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Does Ngannou win a single round against a motivated, properly prepared Fury? Granted, this was a robbery and Fury should have been saddled with a loss but training camp really is for a reason.

After taking a jab, the challenger takes a knee, waits patiently for the referee's count, then walks humbly back to his corner. I can't think of another challenger for the crown with so little fire or courage. Frank Warren has him fired up now but where was that fire when it counted?

Canelo signs a 3 fight deal for 100 million and this is the fight PBC gives us. Not Canelo / Benevidez, not Charlo / Tszyu. Maybe they make up for it later with the next 2 fights but right now, this is crap.

I thought so but what if more than just that one judge thought otherwise? Would you just accept that decision and say that Joshua had avenged his loss, all hail the king? Or...would you say it was a robbery? It really was fairly close.

Just trying to understand better all of the whining about the proposed Canelo/Ryder fight.

Perfect time for one or both to call out Spence. Too soon maybe to be fighting each other, the risk reward is low. Not so with Spence, win and go to the head of the class Lose but give a good account of yourself and your stock still rises.

Seems like a much more useful measurement would be to measure knuckle to knuckle, with hands made into fists.

Just before the 4th, Katie’s corner instructed her to walk her in, spin, throw the hook and then stay in there. Stay in there as opposed to hit and move out of range. She followed instructions, she hung in there and traded and nearly got stopped. I’m no expert but even as he was saying it I wasn’t sure that was good advice.

Seemed like a bad situation that Beterbiev couldn't extricate himself from. Yvon Michel, being the promoter for both LHWs, kept Beterbiev simmering on the back burner until Stevenson's career played out. At least that's how it looked to me. Maybe there were other factors I'm not aware of.

Jalolov looked scared the last time they met. Scared he might have killed Torrez. To be fair to Torrez, it was like a middleweight against a heavyweight.

I'll never forget his win over heavily favored Terry Norris (link to that fight in the article). His record was misleading, definitely some of those losses could have been wins. https://nyfights.com/worldwide/rest-in-peace-keith-mullings/ Never met the man but he seemed like an all around good guy. Gone too soon at age 53, no cause of death as yet.

Okay, I know that the cast that is created doesn't cover the knuckle area, so let's not revisit that unless you really want to for some reason. What the cast does do is support your metacarpal bones, it's why Floyd fought exclusively in Vegas where the practice is legal. The metacarpals, as designed by nature, are fairly delicate and are not efficient at transferring energy to what your hand is punching. With a normal wrap there is a certain amount of give in your hand, with a layering of wrap and tape a rigid cast is created around your hand, there's no give. It's like the difference between using a metal bat vs a wooden bat, it's subtle but it's not nothing. Also, Canelo, unlike Mayweather, doesn't appear to have brittle hands. Canelo is throwing full force with no fear of catching an elbow or hurting his hand on someone's hard head. If Hearns had used this wrap against Hagler, maybe he knocks Hagler out in round 1 instead of breaking his hand. {"alt":"Click image for larger version Name:\tfifth-metacarpal-fracture.jpg Views:\t0 Size:\t24.7 KB ID:\t30893075","data-align":"none","data-attachmentid":"30893075","data-size":"full","title":"fifth-metacarpal-fracture.jpg"}

He might never be a legit threat to the top 10 but showing up in shape, with even the most rudimentary skills, might take you pretty far these days. I hope he makes some money. Anybody with the balls to launch a pro boxing career after age 30, with almost no amateur background, has my respect and support.

Then he suffered a serious bicep injury. All things considered, Smith did an amazing job just staying on his feet for the full 12. If there is another similar thread, apologies, I didn’t see it.

Most fighters would have been DQ’d if they had pushed a referee and refused to stop fighting as Whyte did in the 1st round against Joshua. Fails a drug test, fights anyway and is still fighting. Knocks down Parker with an obvious headbutt that the referee was in perfect position to see. He should be suspended but instead he’s handed an easy well paying high profile fight on the Joshua/Ruiz card. All the while Whyte fans act as if he is being treated unfairly because he hasn’t been handed a title fight with Wilder, though he turned down a fight with Ortiz. A fight that if he had won, would likely have earned him the fight. I like watching Whyte fight but enough with Whyte being cast as a victim, he isn’t one. In fact he has gotten more than his fair share of breaks.

I’m sure it happens but I cannot think of any high profile fights where the fighter who dictated weight to the other fighter didn’t win.

I'm thinking, hoping even, that it would not be. I'd hate to bet money and then find out after the fact that the fighter I'm backing was handicapped. serious question, anybody know?

I'm just stunned that are are prize fighters out there who are turning down what I'm assuming is a multi-million dollar payday. I can't help but think there are other reasons than those given.

I was just thinking about the apparently errant scorecard in the 12th that cost Ugas a draw. What if boxing scored each round by the consensus of judges? This fight for example would have been a draw. Round 1 ) 2-1 Porter Round 2) 2-1 Ugas Round 3) 1-2 Porter round 4) 3-0 Ugas Round 5) 2-1 Porter Round 6) 2-1 Porter Round 7) 2-1 Ugas Round 8) 2-1 Ugas Round 9) 3-0 Porter Round 10) 2-1 Ugas Round 11) 2-1 Porter Round 12) 2-1 Ugas In my opinion, this is not a bad card and it eliminates the effect a single judge might have on a fight when he sees a round wrong, like the judge in the 12th.

Does he get the same credit for defeating a 170lb Jacobs as Golovkin does for defeating a 180lb + version? It gets complicated if Canelo just blows Jacobs out of the water but if Canelo beats Jacobs in a close disputable contest, same credit?

Is the reason Joshua is not making a stink about it because he isn't testing either? If you were clean and potentially fighting Povetkin in the Fall, wouldn't you be demanding Povetkin be subject to random testing already?

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