Boxing 2021

[Elite]

David Diamante has had a motorbike accident and will need to learn to walk again. 

 

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

David Diamante has had a motorbike accident and will need to learn to walk again. 

 

How would he get a crash helmet on ?

[J-V]

4 minutes ago, sir roger said:

How would he get a crash helmet on ?

Probably the reason it was serious...

 

 

[Elite]

13 minutes ago, sir roger said:

How would he get a crash helmet on ?

Probably got his hair caught in the wheel.

[Curly]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

David Diamante has had a motorbike accident and will need to learn to walk again. 

 

Sounds fucking horrific doesn’t it? 3 spinal fractures. Jesus. Wish him all the best

[Captain Turdseye]

THE BIKE STOPS NOW

[Brownie]

Motorbike accident!

 

Accident.

[sir roger]

All joking apart , good luck with his recovery.

[Captain Turdseye]

52 minutes ago, Brownie said:

Motorbike accident!

 

Accident.

Very good. 

[Boss]

Sad news. Always enjoyed his announcing style and hope to one day see him make a return.

[Red74]

Charles Martin waking up in someone else’s house

 

 

[sir roger]

Thought the ref was a bit hasty there.

[Jairzinho]

Ref just lacking that wee bit of not being off his twat on ketamine.

[Elite]

Can't have been many worse world champions that Martin.

[Boss]

You know what's even worse? The ref didn't stop the fight at the end of that clip. He allowed Martin to get up and carry on.

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, Boss said:

You know what's even worse? The ref didn't stop the fight at the end of that clip. He allowed Martin to get up and carry on.

Wow

[Remmie]

Just watched the highlights on youtube, Ortiz was dropped twice and was losing on the cards quite soundly on the unofficial scorecard. I always felt the Ortiz was an underrated fighter under the radar but after seeing that I think his age might have caught up with him.

 

[Elite]

2 minutes ago, Remmie said:

Just watched the highlights on youtube, Ortiz was dropped twice and was losing on the cards quite soundly on the unofficial scorecard. I always felt the Ortiz was an underrated fighter under the radar but after seeing that I think his age might have caught up with him.

 

He was about 65 in his prime.

[sir roger]

Only ever lost to Deontay Wilder , but yes , he looks on his way out even as he becomes a 'champ'

[Jairzinho]

1 hour ago, Remmie said:

Just watched the highlights on youtube, Ortiz was dropped twice and was losing on the cards quite soundly on the unofficial scorecard. I always felt the Ortiz was an underrated fighter under the radar but after seeing that I think his age might have caught up with him.

 

I'll never forgive him for ducking the Jack Dempsey fight.

[KMD7]

The Loneliest Sport

 

'He was crazy! And he would make me think he was crazy. We would be driving along in the car and he would start talking to himself. 'I’m the baddest! I’m the greatest! I’m a baaad man!' I was thinking, 'Damn! Is this what boxing does to you?' But I learned that he kept doing that because that was how he motivated himself. When he was getting ready to fight George Foreman, he would be talking to himself constantly: 'I’m gonna kill him! I’m gonna murder him! I’m going to do this. I’m going to do that.' Ali was a good guy.

 

I never once saw him get scared. Even when he fought me, when he was 38, he wasn’t scared. He was talking to me all through the fight, telling me what he was going to do, trying to make me mad. But I knew him too well to fall for any of that stuff.

 

He was the guy that gave me a job. He was the guy that taught me how to fight. He helped me understand how to do things to an opponent to make them mad. I learned all of that from being with him all those years. Can you imagine what it was like for me, aged 20-21, to be working with The Greatest?

 

All of a sudden, you ask him if he will come to your local school and meet the kids, and he does just to make you feel good. He did that for me, he came to my town, and he lifted me way off the ground because of that. He made me feel 10ft tall. The guy was great. He made everyone feel better about themselves. He made you believe you could do anything you ever wanted to do. And he was my friend.

 

He had charisma. He was beautiful and charming. Listen, even after I beat him in our fight in 1980, I went into his dressing room afterwards and he was lying on the bed having a rub-down because he was so sore. And I said, 'Ali, you know I love you. You’ve always been my man.' And he said, 'If you loved me, why did you beat me up?' But he never held a grudge, even to the day he died. Even when he was sick, whenever I would see him he would fool around and say, 'I want Holmes! Get me Holmes!'

 

- Larry Holmes

[Spy Bee]

Brian Rose nearly died today

 

 

[Guest]

On 21/12/2021 at 18:00, Kevin D said:

Is that his next opponent?

[Remmie]

Josh Taylor has a very impressive record, his next fight will be against his 6th unbeaten opponent in a row. Not sure I've seen anything like that anywhere else

[Spy Bee]

8 minutes ago, Remmie said:

Josh Taylor has a very impressive record, his next fight will be against his 6th unbeaten opponent in a row. Not sure I've seen anything like that anywhere else

He didn't get a look-in for SPOTY either???