lol people dont want a clean sport either judging by the comments, so what if paulie is a douche, he's absolutely right that the suspension is a joke and Canelo should be in a 24/7/365 watch probation for at least 2 years.
there's actual video of Garcia getting straight punked in serious sparring....dude looks so bad that I think as soon as he fights anyone with decent skills, toughness and power, he's gonna get iced.
Fckng Rubio lol cmon man
he was rated #1, i dont make the damn rankings. Remeber when the WBC authorised Canelo to fight their #7 welterweight for a vacant junior middlewight belt?
As if Marco Antonio Rubio fought some killer to become mandatory, lol.
Golovkin got handed another belt, and that's really the end of it. Try justifying it all you want, Golovkin should've fought someone to win a belt, rather than simply have it mailed to him to parade around as champ with
sigh i dont making the rules im giving you facts... ****ing Wade was GGG's mandatory.....Middleweight rankings suck. Sanctioning bodies suck. Canelo didnt seem to mind when he got to fight a **** fighter from a lower division for his first vacant WBC belt.
If you're going to force Alvarez off of the belt, why not make Golovkin fight the next highest ranked fighter by the WBC for the full belt?
he did that by becoming interim champ beating Rubio.
Canelo is a dumbass and a diva....Televisa and the WBC made him and he betrayed them both once he was on top and expected special treatment from them(not that you should feel too bad about those rottten corporations).
I think Nobuo Nashiro was a kickboxer who became champion in boxing in under 10 fights....but i think he had always wanted to box more, he just did both boxing and kickboxing..tbh, in women's boxing and the lighter weights, it's easier to do that......mistakes and bad habits don't cost you much there and the talent pools are shallow...plenty of muay thai stars turned to boxing in thailand
The punch that initially bothered Kovalev was a low blow, all 3 at the end were low blows.
That was f*cking disgusting.
Ward fans are really coming off as delusional........maybe the first that bothered him could be called borderline just to say it wasnt super bad, but the 3 punch combo at the end where all clearly low.
the way he trains reminds me of back when Cotto thought he could fight with a cheerleader as lead trainer and when he ignored everything his uncle told him........no pace to it....Kovalev has great talent with how he manages distance and leading/countering with the jab, but is soft otherwise because he doesn't like getting pushed in training.....
sometimes showing up is all you need to do...cotto filled the power vacuum left by tito, PR's are territorialistic and root for their fighters, he was adequately skilled/exciting in the ring, he was the right size(bigger than an 11 year old)...people where willing to forgive his azzholery but still you can tell he never connected like tito.
Why would Andre Ward sign over his peak earning run to Top Rank when Top Rank doesn't have anyone for him to fight and Top Rank has been dropped from premium TV? Depending on what you believe, Andre Ward just got $10m for the two Kovalev fights.
To extrapolate all of this from Andre Ward filling in for Tim Bradley once is laughable (the fact that Ward is also going to be a apart of the Floyd-McGregor hype makes it pretty obvious that this is far more an ESPN move than anything to do with Top Rank).
Andre Ward has a good batch of fights that make his likely move obvious; Stevenson to unify the division, Cleverly-Jack winner as the WBA mandatory, Beterbiev-Koeling winner as the IBF mandatory, Tony Bellew at cruiserweight, the dream of a shot at the heavyweight title (which is pretty long odds, with Ward still sitting in the 180s without a fight in the question).
Ward's fought out his HBO deal, will leverage the ESPN exposure for this last run of Floyd's, and he and RocNation (after Haymon and James Prince have their sit-down) are likely to move the entire stable (Ward, Rigo, Arias, Hooker, DHH, and their young prospects) over to Showtime.
simple, top rank could be the latest sucker to bid against themselves by snatching ward just like RNS before them...i think RNS earned their lesson and is out of the ward business. Ward will cash out with Bellew and leverage his status into a big payday despite being just a local attraction just like he always has done.
When UFC was barely staying alive, I always thought they kept Bruce Buffer because of the Buffer name associated with his brother Michael. I always hated his style and considered him the Frank Stallone of announcing. I'm surprised the UFC kept him even when they became mainstream.
mma appeals to dumbass meatheads(the hardcore base with martial arts experience are cool dudes, but the rest....)they probably think he's the greatest hype ever....
no, floyd just fought to gas him out....anyone who was connors size who doesnt mind getting hit would have rolled under and fired power shots which would have shut down his jab quickly...styles make fights....i dont understand why people think it would have played out differently.....floyd doesnt like getting hit hard, his whole plan was to make mcgregor gas while minimising the damage...but he was always gonna be at the end of mcgregors punches beacuse of the reach/size difference and because floyd can see evrything coming there .....even floyd's bob and weave is done more with waist movement than legs and knees.....any power puncher who uses his legs effectively to close down would have had a field day with mcgregor....
Belt line not low.
the navel is the limit.......incompetent refs mention the beltline.....though some idiots bring it on themselves by using their trunks too high but its still incredible how bad the officiating is in boxing(and floyd didnt have high trunks, mcgregor did though)......that punch was clearly below the beltline ....upper part of the thigh...
lol only casuals would think that and theyll move on to the next thing tomorrow....only idiots like brendan schaub and the ufc guys who have an interest on making mcgregor look good think this was anything but floyd carrying him.....floyd is defensive, is not used to fighting someone longer than him, looked small as hell compared, and has a very one dimensional offence....anyone who pushed the pace and was McGregors size would have gassed him in 3 and ended him brutally...the only good thing about McGregor was his reach, it does speak badly of floyds style that it was enough to make it awkward for him though...
dude is slow and predictable. for all of his toughness, he still has to brace for shots, that's why he doesn't like risking to get countered while stepping in. He probably won all those fights by outpointing with the jab but Canelo physically busted his ass in the rematch, just got tired and discouraged by jabs so couldnt close him. Derevyanchenko is the ultimate proof of Comupbox bs. If Golovkin had landed half the shots they say he did, Segey would have been dead, Golovkin won those rounds by hurting him and making him go defensive but he was barely throwing otherwise...when Dervy had enough confidence to throw, he couldnt miss but couldnt hurt him other than that one time to the body.
But the propagandists at the TV networks are....they had this big punching guy up while landing nothing. Not a diss on Wilder though. Chin and Power can take you a long way, ask Mayorga. From the streets of Nicaragua to the world stage with 0 skill.
It's Foreman-Frazier if Porter tries to outhustle him inside....it's a methodical beatdown if he tries to flurry and move. Spence too big and too much power.
Since when is Charlo perceived as a monster? Not long ago he went tit for tat against Trout despite being much bigger/stronger. The demographic hyping another "fighter of the decade" off that
so it's illegal to throw a shot and the other guy, with a total lack of self-preservation turns his head and makes the shot land in an even more vulnerable spot?...yet refs bail out this type of 0-self preservation fighters all the time... the old school guys who did this type of **** knew the risks and never *****ed about it because it was part of the deal , you win some you lose some, but your modern day so-called slicksters always get bailed out if they ***** to the ref enough. If refs didn't bail this **** out all the time, you'd see a lot more of these fighters would have to develop their blocking skill.
Yes that makes it a foul. Accidental but still a foul non the less. Foul = illegal.
The rules of boxing are pretty simple.
Keep crying while the real world spins.
Rigo thought he was gonna get away with spoiling. Spoilers don't get protected by refs if theyre not the A-side. Loma learned to not be a nice guy from the toughest son out there. Cheaters can't ***** about rules . Loma will get a bad treatment whenever he isn't the a -side. Boxing officiating is a joke
it was 99% certain that rigo would stink it out wether he tried to win or not because thats how he fights and the sports enables a lot of these spoilers with the hipster(and hypocritical) pretense that this isn't a blood sport
Yeah that's pretty damning. The media is supposed to be the only safeguard from the corruption of the regulators, but they're corrupted as well, no one will bat an eye at this in fear of losing their precious credentials and access to the sandwich bar.