The thread about Boxing

AFKABartram said:

Anyone watch the Monte Carlo show? Strange watching with those chandeliers hanging!

The bought the comms pair were over bigging up the German fighting Chisora, and thought Eubank got a bit of a promoters decision from his

Brave Chisora nearly created an upset.
Future very promising for Russian Bivol . 12 out of 12, with 10 knock-outs
40/50 years ago, this set-up (bow ties, dining and chandeliers) was quite common.
Ah, those were the days, with no fighting between the fans!

Bob I may have a table at the jollyboys this year if you fancy it ??

No worries I am with woodsy next week he has promised me a table so I will speak with him and let you know

Been trying to get a table there for two yrs about time he came good

Fair enough now.

haye injured again and going to pull out is coming out from inside his camp

I thought Leather threw the classy punches all night but didn’t work hard enough and even with the deductions I had foot winning by 1 can see how it went his way though

Foot fought a messy intense fight but used his elbows and head in ways I don’t like but never lost a point for elbow or head

I really like Leather he has great punches in his locker

Was a great fight

I wish the smith Williams one would spark into life

Got to give it to Tyson, even 7 stone over weight his footwork and hand speed are still impressive, especially for a man of his size.

nth london addick said:

The mind is fixed and has been for the last 12 months Imo it’s the body and desire that’s the biggest hurdle , I genuinely believe the desire is there and you only need to look at how Deontay wilder throws to realise he would ko wilder the second he started to open his body to throw a windmill right

AJ is just focusing on size and strength and not going into deep water late on he is reverting to the body builder Tyson has always called him and the only way AJ beats Tyson is to be 17stone max or just under

But that negates his power and AJ has one vulnerability and that is he is not the best timed boxer his defence and power are often out of time and he has struggled to overcome this since amateurs , we are talking the finest margins here I am not saying AJ is shit at all or even not world class as he is, Tyson os not blessed with devastating power but he has the best timing of all of them he has the best technique of all of them and he has the best footwork and lateral movement of all of them

Those three components make him the biggest threat to AJ

This knowledge has given Tyson the desire needed to get fit and motivated

Joshua has been written off by many over the years as too muscle bound, the new Frank Bruno etc and has always silenced the critics. OK he has not fought anyone of note beyond Klitschko so a relative easy journey of hand picked cab drivers and over - hyped matches like Whyte, Martin etc. Whilst he has been protected it also comes down to the fact it's an appalling era for heavyweight boxing and there are only a handful of real half decent names in the game, Wilder, Klitschko and Fury being them with maybe a couple of others on the periphery.

The economics of boxing mean that none of the "top rated" fighters will fight each other straight away because stringing it out, building up an 0 (albeit against tomato cans) and hyping yourself and ergo the eventual clash when you do step in with someone who doesn't look like he will be driving an Uber the following day will be worth it purse wise and worth the risk of losing and therefore potentially substantially reducing your future earning /power in an age where having a perfect W record seems to superficially hold more esteem than fighting absolutely everybody as and when as in days of yesterday.


When Klitschko floored him I thought maybe the critics had called it right and I was going to be exposed as another "AJ fanboy" who has been suckered into the masterful PR and "badboy done good" narrative.

For the record I have no time for that bollocks. I don't like the cynical way he or those around him exploit the bit of weed dealing and general asbo-ness of his youth and have tried to make out he was some sort of gangsta as the kids would say....(he is not and when put against some of the real "bad asses" in the sport he's comparatively a boy scout.) so as to somehow enhance his "journey" to success.

He is a BBC, media - friendly PR dream in looks, conduct and charisma albeit many find bland.

For all of that it does not detract from the fact he can actually box, can take a punch and has got a ruthlessness that wipes away the tv friendly persona in the flick of a switch....he destroyed Whyte who was said to be a test and proved his worth at this level in his recover and subsequent demolition of an albeit past prime Wlad.

There is only really Wilder and Fury that will test him and in my opinion he beats both.

I would like to see him face Wilder first and also see Fury face Wilder....the Brits win both fights in my book.

I really like Fury, his personality and his fighting ability....he is a hard, scary man that can box and box very well for someone of such freakish size.

I think that a fight in the next 2 years between a fully fit and functioning Fury and a Joshua in his prime will be (on paper) one of the biggest domestic dust ups for generations and one of the best heavyweight pair ups for years. Hopefully it would live up to the (bound to be dreadful hype) and hopefully it will happen.

So many variables, Fury's desire, promoter's and tv stations agendas and sanctioning bodies politics but we can hope.

I really like AJ... I thought he'd lose that Klitschko fight after he gassed himself out, but it turned into a classic bout

What I get a sense of is that Fury, for all the fluff, thinks about boxing, and talks about the sweet science etc, whereas AJ has a sadistic streak and enjoys hurting people, which is at odds to their public personas.

If fury can dictate the pace he wins 12 rounds, but I think AJ can deck him... Depends if AJ is overly muscled and of Fury is overly fat!

JT said:

Amir Khan in im a celeb. Thought he was in training to fight again soon. He done half talk some bollocks.

Hopefully now everyone will see him for the shit talker he is. He's not been relevant in boxing for years, but still believes he has some allah given right to fight Mayweather, and still calls him out even though he's retired!

Would love Fury to drop Joshua.

nth london addick said:

Amir khan I feel for to be honest

Poorly advised has had family members shit on him and take from him

A very public near breakdown Event over his old woman

Yet has been fearless in pursuit of greatness yeah he came up short on occasions but he wanted to fight the best out there and got in and done it

The kell brook va khan is just this decades Hatton vs Witter

Both know that either fighter could’ve won and both know that if they lost that was the end of road better to duck and avoid and play the game and earn more

Both khan and kell got fights on the back of the simmering fake rivalry that they would not have got in any other circumstances

They both use each others name to get fights it’s part of the charade

I am annoyed he has gone in the jungle same as I was annoyed Froch went dancing

Yes I also have some sympathy for Khan and I know some of the hangers on he has supported.

I'm not a medic of course but whenever he speaks (not just how but the way he repeats himself) could be an indication of being 'punchy'. He has taken some serious blows.

That said - I would love Brook/Khan.