Comments Thread For: Joe Joyce vs. Lenroy Thomas Looms, May 5 At O2 Arena

[Mick Higgs]

This is ridiculous! It's the Commonwealth championship, so how does "Joey come lately" get a crack at the title over the likes of Simon Kean or Junior Fa ETC? There's 53 countries in the Commonwealth & a lot more worthy contenders then the Joe Joyce. The English H/W title is currently vacant, so how about matching him with the likes of Webb, Gorman or Dubrois??..........

[Holler]

This is ridiculous! It's the Commonwealth championship, so how does "Joey come lately" get a crack at the title over the likes of Simon Kean or Junior Fa ETC? There's 53 countries in the Commonwealth & a lot more worthy contenders then the Joe Joyce. The English H/W title is currently vacant, so how about matching him with the likes of Webb, Gorman or Dubrois??..........

No doubt money is the answer, it usually is. Could also be politics around the various promoters. Dubois and Gorman with Warren, Joyce with Haye who is working with Matchroom on the Haye Bellew fight and may have asked for Joyce to be accommodated as part of the deal?

I don't think Dubois is ready in any case? Joyce is being moved quickly due to his age, DDD will be handled with more care I suspect?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to it however it got made

[dan_cov]

Solid step up for Joyce hopefully Thomas is being paid well, boxing needs more guys like Lenroy.

[TheBigLug]

Looking forward to seeing the juggernaut in action again. This guy is something special

I like Joyce a lot. He seems incredibly slow with his shots though. They seem to take ages to reach the target. I do wonder if a decent level boxer will see them coming all night and beat him to the punch.

Seems tough and durable though and good power, so that should get him pretty far in todays heavyweight division

I actually like this fight. Thomas is a pretty tidy boxer. It will be a good test for Joyce after a few fights.

[NEETzsche]

Good fight. In the ams Joyce generally excelled against movers despite his slowness, e.g. Dychko, so I hope he will look good here

And as much as I hate to put money in Haye's pocket I think this card is now worth buying

[joe strong]

Interesting fight. Thomas shows some ring intelligence in there, but then again its against Dave Allen so take that for what you will, & Joyce is still massively green so another good one to see whats up with Joyce.

Random Q for anyone. What other HW's have been moved THIS quick, quicker or comparably quick in there career with so few pro fights?

Only guy coming to mind off the top of my head is Peter Rademacher who fought Patterson in his pro debut & had a pretty impressive resume overall (as far as names, not necessarily W's, think he lost all his biggest fights).

Povetkin & Helenius were actually moved pretty quickly but Joyce is moving rapidly for sure. Thomas got smashed by Andrey Fedosov. Thomas & Lewison are journeymen so it is not that big of a feat. Now if he had Chisora to fight then it would be something.

[removed]

damn, gotta feel bad for the doncaster delahoya...he'll prolly never win the commonwealth now

Dave seems happy chilling at Babestation. He should quit boxing and take up ****. I'd watch it. :wank::wank:

[Mick Higgs]

No doubt money is the answer, it usually is. Could also be politics around the various promoters. Dubois and Gorman with Warren, Joyce with Haye who is working with Matchroom on the Haye Bellew fight and may have asked for Joyce to be accommodated as part of the deal?

I don't think Dubois is ready in any case? Joyce is being moved quickly due to his age, DDD will be handled with more care I suspect?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to it however it got made

So how about Joyce Vs Allen for the vacant English, while someone from out side of the UK gets a stab at the Commonwealth? There's 53 Commonwealth countries & it's time the UK didn't get the monopoly!

[AussieStu]

Dave seems happy chilling at Babestation. He should quit boxing and take up ****. I'd watch it. :wank::wank:

Is that where he gets the nickname from ....?

[PsychoPat]

I like Joyce a lot. He seems incredibly slow with his shots though. They seem to take ages to reach the target. I do wonder if a decent level boxer will see them coming all night and beat him to the punch.

Seems tough and durable though and good power, so that should get him pretty far in todays heavyweight division

I actually like this fight. Thomas is a pretty tidy boxer. It will be a good test for Joyce after a few fights.

To be fair Joyce showed quicker hands in his last fight that counter right that ended it was very quick although the opponent wasn't much