Nah, he's more of a volume puncher, but he's accurate as hell and hit that off button right on the temple.
Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
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whats good y'all? hope everyone was out enjoying the sunshine and whatnot..shyt was beautiful
such a waste of a good fighter/contender
pretty much and it shouldn't...the event that i had to go to next weekend that i was going to miss this ppv for originally was postponed and i still dont know if i want to watch this ppv or not..whether i buy or stream it...every fight on the card is 50/50 status that it can be entertaining or not
i still want to know whose bright idea is it to put ghost vs figueroa as the main event of a tripleheader on FOX
they really need to branch out to different areas of the country
pretty much, like it or not
its not a big deal for salido...just wants to paid appropriately to do his master boxer thing against lomachenko once again
i had 96-94 for mercer..shyt was a dope HW fight for real
I had it for Mercer too, at him thinking many didn't think the same... Mercer's jab.
Then wlad the young lion came through and crushed the buildings, dropped him for the first time in his career
SuikodenII
Where's Suikoden VI??????
At what age do most fightes begin to fall off? 30? 33? 35? 40?
And how many years should a professional boxing career last?
10? 12? 15? 20?
I KNOW that other factors are at play, but just as a guestimate, what age and years of activity would you say in general terms should signs begin to appear that a boxer is falling off?
And how many years should a professional boxing career last?
10? 12? 15? 20?
I KNOW that other factors are at play, but just as a guestimate, what age and years of activity would you say in general terms should signs begin to appear that a boxer is falling off?
I've read usually 10 years or mid 30s is when damage starts setting in permanently.
Holyfield was the first to drop him..also a good fightI had it for Mercer too, at him thinking many didn't think the same... Mercer's jab.
Then wlad the young lion came through and crushed the buildings, dropped him for the first time in his career
reservoirdogs
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also highly depends on the weightclass and the style
Reflexes and speed are the one who start to decline first and power lasts the longest but many fighters who have big power have styles which leading them absorbing more punishment so they might burn out even faster
In heavier divisions where reflexes are somehow less relied on than power fighters can be in their primes at 35-36 years old too and they might not visibly fall off until their 40s. O the other hand in smaller divisions where speed and reflexes count a lot and power might counts less they might be in their prime at 27-28 and already burn out by the age of 33...
so I think it depends on the combination of a fighter's style and size.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
Why am I not surprised?
Anyone here who tends to believe JDJ?
Please explain me how does heir story make more sense, how it sounds more true, logical than Ward's?
Who put out the story first? Ward's camp.
Did JDJ tell Kovalev abut this story (his version of course)? No he admittedly didn't. Why he didn't? He had beef with his fighter was told to stfu during the first fight and now after he makes such a statement for his fighter he doesn't even tell him that "Hey, bro, btw I turned down an offer from Ward's camp cause I'm loyal to you.
" ? Sounds unrealistic. Also based on the lead up for the first fight JDJ talked every shyt in the media but now I suppose to believe that he wouldn't run immediately to the media with a story like this rather just reacting when Ward's side comes out with their version?
If you put the 2 stories next to each other it's obvious which sounds closer to the truth and which sounds like a BS damage control.
I heard somewhere that media doesn't like Ward cause he only rarely gives interviews. Is this the criteria how they judge fighters/people? Is Ward's duty to feed them with quotes?
Why am I not surprised?
Anyone here who tends to believe JDJ?
Please explain me how does heir story make more sense, how it sounds more true, logical than Ward's?
Who put out the story first? Ward's camp.
Did JDJ tell Kovalev abut this story (his version of course)? No he admittedly didn't. Why he didn't? He had beef with his fighter was told to stfu during the first fight and now after he makes such a statement for his fighter he doesn't even tell him that "Hey, bro, btw I turned down an offer from Ward's camp cause I'm loyal to you.
Also based on the lead up for the first fight JDJ talked every shyt in the media but now I suppose to believe that he wouldn't run immediately to the media with a story like this rather just reacting when Ward's side comes out with their version?
If you put the 2 stories next to each other it's obvious which sounds closer to the truth and which sounds like a BS damage control.
I heard somewhere that media doesn't like Ward cause he only rarely gives interviews. Is this the criteria how they judge fighters/people? Is Ward's duty to feed them with quotes?
That, and the "
"writers seem to think Ward thinks too highly of himself. This reminds me of a funny interaction between Jonathan Snowden of Bleacher Report and one of Steve Kim's minions, Snowden shut the dumb shyt down with the swiftness.
agreed...im answering in general...i fully believe that every fighter has a certain number of fights their bodies can take and it depends on a variety of factors...there are anomalies in every scenario where the most defensive of fighters have issues once their careers over and the most offensive fighters are lucid as anything..every fighter is different
reservoirdogs
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Hearn on Crazy Scoring Incident: I've Never Seen Anything Like It!
Eddie Hearn has revealed the judge who farcically scored Lee Haskins the winner against Ryan Burnett had mistaken the two fighters' identities.
Burnett won the IBF bantamweight title in only his 17th professional fight by producing a thoroughly polished performance to convincingly outbox and almost stop the defending champion.
Two judges awarded him scores of 119-107, after knockdowns in the sixth and 11th rounds, but the scorecard of America's Clark Sammartino read 118-108 for Haskins, ensuring a split decision when a unanimous one was deserved.
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The Northern Irishman, 25, is expected to make the first defence of his title back in Belfast before the year's end despite suffering a significant cut over his right eye after an accidental clash of heads.
He excelled in beating Bristol's 33-year-old Haskins more convincingly than any other, but Hearn explained: "Apparently the judge asked one of the photographers, 'Which one's Lee Haskins?' and the photographer said 'In the red corner'.
"I think he asked him a couple of times, and I presume he thought, 'The red shorts'.
"But frightening, frightening that your future can be put in the hands of someone like that. I don't mean to be disrespectful because he's an old gentleman and I'm sure he's judged many fights, but that could have gone horribly wrong.
"He scored two 10-8 rounds to Haskins! His scorecard was excellent: it was just the wrong way around. He's 80-odd; I've never seen anything like it.
"I presume the split decision will be revoked. It'll be a unanimous decision, it must be. But I've never seen anything like it."
Burnett, long considered Northern Ireland's long-term successor to Carl Frampton, also emulated Wayne McCullough, another world champion, by winning world honours in his 17th fight, and he said: Honestly, things like that shouldn't be happening, especially at world level, but it did, and it is what it is.
"Absolutely not (it won't bother me if the record always reads as a split decision).
"I almost fainted in the ring. I thought, 'They're going to take it off me here'. Thank God the decision went in the right direction."
Referencing a period he was once forced to live with his dad in a car, he said: "I'll need to go into a quiet room and sit and think to myself, it hasn't soaked in yet. This is a lifetime achievement, I've worked so hard for this. Even when things were going really bad for me, I always told myself that things were going to be okay.
"'Keep going and one day you'll get there'. Thank God, I've done it, I'm here. I'm world champion, I've nothing left to say."
His success also means Adam Booth has led three fighters to world titles, and the trainer insisted the achievement even surpassed David Haye becoming the world heavyweight champion.
"Nothing I've done before tops this," said the trainer, who also works with former WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee.
"I've been fortunate enough to have three world champions now. The special thing about this one is that he only had 16 fights going into this. It makes me realise just how good he could be: he's probably 60 percent of where he's going to end up."
- See more at: Hearn on Crazy Scoring Incident: I've Never Seen Anything Like It! - Boxing News
enough internet for today y'all...
Damn that first punch landed clean.
GREENandYELLOW
2x...and defending
That, and the "
I agree and it is pretty obvious that most writers root for who gives them access and root against who is difficult for them to interview. Add in more bonus feelings based on who is exciting/not exciting based on action, not skills.
Ward is lucky (in a media respect) he hasn't lost and is so dominant. If he gave writers more room to criticize like Rigo or Lara they probably would have thrown him in the bushes by now. The Kov fight was an obvious one to tell who wants him to succeed or not. It isn't even about how you scored it. You could have scored it either way, it was close, but in every other close fight they are fine with it being a disputable decision...that fight they chose sides and won't acknowledge a Ward victory. BS. It wasn't some Bradley-Pacquiao fight.
