Huge difference between having a deal as in "both fighters, their management teams and promotional teams agree to fight" and finalising a contract worth over £150m.
Put it in a more simpler term... I've accepted job offers before, but i'm certainly not agreeing to anything officially until my contract is sent through... and I don't get paid millions!
I believe that Fury should implement the same strategy he used against Wilder in the rematch in order to win by taking the fight to Joshua. He has to let his hands go and throw lots of punches.
Tyson staying on the outside in a feeble attempt to outbox AJ would be futile. The judges are not going to render a verdict against the biggest Heavyweight draw in boxing today which is Anthony Joshua; Especially if his opponent is simply unwilling to engage and exchange punches with him.
It was the major reason why Fury didn't win his first bout against Deontay Wilder. He moved too much without hardly throwing any punches and it cost him in that fight.
I admit that it is a risky strategy because AJ is a lot younger, stronger and larger than Deontay Wilder. In addition, he is the more textbook and fundamentally sound fighter too. However, it just may be Fury's only chance of winning the fight.
Agree with this, I'm sure that a lot of people forget that Fury generally doesn't throw much, which isn't going to work well against someone who can box technically well.
Fury's best shot is to make sure he goes back to Kronk and go at Joshua, lean on him and dig to the body... If he can zap Joshua's stamina he wins the fight pretty easily.
If he doesn't I see Joshua controlling the fight, albeit nervously.
No confirmed sources atm, just rumours circulating on social media and apps.
Story goes that AJ got beat up and knocked spark out in sparring by Agit Kabayel. AJ wanted to pull out of the Ruiz Jr. fight during fight week but had to go through with it in the end.
Make of it what you will. I believe something like this to be the case, but not sure if this is the real story.
Yeah this isn't true mate. He got roughed up a few times in sparring but not put down.
Off top of my head...
Frampton vs Warrington
Pacquiao vs JMM (4th fight)
Whitaker vs De La Hoya
Margarito vs Mosley
Hatton vs Pacquiao
Pavlik vs Hopkins
You can't rewrite history to make it look like Collins wanted to fight Calzaghe... he said himself
"This fight doesn't appeal to me. Calzaghe is a very good fighter, but he doesn't bring a reputation or a title, and that's no disrespect to him.
"There's no money in it. People haven't heard of Calzaghe. I'd go in there with a low battery. And a 2,000 arena? I get more than that at my weigh-ins."
It's clear that Collins preferred to retire than risk losing against someone he considered to be a too high risk low reward, he was happy to fight Seillier 8 months earlier who had never fought in the UK before that point, but it is less risk.
Collins had a good career, but it isn't Calzaghe's fault Collins didn't want to fight him.
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On the main point, Roy Jones would've beaten Calzaghe and anyone else at the time of his peak.
no
British sports fans... are the best in the world, period
they are the same with everything, not just boxing
when the lions toured here a few years back the british support was amazing... it seemed like the size of my country doubled overnight
same with the barmy army, for test matches
they love it
for the most part... they will have a great time, they will be respectful/supportive of BOTH fighters... and they will compliment/congratulate Wilder if he beats Fury... some of them are cvnts, but most will be brilliant
Gotta agree with this, latest fight i went over the pond for wasJoshua vs Ruiz.
Some Mexican fans came out to celebrate and take the piss and seemed surprised that we were wrong to take the banter and congratulated them.
Get British people drunk watching sport (or music) and we'll have some fun, that's for sure
Just cannot see it being Ortiz Sky TV learned their lesson when Khan was ktfo in the first fight of a new deal
This is Joshuas USA coming out party if he lost his first fight there it would be a disaster for them and take them 2 steps back to rebuild theres no doubt Hearn will be getting pressure from TV bosses to take the safest option possible
This would be all well and good if the team actually thought Ortiz was that much of a problem.
Ortiz is the type of fighter that joshua would excel against
It's part of the British Boxing Board of Control rules that a referee will score fights apart from championship fights or under special circumstances. It's nothing to do with DAZN but is instead part of the national guidelines by the regulating body for boxing in the UK. You can see the exact rules from the BBBofC here http://bbbofc.com/content/rules-boxing-0
3.5.1 A Referee shall officiate inside the boxing ring to score the Contest and act as sole arbiter of the Rules of Boxing except for British and Commonwealth Championship Contests, or other such Contest that the Stewards in their absolute discretion deem appropriate.
3.5.2 For British and Commonwealth Championship contests only, or other such Contest that the Stewards in their absolute discretion deem appropriate, three Judges will be appointed by the Board for the purpose of scoring the Contest.
I think this is the end of this discussion
Evander Holyfield never ducked anybody never unlike Lennox Lewis he fough atleast good version of Mike Tyson
-better resume than Lewis
-better single win
-4 times World champion
-Didn’t hold paper belts like Lewis
-Didn’t get KOED by 1 sucker punch in his prime unlike Lennox Lewis
-fough actually opponents at their Best
-fough Bowe better version of Tyson
This is why for me Evander the real deal ranks higher than Lennox Lewis
November 1999
You are wrong.
Mayweather, Pac, Wlad and others are all still miles above him. That's not to say that GGG couldn't be considered among them if he keeps up this form for a few more years and gets some world class names on his resume.
This comment ends the thread :)
James is just begging for Groves to fight him its so obvious he's so butthurt about Groves beating him in the amateurs and in the pro ranks, he wants to talk **** about him about how ordinary he is etc...
Well the fact remains DeGale still lost twice to Groves that will never go away that and the fact James has absolutely ZERO amount of class or sporting integrity to his name he is utter trash and he is ducking the Andre Dirrell rematch he was lucky to get a decision in that fight.
Totally agree with this, I think in DeGales mind he needs to bring up other fighters to be able to sell a ticket.
In Grove's last interview he was pretty humble about the DeGale fight and said he wasn't ready for it... Time to let this one simmer for a bit and get on with their careers.
Maybe DeGale is just annoyed that Groves vs Froch is more of a 'thing' than DeGale is
Carl Froch was the one who brought DeGale's name up in his potential comeback talks.
DeGale hasn't been talking about Froch at all, he's been getting on with his own career. So you're way off.
You know how little sense your making right now... this is a comment thread for something DeGale said about a retired Froch.
Dilusional
Every time I begin to like DeGale he goes and sprouts some crap like this, no wonder the dude struggles to sell tickets.
Here's an idea, rather than trying to chase down big money fights that aren't there why don't you work on your own fan base and make money that way.
Makes me glad I cancelled my sky sports contract, having two poor PPV's in a row is pathetic and says to me Sky don't want boxing again.
I don't think this will do well at all!
he's old now. just like pacquiao. these guys are prone to injury more than when they were younger. their bodies aren't as strong as before.
and someone as experienced as Wlad should realise this and know his body by now.
Unless it was a pure accident but sounds like overtraining