Apologies gents, my intent was to get the results updated for Pick Ems 75 -77 this evening also but my internet's dropping out every coupla minutes and it's taken me about hour plus of repeated attempts to just get the tables above posted so Ima leave it for tonight and aim to try again in the a.m.
Much appreciated buddy! I'd give some green but i'm maxed out just now :(
Is it too late to join? :) Even if I can't win, it will be great to test my so called boxing knowledge :D
I'd also like to say thank you for dedicating so much of your time for this - it's incredible!
Thanks so much buddy! Yeah I read the guide beforehand and I can just copy the other folks post style if i'm still not sure! Yeah that was my thinking, sharpen my picks for 2020 :D
If there was indeed any correlation at all to pre/post 2008 posters and ban worthy opinions, surely the creation of this thread alone would be all the proof required.
Lol. “Uncastrated” wild boar is what Team Fury stated. Who hunts a castrated wild boar?
“Uncastrated” and non-castrated is the same thing. “We ate a non-castrated wild boar.” Well duh. oxy-moron
uncastrated wild boar, is not an oxymoron, it's just a fact. The boar in question are actually part of a reserve / conservation, so although wild, might still be tagged or even castrated.
An oxymoron is a contradiction in terms or words. "True lies" is an oxymoron. "Unbiased fanboy" is also an oxymoron, because a fanboy is just a very biased fan. There's no contradiction in "uncastrated wild boar" so that's not an oxymoron.
Okay I don't need to explain what it actually is, because the above does it perfectly :D
Awfully pretty, is my usual go to example!
“Loving hate” goes back to Shakespeare.
“Uncastrated wild”
You’re slow bruh.
loving hate, is an oxymoron because the 2 terms are at opposite end of the same spectrum.
Uncastrated/castrated and wild, are not related. I could catch and castrate a wild boar tomorrow, it doesn't stop being wild the moment I castrate it. When released, it's still considered wild.
Articulateboxin, Stevenson, DEC, Close x2
I hope they do justice on the scorecards
As a side note, man that Valdez vs Marriaga fight was damn entertaining.
I picked Fury in the prior 2 fights but I seem to be 1 of the very few who still fancy Wilder in the rubber match. I felt at the end of round one, that would have been exactly what wilder would have asked for pre-fight, a light handed guy coming straight at him. We know how it ended but i think that shot he hit him with in the 2nd, not the 3rd did some serious damage, not dissimilar to AJ's reaction in Ruiz 1. I'm sure as a % pick, Fury would be winning most of the time but I think Wilder has a better than advertised chance of catching him.
He's levels above them. But even then it just takes one shot. You can't have seen many worse cuts than Fury's against Wallin make it the distance?
He beats Wilder 4/5 I reckon.
The rest he's 9/10.
Except for Joshua. A boxer/puncher vs a boxer. Fury still isn't a puncher - even at that huge weight. I think, and have always thought, that AJ is all wrong for Fury. He's not good enough to bully AJ. He'll take too many shots. And if he stays outside he won't have the luxury of only taking a couple of shots like against Wilder - AJ will land more regularly.
That saves me typing everything I had in mind, thank you :dance:
I say this without any malice at all, but I really wish he'd taken the AJ fight. I don't gaf whichever manager told him he wasn't ready, he has the shortest career style imaginable, you don't turn down $6 million and a shot at accomplishing everything you ever dreamed of. It's maddening, and entirely the reverse of the people perceiving it as a short sighted pick.
I'd imagine Wilder has more 1 punch power. However with the exception of Stiverne, Wilder's never really knocked out a world champion of any kind. He's knocked out 2 people inside the top 10? (Ortiz and Stiverne) Everyone's power looks enormous, until you start stepping up the competition. A cruiserweight dropped and put fury on wobbly legs, I don't remember Wilder doing the same - Fury was entirely lucid and coherent when he got up.
I don't think it was Fury's elusiveness that bothered Wlad anywhere near as much as the range did. He was so used to having the reach advantage and being able to stand at range and land his signature 1-2. Fury was either out of range, or always moving. The only time he really stopped, was in the 12th and it's here where Wlad finally had a chance to land. I don't think steroids had anything to do with his performance, especially considering Fury did an almost mirror repeat against Wilder, right down to snoozing in the 12th.
again no evidence... LDBC fail again
How does anyone know if the documents were signed and submitted to UKAD? We can't know if evidence exists or not. I mean it could be that the farmer made this whole thing up and he's never even met or spoken to team Fury. Time will tell though I guess! It seems like a very elaborate and easily disproved lie for UKAD to deal with.
Is a rhetorical question, rhetorical?
Instead of framing your (or your friends) intentions behind a silly and very obvious analogy, maybe just explain the situation and explain why you disagree with the narrative.
However Pac beating Bradley seemed pretty dominant to me and yet the scores went against him. Is this an example?
Or you can do what I’m doing which is wait and hope UFC 4 sucks as badly as UFC 3 did. That game was so bad it went on permanent sale right away and people still didn’t buy it. They can’t afford to do that again. Would be forced to return to Fight Night if they do.
Sadly, I think if they were going to return to FN, that would have been the opportune moment. I saw an interview with one of their creative directors months ago and he's still lobbying for the game, every chance he gets apparently.
Naz was one of the most entertaining fighters of all time, he had literally everything we like to see in a prizefighter. However while he was wildly unorthodox, a master at ko'ing less than world class opponents and fairly elusive, we started to see his real level when he made his american debut. KK was definitely passed his best when he met Naz and still had a lot of success, it certainly took a lot of the luster and when he finally met Barrera, well he came up very short.
Though from what I can gather, it wasn't actually the Barrera fight that finished Naz, at least not directly. He said by this point, his hands were in absolute pieces and I guess that, coupled with the realisation that God was indeed willing to see him lose, culminated in losing all motivation to fight.
Whats up with all the posters i never seen b4 making these threads.
Wilder has kept his mouth shut since that IG video. Yall idiots just making the entire fanbase look bad
Like attracts like unfortunately. Wilder has a very specific personality and there aren't a huge variety of mentalities that are attracted to it. He talks about peace and love, killing people in the ring, 1 name 1 face etc etc (fails to unify in 5 years), makes the most ridiculous excuses in boxing history for his defeat/draw but has the most entertaining knockout power imaginable.
Now i'm a Wilder fan, literally watched and re-watched every fight I can get hold of, but apparently folks like ourselves make up the minority of what is otherwise a very emotional and reactive fanbase. Or perhaps not the minority, but he seemingly has a larger percentages of the crazed and totally blindsided fan than most boxers do at least.
Joshua is scared of the Gypsy King, no doubt about it. I'm not even sure AJ wants the fight, he's probably being pushed into it by his team.
I mean i'm not sure what you're basing that on but i've no idea if he is or not. Boxers get in the ring to punch people in the face, the idea of being scared of another boxer after both guys have already accomplished so much, seems pretty unlikely to me. Who knows though!
Loma
Crawford
Canelo
I think somebody mentioned about Uysk prior and I couldn't agree more. While he's undoubtedly very talented, I do not think he's the level of a Loma. Having said that, he's much bigger in real life than I realised, like he seemed much larger than Chisora, both in height but more so in mass
Sounds like he got it put onto him and had to level his ego by offering a fight outside, a fight he felt more certain of winning. I don't think a boxer comes out on top of a spar, then asks to go outside and settle it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1wjzZBBoeQ&t=719s
before you crucify this video, give it a fair shot. Dewey seems unbiased...all he says is that he did see some manipulation of the glove. He's not saying its the reason Fury won
watch it and give it a fair shot
Why do you keep wasting your life by posting this shiz? Honestly, let's just say you're absolutely right, they manipulated his jab glove - so tf what?? The jab hand didn't seem to bother him at all, it was the right hand that crushed his ear and head, repeatedly. Fury ripping his left glove off all together still wouldn't detract or add to Wilder's crappy performance in anyway, it's not going to absolve him of the ridiculous excuses he keeps making either. He lost, he got smashed to bits by the right hands - let it go.
Just move past it jesus
But would his gloves melt steel beams??!?
hahahahha i see what you did there :439:
People keep linking the floppy glove from the first fight and talking about his left hand...but it was his right hand that literally did all the damage and it was in the second fight. You can see it connect with the face of the glove, so it still shattered his equilibrium through the padding of the glove.
It might be nonsense in the case of Fury but at the same time loaded gloves are nothing new and fighters have got away with using them in the past. Margarito allegedly used a substance that was soft at first and then hardened over some minutes, in a similar way to glue or epoxy resin.
Yes he did and his gloves were not tampered with during the whole process. That's my point, people making claims at the gloves don't seem to understand how stringent the process is. Margarito used a plaster of paris on his hand wraps, it was nothing to do with his gloves.
Isnt this the point. I think everybody thinks Tyson is the better fighter. But why would he cheat, he already got caught cheating this same way against Hammer. That can't be ignored
No I think it adds further argument that this is likely BS, that's the whole point.
I haven't heard the audio from the Fury vs Helenius fight but I thought the ref was pointing to the fact the thumb section wasn't stitched to the rest of the glove? At least he pointed to the thumb. But even so, I don't see how being able to take your fingers out of the face of the glove even offers any advantages in a jab hand? All of his power is in his right, so why would they tamper with his weakest hand? It makes even less sense explaining it
Your name is apt, you articulate your point very well. My point is that movement you mention was it down to the steroids?
Always nice to see somebody willing to take other peoples opinions on board man, thank you!
The truth is, we can't know for sure that it wasn't. However my final point were the similarities between the Wlad and Wilder fight. He seemed perfectly able to move for 12 rounds against Wilder and has apparently tested clean since. Admittedly he didn't look quite as slick but I think we can attribute that to the long lay off and ballooning up in weight, more so than an absence of PEDs.
Holy ****, that's pretty crazy! Though I cannot for the life of me understand why the farmer would suddenly decide to sell his story. I'm assuming he's facing financial ruin because he's admitting to fraud, falsifying evidence and perversion of justice. Dude will likely go to prison for a long time if this is taken further
If he legitimately took a week to provide a mandatory post fight urine sample, I cannot understand how he isn't under investigation. I'm sure losing must be devastating and no doubt he spent a night or two in the hospital but providing his injuries were not life threatening, there's no justification for breaking process like that.