From
Denny Enright at Ringside
Before a full stadium in Auckland New Zealand David Tua showed
he is on the way back with a 10th round TKO over Talmadge
Griffis, this fight attended by the World President of the
WBF Mick Croucher promised a early finish going on the opinions
of many experienced boxing people but Talmadge Griffis came
in with a plan and this plan kept Talmadge in the fight for
9 rounds untill Tua caught up with him and finished this fight
2 min 40 sec into the 10th and final round.
From round one through to the ninth round Talmadge kept the
fight at a distance as Tua tried to work in close to Griffis
to then unload but Griffis very quickly worked off the ropes
and in and out of the corners and kept away from Tua with
ineffectual jabs that were not hard enough to score points,
Tua on the other hand did score with jabs to the body and
right crosses to the head but at times his lunging with right
hands and left hooks showed that he was out with his timing
and also ring rusty and he will really benifit from the 10
rounds that he fought.
Griffis although only a journeyman stayed in this fight with
his fight plan to move and jab and in my opinion Talmadge
only wanted to survive and this he did untill the 10th round
when Tua caught up with him in Tua's corner and Talmadge was
being hit with very hard and distructive punches when the
referee Lance Revill jumped in between them to save Griffis
from further punishment, 22 punches were thrown by Tua in
that period and the way that Tua finished this fight was the
Tua of old.
Tua needs another one or two fights to get some ring time
behind him and I personally will not give a opinion on the
future of David Tua and his prospects untill I see him in
action a couple of more times.
There were two outstanding prelim fights worth mentioning
one being between Stephen Heremia and Cory Burton. This fight
saw Burton a very experienced professional taken in hand by
Stephen Heremia who after a slow start dominated this fight
and hit Burton with tremendous body shots through round two
and three, in round four Heremia caught Burton on the ropes
with a savage left rip and right cross that forced the referee
to jump in and stop this fight. Heremia is a very promising
fighter.
Sharon Aynos the WBF World Champion has to much class for
Christina Tye and won very easily on points over four rounds.
Ricco Chong Nee looked very classy against Maroni Swalger
and was right on top of Swalger right from round one dominating
the fight with good lateral movement and a very good variety
of punches and finished this fight midway through the fight
when after a count was applied to Swalger the referee jumped
in and stopped the fight.
Cedric Kushner the Promoter of David Tua want to have David
back in the ring within 90 days and with a move to the USA
and a good boxing trainer we could very well see the Tua of
old back into the top 10.
TUA-GRIFFIS
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