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Steve Cunningham Should Go Back To Cruiserweight

By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent

New York, NY (February 14, 2013)–Despite his recent glittering and convincing performance against Tomasz Adamek campaigning in the heavyweight division, former world cruiserweight champion Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham is making a mistake to campaign above 200 pounds. Steve’s recent bouts with Jason Gavern and Adamek show him to be a blown up cruiserweight. Steve Cunningham will never be a full fledged heavyweight. Steve Cunningham is a future Hall of Fame champion who needs to go back to his cruiserweight division-where the promoters and the good lord intended him to be.

 

While Steve is taller at 6’3″ than Jean-Marc Mormeck’s 5’11 1/2″ frame, Mormeck reached 215 to 216 pounds when transitioned from cruiserweight to heavyweight. Even so, while Mormeck’s wins over Vinny Maddalone, Fres Oquendo, and Timor Ibragimov were of high quality, the seven rounds Mormeck fought against David Haye and four rounds Mormeck fought against Wladimir Klitschko were painful to watch. The analogy is important, because even though Steve is taller than Mormeck, Steve cannot go up in weight and develop into a full-sized heavyweight. Putting Steve in with Alexander Povetkin, the Klitschkos, Deontay Wilder, or Vyacheslav Glazkov would be a miserable excuse to sell tickets. Steve cannot fight 225 pounds or higher. At best, Steve is a Super Cruiserweight right now, whatever that strange term means in the lesser boxing organizations who advertise such a world title.

 

Steve could generate a lot of excitement by going back to cruiserweight and changing his training regimen to include more power hitting work than he does right now. While a match between Cunningham versus Antonio Tarver on television, or a third match in Germany between Steve with Yoan Pablo Hernandez, will not appear on the near horizon, Steve could find great fights in the future.

 

Steve could find great bouts in a ten rounder at cruiserweight with the likes of B.J. Flores, Danny Green, Eddie Chambers (who suddenly made an amazing move down to cruiserweight, perhaps the first such world class heavyweight to do it in the reverse direction), Braimah Kamoko, Roy Jones Jr., Ola Afolabi, Lateef Kayode, Dmytro Kucher, Grogory Drosz, First Arslan, Garrett Wilson, Pawel Kolodriej, Shane Cameron, Mateusz Masternak, Thabiso Mchunu, and Rakhim Chakhkiev.

 

A bout between Steve Cunningham against World Boxing Association champion Denis Lebedev, or a match between Steve and the man Lebedev just beat for the vacant WBA world title, Santander Silgado, or the untested 33-0 William Bezerra, areprobably the best bouts for Steve now. All of the above names represent new cha llenges for Steve to return to cruiserweight and test himself with superior motivation, and work his way back to the to of the cruiserweight division. Steve is an exciting fighter, and though he cannot fight who he fought before, Steve will be more effective back at cruiserweight where he belongs. Steve is the type to fight do or die heavyweight fights now that he thinks he’s at heavyweight, where he remains out of place. He won win those fights. Steve will win if he goes back to cruiserweight.

 

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