Typical bitterness again from Warren, always harping on about fighters not under his poisonous banner.
I would like to see Haye fight better opposition but at least he has been open about his plans . He said he would be fighting regularly to see how his shoulder holds up after potentially career-ending surgery. He has done this and so far has not had any injury-based withdrawals. I don't think anyone really expected him to have a murderers row of opponents did they?
As for Briggs, why would the BBBC not give him a licence? He is old but is still in mean condition and would be an interesting match-up against all the current top 10. It is not like he in a Roy Jones type position where he is suffering brutal KO's. He has definitely made the HW interesting and if he does share a ring with Haye it will be a very interesting fight.
As for Joshua, I think people are holding the Charles Martin win against him because he made it look so easy. Dominic Breazeale is being saddled with stigma of Prince Charlie's failure, with people thinking that he will be another pushover. He may well be, but that would be down to Joshua's strengths rather than Breazele's failures. He is a very credible opponent, very big, no young/green, probably a better record than Joshua. Hopefully it will be good test. Definitely nothing wrong with Joshua fighting regularly as well.
Normally when an opponent gets under the other's skin it can be an advantage. In this case I think it is the total opposite. Bellew has talked his way into this fight and wound Haye up pretty badly. I think Haye has every intention of seriously hurting Bellew and has the capability to do so.
I think Bomber is going to regret this fight, I think Coldwell is going to regret this fight and I think Eddie Hearn probably won't give a toss. As for Haye, the fight won't mean much for his career but brutal highlight reel stoppages always look good on youtube montages I suppose.
Bellew is going take Haye out. Shock the world..
Haye time is coming to an end.
The scouser to TKO Haye in the 11th
Back yourself at the bookies mate, sure you will get a juicy return on that outcome.
Absolutely agree. I respect Haye for his performance v Chisora (his best at HW), but it was also too easy a win. Chisora was **** compared to the Vitali fight.
Haye is after another Klitschko payday, nothing less, nothing more.
Who isn't in the game for a payday?
I think it is the end for Pacman, it was pretty sad to see how much he had fallen. I thought he had done enough to win but I also thought he would starch Horn in 3 rounds. Just like when Pacquiao pummelled De La Hoya into retirement and he admitted he didn't have it anymore I think Pacquaio is now in the same boat. He can't remain the game to go life and death with the Jeff Horn's of the world.
I got Eubank staggering Groves but him staying up on the ropes and Eubank doing one of those uncontrolled pitter-patter flurries and forcing a controversial stoppage.
IMO Khan should take the Crawford fight.
Get KO'd for 5 million ( if Crawford can KO him ) and fight one of the P4P guys.
Like Khan said the Brook fight will Always be there .
The Brook fight be there still but not on the same terms. $10m, 147lb and rehydration clause will be gone for sure if he passes it up now.
It is at MSG on ESPN PPV. Will likely be SKY PPV in UK. Khan has $5 mil guaranteed
It is not a given that it will be on Sky Box Office, considering Joshua may be fighting the week before, plus it is borderline whether the fight would be big enough for UK PPV with the time difference.
I guess you know Lewis' career better than he does. Who is Lennox Lewis to make analysis about the current heavyweight division or speak about his own history in the ring anyway?
My point is Lewis vs Holyfield 1, was an outrageous robbery. This fight simply was not. As much as I hate clear robberies, I hate the howls of robbery in close or hard to score fights almost as much.
Yes it was clear robbery. How amateurish fury have to make wilder look. Wilder threw much more yet landed less. Fury landed more every round though.
If a fighter missed so many isn't it because fury showed masterful defense? Wilder had a punches chance but the problem with that is you have to mail opponent to floor for 10 secinds.
If a fight is close, nothing to separate them then a knockdown makes the difference. But not if your being given boxing lesson
Fury made Wilder miss, but he didn't often make him pay. Let's not pretend that Fury had an high and accurate punch either.
This was nothing like Holyfield vs Lewis 1. Lewis didn’t get dropped once nevermind twice. Lewis shut Holyfield out too. Fury did not shut Wilder out, the rounds without knockdowns were all pretty difficult to score. Wilder was missing a lot, but Fury was not throwing a tonne of punches. I have no problem with the decision.
This seems to be the case. Because numerous recent fight scorings were clear cut robberies , people think all fight scores are fixed. That it occurs at all is an indication that all fights can be, but there isn't a need to do it all the time.
A draw here is reasonable.
Likewise because some refs' counting is off, people are screaming that this one was way off when it was near perfect.
This particular fight had people give some rds to Fury because the expected KO from Wilder did not come.
When the favorite fighter doesn't win, people too readily scream fix. Here even though the 12th rd count was near perfectly started and counted, and that's easily verified, people still "see" or "hear" an extra 5 or 10 seconds.
Totally agree.
The count is the refs count. He picks it up from the timekeeper and hold out his hands to the downed fighter. It is never going to be accurate as he doesn't start a stopwatch. He has to continue the count whilst checking the condition of the fighter.
Likewise the downed fight will only go off the refs count. Fury got up at 9 so absolutely no issues there. There could be some mild annoyance at the extra time he was granted once he was on his feet, but by the same token, if he was unsteady then it would have been stopped.
It was nothing compared to the recovery Wilder got against Ortiz with the Doctor checking him out at the end of the break.
For whatever reason, some people do not like AJ, ok their choice. However, I find it astonishing that people label him a coward or that he is ducking anyone. He fought Klitschko in his 19th fight, how can people disregard that?
Good post. I also think location, could be worth as much as +10%/-10%. Joshua has not been on the road and Wilder has some experience but not for big fights. If it is at Wembley then it massively in Joshua's favour as I think Wilder would wilt under the pressure.
So is this not a sanctions professional fight? its not on boxrec?
I'm curious about this also. Seems strange as the fight is sanctioned by the Luxembourg boxing federation and there are titles on the line, albeit fringe titles. It must be because neither fighter holds a boxing licence? Still seems a little strange to ignore the fight anyway as it will lead to incorrect records. They could have mentioned the fight and inserted a caveat that it would not count towards their records due to the lack of licences.
It is a tough call for Kell but that IBF belt is a millstone round his neck. He should take the fight with Spence with a 75/25 split, have the fight at a packed Sheffield arena and then come in at a comfortable weight and lose the belt on the scales say 149lbs. Spence will probably still go ahead for the opportunity to become champ, but Brook will edge him as he has all the advantages and then Brook can move up and Spence can fight again for the vacant title.
It annoys me that for the biggest fight of both careers they are in bad shape. It doesn't bode well for them if they can't even prepare properly for their first title fight.
Robert Byrd in the Briedis vs Glowacki fight made some particularly egregious errors, albeit it was only R3 so may not have directly affected the overall result, but it was hard to watch him totally lose himself in the ring and have zero awareness of what he was doing in there.
like i said in a recent post today this fight all depended on how chisora looked on the scales and he looks pretty damn well this is going to be one hell of a fight and i got del boy winning it
Out of curiosity, what have you seen in Del Boy which convinces you he's going it win? Or how do you think he is going to win?
I like Benn but his failure to even mention Avanesyan is annoying and leaves a bad taste.
He seems to have avoided all fights for English/British/Commonwealth and now is ducking European.
I still feel Benn needs to win a domestic/euro title before stepping up to world level as I think winning those titles mean something on the way up.