Matchroom have 5 or 6 other boxing world champions (and some excellent prospects like Callum Smith and Ryan Burnett), plus they have a monopoly on professional darts, snooker, pool, ten pin bowling and angling. Few other sports as well. It's a huge sporting empire.
Eddie Izzard.
Dude ran 27 marathons in 27 days despite being a chubby schlub, he performs comedy in front of Americans despite being an openly atheist transvestite, and his surname izz, literally, 'ard.
Also Chuck Norris.
Absolutely wonderful fighter to watch. Tough, entertaining and has every shot in the book available to him. Love to watch him have a go at taking Crawford out. Would be a great stylistic match up.
AJ is wasting his time and talent with an opponent like Molina.
He should fight only the top opponents like Haye, Klitschko, wilder, Parker, Povetkin and, when he comes back, Tyson Fury.
None of whom were available. Whatever you think about him, the man gets the business done, whichever can gets put in front of him. Only way it's not Klitchko next is if Wlad runs away.
Sky wants to charge me £16 to watch this "fight".
It's a rip. Only thing that might make it worth it is the strength of the undercard. Far more interested in seeing Quigg, Callum Smith, Ortiz, Burton-Buglioni and Yafai-Conception than I am the two 'main' bouts.
Not massively important in the grand scheme of things, but David Price seems like a lovely bloke and I'd take away his three unjust losses to the steroid cheats. That way he could already have stepped up to get knocked out by Joshua, got his big payday and ****ed off into obscurity so he isn't cluttering up the UK PPV cards with his glass-jawed uselessness.
I never said anything about judge's decision other than his gold medal win. My point was fighting in your home country can be helpful in terms of crowd support, not having to deal with travel concerns in the lead up to the fight, having people chant your name can be a very empowering experience...obviously. You're just looking for something to complain about rather than take part in the conversation as it was.
You must be American. Or Northern.
Prime Fury would take him out, obviously. Holyfield would never get inside often enough to do any better than a wide points loss.
To answer the actual question, AJ would cause him the most problems. He's a similar size to Lewis and probably hits harder. We haven't yet seen anyone who can stand up to him for 12 rounds, and I'm not sure Prime Holyfield would either.
Think ole Windmills' defence is too ragged not to let Evander in with a shot or two. Kilt too old now, Ortiz too slow, Parker too easy to hit. Genuine lulz at the inclusion of PEDvetkin.
Parker is a tough kid with no little ability, but the thing that stood out for me in the Takam and Ruiz fights is just how f**king easy he is to hit in the face. I doubt the guy could slip a punch from Stephen Hawking, let alone the relatively fast hands of Haye. The guy might have been out of the ring for years, and Wlad jabbed and cuddled him in to submission with relative ease, but Haye is still going to be able to put someone as simple to hit as Parker to sleep.
Saunders does actually have talent, but it's no match for his appetite. Hes got handspeed , but mainly with a knife and fork. It's a shame in fact, because I used to think he had a bright future. But like Fury, I don't think he really cares.
Travellers generally don't give a flying one about anything other than fighting, drinking and f**king (usually all three at once). The rigours of pro boxing is usually too much effort in the long term.
He is better than most on here seem to think he is, but beating the elite middleweights? Nah.
The Saurlands and Matchroom have a fantastic working relationship. If AJ bludgeons Klit, I wouldn't expect him to have to drop either belt as both mandos would be simple enough to arrange.
Strange performance by Concepcion he looks shot...lacking any motivation.
Glad you enjoyed the Burton fight.
Yafai has dismantled Conception here. Fantastic performance. He's made that transition from elite amateur to world class pro effortlessly.
Interesting fight to pick. I'll plump for Corrales - I think he's better on the inside, and he's got some dynamite in that left fist of his. Plus I love me a wild-swinging switch-hitter.
Unfortunately I didn't catch this but I'm not sure if Chisora was able to wind back the years or Whyte really isn't that good, which lead to this fight being competitive. maybe it is a bit of both?
Bit of both. Certainly not one to appreciate for the skill (or lack of it) involved, but in terms of two big f**kers hitting each other repeatedly for 12 rounds, I can't think of many better in the past decade.
Joshua won't go down with one punch. If Molina lands something big, Joshua will clinch him, box him, etc. until he recovers or reaches the end of the round.
Whyte had that opportunity and failed to finish him off. I think the only heavyweights with a real chance are Wilder, Ortiz, and Parker.
Doubt Parker has the ability to stun Joshua on last night's evidence. He's still too easy to hit as well. Reckon AJ would get him out of there in 6.
Think the only way for Parker to beat him is gas him by running away for the first half of the fight and take him out in the championship rounds when all that muscle weights him down.
Ha, "robbery". Doubt most of you cretins know the meaning of the word. I had it down as a draw, but happy with any close result.
Have to hold my hands up and say I thought it was going to be a sloppy clinchfest which didn't match up to the pre-fight verbals, but that was a great fight. The Smith fight was a little dull (spiteful KO, mind), but this has been a really entertaining undercard from start to finish*.
*Feel free to adulation/denigrate the Taylor fight according to your own personal preference/misogyny.
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Concepcion vs. Yafai
The real fight of tha night yall #realboxingfans
Finally, something I can agree with... Yafai is a big guy at the weight - and talented- but I think he's got his work cut out here.
For pure entertainment's sake, watch out for Burton-Buglioni which should be a pretty brutal tear-up.
It better be good or else I will Red-K your ass for making me watch a British domestic fight.
Got the makings of a minor classic. Burton is the classier operator, but arrogant and lazy like all the Furys; Buglioni is the durable punching bag who has mixed it at world level and will go at it for the full 12. It's a crossroads fight for them. Both can bang a bit but neither has real 1-punch knockout power, so it should be painful. Got to be better than the Whyte-Chisora fatty snoozefest anyway...
Fury will do nothing other than cry on Twitter that Joshua gets more love than he does because nobody like gypsies.
It's okay, he'll cry and then cheer himself up with a couple of lines.
Seriously though, it's a shame what's happened to Fury. Robbed us of a very live division.
People crying on here about PEDvetkin being a cheat are the same people crying about AJ/Wilder not facing fellow PED cheat Ortiz.
Fighters can get killed in the ring. Fail a test, get banned for life. The end.