Lucas Browne defeats Travis Walker

By Boxing News - 07/25/2013 - Comments

By Eugene Carnachan:

Quick summary of bout:

Lucas Browne – won 17 (KO 15) + lost 0 (KO 0) + drawn 0 = 17 – supposedly on the ascendant but untested.

Travis Walker – won 39 (KO 31) + lost 11 (KO 7) + drawn 1 = 51 –on the descent but fought a lot higher calibre of opponent.

Lucas Browne looks like a tattooed Shrek, his upper body covered in a hotchpotch of tattoos.

Browne looks to be carrying excess around the mid-riff, Walker looks in his usual muscular condition.

Walker took this fight on short notice, traveling from the USA to Australia after Browne’s initial opponent – Richard Towers – failed to get a VISA into the ‘Lucky Country’ aka Australia.

The Browne V Towers contest was meant to be a Commonwealth eliminator.

The ‘Lucky Country’ wasn’t so lucky for Towers.

Round 1:

Both men start tentatively before exchanging strong jabs. Both fighters look to be shopping for the over hand right. Walker looks quicker handed, substantially so and using his jab really well.

Walker lands a glancing overhand right and puts Browne down, Browne doesn’t look hurt but nevertheless he was down.

Walker looking to follow up but Browne isn’t hurt enough to risk an all-out.

Walker round via putting Browne down.

Round 2.

Both men fighting tentatively. Walker jabbing well, Browne looking to simply bull his way uncouthly in, in looking for a big shot off either hand.

Walker lands a great left hand, may have wobbled the 120 kilogram Browne – Browne really is a Dinosaur sized human being.

Browne doesn’t have skills, just sheer size and it’s obvious he is looking to bludgeon Walker out of there but not as easily done as written as Walker with all his experience knows how to tie an opposition fighter up and is doing that exceedingly well.

Walker looking good and going well but Browne landing the more meaningful shots.

Browne round, busier, more aggressive.

Round 3.

Both men fighting tentatively.

Browne catches Walker flush on the temple putting him down but Walker bounces up like an over inflated basketball and doesn’t look glassy, in fact eyes are clear.

Walker has a smile on his face as Browne bores in. He had better be careful, the smile may give Browne something to aim at and the way he’s swinging his big shots in he really doesn’t need a target.

The pace of the round is slow, so slow that if it were a vehicle and it hit someone they may not even be aware of the fact and they definitely wouldn’t need a plaster.

Pedestrian pace but a Browne round simply because he is coming forward.

Round 4.

Walker tries for an overhand right. Both men look to be conserving energy because they aren’t – at this point – expending much. Perhaps each man is looking to take this fight into deep water.

Walker is holding his hands low, cold be looking to lure Browne in and catch him with an overhand right.

Not wise in trying to fight like Floyd Mayweather Junior when standing opposite a punching brick wall.

Walkers timing looks to be out, some of his punches look off-timing. Browne landing some strong jabs but unable to marry them up with a right hand.

Browne round, more aggressive and meaningful in his intent.

Round 5.

Browne basically bum-rushing Walker trying to maul him with shots.

Walker looks to be really off balance, perhaps one the Browne shots has upset his equilibrium.

Browne catches Walker with a right on the left ear and sits Walker down again – that shot won’t do his balance any favours. Walker now has to throw something that dissuades Browne from bulling in, if he doesn’t Browne will continue to bull in and man-handle Walker.

Walker just misses with a big uppercut.

Browne round in a canter.

Round 6.

Both men fighting tentatively again. Browne has a very bad habit of pushing into the punching zone and not throwing but staying there.

Browne landing heavy shots, batting Walker from one side of the ring to the other before the sheer accumulation of heavy shots puts him down. Not sure if Walker is going to beat the count…he does, just, but is shook up.

Walker throws a Hail Mary that catches Browne but doesn’t hurt him. Tricky shot from a fighter that looked shot after the knock down.

Browne through heavier shots and knock down

Round 7.

Walker up early from his stool and comes out on the front foot throwing every big punch in the book- didn’t see that coming. Walker lands some of those big shots. Browne looks to make a rally himself but Walker throwing some hammer fisted shots that have Browne wary.

Couple of excellent body shots from Walker but looks to be running out of steam but hanging in there.

Great jab by Browne and when he does land he is shaking Walker up but Walker looks to have taken this round.

Perhaps the first round since round one that Walker has banked.

A shot either way could end this one given the way they’re throwing them.

Round 8.

Fight has being called off – that came out of the blue. Walker’s corner retired him after what was probably his best round. Odd but nevertheless it’s happened.

Post – fight summary:

Browne is a big fighter but without the finer points of boxing technique, spatial awareness and method and he appears to be reliant on his brute size and strength of which against fading opposition like Travis Walker is enough to get the job done.

Against more skilful heavyweights in their prime and who understand angles and timing his bulling and mauling tactics in and of themselves will not be enough.

Browne will have to develop a broader repertoire of skills if he is to exist – as he wants to – in the upper echelons of heavyweights elite fighters but at this point the big man is a lot of human being but without a lot of boxing skills or boxing wherewithal that are a prerequisite at the sports highest level.

Lucase Browne is raw and although the man is the size of a building his boxing foundations are average at very best.



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