have major success? The odds in this case are against that.
Let's not forget that Haney has the ability to remove the excitement from a fight in order to control the action from the outside and win conservatively, similar to how he handled Gamboa in 2020. And while no one expects Kambosos to go away quietly should that be the case, Haney is perfectly equipped with his length and the speed of his counter shots to make his aggressive opponent pay for stepping on the gas pedal.
As long as Haney can avoid getting clipped with something big, Kambosos has a fighting style that could be perfect for what Haney does best. Like the saying goes, there are levels to this.
2 @1,70 Bet365
[Boxing- Australia] 4.6/ 23:00 G.Kambosos- D.Haney
2 @1,70