Comments Thread For: Fighting Thor: How a cruiserweight contender boxed the huge strongman

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Steven Ward recalls the time he saw Hafthor Bjornsson, aka The Mountain, exit a lift before being told they were going to have a fight.
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So they found a middle aged construction worker who used to fight at 175lbs and severely underpaid him and his own corner told him to not throw many punches and just let Thor tire himself out.

atleast it was an exhibition and not a real match


but like Im tired of the bull****, the fake fights, the rigged fights and all that crap.

I got into boxing when I watched Morales-Barrera I.

That is what I want in boxing, not the fake WWE side show bull**** that seems to sell these days.

[Jack_sh*t]

but like Im tired of the bull****, the fake fights, the rigged fights and all that crap.

I got into boxing when I watched Morales-Barrera I.

That is what I want in boxing, not the fake WWE side show bull**** that seems to sell these days.

With you there. I imagine I'm a fair bit older than you as I got into boxing as a kid watching Cooper v Bugner with my dad. I can remember his outrage at the decision, I would have been 7 yrs old.

The business of boxing, the show, the whole WWE feel of it frustrates me. The more business orientated it becomes the more it loses it's credibility as a sport.

The world seems to become more fake, more manufactured with each revolution (as in revolve, not revolt!) I get that pro athletes need to be paid & therefore the spectacle needs to be monetised, but that's a different thing from creating a spectacle through hype in order to generate money.