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im sure we use to talk about a fight like that happening back in the day on hereMan... That would be the craziest fight in the history of the game.
silly ppl really believe that a 154 spence will cause a man like crawford any trouble. 154 spence wouldn't even beat tim tszyu at this point never mind other top fighters at 154“undrained” 154 Spence is the new “focused AB”
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Porter was tryna tell nikkas.
The biggest reason why I want Crawford to move to 154. I want to see him punish Garcia.
I know Bud recently said he isn't interested in it, but I would really want him to fight Danny Garcia and Thurman
Basically a "This is why y'all were ducking me tour" lol
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No more PAWGs, PLEASE??!!!??
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While Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk won’t fight for the undisputed heavyweight championship on Dec. 23 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as initially planned, a major pay-per-view card is in the process of being finalized for the same date and site that is expected to feature the division’s two other major stars.
Former heavyweight titleholders Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder are both working to finish deals with Turki Alalshikh of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, which has been bankrolling a variety of significant sports and entertainment events, to fight in separate bouts on the card, multiple sources with knowledge of the plans told Fight Freaks Unite.
Also possible for the card, according to a source with knowledge of the talks, is WBA light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol (21-0, 11 KOs), 32, of Russia, who has yet to fight in 2023 but was the consensus 2022 fighter of the year thanks to an upset decision over Canelo Alvarez and a one-sided rout of then-unbeaten top challenger Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez.
A fight between Joshua and Wilder has been discussed on and off for years, including in recent months to take place in Saudi Arabia. But when the financing of that bout for the end of this year or early next year could not be worked out, the plan for separate bouts on the same card — with the hope they will eventually fight each other — was hatched once Fury-Usyk was delayed.
Fury-Usyk was supposed to take place on Dec. 23, but it has been pushed back until at least February. The reason is because Fury had a much harder fight than expected when he faced former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou on Oct. 28 in the opening event of the annual Riyadh Season cultural festival.
Fury was shockingly dropped by a clean left hook in the third round, had his left eye swollen and was banged around before eking out a disputed 10-round split decision over Ngannou, who was crossing over from MMA for his pro boxing debut, via scores of 96-93 and 95-94 for Fury and 95-94 for Ngannou.
Lineal/WBC champion Fury and WBO/IBF/WBA titleholder Usyk have already signed to fight each other for the undisputed title in Riyadh with the winner becoming the first-ever four-belt heavyweight champion and the first undisputed champion in the division since Lennox Lewis outpointed Evander Holyfield in the three-belt era in their 1999 rematch.
With Fury-Usyk delayed, the Saudis still wanted a major boxing event at the end of the year as part of the ongoing Riyadh Season, which ends in February, and have been working on the new-look Dec. 23 event, according to sources.
Frank Warren, Fury’s co-promoter, said in a recent interview on British sports radio giant TalkSPORT that there would be a “historical” boxing event in Saudi Arabia next month, apparently alluding to the Dec. 23 card in the works.
“There’s gonna be a big night in December,” Warren said in the interview. “We’ll be announcing it very soon and it will be massive. You’re gonna love it, I promise you you're gonna love it.
“I can’t give you all the information at the moment, but everything’s going in the right direction for something to be a historical night of boxing. It’s gonna feature boxers from all over the world. You will be surprised by the names.”
Since losing his three title belts to Usyk by decision in 2021 and another decision in their 2022 immediate rematch, Joshua (26-3, 23 KOs), 34, of England, has won two fights this year working with new trainer Derrick James. He outpointed Jermaine Franklin in April and stopped Robert Helenius, who accepted the bout on five days’ notice after Dillian Whyte was dropped due to a failed drug test, in the seventh round in August.
Wilder (43-2-1, 42 KOs), 38, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has been very inactive, having boxed just once in each of the last three years: a seventh-round knockout loss to Fury that cost him the WBC title in their February 2020 rematch; an 11th-round knockout to Fury in their all-time classic third bout in October 2021; and a first-round knockout of Helenius in October 2022.
While Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk won’t fight for the undisputed heavyweight championship on Dec. 23 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as initially planned, a major pay-per-view card is in the process of being finalized for the same date and site that is expected to feature the division’s two other major stars.
Former heavyweight titleholders Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder are both working to finish deals with Turki Alalshikh of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, which has been bankrolling a variety of significant sports and entertainment events, to fight in separate bouts on the card, multiple sources with knowledge of the plans told Fight Freaks Unite.
Also possible for the card, according to a source with knowledge of the talks, is WBA light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol (21-0, 11 KOs), 32, of Russia, who has yet to fight in 2023 but was the consensus 2022 fighter of the year thanks to an upset decision over Canelo Alvarez and a one-sided rout of then-unbeaten top challenger Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez.
A fight between Joshua and Wilder has been discussed on and off for years, including in recent months to take place in Saudi Arabia. But when the financing of that bout for the end of this year or early next year could not be worked out, the plan for separate bouts on the same card — with the hope they will eventually fight each other — was hatched once Fury-Usyk was delayed.
Fury-Usyk was supposed to take place on Dec. 23, but it has been pushed back until at least February. The reason is because Fury had a much harder fight than expected when he faced former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou on Oct. 28 in the opening event of the annual Riyadh Season cultural festival.
Fury was shockingly dropped by a clean left hook in the third round, had his left eye swollen and was banged around before eking out a disputed 10-round split decision over Ngannou, who was crossing over from MMA for his pro boxing debut, via scores of 96-93 and 95-94 for Fury and 95-94 for Ngannou.
Lineal/WBC champion Fury and WBO/IBF/WBA titleholder Usyk have already signed to fight each other for the undisputed title in Riyadh with the winner becoming the first-ever four-belt heavyweight champion and the first undisputed champion in the division since Lennox Lewis outpointed Evander Holyfield in the three-belt era in their 1999 rematch.
With Fury-Usyk delayed, the Saudis still wanted a major boxing event at the end of the year as part of the ongoing Riyadh Season, which ends in February, and have been working on the new-look Dec. 23 event, according to sources.
Frank Warren, Fury’s co-promoter, said in a recent interview on British sports radio giant TalkSPORT that there would be a “historical” boxing event in Saudi Arabia next month, apparently alluding to the Dec. 23 card in the works.
“There’s gonna be a big night in December,” Warren said in the interview. “We’ll be announcing it very soon and it will be massive. You’re gonna love it, I promise you you're gonna love it.
“I can’t give you all the information at the moment, but everything’s going in the right direction for something to be a historical night of boxing. It’s gonna feature boxers from all over the world. You will be surprised by the names.”
Since losing his three title belts to Usyk by decision in 2021 and another decision in their 2022 immediate rematch, Joshua (26-3, 23 KOs), 34, of England, has won two fights this year working with new trainer Derrick James. He outpointed Jermaine Franklin in April and stopped Robert Helenius, who accepted the bout on five days’ notice after Dillian Whyte was dropped due to a failed drug test, in the seventh round in August.
Wilder (43-2-1, 42 KOs), 38, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has been very inactive, having boxed just once in each of the last three years: a seventh-round knockout loss to Fury that cost him the WBC title in their February 2020 rematch; an 11th-round knockout to Fury in their all-time classic third bout in October 2021; and a first-round knockout of Helenius in October 2022.
I know they not about to have these two on the same card and not fight each other
With three-belt unified junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo and longtime IBF mandatory challenger Bakhram Murtazaliev failing to make a deal by an IBF-imposed deadline, the IBF on Friday scheduled a purse bid for Nov. 21 at 12 p.m. ET at the organization’s Springfield, New Jersey offices. Bids, accompanied by a non-refundable $5,000 participation fee, must be submitted by 11 a.m. ET on bid day. Murtazaliev (21-0, 15 KOs), 30, a Russia native fighting out of Oxnard, California, has taken multiple step-aside deals that allowed Charlo (35-2-1, 19 KOs), 33, of Houston, to unify the division and then challenge Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed super middleweight title in a lopsided decision loss on Sept. 30, after which Charlo committed to returning to 154 pounds to defend his three remaining sanctioning organization belts.
Mikaela Mayer having Onlyfans on her top.
There is absolutely nothing about Mikaela Mayer that says OnlyFans, in the ring or out.
It's like Daryl woke up one morning and said "I'ma make all these muhfukkas fight, even if they don't want to
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i mean mell prolly could have avoided this if he didnt fukk around on facing tszyu..now the sanctioning bodies are like "its time"...i dont see mell fighting dude so im sure that belt is going to go in a couple of weeksIt's like Daryl woke up one morning and said "I'ma make these muhfukkas fight, even if they don't want to