mattu29 Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 More than anything, im glad to see Hearn and his shoddy company have a bad night. I actually like AJ but hate how his career has been managed. Also his game plan was shocking, brawling with a brawler is just arrogance, or may be stupidity, probably both. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorka Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 Eddie Hearn when Joshua went down. Glad the heavyweight division has been shaken up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 4 hours ago, MDK said: Katie Taylor became undisputed lightweight champ though Although a lot of pundits thought she got very lucky with the judges' decision. Regarding Joshua, this is a big concern. Ruiz is a hard hitter, but so is Deontay Wilder, who AJ's been hoping to fight for a long time. I'm not convinced that Joshua's punch resistance is as good as it ideally would be, and so he needed to use a much better defensive strategy than he did. With this kind of approach against Wilder, I'm sure he would have suffered the same fate. In the long term, this ought to make fights against Wilder and Fury more likely. In the past, Eddie Hearn's been pricing AJ out of the market, but his bargaining power has now dropped. There's no way he could get away with pushing for a 60/40 purse split in Joshua's favour now, even if he destroys Ruiz in the probably rematch. Fights against Wilder or Fury at Wembley would still be massive, but not to the extent they would be if this hadn't happened. The fact that Joshua was talking this weekend about a unification fight with Wilder in September suggests that he never even entertained the thought that Ruiz could beat him, and that's come back to bite him, just as it did with Lennox Lewis when he saw Hasim Rahman as a stepping stone towards a showdown with Mike Tyson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lusophone Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 Hopefully this sort of frees Joshua a bit - he's been beaten now, and decisively, so there's no need to fear that any longer. His approach and training in the lead up to this fight was awful. He can definitely hurt Ruiz, and I see him stopping him in the rematch - and hey, it gives him something to do now whilst Wilder is playing with the dickhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 I'm looking forward to seeing how Oleksandr Usyk gets on as he steps up to Heavyweight. I think he should be a big contender in the division over the next couple of years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 Bunce reckons AJ had a serious concussion from the knock down in round 3. By the sounds of it he didn't know where he was at the end of the fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 1 hour ago, MDK said: Bunce reckons AJ had a serious concussion from the knock down in round 3. By the sounds of it he didn't know where he was at the end of the fight. From his brief post-fight interview, he seemed to think he'd won. I think it's poor form to interview someone immediately after they've taken so many big shots to the head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymbols Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 That wouldn't surprise me at all. Didn't look himself at all the more the fight went on. I said earlier that I thought he was either hurt from an early shot, or coming into the fight with an injury, because he really didn't look at the races. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattu29 Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 AJ was rocked by an over the hill Klitschko and Dillian Whyte so the questions have always been there, definitely interested to see how Usyk does moving up, and then we have Fury vs Wilder 2 on the horizon, before AJ even considers any of these, he has to survive 12 more rounds with Ruiz unless he KOs that tough mexican SOB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 25 minutes ago, Bobfoc said: From his brief post-fight interview, he seemed to think he'd won. I think it's poor form to interview someone immediately after they've taken so many big shots to the head. I only listened to it on the wireless but they were saying he was smiling at the end of the fight. And he was taken away for some concussion protocol thingie and he managed to get a quick 5 min interview much later, its probably on the 5Live twitter. He certainly didn't sound 100%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted July 15, 2019 Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 Pernell Whitaker has died. He was one of the best of his generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted July 15, 2019 Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 7 minutes ago, Bobfoc said: Pernell Whitaker has died. He was one of the best of his generation. Run over by a car at the age of 55. Real tragic. Great boxer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted August 9, 2019 Admin Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 Joshua/Ruiz rematch confirmed for December 7th in Saudi Arabia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 $$$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted August 31, 2019 Report Share Posted August 31, 2019 Interesting fight tonight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/49523129 Quote Briton Luke Campbell says he will defy the odds against pound-for-pound king Vasyl Lomachenko on Saturday. Ukraine's Lomachenko, 31, has won world titles at three different weights in a 14-fight professional career. "I expect me winning this fight some way or form," said Campbell. "Somehow I will win by doing what I do best. "I've always dreamed of a massive pinnacle fight. It selling out and everybody screaming my name... it's going to be amazing." Lomachenko, like Campbell an Olympic gold medallist, is aiming to add the vacant WBC crown to his WBA and WBO belts en route to unifying the lightweight division. From what I hear Campbell will have to knock out Lomachenko, who is considered one of the best boxers in the world right now, if he wants the smallest chance to win tonight. 22:30 is the rough time of the fight. If MOTD is on at 22:40 then you might have enough time to watch both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted August 31, 2019 Report Share Posted August 31, 2019 Lomachenko ought to win quite handily. Most people see him as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world and, from what I can tell, there isn't anything he doesn't do considerably better than Campbell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJE Posted September 15, 2019 Report Share Posted September 15, 2019 As someone who watches about a fight or two per year, tonight's Fury vs Wallin fight was a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lusophone Posted November 10, 2019 Report Share Posted November 10, 2019 So KSI vs Logan Paul II happened - KSI won on a split decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted November 10, 2019 Report Share Posted November 10, 2019 And Eddie Hearn's probably diving Scrooge McDuck-style into his latest pit of cash. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lusophone Posted November 10, 2019 Report Share Posted November 10, 2019 24 minutes ago, Bobfoc said: And Eddie Hearn's probably diving Scrooge McDuck-style into his latest pit of cash. Speaking of money - here's what the fighters were paid for this event: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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