Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
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reservoirdogs
Superstar
Is Jeff Horn a Top Rank fighter?
Creflo ½ Dollar
Superstar
Idk breh. I think the traditional boxing media just going at the ESPN guys because they are the low hanging fruit kind of on some hating shyt to be real. Yea ESPN had SAS on some inexperienced shyt covering and they had Teddy who is good and Tim who is a little slow lol but the shyt was a blatant robbery. If Campbell was covering the fight he would've scored that shyt for Pac too.
Plus breh is wrong, PAC said he thought he won in the post fight interview and Arum probably orchestrated the robbery lol. So like I said Campbell and other traditional boxing media coming out teh woodwork hating on the ESPN crew.
Bob orchestrated this so he wouldn't have to feed PAC to Crawford.
good question..i wonder what the agreement was for him...how many fights he owes arum now?
Finally saw the Easter/Shafikov fight. The refs were horrible in that one too, but at least the right guy won. Easter can box, but he doesn't do it with enough authority. He'll jab, but he doesn't move strongly forward enough with it. He jabs in a way where he can still retreat and evade punches (which he does pretty good) He'll jab to set up crosses and uppercuts, but he's not beating nikkas up with the jab like a guy with his height and reach advantage should be doing. He's not an accurate jabber like that. Guys like Chico and Punisher who loved to brawl on the inside, still had hard snappy jabs that would stop nikkas from rushing in.
I think his defense was the difference in the fight. Shafikov got rocked and hit too much. Easter controlled the 1st half and bit down late in the 2nd half to secure the win. His uppercut was mad effective and he landed some good rights too.
I still think Easter a problem for anybody at 135, but this wasn't one of his best performances
I think his defense was the difference in the fight. Shafikov got rocked and hit too much. Easter controlled the 1st half and bit down late in the 2nd half to secure the win. His uppercut was mad effective and he landed some good rights too.
I still think Easter a problem for anybody at 135, but this wasn't one of his best performances
firemanBk
The Manslayer
I though the fight was close enough that I was actually expecting Horn to get the decision when the fight was over. 117-111 was the typical boxing baloney scorecard we get in almost every fight but I don't think it was a robbery. Despite Teddy going on an on about them, Pac's counters didn't really do that much outside the 9th round. That's the first time his punches had a real visual effect in terms of rocking Horn or slowing his attack. Horn landed good shots too.
The punch stats were embarrassing as usual. Horn landed far more than they have him credit for. He landed at least as much as they credited him with in the clinch alone.
#SOG_soldier
New York knicks and phoenix suns stan
fukk outta here. Just scored the fight myself. Gave Jeff every round possible. Had it 8-4 pac man. Anybody that had Jeff winning doesn't know shyt about boxing. That fight was not close at all. Pac man landed more and he landed the cleaner shots. All Jeff did was hold throw ineffective shots and elbow
#SOG_soldier
New York knicks and phoenix suns stan
Exactly t craw will beat indongo, then move up to fight Jeff for WBO at 147. Pac man will fight AB next imo. Pac already turned down t craw multiple times so that tells me he wants to cash out b4 retirement
"But, I thought it was a pretty close fight. I thought Manny had a real good round in the 9th - I thought it was maybe a two-point round - and I just told Manny, 'give me one more of those and the fight's over,' but he just couldn't do it. We lost the decision."
Roach said he couldn't judge the fight, given how close he was.
"I hear there's a lot of people think it's controversial, think Manny won, but it went the other way and we have to live with that."
reservoirdogs
Superstar
why would he benefit from that?
if anything a Pac fight would mean huge exposure to Crawford and Bob rationally should want to feed Pac to him. Now he has to find someone else t give Crawford that bigger exposure...
Creflo ½ Dollar
Superstar
I thought it was a close but clear decision with Pac winning. Horn had it close but he wasn't controlling the fight. I feel like manny punches had more effect than horn punches. It ain't like horn was visibly hurting manny. Horn fought like a poor man Shawn Porter so Pac should've finished the clown. Porter would have mauled this version of Pac.I was actually rooting for horn to pull it off once I seen he was "Trying" to win and I still couldn't give him the fight. Either way it go we did learn that Pac finally hit he cliff and he should never be brought up again as a top 147 fighter. I can name like 10 fighters who would've beat his Pac. Time for a new era
#SOG_soldier
New York knicks and phoenix suns stan
"But, I thought it was a pretty close fight. I thought Manny had a real good round in the 9th - I thought it was maybe a two-point round - and I just told Manny, 'give me one more of those and the fight's over,' but he just couldn't do it. We lost the decision."
Roach said he couldn't judge the fight, given how close he was.
"I hear there's a lot of people think it's controversial, think Manny won, but it went the other way and we have to live with that."
Roach is senile. And I don't need someone to tell me what I saw. Manny whooped his ass. Danny vs keith Thurman was more competitive than that fight
You saying it wasn't a close fight
Manny Pacquiao's trainer saying it was a close fight