Damn, has it really been 5 years since this guy got outboxed by Sam Peter? lol Toney should STFU. He's great at fighting in the pocket, but Hopkins is a much more skilled, much better boxer than Toney and would school his ass.
Ok, I'm not supposed to let this out, but I just can't keep it bottled up anymore. The Klits have cloned themselves. Yes, it was a big secret experiment started about 25 years ago. The cloned Klits are now in their 20s and have progressed along perfectly with their boxing. They fight and behave just like the brothers. The plan was to have the clones fight each other when they reach their physical maturity.
Vitali's secret dream will be that he wants to fight his brother for the Undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. This will happen on Ukrainian Independence Day, August 24, 2012.
It will be the clones fighting, and it will be a real fight. These clones have been kept apart so's not to form and friendly or loving connection with each other and neither knows the other exists. They will prepare for this fight just like any fighter prepares for an opponent and when the bell rings it will two hungry young lions fighting for their life.
The cloned Wlad will be bald and be wearing a headband, while the cloned Vitali will be sporting long dreadlocks when the fight happens, to help stop the clones seeing the resemblence in each other once they step in the ring which could effect their motiviation to bash each others heads in. So don't be surprised when you soon see and hear about Wlad hanging out with Lakers and playing pickup games of hoops, or when you see Vitali dressing more casually and carrying a ghetto blaster pumping reggae tunes
The real brothers will conduct all the pre-fight interviews and conferences. It's going to be a monumentus occasion. Remember where you heard it first.
I guess Sr doesn't fear for his son's life anymore. See children, don't ever tell your dad the truth that he's a bum, no matter how heated the argument.
Just a case of horrendous match-matching and one guy being at the right place, right time. Morales would've been entirely focused on the Pac rematch, putting him in with a guy of Raheem's style in a division he'd never fought as a showcase fight was asking for disaster. What the hell were they thinking, it wasn't even for title, what the hell did Morales have to train hard or be motivated for? Anyway, Morales>Raheem, and had Pac fought Raheem he'd have gone through him like fire through a gasoline factory.
If Cotto was such a priority Steward would've treated it as such and put back other plans to make sure he got the training camp he wanted. Like Roach does with Pac, and I'm sure Steward would do with Wlad. Cotto at the end of the day is the guy getting in the ring and risking his life, he deserves a trainer that will give 100% of his time and attention when he needs it.
Considering there were a few rounds early where not much happened, which could've gone either way, and Oscar giving away the last few rounds, it was not a robbery.
Watching it live, as a huge Oscar fan, can't say I was disappointed with the decision. Watching it back, with the benifit of slow motion and pause buttons, I thought Oscar won, but it was not the 9-0 scorecard before he stopped fighting like some like to claim it was.
The judges did have it close, as I had it watching it live and Trinidad showed he wanted it more down the stretch.
Oscar in many fights he won loved to gloat about how he was able to close the show for the fans, and as a champion should. Too bad he chose the biggest fight of his life to ignore the one thing boxers cannot afford to forget - that is, to never leave it in the hands of the judges. He should've given Tito his 50-50 and taken the rematch instead of going on to try to outdo him by fighting his leftovers
Why? Fight is not signed. Floyd has a history of playing games, and making major announcements right before Pac fights to steal some of his thunder. I also remember he said Pac was next at the official first presser for the Ortiz fight, then recanted his statement soon after. I hope like everyone this time he's serious about making the fight, I wouldn't hold my breath on it though.
This would be a massacre. Mario trains and spars at the wild card, been doing it for a long time. All 50 does is lift weights and do a few situps/pushups.
It pretty obvious the names he would not have fought - Leonard, Hearns, Benitez, Duran, Pryor. He ducked the most established guys at the weights he fought at after the Castillo fights, and none of them other than Pac can hold as candle to those 80s guys in terms of ability and greatness. No way he fought any of those guys.
rampage has power, but he's a very limited striker, poor boxing skills. did you see his sequence of 3-4 windmill airswings the other day? pathetic. he'd get owned by guys with any decent boxing ability. I actually think Kimbo has more boxing talent than Rampage. Hell, that would make a great freakshow fight.
The cynic in me sees this as Golden Boy attempts to re-hype these guys back into boxing fans minds in order to generate more interest in their fights. I'm sure they will try to build Alexander to a Mayweather fight and another big money mismatch.
Martinez starting to become Mayweather type shameless with his contradictions.
Earlier this year says Pacquiao has been fighting no-hopers and claims he will soon be #1...yet he went on to fight less proven opposition than Pac and has also been chasing these so-called no-hopers that Pac beat as an undersized welter, from MIDDLEWEIGHT! What a clown
“I hate fighting people who are scared."
Says the guy who hardly threw any punches in his last three fights. He was the one that was afraid to risk letting his hands go.
Without looking it up, I'm guessing Pacquiao was at bantam or super bantam. Mayweather is looking like a ignorant dumb and jealous *****. I see now he's aiming for the excuse that he's too old for Pacquiao. Always an excuse with this guy.
Bad example. Whitaker is comparable to Mayweather, not Marquez. Marquez put on a good counter-punching performance, but he got hit a lot aswell and that's why many of the rounds were close.
This fight should've been in Vegas or Texas in the first place. The fighters are going to lose a lot of money because of NY taxes. Feel sorry for the fans who already bought tickets. It's going to be a ***** re-organising everything with only a couple weeks to go
Wow. If this is true Floyd has no dignity and cares nothing about his legacy. His legacy is going to get ripped to shreds in future when fans look back on his welterweight career, where he was in his prime and was able to pick any fight he wanted. He's fought 4 guys out of 7 who were either coming up in weight or coming off one at the weight. Morales would absolutely top this facade. It would be hilarious
Not a bull**** stoppage, but an unfortunate one. However, something tells me though that if it wasn't Margarito they would have allowed it to go on another 1 or 2 rounds.
Seems Marquez got the benefit of doubt in every round to most fans. Often happens with a sentimental underdog. It was the same thing in the Morales-Maidana fight.
Good example would be the scoring of the 12th round, traditionally the most vital round of a close fight so everyone should've been attentive in scoring it. Pacquiao easily outboxed Marquez in the 12th, clearly landed more punches, the cleaner and harder blows, showed great defence in blocking and avoiding most of Marquez's counters. Marquez was very sloppy in that round and hardly landed anything. Yet most gave that round to Marquez. Just goes to show Marquez had to do less in most people's eyes to win rounds, Pacquiao could never win because he fell well short of the high expectations of him.
This was a close fight, I have no problem if Marquez was declared the winner, but certainly not the robbery it has been made out to be.
Rematch should be at the limit? Pac is the dude with all the catchweight fights. His 154 pound fight shouldve been at the limit if thats the case
Just to shut up Mayweather fans. These clowns are now jumping on Mayweather's meaningless win over Marquez comparing it to Pac's performance as evidence that he's greater, yet ignore the fact Mayweather cheated Marquez on the scales and had 4lbs on him. Give Pac the same circumstances, then they can talk.
Pacquiao would have been slower if he had an additional four pounds on him, smart guy. Pacquiao's speed is paramount to how he performs if he came in any heavier do you really think it would have helped him? You also have to take into account that Pacquiao was fighting a JMM who was more than two years older and moving up in weight a second time.
A little bit less speed for more strength and power. Pac's speed had little impact with Marquez's timing. Carrying more power the punches he did land would've had more impact on Marquez and the fight. Certainly had big welter and counter-puncher Clottey running like a b1tch and afraid to throw last time he weighed 146.
He'd have probably had Marquez more weary of his power. Marquez would've been countering less and have been more on the defensive. I don't know why he came in lighter at 143, he was already fast at 144, only played into Marquez's hands.
Rematch should be at the limit to shut these Mayweather f@g fans up. Pac can come in at 145 like he had been the previous couple years.
Atleast Pac didn't pull a Mayweather and avoided the guys with styles to pose him problems, as Mayweather did with Tszyu, Cotto, Margarito, Paul Williams, Pac.
Hatton, De La Hoya, Mosley were seen as threats by most casuals and experts alike.
Thing is he fought Hatton at 147 which was not his best division, and Oscar and Mosley were old and coming off long periods of inactivity. So he leaves it so they can easily be discredited.
The last real prime threat where Floyd was up against it was Castillo in his first fight at LW.
It's no coincidence Floyd went on to seek a path of lesser resisitance after he was done with the Castillo rematch, culminating with the 3years of posturing over the Pacquiao fight and also not seeking fights with the most established champs like Cotto, Margarito, Paul Williams at 147, Tszyu and Hatton at 140. Could've also fought Winky at 154, but demanded a rehydration clause to drain him, which Winky declined.
Mosley has been really the only fight fans demanded which he took, and he only did so when he had no other option and Mosley was 38 and coming off a 15 month layoff. Oh and Hatton, but he made us wait 2 years and made Hatton fight him at 147.
He never fought the most established guys in his divisions (140-147) since he moved up- Tszyu, Cotto, Margarito, Pac, or Paul Williams who was a 2-time WW champ. History says he won't be fighting Martinez.
He's only faced Golden Boy fighters since 2007, his last 5 fights. I expect him to continue doing so and i see him fighting either Ortiz again in May should Ortiz beat Berto, or if Berto beats Ortiz it could be Guerrero or the Maidana/Alexander winner. Eventually he will face Khan and then Canelo and retire. Mayweather and GBP are going to cash out on all they can get from each other.
Floyd went to 154 and gave in to every demand...Oscar went down to 147 where he looked like an aids patient and where he hasn't fought in what a decade to fight Pac...Take that in consideration!
Pac went up THREE divisions that year to fight DLH (regardless of Oscar stuffing up his preparation, that's on him, how many other fighters have done that?).
FLoyd went up 1 division to fight Oscar after establishing himself for a couple years at welter.
It's easy to see which was the bigger risk.
The only travesty is that Vitali's face is not there to accompany his bro's. Both deserve it, as does Marquez. I say remove Martinez for Marquez, and make another spot for Vitali.
Bradley would've been KTFO in 09, he's getting KTFO next week unless Pac has lost his legs. HBO did a great job hyping him up, people picking him because from the few minutes of training footage. He's never had the style and ability to beat Pac.