The **BOXING** thread Vol 2

[Yiliterate]

n_const said:

Thank you for this Tusc, I've been trying to search or remember that guys name for the last few years. I remember watching him at the Olympics and thinking he looks a cracking prospect. Also one of the worst hairstyles I have ever seen.

Edited by n_const on Tuesday 31st May 17:41

[tuscaneer]

Yiliterate said:

n_const said:

Thank you for this Tusc, I've been trying to search or remember that guys name for the last few years. I remember watching him at the Olympics and thinking he looks a cracking prospect. Also one of the worst hairstyles I have ever seen.

Edited by n_const on Tuesday 31st May 17:41

No worries n_const my pleasure! Definitely a stty hair do!

Haha!!! fk me he's got a right look of that hamlet advert guy!!!.......I know who I'd rather be stood opposite in the ring

[Fittster]

Turquoise said:

http://www.badlefthook.com/2016/5/31/11818276/bill...

The usual talk? Does he really want it, when he can earn pots of cash with a Battle of Britain against Eubank jr?

"Saunders goes on to say that he was never formally offered a fight with Golovkin in the past, and that only his potential purse had come up for discussion. He says if the money is where he feels it should be, along with fair judging, he'll be happy to take on Golovkin."

Yeah, because BJS fighting GGG will require judging.

[tuscaneer]

Fittster said:

Turquoise said:

http://www.badlefthook.com/2016/5/31/11818276/bill...

The usual talk? Does he really want it, when he can earn pots of cash with a Battle of Britain against Eubank jr?

"Saunders goes on to say that he was never formally offered a fight with Golovkin in the past, and that only his potential purse had come up for discussion. He says if the money is where he feels it should be, along with fair judging, he'll be happy to take on Golovkin."

Yeah, because BJS fighting GGG will require judging.

no formal offer but k2 HAVE told him how much they would pay him!!...."do you want 3 million quid to take a fking hiding from ggg???"
"No?"
"Hello....Mr Saunders are you still there?"

[Turquoise]

tuscaneer said:

Fittster said:

Turquoise said:

http://www.badlefthook.com/2016/5/31/11818276/bill...

The usual talk? Does he really want it, when he can earn pots of cash with a Battle of Britain against Eubank jr?

"Saunders goes on to say that he was never formally offered a fight with Golovkin in the past, and that only his potential purse had come up for discussion. He says if the money is where he feels it should be, along with fair judging, he'll be happy to take on Golovkin."

Yeah, because BJS fighting GGG will require judging.

no formal offer but k2 HAVE told him how much they would pay him!!...."do you want 3 million quid to take a fking hiding from ggg???"
"No?"
"Hello....Mr Saunders are you still there?"

The right money is a very broad term too isn't it.

Offer him £5M and he can turn down the fight because he was holding out for £5M and 50p.

He wanted the fight but the money just wasn't right, you see...

Edited by Turquoise on Tuesday 31st May 20:12

[tuscaneer]

Exactly pal.....Saunders is a good fighter. Golovkin is a great fighter.I'd probably swerve him too!!!

[Amirhussain]

Closest Mayweather come to being beaten....?
https://youtu.be/LhnRO9NeXFI

[Birkin1932]

Credit to him, he took the shot and stayed on his feet.

[Amirhussain]

Birkin1932 said:

Credit to him, he took the shot and stayed on his feet.

Yeah definitely.

[Amirhussain]

Last video...I've watched this fight so many times, never get bored of it, one of the all time greats. Gatti v Ward 1

https://youtu.be/UM0bpk6pSBw

[FredClogs]

Amirhussain said:

Last video...I've watched this fight so many times, never get bored of it, one of the all time greats. Gatti v Ward 1

https://youtu.be/UM0bpk6pSBw

The other two fights are more of the same, I think the 3rd one is probably the best/worst.

I have mixed feelings watching them.

Was there any conclusion to how Gatti died? I have a vague memory that his wife had bumped him off and then snaked her way out of the murder charge.

[tuscaneer]

Amirhussain said:

Closest Mayweather come to being beaten....?
https://youtu.be/LhnRO9NeXFI

i think oscar de la hoya ran him incredibly close. if the verdict had gone his way it wouldn't have raised too many eyebrows.

castillo outworked him for me in their first fight

[tuscaneer]

Amirhussain said:

Last video...I've watched this fight so many times, never get bored of it, one of the all time greats. Gatti v Ward 1

https://youtu.be/UM0bpk6pSBw

if you like your trilogies frantic and brutal...go and look up tony zale versus rocky graziano. the best trilogy of all time.....until gatti/ward came along 60 odd years later...

[Turquoise]

If he had been beaten, we wouldn't have to put up with all his crap these days.

[tuscaneer]

great, great fighter......but the best ever??? get real!!!

[lord trumpton]

I believe that's why Money ducked Manny for 5 years - in his prime Manny was dynamite and imho too risky for the team - by that stage they were onto a winner with Floyd and building his earning potential nicely.

I think its the same with De la Hoya and his superstar Alvarez - he is still a young cash cow for pretty boy and any potential 'risky' fight like GGG has to be financially massive with enough demand and cash for all.

No real fighter is afraid of their opponent. The sad fact is they are closely managed puppets that fight who and when their promotors think it's financially beneficial.

[Turquoise]

Well the comments regarding GGG from BJS about himself and Eubank jr and also Froch's similar comments, weren't about money. They were admitting being interested in self preservation!

Edited by Turquoise on Wednesday 1st June 11:52

[Fittster]

lord trumpton said:

I think its the same with De la Hoya and his superstar Alvarez - he is still a young cash cow for pretty boy and any potential 'risky' fight like GGG has to be financially massive with enough demand and cash for all.

Which is why I feel it's important to keep calling a Alvarez a chicken/coward for ducking GGG. Hopefully it will damage his earning potential to such a degree he'll be forced to get into a ring with GGG before GGG is too old.

[Yiliterate]

Fittster said:

lord trumpton said:

I think its the same with De la Hoya and his superstar Alvarez - he is still a young cash cow for pretty boy and any potential 'risky' fight like GGG has to be financially massive with enough demand and cash for all.

Which is why I feel it's important to keep calling a Alvarez a chicken/coward for ducking GGG. Hopefully it will damage his earning potential to such a degree he'll be forced to get into a ring with GGG before GGG is too old.

Yeah, like your thinking! After all, it worked with Mayweather...six years of slating him for not fighting Pacquiao impoverished him to such a degree he was eventually forced into taking a lousy nine-figure pay-day to make ends meet...and best of all, most of those figures were zeros!!!

[Yiliterate]

What do you folks think of this?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/aibas-decisio...