We all know that there is little love between Larry Merchant and BHop, but it goes even further. Even the highlights of Hopkins on Demand in the pre-fight buildup for his last 5 or so fights have been skewed.
they show the oscar highlight and some other sh1tty highlights. then they focus on the JT losses. there is no mention of trinidad, let alone any footage of the brilliant performance.
he has been highly criticized by the crew for not being "exciting." even in the Tarver fight when he was putting on a clinic, Merchant was saying he was falling asleep...
instead of praising hopkins in his shutout, hbo denounced pavlik and jumped all over him and his team for taking the fight, claiming it they sold out for the money. in reality, hbo had shut down every proposed fight, from marco rubio to Paul Williams by offering bread crumbs to the fighters as purses.
finally, post calzaghe-jones, Kellerman and Lampley just assume that BHop isnt gonna get a rematch, and instead push for a fight with Dawson. BHop had not been beaten convincingly, or even beaten at all in the eyes of many, yet he doesn't even deserve to be mentioned?!?
how bad does hbo hate hopkins?!?
That also got me mad, Calzaghe should give Hopkins a rematch.
Vitali tries to knock his opponents out; Floyd doesn't always.
I thought it was a smart fight and a very good performance by Vitali.
Wasn't pleased with people booing him at the end. He looked a bit shocked but handled things well.
Vitali is a part of LA and has been for some time now...as well as being the World Champion (along with his brother) who will fight in the USA and outside the USA.
There was nothing to Booo Vitali on.
They booed because they were rooting for Areola, but Vitali's performance was amazing for an heavyweight, I was really impressed.
German media today reiterates that this will be Abrahams last defense. Sunday he will be a supermiddleweight.
Transmission starts at 22:25 CET
Great! The SWM will be even more exciting with guys like KEssler, Froch, Bute, Abraham, Taylor, Andrade, etc...
Nothing fake about being a two-time NCAA All-American.
Do you see any boxers with 2 USA amateurs championships doing 3 pro fights and then wining the heavyweight champion?
What a joke UFC is...
How do you know Dawson is "afraid" to go to Romania? I bet you didn't know that Gary Shaw, Dawson's promoter, has a stipulation in his contract that should he lose a purse bid, Shaw would get 30 percent of Dawson's purse. Why would someone go over to someone else's country for short money to fight in hostile territory when he can make twice that money fighting a better fighter on American TV?
Who the hell is Juergen Braehmer?
If Diaconu wants to be embraced by American audiences, he has to fight people they had heard of. No one in America knows who Silvio Branco is, so that does him no favors with the American public. Fighting someone like Johnson, who although he had lost to Dawson, he did so in a very competitive fashion that enabled him to hang onto his number 1 contender spot. Branco by contrast is fighting 6 rounders to .500 competition.
Then again, I'd be willing to wager that you are a die-hard Diaconu fan, am I right?
Tarver, a better boxer than Diaconnu???
1.Muhammed Ali
2.Joe Louis
the people who voted marciano are a little wrong in the head!!!! close to retarded!!!!!
a prime marciano would get busted up and knocked out in less than 3 rounds buy guys like joe frazier and larry holmes!!! even that overrated, no stamina bum tyson would have butchered marciano!!!
i'll give marciano one thing though, HE WOULD MURDER LENNOX!!!
You're dumb, the question is not who can beat who, or Vitali would be there. You can't compare boxers of different generation.
The question is ''who is the greatest''.
Basically all the ATG defensive fighter .. Floyd , Ward , Sweet Pea Whiteker and forgot RIP Hector macho Man !!! Sweet Science which people call boring fighters are retired and enjoying all there prize money with brain cells still active !!
How about Hopkins? He does sound punch drunk, maybe he fought for way too long.
If you don't mind listening to some Frenchies, here you go :) :
http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/index.shtml#urlMedia=http://www.radio-canada.ca/util/endirect/CBFTdirect.asx
click on ''Passion Sport -> Regarder en direct''
If you don't mind listening to some Frenchies, here you go :) :
http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/index.shtml#urlMedia=http://www.radio-canada.ca/util/endirect/CBFTdirect.asx
click on ''Passion Sport -> Regarder en direct''
Anybody know the stream so I can play it in VLC player? It's liek an IP adress almost.
Yeah, will be easier , here you go :
http://www.radio-canada.ca/util/endirect/CBFTdirect.asx