Boxing 2019

[Lee909]

Its like the first two lines of a joke

A Rapist a Homophobe and a .... walk into a bar

 

Who fits stooge 3

Mayweather - Woman Beater

 

[John102]

If you can listen to Mike Tyson for more than 2 mins, youre a better man than me.

[Pidge]

When's this shit due to happen tonight?

[sir roger]

Watched last night's US card on Sky , Devin Haney looks a prospect. Not saying it was an ordinary bill, but the highlight was a female fighter weighing in in a skimpy bikini.

 

They mentioned that they have the Spence / Porter fight coming up in a fortnight which I am looking forward to.

[Bjornebye]

Terrible undercard. No way I'm staying up for this. 

[Guest]

 

[Jairzinho]

 

[Bjornebye]

3 hours ago, Jairzinho said:

 

I watch this all the time. Truly unbelievable performance form Britains greatest P4P fighter ever. 

[Bjornebye]

Hearn earlier saying that its the last roll of the dice for Brook v Khan. Going to try and get it on for Spring next year. 

 

I think there is still a small amount of interest in it even though it should have happened a few years ago. If it doesn't happen by Spring no-one will be arsed. If it happens I will be hoping Kell destroys him. 

[Jairzinho]

The third round is phenomenal.

[Bjornebye]

8 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

The third round is phenomenal.

Lacy making it through is phenomenal. 

[Jairzinho]

3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Lacy making it through is phenomenal. 

He looked like he'd done 12 rounds after about three or four.

[an tha]

I couldn't find the 'Boxing 1996' thread....so here!!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/49810169

 

 

[Dr Nowt]

Having another fight would be mental enough if it’s against Eubank or someone else of their generation as has been touted for years. Having it against a 40 year old Sakio Bika is certifiable.

 

All that said, wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised to see Nigel knock him through the ropes. My favourite British boxer of all-time, I think.

[Elite]

1 hour ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Having another fight would be mental enough if it’s against Eubank or someone else of their generation as has been touted for years. Having it against a 40 year old Sakio Bika is certifiable.

 

All that said, wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised to see Nigel knock him through the ropes. My favourite British boxer of all-time, I think.

I'm gutted I missed that era. Benn, Eubank, Watson, Collins.

 

He's picked a tough opponent in Bika, he's not fought for a few years himself but he's as tough as they come and just the 15 years younger.

 

For the record, I'm in the Eubank camp over Benn.

[Dr Nowt]

7 minutes ago, Elite said:

I'm gutted I missed that era. Benn, Eubank, Watson, Collins.

 

He's picked a tough opponent in Bika, he's not fought for a few years himself but he's as tough as they come and just the 15 years younger.

 

For the record, I'm in the Eubank camp over Benn.

Rare for that era, I used to love them both. The ideal foil for each other and just a pair of great characters individually who made the perfect dance partners.

 

Benn had that ingredient x though which, when he got the bit between his teeth, made for incredible fights to watch. Visceral fighter who would have had a scrap in a phonebox, as Reg Gutteridge memorably said during the GMan fight.

[Elite]

17 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Rare for that era, I used to love them both. The ideal foil for each other and just a pair of great characters individually who made the perfect dance partners.

 

Benn had that ingredient x though which, when he got the bit between his teeth, made for incredible fights to watch. Visceral fighter who would have had a scrap in a phonebox, as Reg Gutteridge memorably said during the GMan fight.

I've watched the McClellan fight on YouTube, definitely wanted to kill each other.

 

Weren't all the fights on ITV as well? Like the perfect storm that, great characters fighting free on prime time TV.

[Dr Nowt]

5 minutes ago, Elite said:

I've watched the McClellan fight on YouTube, definitely wanted to kill each other.

 

Weren't all the fights on ITV as well? Like the perfect storm that, great characters fighting free on prime time TV.

Yes mate, with this theme music.

 

 

We didn’t know we were fucking born.

[Elite]

3 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Yes mate, with this theme music.

 

 

We didn’t know we were fucking born.

It's £20 now to watch Tyson Fury fight some nobody at 5am, with zero titles on the line. 

 

I do understand ITVs business plan though, they can pay a bunch of quilts to live on an island for a tenth of the price of a high profile fight for s month and they will get more viewers.

[Bjornebye]

The Benn/Eubank fights got me heavily into boxing. Then Naz. Then Calzaghe. Tyson Fury if he gets the two big ones can jump into that category of my favourite British Boxers of all time. I'm sure he will be made up to know that. 

[Dr Nowt]

I very much enjoyed watching Naz fight; his ridiculous power, his skill and angles and also his suicidal defence made for electric fights.

 

Couldn’t stand him though as I just thought he was an absolute cock. So the Barrera fight, especially having watched all the build-up, seen what a cunt he was behaving like and known what was coming, but totally underestimated the degree to which it would happen, was beautiful.

 

Had about ten mates round my flat, huge smash-up, watched the fight and pretty much all of them were losing it at me because of how openly pro-Barrera I was. That and my repeated moonwalking round my front room as he got taken apart.

 

Great days. Used to love the bets you had with your mates over fights and the extra edge and spite it gave to it. That was one. The other was a mate of mine who was unbearably pro-Holyfield, and after the Tyson rematch I refused to pay up on the basis “the fight was voided”.

 

Disgraceful shithousery but well funny. He lives in Cyprus and I haven’t seen him in a good twenty years, but we spoke on Messenger a while ago and he brought it up with some bitterness almost immediately.

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

I very much enjoyed watching Naz fight; his ridiculous power, his skill and angles and also his suicidal defence made for electric fights.

 

Couldn’t stand him though as I just thought he was an absolute cock. So the Barrera fight, especially having watched all the build-up, seen what a cunt he was behaving like and known what was coming, but totally underestimated the degree to which it would happen, was beautiful.

 

Had about ten mates round my flat, huge smash-up, watched the fight and pretty much all of them were losing it at me because of how openly pro-Barrera I was. That and my repeated moonwalking round my front room as he got taken apart.

 

Great days. Used to love the bets you had with your mates over fights and the extra edge it gave to it. That was one. The other was a mate of mine who was unbearably pro-Holyfield, and after the second Tyson fight I refused to pay up on the basis the fight was voided.

 

Disgraceful behaviour but well funny. He lives in Cyprus and I haven’t seen him in a good twenty years, but we spoke on Messenger a while again and he brought it up with some bitterness almost immediately.

Absolute prick of course but fuck me, what a fighter. 

[Dr Nowt]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

Absolute prick of course but fuck me, what a fighter. 

For sure. Proper entertainer. Basically loved him in the ring and hated him out of it. Not a bad ratio at all as a sports fan.

[Dr Nowt]

Speaking of twats, Carl Froch has come out as a flat-earther today because of course he has.

 

‘The earth is flat, 100%. There’s no proof of the Earth’s curvature and this fake space agency NASA use CGI images and every one is different. ‘I’m looking at them thinking, “Hang on a minute, they’re like cartoons”. ‘When someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights… and you can look back on Earth and see the Earth’s curvature, I’ll believe the Earth is a globe.’

[lifetime fan]

35 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Yes mate, with this theme music.

 

 

We didn’t know we were fucking born.

 

Can remember the build up all evening before the rematch, you had interviews with both of them before the fight coverage had even started.