The Boxing Thread

[Gilly?]

Goes the distance for me, Eubank could well get dropped though. Fancy Groves on points.

 

[Master D]

Went pretty much as expected that, Groves just too big and too ring savvy for him. Groves did a job on him. Eubank game as fuck but come on, he's got to have a proper corner.

 

[spireite]

Eubank Jr learned nothing from the BJS fight. Still no jab, just windmilling around trying to get lucky. He needs to get his dad out the picture and get a proper trainer. And drop to 160 because he's not a super middle

 

[LeylandWhite]

Eubank Jr just isn't very good which is pretty obvious to anybody who hadn't bought into the hype. He was embarrassing after the fight aswell calling out Truax and asking about going into the final if Groves is injured.

Not that it matters now but them scorecards where also a bit of a joke, surely the most you can give Eubank is 3 rounds, add into it that the ref should have also called 2 knockdowns aswell.

 

[Master D]

He seems to think he’s this natural talent who doesn’t need real coaching or specific tactics because he thinks speed and this so called ‘natural ability’ would win the day. There’s only one fighter who had the insane speed and talent to approach fights that nonchalantly and that was Roy Jones in his prime, he knew he could beat anyone.

 

[Gilly?]

Eubank Jr just isn't very good which is pretty obvious to anybody who hadn't bought into the hype. He was embarrassing after the fight aswell calling out Truax and asking about going into the final if Groves is injured.

Not that it matters now but them scorecards where also a bit of a joke, surely the most you can give Eubank is 3 rounds, add into it that the ref should have also called 2 knockdowns aswell.

I'm not sure on the knockdowns personally, did he definitely touch the canvas on one of them? One looked touch and go.

I gave 4 rounds to Eubank Jr.

 

[shane]

I missed the fight but I hear Naz was absolutely wasted in the studio?

 

[Master D]

Wilder is crude but that power can take heads off. If Ortiz wasn't 50 years old then he'd have finished him in the 7th round, I had him 2 points up at the time of the stoppage.

 

[spireite]

I repeat, Wilder gives AJ heaps of trouble. Wilder is so long, you need bobbing and moving to get inside and start landing. That's not AJ, he's too static. Fury would be better matched against Wilder IMO

 

[shane]

This thread is struggling if no one is making excitable posts about Linares Lomachenko.

Its the first fight in a while I'm actually going to make the effort to stay up for.

 

[Master D]

Great technical fight but I'd prefer to see one of them fight Garcia, which I assume the winner does.

Lomachenko could be a 3 weight world champ inside 12 fights here, ridiculous. Would make him undisputed P4P king, some would say he already is. Linares is elite and has the reach advantage but Loma on points for me, even though he's moving up again.

 

[Pilgrim Meister]

So that's the presser over and done with for this weekends fight. Both look up for it and focused, and this one will come down to what happens on the night. Could well go to 12 rounds and a points win

 

[Liam_SWFC]

Anyone see Whyte V Browne? Shocked with the condition Browne came in with, Whyte did what he had to do and did it impressively but still think both Wilder and Joshua stop him, he'll be ordered to fight Brezeale next in a final eliminator which could be a good scrap.

Joshua will get Parker out of there mid to late rounds for me, don't really rate Parker he's looked pretty poor in his last few fights.

 

[Master D]

I see it going quite late, Joshua either by late TKO or points win if Parker can hang on. Parker is a solid all round fighter and a respectable champ but I haven't seen power in him to suggest he can hurt AJ.

Yeah Browne was shocking, he clearly just came there for a final payday. Got flattened, which is exactly what he deserved. I don't think he is up there with the best but Whyte is a dangerous fucker to the top guys because he will have it with anyone. That card on Saturday was KO City and my favourite was that arrogant bell Buglioni getting all bashed up by Callum Johnson.

 

[Liam_SWFC]

I see it going quite late, Joshua either by late TKO or points win if Parker can hang on. Parker is a solid all round fighter and a respectable champ but I haven't seen power in him to suggest he can hurt AJ.

Yeah Browne was shocking, he clearly just came there for a final payday. Got flattened, which is exactly what he deserved. I don't think he is up there with the best but Whyte is a dangerous fucker to the top guys because he will have it with anyone. That card on Saturday was KO City and my favourite was that arrogant bell Buglioni getting all bashed up by Callum Johnson.

Enjoyed Ritson doing Cardle as well.

 

[claret50]

Joshua - Parker stream.

http://www.sportingvideo1.com/20180331/vv5abedd8f00c0e0.40940763-1940945.html

 

[RavenBish]

who let Mike Dean ref this?

 

[Gilly?]

Absolutely honking main event, the referee was awful but defensively I thought Parker was quite good. Had AJ winning it 9 rounds to 3.

Gutted for Price, he had his chance when he rocked Povetkin hard, in an ideal world Price would have chased him when he was stumbling and put him on his arse but instead stood and watched and let the ref casually go over for a standing 8 count. For so much power, Price really is aversge.

 

[spireite]

I feel for Price I really do. He seems like a decent enough bloke. But he's just not a boxer. I've never seen even a heavyweight so stiff. He's about 79 feet fall with a reach as long as a river, and doesn't use it. Doesn't move his feet like, at all, and he's got one of the worst chins I've ever seen in any boxing weight. He's tried his best though and it was a last throw of the dice for him really to get those big fights. Probably time to pack in now, boxing just isn't his game.

AJ Parker was a quite annoying because of that ref, as said. It was a clear win for AJ, with that longer reach and Parker rightly scared to get into middle distance and eat AJ hooks, then getting any inside work he was trying getting stiffled by the ref. I still didn't see anything there to make me not think that Wilder gives AJ all different kinds of trouble though.

 

[Master D]

Price is coming to the point where he needs to have his license taken off him. He can't be taking shots like that and falls like that.

Parker was happy to just be the man who went the distance first with him I think. Decent fighter but he's never going to be a star. The whole thing confirms for me that a fit and focused Fury takes Joshua to school, he moves and jabs his head off for 12 rounds.

 

[El Guapo]

I thought Parker had some good moments where he was using his jab effectively, not all of them were landing but it made Joshua reset, keeping him on the outside. The quickness of Parker’s jab where he was doubling and tripling up his jab made Joshua very hesitant to throw more than one-two combinations.

Parker was good at using his legs and circling, the times that Joshua did cut off the ring, I thought Parker was good at fighting his way out of it and circle back out. It was a competitive fight all around. I didn’t see those wide scorecards at all.

 

[El Guapo]

It looked brutal watching that Price KO back in slow-motion. Let’s see if they can get the Whyte-Povetkin fight made now for June, clear that Wilder doesn’t want it.

 

[El Guapo]

Tyson Fury has signed with Frank Warren.

Comeback fight scheduled for June 9th. Opponent TBC.

 

[Master D]

I'd be amazed if the opponent was in the top 100.

 

[Gilly?]

The noise around his come back fight will be Gary Cornish.

 

[Abertawe]

The noise around his come back fight will be Gary Cornish.

according to dave allen he witnessed tyson stop cornish with the first punch of a spar - so hopefully not.

i think his first fight will be a decent name before fighting lesser opponents in quick succession - I would get luis ortiz over - relatively he barely made any money against wilder so wouldn't be too expensive - given he's 95 years old any chinks in tysons conditioning won't be a worry and would be a good marker given wilder was getting outboxed by him. i'd then put him in with shit uns every month until he's in peak form early next year - aj or wilder in the summer

 

[El Guapo]

according to dave allen he witnessed tyson stop cornish with the first punch of a spar - so hopefully not.

i think his first fight will be a decent name before fighting lesser opponents in quick succession - I would get luis ortiz over - relatively he barely made any money against wilder so wouldn't be too expensive - given he's 95 years old any chinks in tysons conditioning won't be a worry and would be a good marker given wilder was getting outboxed by him. i'd then put him in with shit uns every month until he's in peak form early next year - aj or wilder in the summer

He agreed to fight a washed-up Shannon Briggs and backed down. There is no way he will ever agree to fight an elite-level boxer like Ortiz for his first fight back. According to Eddie Hearn, he wanted 4 easy fights to sign with Matchroom and a 50/50 split with Joshua. Wants the high reward but minimal work.

 

[Abertawe]

He agreed to fight a washed-up Shannon Briggs and backed down. There is no way he will ever agree to fight an elite-level boxer like Ortiz for his first fight back. According to Eddie Hearn, he wanted 4 easy fights to sign with Matchroom and a 50/50 split with Joshua. Wants the high reward but minimal work.

so much wrong with this post

 

[El Guapo]

so much wrong with this post

It makes no sense to have his first fight against Ortiz. And then have a queue of bin-men and bouncers lined up so that he can ‘look good’. A complete waste of time going down the David Haye route of fighting nobodies like de Mori & Gjergjaj.

 

[Abertawe]

It makes no sense to have his first fight against Ortiz. And then have a queue of bin-men and bouncers lined up so that he can ‘look good’. A complete waste of time going down the David Haye route of fighting nobodies like de Mori & Gjergjaj.

you have no idea what you're talking about - obviously not a fighting man - move on you don't belong