Boxing Thread

Dr8breed74 wrote:

Oh man, just watched Tyson Fury perform on of the most one sided fights I've seen for quite some time.

Are you surprised? Chisora's a mut! Same goes for David Haye.

I think it will be interesting to see how Anthony Joshua develops over the next couple of years.

Hahaha, well, no, not really. I've seen the previous Chisora/Fury fight enough times to know this could of been much better. Del Boy just switches off half way through the fight. He's going to return, he's got a nice pay cheque from fighting. David Haye's day is over I think. Tony Thompson is also one I like to watch (even if he has past it). Still a very entertaining person.

Anthony Joshua - now we're talking. Lots of people seem to like him. Intelligent, easy to watch, impressive, good work rate. Personally, he's got a very good chance. Funny enough, him and Lee Selby know each other by all accounts.

Looks as if the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight could be next year.......we hope.

Talking to a friend in work recently, we spoke about the amount of professional boxing related deaths that have happened this year. Looks like it's about five. I know one happened right at the start of the year, however, I can't help but think that this might be a fairly low number.

Looks like Zou Shiming is set to fight in Macao in March next year. Could Mayweather be breaking his pattern of a May fight and take on Pacquiao on this date? Anything is possible!

The next fight I'm looking forward to is Tyson Fury on a UK card, I can't fricking wait!

Also, while I was in London (Southwark) last weekend - we stayed near this place. We (me and the wife, who is actually a trained boxer) woke up on Saturday morning, got a breakfast roll and watched people sparing at 9am in the morning through the windows of this place. Great time!

Ah, looks as if this weekend we might have an ace fight on.....anyone guess what it is?

Wilder did a fantastic job. Onto May 2nd, lets see if Mayweather does the deal!

I'll believe this when I see it:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mayweather-says-pacquiao-fight-may-2-232731992--spt.html

tohostudios wrote:

I'll believe this when I see it:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mayweather-says-pacquiao-fight-may-2-232731992--spt.html

Both Mayweather and Pacquiao posted pics of signed contracts, so it appears to be a done deal.

Who wins, though? Hard to bet against Mayweather, but he's lost a bit of his speed and such in recent years, while Pac really hasn't. I mean, Moseley almost knocked him out. Yeah, Pac got blasted by Marquez, which was a horrible knockout, but it hasn't appeared to have affected him at all. Sometimes KOs like that ruin a fighter (see Roy Jones).

I don't know. Again, hard to bet against Mayweather, but Pac is very capable of beating him. If Mayweather runs and pot-shots the whole fight, which is likely, he wins a boring UD—but if he stands and fights? Could be interesting.

Too bad this didn't happen five years ago but I hope it's a good fight.