I don't know if bare knuckle suits Selby. He got cut a bit near the end of his career, and his punch resistance didn't seem fantastic at that point either. Really like Lee though so hope he doesn't pick up any unneeded damage.
Didn't he also have terrible hand injuries? Seems counterintuitive for these light-hitting fighters (Selby, Malignaggi) with a history of hand injuries to be doing this of all sports.
Quality article. Getting up there in years myself, living a relatively clean lifestyle (always running 16k a week, never any smokes/drugs/drink, not the worst diet but could be healthier), yet I'm noticing a decline of my verbal sharpness and situational reaction times. Memory still fine, but a couple of words slurred here and there, and a major increase in "Uhm"s and "Ahh"s before damn near every sentence spoken; as if the brain is searching extra hard, on the fly, for the correct word.
..........and I don't take hits to the head for a living.
Always thought he was a cool dude, in and out of the ring. I'd like to see what he could bring to commentary, being a bit of a motormouth like Malignaggi.
Wilder, of Tuskaloosa, Alabama, was – at London’s O2 Arena – fighting in the United Kingdom for the first time in his 50th professional contest.
He fought Harrison in the UK.
First fighter to give Saunders absolute hell. I liked how he always had this cheeky smile in the ring; now there was a fighter who really loved fighting. Could've had great wars with Murray, DeGale, Groves, Saunders rematch, maybe even a world title shot if he had gone in a different direction to the Eubank fight.
Great mailbag this week. Lots of technical and training questions, against not too many tedious mythical match-ups. And no facepalm-inducing questions or Ennis-baiting for a change.
Few, if any, fighters today have a magnificent piston jab like Larry Holmes. Just constant bap, bap, bap out there. Wladimir and Lewis had great ramrod jabs, but they'd paw a lot as well. Mainly today I see jabs being used as either pawing rangefinders or countering an opponent with a handspeed deficit. Not as exciting.
Regardless of We Be Crooks, it seems like a good system. If all the sanctioning orgs made it a point to enforce it consistently, with high penalties for missing the weights, maybe it'd go some way towards 'healthier' weight cuts. But then, if video proof is all that's needed, snaky teams like Garcia's could just use AI to cheat the numbers.
I'll always give big ups to the Tartan Tornado. His decline after the Ramirez fight was sad to watch, but the journey before that was a fun ride.
Never understood the vitriol he generates around here.
"WHO IS THE DON-KEY?!"
Chisora's antics tend to work because, rather than putting on a fake persona to sell fights, he really is a nutcase. A more mellow one now, but still a nuttah.
There are a lot of weird incels that hate Nonito's wife and think she forces him to fight for some odd reason, but he fights because he loves it.
Maybe they're conflating her with Jin Mosley.
Carlos Frochos, baby! :boxing:
"Matt" Tyson? :lol1:
Probably the audio of him was fed into AI or a subtitling utility and his accent made it sound like "Mahhhht".
I've always felt like we could be talking about Golovkin–Pirog as a FOTY contender if it had happened. I think it would've gone either the distance or Golovkin stopping Pirog very late, with both sustaining career-shortening damage.
Another doozy for the list: Kelly Pavlik vs Paul Williams was all set for late 2009, and could've easily been FOTY, but we instead got another FOTY-worthy bout in Williams–Martinez. Good times.
Boxing has its own dinosaurs, and though you may close your eyes and picture them in their primes – AJ stopping Klitschko, Fury crushing Wilder, etc. – those versions of both fighters are long gone. All we’re left with are giant fossils.
That's one bleak assessment. Love it. :lol1:
One of the finest, most masterful fighters I've ever had the privilege to watch. A classy one, too. From the Prescott fight (when my first thought was "I sense greatness about this kid") to Alvarez, it's been a wonderful journey.
Congrats and bask in your retirement Champ/Champ/Champ.
after previously denying payment from his August 2024 victory over Israil Madrimov down at junior middleweight.
That wasn't even for a WBC belt. :smashfrea
More fighters need to stiff We Be Clowns after winning their belt.