Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.

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Check how in round 4 of the Jacobs fight Canelo walked down Jacobs with the shoulder roll/cross defense that Mayweather famously used toward the end of his career. First time I've ever seen Canelo employ that defensive strategy. Sure he's used shoulder rolls many times but never the cross defense (crossed in front of his chest with his shoulder in the shoulder roll position. Don't know the proper name for it).
 

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I watched some of this if I was awake already but didn’t stay up for the last 2 fights.

Pro:
  • well I guess there’s some guaranteed action. Most of the times.
  • They kept things short and fast, no national anthems, no long ass walks etc...

Cons:
  • this was carny as fukk, it really had this toughman competition vibe what MMA had years ago. With the ring announcer going apeshyt on the mic, the jacked skinhead ref :mjlol: , Hooters being the sponsor :russ: It all reminded me more to some 00’s MMA stuff than anything else.

  • I also thought there would be more KOs if they are going at it with only bandages but guess that’s just me being under informed.

  • Skills didn’t play a big part as far as I saw which was both because the fighters either couldn’t really box or they were washed and because this is a different sport afterall. Still, no disrespect to these fighters who are making their mark in bareknuckle but it felt like a good boxer with a little pop in his prime would clean up all these dudes pretty quick. Not gonna happen anytime soon though cause there’s no money in it compared to high level pro boxing.
I guess this is either the early, freak show like state of this sport, similarly how MMA used to be like this but it will evolve, or it will stuck being a very small niche sport watched mostly by MMA fans on the side of their main sport.
 
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