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[The axe murderer]

Remember when Spyder got his ass beat by the 6 year olds in The Wire?

Turns out that was Gervonta 'Tank' Davis

 

[Axum Ezana]

old school build up

Roman Gonzalez and Naoya Inoue targeted for September return on HBO - Ringsidefightingnews

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Sorry Tua but that's some dumb shyt

He won't always gas he gassed because he launched an all out war on Klitschko after the KD and couldn't take him out.
If he would lost that would rather have been him losing a won fight than Wlad winning a lost one

Until he gets rid of all that bodybuilder muscle, he will gas.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Yessssssir! I was when I heard that.

@SuikodenII it was when Cutty brought in the young trained kids to spar with em, and one fukked Spyder up....but he went on. Them kids were based off Tank n his gym.

 

[patscorpio]

Ruben Guerrero: Everyone Avoided Having Rematch With Robert

By Ryan Burton

Earlier this week it was announced that former multi-division champion Robert Guerrero (33-5-1) would return to the ring on July 15th against unbeaten Omar Figueroa (26-0-1) at the NYCB LIVE's Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island. The fight will headline a FOX/FOX Deportes tripleheader that will be rounded with Marcus Browne facing Seanie Monaghan and Artur Szpilka-Adam Kownacki.

The 34-year-old Guerrero will be attempting to bounce back from back to back defeats against Danny Garcia and David Peralta.

After the victory over Guerrero, which was very competitive fight, Garcia stopped an over matched Samuel Vargas before losing a close decision in a unification bout versus Keith Thurman.

Guerrero's trainer and father Ruben thought the Thurman-Garcia fight was okay but didn't produce the action that his son did when he fought both men.

"It was an alright fight but it wasn't like the way it was with Robert. They had too much respect for each other, back and forth. They didn't really come to fight. They came to respect each other so that isn't great for the people. You need to come to fight - like Robert Guerrero. He comes to fight. He makes you run and makes you go back. All of the guys that fight Robert want to win by points. They don't want to stand in front of Robert. No way," Guerrero explained.

After losing to Garcia, which Robert and Ruben feel was a bad decision, they asked for a rematch. So far that hasn't came to fruition but Ruben wants to make it clear that if everything goes well versus Figueroa that they are still very open to facing Garcia again.

"I would love to fight them again but that is up to them. If they want to make that decision. They know what happened to him the last time and everyone knows it. They gave them that fight," Guerrero told BoxingScene.com.

"Nobody wants to give Robert a rematch because they know what to expect in the rematch. That is why nobody would ever give him a rematch. Not even Mayweather, Garcia, Thurman, not Berto. They know what Robert can do. He does damage. Nobody wants to give a rematch. He hits hard and they know it"

reeks of delusion smh

 

[Newzz]

reeks of delusion smh

 

[aceboon]

I am definitely in the building for this if it goes down

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

man this year is shaping up as a contender for best boxing year in ...ages!!!

 

[Newzz]

To my fellow #boxing fans:

I write in the hopes that together we can protect the sport of boxing.

With each passing day, it looks more and more likely that the circus known as Floyd Mayweather Vs. Conor McGregor will be coming to town in the near future.

As undercard fights start to take form, athletic commissions give their blessings in exchange for millions of dollars and the fighters start counting even more cash, one group will eventually be left to make sure this farce doesn’t occur.

We, the fans, who are the lifeblood of our sport.

Boxing is starting to dig out of the hole that Floyd and Manny Pacquiao shoveled by waiting seven years to put on a fight that ended up being as dull as it was anti-climactic.

2017 has started off as a banner year for boxing. Joshua vs. Klitschko; Thurman vs. Garcia; Golovkin vs. Jacobs; Canelo vs. Chavez. All four of these fights – and many more -- have brought the fight game back and reinvigorated interest from the ever-elusive casual fan.

But if you thought Mayweather/Pacquiao was a black eye for our sport – a matchup between two of the best pound-for-pound fighters that simply didn’t deliver -- just wait until the best boxer of a generation dismantles someone who has never boxed competitively at any level – amateur or professional.

Our sport might not ever recover.

I fully understand the initial attraction from any fan of combat sports. McGregor is almost certainly the best pound-for-pound MMA fighter. Floyd is Floyd — the most dominant boxer of his time.

But success in one sport does not guarantee success in another. Far from it. And let’s be clear, these are two different sports -- from the size of the gloves fighters wear, to the size and shape of the ring, to the fact the one sport allows combatants to use their legs to strike.

Think about it, beyond Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, what other athlete has successfully competed in two sports in the modern age? And Jackson and Sanders both played both baseball and football throughout their high school and college careers before going professional.

Furthermore, it’s not like McGregor would be fighting a good fighter, let alone a mediocre one. He would be fighting the best. To use a bit of an extreme analogy, I happen to be a pretty good golfer. Could I potentially hold my own on one of the second-tier tours? Maybe. But would I be able to compete with Rory McIlroy, Jordan Speith or Sergio Garcia? Of course not. Nor would I think to try.

Now, I know critics will say that I’m only writing this letter because my company is promoting what will be the culmination of an outstanding boxing year when Canelo Alvarez takes on Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in September, and I don’t want anything to distract attention away from that fight.

But my interest is in the health of boxing as a whole. It always has been. And if Floyd were to come out of retirement to take on someone like Keith “One–time” Thurman, Errol Spence or some other top welterweight, not only would I applaud the fight, I’d be the first one on line for a ticket.

That kind of fight is what the fans – and I am a fan first -- deserve.

Which brings me back to the circus.

Floyd’s and Conor’s motivation is clear. It’s money. In fact, they don’t even pretend it’s not. But it’s also a lack of consequences for when the fight ends up being the disaster that is predicted. After this fight, neither of them will need us anymore. Floyd will go back to retirement -- presumably for good this time with another nine-figure paycheck -- and Conor will go back to the UFC.

It’s a win-win for them. It’s a lose-lose for us. We’ll be $100 lighter and we will have squandered another opportunity to bring boxing back to its rightful place as the sport of kings.

At this point, only we can shut the circus down by making it clear that we won’t pay to see a joke of a fight and telling our casual-fan friends that they shouldn’t either.

Sincerely,

Oscar

Outside of the obvious, "Canelo vs Chavez", I agree with everything else....unless Floyd decides to flood the undercard with GREAT matchups. Other than that, to me buying this exhibition fight

 

[aceboon]

Oscar sounds like a fukking clown as usual, who cares if Floyd has this fight, he's not active, he's not holding up any divisions or holding any belts hostage. Canelo fighting flunkies like Paul Smith on PPV does boxing a bigger disservice than a retired great fighting a one-off circus fight.

 

[Newzz]

Oscar sounds like a fukking clown as usual, who cares if Floyd has this fight, he's not active, he's not holding up any divisions or holding any belts hostage. Canelo fighting flunkies like Paul Smith on PPV does boxing a bigger disservice than a retired great fighting a one-off circus fight.

How?

 

[Big Boss]

You can't tell people how to spend their money




If people want to buy it then let them

 

[reservoirdogs]

Oscar shouldn't do it whether he is right or not cause at this point every time he opens his mouth about Mayweather he just sounds VERY sour and hurt.

 

[aceboon]

 

[ChocolateGiddyUp]

In this world nothing is certain but

Death, Taxes, N DLH being a fakkitt