Yes there is it's called a unanimous decision.
Reading your comment did make me chuckle, hearing Kell's ambition and passion for the fight with words destiny n'all and then to be so bluntly shot down was hilarious, I'm still laughing. Sometimes the comments on this site are brilliant.
Seriously though, I agree. Kell has earned this fight but I think the lack of experience at world level will tell in this fight and Kell will lose on points but learn alot in the process. I think Kell is heavy handed and that will help him but Alexander is a level or two above him in experience and discipline and that should win him the fight on points.
I have so much respect for the way Alexander handled Maidana, watching that fight was for me like a matador vs a bull. He showed bravery and skills to contain a very live and dangerous albeit crude opponent that night. I think it was his best performance and he showed he has the ability and mentality of a champion, I've never seen Kell do that, where he's dominant but always in danger.
Kell knows what its like not have it all your own way from the Carson Jones fight, but that was after building an early lead and he just needed to survive to get the W. This time however I don't think he will have his way from the start and although I see him finishing the fight on his feet, by the time he figures out what to do it will be too late. He should be coming in to the fight in great shape, but ring smarts and tenacity will probably see Alexander to a clear and well earned victory. I don't see Kell being a pushover and that's good for Alexander, good for Kell and good for us so it should be good to watch and I look forward to it.
This is boxing though and anything can happen but my money is on Alexander.
I've trained for about 7 -8 years off and on had a handful of amateur fights I love the sport more so being in the gym than actually watching it. Being a fan of the sport is kinda hard fights can be boring to me and its hard to keep up with everything going on in the sport.
I really love going into the gym and sparring theres nothing like it to me its really a learning experience and you get better each time. I've gone from a guy that knew 0 about boxing the first day in the gym being nervous about sparring and getting hit and going 3 rounds and coming out completely exhausted even though i was in great shape to most recently stepping in the ring calm and out of shape and being able to spar 6 rds because I am now able to keep calm and pace myself and know my fight more. Not to proud of the out of shape part recently but it happens with injuries but it also taught me how to adjust my fighting style since i wasnt as quick anymore so i take it as a learning experience.
As for my fights its a total different story than sparring i get nervous because of the crowd and it greatly affects my boxing ability. I am still trying to work on this but its been hard because i dont fight very frequently. But I really just box for fun and a learning experience and so far its been great it can get stressful too when competing and making weight but when it gets too much i find its time to take a break since I'm not trying to make a career out of it no point in getting stressed over something thats supposed to be fun. But when i do compete i give it 110% because i know regardless of whether you are doing it for fun or for a profession you can get hurt in there.
I feel like most boxing fans should have the experience of training and sparring some time just to know how demanding the sport is and have more respect for how hard some of these guys have to work just to be seen on tv fighting. I def have a new found respect for fighters of all sorts including MMA even though im not a fan through training as well as fighting in general i never really knew the damage i could do to someone by just hitting them or the damage that could be done to me until i boxed
It really is a great way of spending your energy and using your time.You learn something everytime and your sparring partner also and equally learns something.
If competing causes you stress and only stress and you have other things going on then stick to the sparring and have fun.
You are so right that it isn't a game and people do get hurt. I learnt the hard way that competing as a matter of course is foolish. Hurting others can and is more horrible in some ways than being hurt yourself.
I would say to anyone that is going around wanting to knock this guy or that out, or knock anyone out for that matter....be careful what you wish for.
actual experience means nothing on this site, you'd actually just be better off keeping everything to yourself. Having watched fights on television or deep in the crowd garners more perspective than you'll ever get from being in the ring yourself (or being a trainer) just sayin'...........Rockin':boxing:
If that is what you believe then good luck to you but please respect that there are those who believe otherwise, those who speak from their benefit of actual experience. And their opinions, just like yours should not be dismissed regardless of the site they are posting on.
Oh and I for one don't agree that they or anyone should keep their experiences, thoughts and opinions about boxing to themselves. Particularly given that that is the point of this thread.
Thankyou for your views in any case.
Hey guys
Thanks for all of your contributions so far. You know boxing for me, and for many of you, boxing is more than a sport and I've been happy to hear, as I hope you are, what you guys have to say. Thank you for sharing your experiences with the rest of us.
A part of you fights with the guy you support when you watch him go toe to toe, and that feeling, that passion, to a lesser or greater degree comes from an informed place. A place of empathy in just how tough it is to stand there for 12 rounds or an imagination of hard hard it is to stand there for 12 rounds.
Either way, real or imagined, it does spark a passion, even a care as to how your man will do. That is one of the many things that makes boxing great.
Long live boxing
Yeah.
Nothing too interesting happened.
Made me a little more confident I guess, and it was something I really enjoyed.
Unfortunately broke my wrist in my second fight (two right hands colliding), said to the ref I was fine, tried to use one hand, got the crap beat out of me. TKO2. :(
Got back into it, was looking for a fight for 4 months, repeated cancellations and what, opponents not turning up etc. Got bored and quit to worry about my education instead. Hopefully going to get back into it in July or something.
Well done! You didn't quit. I think you should take confidence from that, on paper who wouldn't?
You know what you did! .... and through the passage of time, hopefully in your estimation when compared to.... and among all of things you have yet to achieve it will rank highly and gain more significance.
In that moment, observed or not by others you saw and felt, first hand what you did... and you can take pride and self respect from that.
Again, well done.
It must be quite galling watching everyone of your country's "elite" fighters getting there azzes whooped once they decide to cross the "big pond" cheerio's mate handy dandy bloody hell
You mean like Calzaghe.
I like both of them, always have. They are very different fighters and I enjoy watching both of them.
Anyone who only likes one or the other and dislikes and disrespects the other is not a boxing fan, they are boxer fans which is kind of gay.
I think lack of power not withstanding that they are both capable of out pointing the other. It should be a clean technical fight. The winner for me comes down to who prepares better. Barker should is full of confidence now and should be thinking like and training like he's the champ. Sturm is a bigger question mark right now. He has looked a bit to comfortable and even lazy fighting at home. He wrongly got away with that against Macklin but went on to perform better against Murray although I still think he lost.
I'm leaning toward Barker on points but if Sturm turns up looking positive fights like he's hungry it could be interesting.
There's no way in hell Victor Ortiz would ever carry this franchise on his own. Not even with a gang of goons like Randy Couture and Jackie Chan backing him. Nobody gives a f*ck about Vic in the mainstream. He's less popular than Couture is, FFS.
Wo Wo Wo! Back up the truck, your calling Jackie Chan a goon. He's a living legend and the most famous action star on the planet.
But is now calling for a rematch with Bradley DESPITE HIS LOSS being decisive?
does anyone not see the hypocrisy here?
Time to treat marquez like he has treated others
The only hypocrisy is you suggesting a KO loss is the same as close and debatable split decision.
I had this feeling the highest-grossing and richest fight in boxing history will take place in the summer of 2015, Ward vs Mayweather at a catch weight.
These are possible scenarios in a timeline:
Floyd will pass the torch on Danny Garcia at Adrien Broner at the welterweight division rather than fighting them, I see Garcia vs Broner more realistically happening.
Lara will win impressively against Canelo and possibly knock him out to send a message for Floyd, Lara will be hard-pressed to get a fight with Mayweather.
Gennady Golovkin, like Lara, is just not the kind of opponent for Floyd to consider fighting, Mayweather will take a chance and go for the ultimate, super bowl, taking on the best 168lbs champion Andre Ward at a catch weight, they prefer 160 but the Ward camp says No, at 164 pound limit, Yes they'l agreed upon.
Manny Pacquiao will regain his status as still the most sought-after opponent for Mayweather, but Bob Arum will continue to have more white hair on not gettting what he wants and Pacman will be left in limbo, without no one to fight while Mayweather will become the richest athlete in history.
Ward vs Mayweather, will Floyd finally met his waterloo.
Dumbass alert!
Some classics have been mentioned already, Ali vs Foreman was special.
More recently though Rigo vs Donaire stands out to me, especially when you consider how highly rated Donaire was within the sport and how few pro bouts Rigo had had going in.
I score each individual minute on clean shots landed and at the end of the round judge it best out of three.
That way I think it is more fair as you don't give a guy the round for an eye catching combo in the last 10 seconds when his opponent won the first 2 minutes less dramatically cos its still 2-1 overall for the the round.
I also never score round even because I've never seen one.
Oh and Bradley lost 116-112 on my card.
I want to see this guy earn a truck load of money and retire. Leave with a smile and financial security. He's given so much and lost so much, he deserves to walk away with a fighting chance of being happy and safe.
What barker has been through only magnifies what he has achieves inspite of it.
Ward does nothing dirty, only bitter frustrated bastards say that, same with Bhop.
Bradley has not headbutted in a while so why would he be Dirty?
Mayweather uses his elbows a bit to keep people off, much less than putting 200 pounds of weight on your opponents back
Deluded comment of the day.
Calzaghe vs Jones, I was there at ringside because I admire both. Being a few meters away from the action at MSG was incredible, I sat next to a retired judge who didn't know anything about calzaghe. I told him between rounds 4 and 5 that Jone's window was gone and Calzaghe would not loose a round from then on. He kept saying the guys going to get tired so I told him Joe doesn't know how to get tired in a 12 round fight.
At fights end he said good pick.
lol.... i like carl froch....
and he's a decent enough fighter....
but you've got to be a complete moron to think he's changed the face of boxing...
and that's the point you're trying to make....
he amongst several very good fighters and that's it, no more no less.
Not one thing you have said survives even the most effortless scrutiny.
I do not think Froch has changed the face of boxing.
Since capturing the vacant WBC belt against Jean Pascal his record of fights in terms of caliber of opponents is unparalleled. That's not my opinion, that is a fact.
One could make the argument that that and the revolutionary super six tournament has had a a positive influence on recent and future match ups in terms of competitiveness.
There is a lot more to it than that and for the OP to say Froch is solely responsible for the improved match making in recent years is simply wrong.
So your saying he looks better. Because you have to actually
Beat fighters to better then them.
Rigo is just a one division champion
What does that mean.." Just a one division champion"?
Isn't that what boxing is supposed to be all about one true champion for each division.
Jumping around divisions is only about chasing money by fighting the guy with most celebrity not the worthy contenders. Promoters not doing business with each other is the other reason.
Other than the HW division no one knows who's really the best because of this and it makes boxing look like a joke.
Look at tennis, another one on one sport, everyone knows who's best because they all have to compete against each other. Pro boxing not so much.
Pro boxing is entertainment only with lip service to being a credible sport. P4P talk only exists in people's opinions and is therefore whole load of entrenched views, utter ****e and folly to discuss or believe in.
If you have a subscription with Sky then you have an online pass to their content on up to two computer. That was the case the last the I was living in the UK. So there is no reason you couldn't watch Sky online from France if you have a UK account.
I would just check their website for details.
Also Boxnation has online subscription availability worldwide.
I have Floyd winning by UD, Manny winning rounds 1-4. I envision an all out war from start to finish, in which Floyd goes down twice early, but rallies back like Marquez, but unlike Marquez, there is no controversy and Floyd wins by a good margin on points, due to more accurate countering, ring generalship, and his ability to adjust midway and stay one step ahead of his opponent strategically. Thoughts?
I know this isn't a new topic by any means, but the old master thread is gone, and there is no where else to discuss it, and it's still an attractive fight, at least to me.
Who wins? The fans win.
I'm guessing you guys mean Netflix USA. I'm in Ireland. Netflix is utter garbage here.
You could try sosoboxing, I don't know if they have it because its blocked out here. Either way it's worth checking out the site because they have so many fights and documentaries.