Boxing thread

[dostoy]

How can Fury be so stupid ?

I was / maybe still am, a big fan of his but in losing weight he gave up one of his key advantages. Why on earth was he obsessed with outboxing Usyk ?

How did he and all his cornermen think he was in front especially after round 9 ?

He should have come in at his usual weight and tried to knock Usyk out and been far more aggressive rather than 'performing' to the crowd which I hate.

He should have kept his thick beard as well.

He saw AJ twice do the same and fail both times. I just don't understand it.

I hope he wins the rematch, but he is still stupid.

[dazthegooner]

Jack Catterell beat Josh Taylor for a "2nd" time last night after there 1st controversial fight ended in a split decision in favor of Taylor even though everybody apart from the judges though that Catterell had won, Bob Arum not a happy chappie but then again he never is.

[dazthegooner]

Dubois KO’s Joshua in five

[HCZ_Reborn]

Usyk wins rematch with Fury. Fury had a few good moments, but Usyk ultimately quicker, fitter and connected with far more of his punches…and finished the stronger despite Fury’s second wind.

[Niall_Quinn]

Not real boxing though, is it? It's like wrestling now, all for the money and show, sport long dead. Was never a straight game, but there were serious boxers. Hasn't been a real boxer in 2 decades. Well, maybe this one Russian guy who did okay for a few years, but the rest of them - total joke. Not a sport anymore, purely a box office event. Fury wouldn't have lasted one round with any of the top 100 heavyweights in the 80s. Neither would whatever bum beat him.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Not real boxing though, is it? It's like wrestling now, all for the money and show, sport long dead. Was never a straight game, but there were serious boxers. Hasn't been a real boxer in 2 decades. Well, maybe this one Russian guy who did okay for a few years, but the rest of them - total joke. Not a sport anymore, purely a box office event. Fury wouldn't have lasted one round with any of the top 100 heavyweights in the 80s. Neither would whatever bum beat him.

Nothing new, what really cemented for me how money dominated the sport is, was the fight between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield in 1999. Anyone who wasn’t blind or on the take saw that Lewis won that fight, and the re-match which was awarded to Lewis was actually a far closer thing.


Most likely you will have Fury vs Usyk part 3, a bit like Fury vs Wilder (where again the first match was a draw, even though it wasn’t and Fury clearly won against Wilder) and some equally disreputable region will host the thing.


There have been for me a couple of memorable heavyweight bouts in the last twenty-thirty odd years. Ruiz beating Joshua, Rahman KOing Lewis and fight between Botha and Tyson where Botha was pummelling Tyson and then mid way through Tyson suddenly remembered he was in the ring and floored Botha with combination.

[Niall_Quinn]

Nothing new, what really cemented for me how money dominated the sport is, was the fight between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield in 1999. Anyone who wasn’t blind or on the take saw that Lewis won that fight, and the re-match which was awarded to Lewis was actually a far closer thing.


Most likely you will have Fury vs Usyk part 3, a bit like Fury vs Wilder (where again the first match was a draw, even though it wasn’t and Fury clearly won against Wilder) and some equally disreputable region will host the thing.


There have been for me a couple of memorable heavyweight bouts in the last twenty-thirty odd years. Ruiz beating Joshua, Rahman KOing Lewis and fight between Botha and Tyson where Botha was pummelling Tyson and then mid way through Tyson suddenly remembered he was in the ring and floored Botha with combination.

Hated Lewis. Hated his arrogance. But sure, he was the best of them back then. Can you imagine Lewis in his prime against a shit like Fury? Won't call him Tyson, that's just a blatant insult. Holyfield was a great boxer too though, and a real man. Took some serious beatings to get his results.

When did it go wrong? That bitch who got her fangs into Tyson. That shit and then the 50 year old Foreman and Holmes "fights" and "box office" shit like that. The horrific promoters found a was to suck on the bone until the marrow was gone. So fucking greedy, irrationally greedy. Give me a million and I live happily for the rest of my life. Give these fuckers a million and they use it to get two. And Four. And all the pile of bodies that entails.

Got to get money out of all sport of you want sport to survive.