-
Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.
Boxing thread
- Thread starter Majin
- Start date
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Enjoys a PED, allegedly.
Saunders is an arse though, so glad he had his handed to him.
Some of the scoring in Canelo's fights with Golovkin was a wee bit eccentric to say the least.
I don't think I have an especially huge issue with the first fight being called a draw, but when the other two judges scored it 115-113 Golovkin & 114 all, 118-110 Alvarez is a massive outlier.
Thought Golovkin won the second clash too, and the scoring at least looked reasonable at first glance, but what really opened the eyes was two judges giving the last to the Mexican, when it was as clear a GGG round as there'd been all fight.
Golovkin caught him with a huge uppercut early in the round (which Canelo did well do to go down from) and then his jab was almost literally never out of his opponent's face.
Canelo did well to last to the final bell, but to say he won the round is BS of the purest form.
Saunders is an arse though, so glad he had his handed to him.
Some of the scoring in Canelo's fights with Golovkin was a wee bit eccentric to say the least.
I don't think I have an especially huge issue with the first fight being called a draw, but when the other two judges scored it 115-113 Golovkin & 114 all, 118-110 Alvarez is a massive outlier.
Thought Golovkin won the second clash too, and the scoring at least looked reasonable at first glance, but what really opened the eyes was two judges giving the last to the Mexican, when it was as clear a GGG round as there'd been all fight.
Golovkin caught him with a huge uppercut early in the round (which Canelo did well do to go down from) and then his jab was almost literally never out of his opponent's face.
Canelo did well to last to the final bell, but to say he won the round is BS of the purest form.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Not exactly current, but the good people at BBC2 decided to air a couple of programmes about Muhammad Ali on Saturday. The first one was part of new series 'Life in ten pictures' - lots of talking heads, but still pretty good. The second was another chance to watch 'When we were kings', which is terrific. The moment when Ali fells Foreman is still extraordinary; possibly the most dramatic sporting moment in my lifetime. Apart from any other considerations, of which there are many, the man was just so funny.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Fury v Joshua August 14th unless Fury is lying. Not exactly Ali/Frazier, but it's the best we're going to get in this era.
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
Surprising to absolutely no one that the arbitrator sided with Wilder. Will be interesting to see if Fury is willing to part with a significant chunk of his share of the site fee for the Joshua fight in order to get Wilder to wait until the end of the year. I would tend to think that he might given that even if he has to pay $20 million, the amount left over would dwarf what Fury would make from a 3rd Wilder fight.
Niall
International Coach
Fury v Joshua is utter silliness but easy to forget its not all bad, Taylor v Ramirez will be a banger this weekend if unfortunately Joe Bloggs doesn't care and then...
hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
Dude hasn't exactly been looking for the big fights has he. Could have put real pressure on Spence or hell even the next tier down like danny garcia or thurman or whoever.
Dunno I've given up on all the welterweights tbh. Hopefully the next crop of guys sort their **** out
Niall
International Coach
That was a corker as expected. Taylor coasted a little in the final rounds but deserving winner.
Wilder v Fury 3 confirmed, in a perfect world Wilder wins as Fury annoys me these days, but Fury probably gets it done.
Usyk v Joshua looks nailed on which could be great, but can't see past Joshua blasting him out in the latter rounds.
Wilder v Fury 3 confirmed, in a perfect world Wilder wins as Fury annoys me these days, but Fury probably gets it done.
Usyk v Joshua looks nailed on which could be great, but can't see past Joshua blasting him out in the latter rounds.
hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
There's nothing objective to say that Taylor-Crawford wouldn't be a competitive fight. Their resumes are very similar. In fact Jose Ramirez is arguably the best win on either of their resumes.
Eye test suggests Crawford would be too athletic and skilled for Taylor but we don't actually know until we see it and it's not like Taylor's been fighting chumps. Dude is legite undisputed at 140. That's amazing.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I don’t think Wilder is only after the money. If that was the case he could have taken a fair slice to step aside. Not sure the public are too thrilled with a third fight though. They’ve allegedly got the new Raiders 65,000 seater stadium lined up.
hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
Funny how back in the day old man Ortiz was supposedly the boogeyman but in reality it's I Am Very Feel UsykHearn chatting about Joshua v Ruiz again, Whyte, and ****ing Ortiz.
Its early days, but definitely think AJ might be getting jittery about fighting Usyk and tbh he probably makes the same money beating those dudes and obviously much lower risk.
True but I wouldn’t bet on Taylor with your money
Crawford is a sensational fighter & bigger