Boxing thread 2017

[Gareth]

Smith fought a solid fight, be interesting to see how he gets on in the rest of the series

[PaulWinch again]

Sounds like a shocker of a decision in the GGG vs Canelo fight.

[Proposition Joe]

I only saw it from the 7th onwards, but from what I saw a draw seemed fair. The shocker was just the one scorecard that had Canelo winning by 118-110. It was way closer than that.

GGG was relentless going forward but thought Canelo landed the better shots of the later rounds even though he was a bit ragged. GGG has a chin of granite though.

[Villa Lew]

Saw for the first time last night on BT a British boxer Daniel Dubois, 20, fighting another Brit A J Carter. After 10 seconds of the 1st round Dubois knocked Carter down, then 10 seconds later knocked him again and his next punch knocked him unconscious, the fight was over after 48 secs. The Doctors gave Carter treatment, including oxygen, for several minutes, but thankfully he was eventually able to get to his feet. Good to see Dubois was not celebrating his victory, but more concerned about the health of his opponent. The young man has obviously got class.

Frank Warren claims Dubois punches harder than any other British heavyweight he has seen and has more potential than any other boxer he has worked with. Clearly a named to watch out for.

[Stu]

I only saw it from the 7th onwards, but from what I saw a draw seemed fair. The shocker was just the one scorecard that had Canelo winning by 118-110. It was way closer than that.

GGG was relentless going forward but thought Canelo landed the better shots of the later rounds even though he was a bit ragged. GGG has a chin of granite though.

Yeah, agree. 118-110 was a bizarre interpretation of the fight which, I think, is detracting from a reasonable argument that the fight was a draw. If you give the first three rounds and the last three rounds to Canelo which I don't think is that controversial, then there's your draw.

[dave.woodhall]

Looks like the end of Don Broadhurst's career there.

[PGW]

Looks like the end of Don Broadhurst's career there.

What's happened to him Dave..i assume he has lost.

Didn't realise this wasn't on TV but on Youtube.

[dave.woodhall]

Looks like the end of Don Broadhurst's career there.

What's happened to him Dave..i assume he has lost.

Didn't realise this wasn't on TV but on Youtube.

Knocked out in the eleventh.

[ozzjim]

This Fury fight has to be one of the worst title fights I've ever seen.  Neither are any good.

[ozzjim]

If Fury gets the decision he won't stay there long.  Never seen a guy less interested in being in the ring.

[ozzjim]

And christ on a bike Tyson Fury seems to have eaten 3 or 4 of his family members.  He's proper fat.

[dave.woodhall]

Fuck. Now that's a turnup.

[JD]

Hurrah, boxer wins a fight by trying to fight, while other guy loses by not fighting. A poor fight but I'm glad Parker won.

[Gareth]

What a terrible fight, glad I got on a periscope stream. 

[ozzjim]

Hurrah, boxer wins a fight by trying to fight, while other guy loses by not fighting. A poor fight but I'm glad Parker won.

Me too, people seemed genuinely shocked, but having watched the fight Fury did feck all to actually win a round. Walking backwards and forwards for 36 minutes should not be considered great boxing, he did everything to not get hit, which i get, but threw bugger all back himself, and when he did it was all to counter. Glad the judges saw through it. Difference between that and the Tyson win was Klitscho did not have any of the aggression Parker showed tonight in that fight.