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Originally Posted by rjman48
The Rugged? What are you claiming? McCarty already fought Laraque. He fought Grimson twice, Kocur twice, Probert, Domi 3 times, Oliwa, Jody Shelley, Chris Simon, Brashear 4 times, and dropped them with McSorley multiple times! His career fight card is littered with legit HWs-some arguably top 10 all time. Does that look a guy who is afraid? |
That looks like a guy who was once good 10 years ago, but who would now get destroyed by any heavyweight.
When's the last time he actually beat a heavyweight? 2002? Yeah.
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Originally Posted by rjman48
McCarty challenged Jordin Tootoo and Hordichuk in the Nashville series. Did you see them decline? It was because they're afraid. |
Hordichuk sure as heck isn't afraid of McCarty. If you think he is, get over yourself and start looking at reality.
If they fought, I'd put money on Hordichuk to pound McCarty to the ice. McCarty is getting old, doesn't have punching speed anymore, and can't really hang with heavyweights much. He wouldn't be able to handle Hordichuk's rapid punches coming at him.
It's hilarious that according to you, when McCarty turns down Laraque, he's not scared - it's just "logic". Oh, but when Hordichuk turns down McCarty... yeah, then Hordichuk is really afraid of him. Give me a freakin' break.
You can't have it both ways. Nobody is scared of McCarty.
Oh, and just liked you named off all the people that McCarty has fought when someone said he was afraid of Laraque - well, I'll do the same with Hordichuk. Hordichuk has fought the likes of Yablonski, Fedoruk, MacIntyre, Peat, Neil, Erskine, Stevenson, Laraque, Chara, Boulton, Brown, McCarthy, Simon, Probert, Simpson, Brookbank, Lessard, Bonvie, Peters, Perrott, Shelley, Johnson, Odgers, Purinton, Oliwa, King, VandenBussche, Boulerice, Low, Parros, Gratton, and Thornton.
He's not afraid of stinkin'
Darren McCarty. Don't kid yourself. Hordichuk would clobber Darren. If you're going to get pissed at someone accusing 'your fighter' of being scared, then why do you accuse other fighters of it? Hypocrite.
Back to the discussion of McCarty and Laraque...
Whether McCarty was afraid of Laraque or not - he obviously knew that he was going to lose. I don't know if you want to call that 'being afraid', but he knew he had no chance and would have gotten his butt kicked, so he chose not to fight. You can call it whatever you want, but that's the truth.
McCarty didn't want this to happen again:
[youtube="Gexeg4fozhE"]Laraque vs McCarty - Oct. 24, 2006[/youtube]
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And as for the rest of the series, I doubt we see any fights. Downey isn't playing, so Laraque will have nobody to fight, and neither team is really loaded with middleweights either - so I doubt we see much. This is a "skilled matchup".