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Originally posted by Willow The Wisp View Post
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Originally posted by JakeTheBoxer View PostTurki put Joshua and Wilder on the same card and said: ok, guys, you will get your fight, but do your home work first.
Joshua did his part knocking Wallin out, Wilder lost every round to Parker, so..
I don`t think we will be so close to get Joshua - Wilder ever again.
No one wanted to see those fights. We all wanted to see The Princess vs The Windmill. They'd done their homework. It was time for the examination.
I doubt it was Turki who matched up AJ and Wilder vs others but rather Fast Eddie whispering sweet nothings into his ear while double dipping into the Saudis pockets and shop wearing Wilder some more expecting Parker would get sloppy and get laid out like he did vs Joyce.
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Originally posted by RingoKid View PostThere was absolutely no need to have Joshua in an exhibition with his sparring partner Wallin nor have Wilder go through Parker.
No one wanted to see those fights. We all wanted to see The Princess vs The Windmill. They'd done their homework. It was time for the examination.
I doubt it was Turki who matched up AJ and Wilder vs others but rather Fast Eddie whispering sweet nothings into his ear while double dipping into the Saudis pockets and shop wearing Wilder some more expecting Parker would get sloppy and get laid out like he did vs Joyce.
Hearn paid Wilder handsomely to get him out of the way, and Wilder accepted the cash. Give him a cutie in Parker in the hopes that Parker would outbox Wilder and not get clipped and KO'd before the final bell. Making the fight, nobody could know just when Wilder would age out, but after their powder-puff encounter, where Parker engaged once and Wilder None, they still had to make sure; so they gave him a slammer in Zhang, the Slayer of Joyce; and then, they were sure. Yup....he's 40 and all done, allright.
No ****. Parker & Zhang were what Holmes and Berbick were to Ali. Nothing more.
Now, it seems, they're ready to put the Nigerian darling of the UK in there with Wilder. Except that Joshua, once again, is in the position of having to get back in the Win column. The very thing, (aside from Wilder's epic trillogy with the real champion), that kept delaying A.J. from getting in there with the top guns, and having HIS shot at the title, which tragically would never come.
At this point, it's too late to use it as a guage of who might have won between 2015 and 2020, when the fight should've happened. But it would still be kinda fun.
It happens.
The two biggest fights in 21st century boxing that DIDN'T happen both involved Joshua, the century's biggest heavyweight draw.
It's frustrating as hell.
But listen... it could be Sooooo much worse, people.......
In the UFC, MMA's only large scale promotion to ever turn a consistent profit, they never got ahold of Fedor Emelianenko, who built a career out of eating UFC champions for breakfast. These days, their best champion, perhaps ever, quits his job, tosses the UFC belt in the trash, in pursuit of much bigger prizes, and nearly gets murdered for his efforts, in spite of being a converted boxer. And even now, they're still stuck playing "install the new champ", as the MMA flagship company promotes a sport that has seen just SEVEN Heavyweight title fights in this century, with the title passing honestly, in a fight, only twice; and in spite of a GREAT business model, they are relegated to selling half-fruitcake little guys with rainbow colored hair who would get the daylights beaten out of them walking into the bars and saloons around where I live.
Being a fight fan of any kind is a maddening thing.
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Make a UFC 'no drugs testing' heavyweight division and get the Overeems back in the Octagon.
If these dudes wanna get roided up and beat each others brains out let em and I'll watch!
And I'm on the Prime Windmill woulda laid out the Prime Joshy train. Shame it never happened!Willow The Wisp likes this.
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Originally posted by Willow The Wisp View Post
I believe that this is absolutely correct. A very insightful post.
Hearn paid Wilder handsomely to get him out of the way, and Wilder accepted the cash. Give him a cutie in Parker in the hopes that Parker would outbox Wilder and not get clipped and KO'd before the final bell. Making the fight, nobody could know just when Wilder would age out, but after their powder-puff encounter, where Parker engaged once and Wilder None, they still had to make sure; so they gave him a slammer in Zhang, the Slayer of Joyce; and then, they were sure. Yup....he's 40 and all done, allright.
No ****. Parker & Zhang were what Holmes and Berbick were to Ali. Nothing more.
Now, it seems, they're ready to put the Nigerian darling of the UK in there with Wilder. Except that Joshua, once again, is in the position of having to get back in the Win column. The very thing, (aside from Wilder's epic trillogy with the real champion), that kept delaying A.J. from getting in there with the top guns, and having HIS shot at the title, which tragically would never come.
At this point, it's too late to use it as a guage of who might have won between 2015 and 2020, when the fight should've happened. But it would still be kinda fun.
It happens.
The two biggest fights in 21st century boxing that DIDN'T happen both involved Joshua, the century's biggest heavyweight draw.
It's frustrating as hell.
But listen... it could be Sooooo much worse, people.......
In the UFC, MMA's only large scale promotion to ever turn a consistent profit, they never got ahold of Fedor Emelianenko, who built a career out of eating UFC champions for breakfast. These days, their best champion, perhaps ever, quits his job, tosses the UFC belt in the trash, in pursuit of much bigger prizes, and nearly gets murdered for his efforts, in spite of being a converted boxer. And even now, they're still stuck playing "install the new champ", as the MMA flagship company promotes a sport that has seen just SEVEN Heavyweight title fights in this century, with the title passing honestly, in a fight, only twice; and in spite of a GREAT business model, they are relegated to selling half-fruitcake little guys with rainbow colored hair who would get the daylights beaten out of them walking into the bars and saloons around where I live.
Being a fight fan of any kind is a maddening thing.
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