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munckee · September 2021

Thought I would start a general boxing thread as we tend to have one for each fight that crops up.

First point was really just hats off to manny pacquiao. Yes he went on too long but his wins list is ridiculous including Morales, JMMarquez, Diaz, Barrera, De La Hoya, Hatton, Mosley, Bradley and Thurman.

Was out of his depth a little against Mayweather but so is everyone pretty much. One of the all time greats for me.

BigBearKris · September 2021

There were a few over the years.

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/131327/

And fully agree on Manny

stevebrum · September 2021

Anyone subscribe to DAZN? I’ve enjoyed the £1.99 subscription for about a year. It’s going up next month to £7.99. If Eddie makes good fights I’ll keep it going. If he doesn’t then…

Smith v Fowler on 9th Oct - has Cheeseman and a few others on the undercard. A couple of women’s bouts as well…I guess that’s a whole discussion in itself.

I doubt I’ll be staying up for the Fury fight on the Sunday morning.

Nitefly · September 2021

This report looks like there may be hard questions about the Rio Olympics:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/58747880

Outcomes of matches "manipulated" by referees and judges!

munckee · September 2021

stevebrum said:

Anyone subscribe to DAZN? I’ve enjoyed the £1.99 subscription for about a year. It’s going up next month to £7.99. If Eddie makes good fights I’ll keep it going. If he doesn’t then…

Smith v Fowler on 9th Oct - has Cheeseman and a few others on the undercard. A couple of women’s bouts as well…I guess that’s a whole discussion in itself.

I doubt I’ll be staying up for the Fury fight on the Sunday morning.

I’m still paying sky sports at the moment. I keep toying with canceling it and getting BT sport or boxnation or dazn. Working out where the best fights will be when the dust settles.

stevebrum · October 2021

All the media attention on Fury currently but there’s a good card tonight in Liverpool as mentioned above. Smith beats Metcalf for me, as his trainer put it so eloquently “if you go to the chippy you have to wait your turn, Fowler’s jumped the queue”.

munckee · October 2021

stevebrum said:

All the media attention on Fury currently but there’s a good card tonight in Liverpool as mentioned above. Smith beats Metcalf for me, as his trainer put it so eloquently “if you go to the chippy you have to wait your turn, Fowler’s jumped the queue”.

It’s a really good match up. No harm to Fowlers career losing to Smith but a real big scalp if he wins.

Smith on paper to win but I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets old during the fight and Fowler has met him at the right time.

stevebrum · October 2021

munckee said:

stevebrum said:

All the media attention on Fury currently but there’s a good card tonight in Liverpool as mentioned above. Smith beats Metcalf for me, as his trainer put it so eloquently “if you go to the chippy you have to wait your turn, Fowler’s jumped the queue”.

It’s a really good match up. No harm to Fowlers career losing to Smith but a real big scalp if he wins.

Smith on paper to win but I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets old during the fight and Fowler has met him at the right time.

Yeah it’s a great opportunity for Fowler and of course it could go either way, but I’m drawn into Smith’s confidence and experience.

Always look forward to a Cheeseman fight and there’s some other decent bouts.

munckee · October 2021

Well Smith did the business and sounds like Cheeseman was in another war. I haven’t seen the fights yet but sounds like a good card.

stevebrum · November 2021

Wasn’t sure whether to put this in the new KO thread.

Kid Galahad - pundits saying failure to make weight impacting his punch resistance and recovery ability.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lc64IUMPpeQ

Definitely saved by the bell after the first one and clearly not recovered coming out for the next round.

munckee · November 2021

Should never have been sent back out for round 6. The American press boxing pundits saying he’ll never be the same after knockouts like that.

Tone71 · November 2021

Missed it last night but that KO was definitely a heavy one.

Looking forward to Eubank Jnr v Williams beginning of next month, could/should be a cracker

stevebrum · November 2021

munckee said:

Should never have been sent back out for round 6. The American press boxing pundits saying he’ll never be the same after knockouts like that.

Definitely - with hindsight of course. In the moment though his corner must have thought he could weather the storm.

munckee · November 2021

It’s a big call to give up a world championship. I don’t remember someone getting knocked out first punch of a round.

munckee · November 2021

Watched Crawford vs Porter this morning and thought Porter seemed fine but his dad stopped it. Crawford looked good late on but takes so long to get going. Really good quality fight.

duotone · November 2021

munckee said:

Watched Crawford vs Porter this morning and thought Porter seemed fine but his dad stopped it. Crawford looked good late on but takes so long to get going. Really good quality fight.

Watched rounds 9 & 10 this afternoon thanks to Sky Sports on YouTube having the fight for free.

Think it was a matter of time before Porter got KO’d, but agree that if it wasn’t his Dad in the corner then it would have continued.
Apparently Porter announced his retirement after the fight in the press conference.

stevebrum · November 2021

I didn’t see it - I’ll catch it on YouTube this week. Being a father in the corner must be a difficult job. I did see a post fight interview and he was absolutely convinced he made the right decision.

munckee · November 2021

I suspect his dad knows him best. Porter is like ricky hatton but with better head movement, he is an attrition fighter and has had some pretty tough fights with fighters at least as good as him, there were also rumours he took a beating in sparring. The cars were all just in favour of Crawford so probably the right decision.

bertie · November 2021

Winnie and Wilf are most upset

stevebrum · November 2021

Teófimo López vs. George Kambosos Jr from last night is well worth seeking out.

I won’t spoil it…

munckee · February 2022

Wow the Taylor Catterrall result is up there with Lewis Holyfield and canelo GGG for robberies.

stevebrum · February 2022

I can’t see any method of scoring that could give it to Taylor 114 - 111.

Embarrassing - you can’t blame Taylor of course but in the post fight interview he said he landed the better quality shots and came on strong. He got put down in the second half of the fight FFS.

It was messy with all the holding and clinching as well by both and not the best fight.

richman6100 · February 2022

Not a great fight. Scrappy and neither fighter really demonstrated their considerable talents, but how Catterall is not champion now is beyond me.

duotone · February 2022

From what I’ve read it seems like it was a huge robbery.

Adam Smith (Sky Sports) sounded disgusted with the judges scorecards

https://youtu.be/Ld5k7BoJnww

munckee · April 2022

So Fury vs Whyte and lickle Fury fighting someone who has actually won a fight. I agree with the pundits that Fury wins but I think will be a lot closer than people suggest and he may well have to get up off the canvas again to win it.

I predict Fury r9 by KO.

Have bit the bullet and paid for it, anyone else watching it?

Tone71 · April 2022

Yip I'll be watching but only the main event, shocking undercard, it's about time Fury fought someone who's actually good and I'm hoping for a Whyte win, he deserves it and think he has it in him.

stevebrum · April 2022

Yeah I’ll be watching all being well.

Was at Manchester for the Conor Benn fight at the weekend. Billham-Smith v McCarthy was the bout I was looking forward to and it didn’t disappoint. The rest of the card wasn’t great but it was a decent night out.

munckee · April 2022

stevebrum said:

Yeah I’ll be watching all being well.

Was at Manchester for the Conor Benn fight at the weekend. Billham-Smith v McCarthy was the bout I was looking forward to and it didn’t disappoint. The rest of the card wasn’t great but it was a decent night out.

I’ve seen the benn fight, it’s difficult to rate him so far. Algieri was somewhat of a gatekeeper but I’d like to see him in with someone better before he goes for a title.

The lightweight tournament in sky was pretty entertaining one of the best tournaments I can remember.

stevebrum · April 2022

munckee said:

stevebrum said:

Yeah I’ll be watching all being well.

Was at Manchester for the Conor Benn fight at the weekend. Billham-Smith v McCarthy was the bout I was looking forward to and it didn’t disappoint. The rest of the card wasn’t great but it was a decent night out.

I’ve seen the benn fight, it’s difficult to rate him so far. Algieri was somewhat of a gatekeeper but I’d like to see him in with someone better before he goes for a title.

The lightweight tournament in sky was pretty entertaining one of the best tournaments I can remember.

Yeah Eddie is definitely being cautious with him and he’s not really hiding the fact. Risk v reward with some fights and the potential marketability of Benn means his being handled with extra care. Who would you like to see him in with?

Hatton jr was lower down the bill - he’s very much a work in progress at the moment.

munckee · April 2022

stevebrum said:

munckee said:

stevebrum said:

Yeah I’ll be watching all being well.

Was at Manchester for the Conor Benn fight at the weekend. Billham-Smith v McCarthy was the bout I was looking forward to and it didn’t disappoint. The rest of the card wasn’t great but it was a decent night out.

I’ve seen the benn fight, it’s difficult to rate him so far. Algieri was somewhat of a gatekeeper but I’d like to see him in with someone better before he goes for a title.

The lightweight tournament in sky was pretty entertaining one of the best tournaments I can remember.

Yeah Eddie is definitely being cautious with him and he’s not really hiding the fact. Risk v reward with some fights and the potential marketability of Benn means his being handled with extra care. Who would you like to see him in with?

Hatton jr was lower down the bill - he’s very much a work in progress at the moment.

I just watched the Hatton fight. He is so open and wild. Entertaining but risky.

Id like to see benn fight kell brook, I think he may well lose it if he does but not a career or health damaging loss and would be great experience for him.

Snap · April 2022

munckee said:

stevebrum said:

munckee said:

stevebrum said:

Yeah I’ll be watching all being well.

Was at Manchester for the Conor Benn fight at the weekend. Billham-Smith v McCarthy was the bout I was looking forward to and it didn’t disappoint. The rest of the card wasn’t great but it was a decent night out.

I’ve seen the benn fight, it’s difficult to rate him so far. Algieri was somewhat of a gatekeeper but I’d like to see him in with someone better before he goes for a title.

The lightweight tournament in sky was pretty entertaining one of the best tournaments I can remember.

Yeah Eddie is definitely being cautious with him and he’s not really hiding the fact. Risk v reward with some fights and the potential marketability of Benn means his being handled with extra care. Who would you like to see him in with?

Hatton jr was lower down the bill - he’s very much a work in progress at the moment.

I just watched the Hatton fight. He is so open and wild. Entertaining but risky.

Id like to see benn fight kell brook, I think he may well lose it if he does but not a career or health damaging loss and would be great experience for him.

Not sure Kell Brook will fight again tbh. Retiring would be sensible IMO. Nothing to prove to anyone and he is getting on a bit.

Fury - I think he'll wallop Whyte. Whyte isn't that good, let's not kid ourselves. CBA staying up to watch that.

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