February 14 on ESPN: Jared Anderson vs. Marios Kollias.

Heavyweight Jared Anderson (17-1, 15 KOs) is looking for an epic showdown next month against Marios Kollias (12-3-1, 10 KOs) on Friday, February 14, at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. This is a fight designed to rebuild Anderon’s confidence after what happened to him in his last fight on August 3rd.

A prisoner’s nightmare.

The highly promoted ‘Big Baby’ Anderson, 25, was destroyed Martin Buckley Last August in five rounds, and he looked terrible in that fight. Jared fell from the first round and was far ahead of the jump. Had the attack happened earlier, the fight would have been over in the first round because it looked like Anderson was gone after getting up.

Bacole was too powerful for Anderson. In the fifth, he knocked Anderson down twice to get the knockout. It wasn’t even a workout. Promoter Bob Arum hasn’t given up on Jared, but you have to believe that if he continues to perform like this, he will soon.

If you’re an arum, you should consider throwing Anderson up if it looks bad on the lesser-known Kolyas. This is a confidence-boosting type of fight for Jared, but if he looks scary here, Arum should avoid him. He’s still young enough to improve, but his counter punches, lack of power and grappling style keep him from improving.

Anderson looks great throwing combos and attacking weak hunters, but he looks terrible against Bakole. The men at the top of the heavyweight division are getting very old.

So Jared has a chance to take one of the belts after the old guys retire, but not if he faces someone as powerful as Bacole or even Zilei Zhang. He is 41, but still very dangerous for Anderson. If Arum can protect Jared long enough, he might be able to hold the belt at some point. If he is in power, he should be removed because he will be destroyed like he did to Bakole.

This wasn’t the first time Anderson looked like Chiney. He was injured in fights with Jerry Forrest and Charles Martin. Those fights showed that Jared’s ability to hang with lower ranked fighters just wasn’t there. He is very weak. That’s what I do.

Arum still trusts Jared.

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“I still believe Jared Anderson is one of the most feared heavyweights in the world, and I expect him to come back with a vengeance this year,” Arum said.

Keyshawn Davis is another of Arum’s projects trying to make it to stardom. However, like Jared, he needs protection. He has already had problems with his fights against Nahir Albright and Miguel Madino.

Keyshawn was compared to a WWE fighter against Madueno, and the referee didn’t disqualify him for all the rowhouse tactics he used in that fight. Davies seemed desperate to win and Madweno emptied the cupboards for every trick he could find to avoid him.

Andy Cruz took on Keisha in the 2020 Olympics and easily edged her for the gold medal in the finals. It was surprising that Arum signed Keyshawn instead of Cruz after that loss. He’s assuming that his skills can be built up by trash talking instead of fighting.