Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
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The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
reservoirdogs
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Put up Broner with Josesito Lopez next as a crossroads fight
For Hearn's 147 guys I'd like to see Avenesyan against Yeleussinov and Benn against Marku with the winner fight each other
For Hearn's 147 guys I'd like to see Avenesyan against Yeleussinov and Benn against Marku with the winner fight each other
diego maradona said when he played against england they were letting him get away the kind of stuff that other teams would have been knocking him down, roughing him up for trying to do out there. he said laughingly, that the english play like gentlemen. i never forget that quote.
White vs povetkin 2 moved back to march 27th.
Brilliantly referenced. RIP Maradona.
when two punchers fight, pick the bigger puncher.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
That's strange cause in football(soccer) English players generally regarded as some of the most physical, rugged ones, especially back then but even now.
Their soccer league Premier League is the best in the world though not because British players but because the many foreing influences both on the front of signed players and trainers, it's really multicultural. With toughness they never had any problems though.
I don't like to generalize too much cause there are plenty different style and level fighters from the UK too like Taylor outlasted Prograis not long ago in a dog fight but I think some of them just have an amateur style and are not used to get walked down the way some of these Mexican fighters walk them down. They seldom have any higher level pressure fighters domestically to get them prepared to fights like that.
Just guessing though... not always true... Like Warrington doesn't have an amateru style, he's just a not very big punching swarmer who decided to go in there and start shyt with a guy with slugger like power. Didn't have these problems with Frampton, Selby or even Galahad.
Interesting fight
That last knockout set up was real nice..he dipped down and made him miss twice, came through with the power left hook. Exploded right into it.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
Yeah Warrington I wouldn't classify as a hype job..he was arguably the best featherweight in the division before he lost. If he was a hype job he would have been exposed long before he got a title.
I just think a fundamental shift is finally happening with the English school of boxing. Where other type of fighters have finally caught up to them and their style.
Even more than that most of us picked the puncher that wasnt getting his jaw broken or knocked down by fighters not on his perceived level lol
Dallas' 4 Eva
Superstar
Not always necessarily true. Berchelt is a bigger puncher than Valdez bro, that was always my one concerned with this fight if Berchelt hit him with something big.
chunky_mcdaniels
All Star
Traditionally, in soccer terms, the English have been regards as a more physical, rough style. It’s a known characteristic, attribute. The argument could be made it was to make up for their lack of skill in comparison to their opponents.
Maradona is ‘having a laugh’ there, perhaps even insinuating they tried to get him but weren’t good enough.