Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
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reservoirdogs
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How is this thread dead?
Plenty of daily convos here, many posts... if there would be more posts than that it would become messy and untraceable
considering boxing isn't a mainstream sport I'd say the activity here is as good as it gets
reservoirdogs
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also quantity isn't everything, quality is arguably even more important. Go see the forum on Boxingscene, they are even more active than we are here, they're making new threads like every half hour but the quality of their posting is mostly trash, and the mods don't do anything there to prevent it or make their users pay.
I rather take part in a forum where there are a little less posts, less users and threads but there are actually interesting convos, well argued opinions than in a forum which is full of different topics and posters but I don't learn anything reading them and normal debate is pretty much impossible cause they are so hung up on dikkriding fighters and race relations. Of course there are exceptions on both sides but the point stays, if a forum is getting too big and there are too many threads and posts that almost surely gonna happen.
reservoirdogs
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I was talking about dead for the Herrera -Soto Karass fight
reservoirdogs
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well... it was a Friday night fight between two shot fighters
it is what it is
They didn't fight like they were shot lol...that was a dope fight with the last round being a round of the year candidate
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Arum: Unlike Mayweather, Lomachenko Closes Shows, Destroys Foes
By Keith Idec
When asked Friday during an ESPN interview why he has called Vasyl Lomachenko the best fighter he has seen since Muhammad Ali, promoter Bob Arum made a comparison to one of Lomachenko’s contemporaries.
Arum told Max Kellerman, Stephen A. Smith and Molly Qerim on ESPN’s “First Take” that what separates the gifted Ukrainian southpaw from Floyd Mayweather Jr. is that he closes shows and seeks to take out his opponents. Their interview was part of ESPN’s promotion of the Lomachenko-Miguel Marriaga 130-pound title fight the network will televise Saturday night from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
“Now Floyd Mayweather’s a great, great defensive fighter – there’s no doubt about it,” Arum said. “But Floyd is content to win fights by out-scoring an opponent, scoring more punches than the opponent hits him with and wins on points. Now Lomachenko closes the show. You can’t hit him because his distance is so good, his footwork is so good. But he’s always looking for ways to destroy the opponent and he always does.
“So I look at Lomachenko as the best that I’ve seen. And my matchmaker, Bruce Trampler, compares him to the old-time fighters and feels like guys like Sandy Saddler or Willie Pep or Salvador Sanchez or even Alexis Arguello would be no match for Vasyl Lomachenko.”
The 29-year-old Lomachenko is 7-0 since he lost his second pro fight – a 12-round split decision to Mexico’s Orlando Salido (44-13-4, 31 KOs, 1 NC) three years ago in San Antonio. The two-time Olympic gold medalist is ranked among the top five fighters in boxing on credible pound-for-pound lists.
“He goes both ways in the sense that he’s a great defensive fighter, probably one of the best that I’ve ever seen,” Arum said. “But he combines it with a great offensive style. In other words, you can’t hit him because his footwork is so good, his judgment of distance is so good. But while he’s avoiding punches, he’s always looking for weaknesses in the opponent and he looks to take the opponent out, or to make the opponent quit.”
ESPN’s broadcast will begin Saturday night at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT with a 10-round lightweight bout that’ll match Phoenix’s Ray Beltran (33-7-1, 21 KOs, 1 NC) against Costa Rica’s Bryan Vasquez (35-2, 19 KOs). Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs) and Colombia’s Marriaga (25-2, 21 KOs) will fight for Lomachenko’s WBO super featherweight title.
Bob please...
Lomachenko is under 30 not over 40
Lomachenko fights in his second weight class ever not the fourth-fifth
Lomachenko's hands aren't fukked up
When Mayweather was this early in his career he was also a skilled action fighter
reservoirdogs
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Wants to fight Lemieux at 160
Move to 160 might be inevitable with all theat 154.
@Newzz how did I miss this
idk why he moves up now when he pretty much cornered Lara...
Who's gonna fight him at 160? He's high risk low reward and he's with a small promoter w/o good connections. Which is better, waiting out your title shot when you are already in a mandatory position or moving up and trying to get yourself in a mandatory position again because otherwise nobody gonna look for you for a fight?
Canelo would fight him no doubt but I doN't think Andrade will be his first or second or even third choice, he has no connections and he's high risk low reward, he really thinks Oscar jut gonna let Lemieux fight him? For what?
Sad to say but if he really thinks he's going to be ahead at 160 he's delusional
just stay at 154 secure that title shot and then if you win it you can move up as a champ. That's already a better starting point in a new division
The Loma dikk riding is getting excessive, and I enjoy watching him boxBob please...
Lomachenko is under 30 not over 40
Lomachenko fights in his second weight class ever not the fourth-fifth
Lomachenko's hands aren't fukked up
When Mayweather was this early in his career he was also a skilled action fighter
reservoirdogs
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well that's his promoter so I didn't really expect anything else but yeahThe Loma dikk riding is getting excessive, and I enjoy watching him box
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Exactly Andrade almost there. I think he can beat lara (great fight. Not sure who I'd pick). He is close to the fight happening. I think we will see it early 2018. I would imagine one more fight a piece is fairidk why he moves up now when he pretty much cornered Lara...
Who's gonna fight him at 160? He's high risk low reward and he's with a small promoter w/o good connections. Which is better, waiting out your title shot when you are already in a mandatory position or moving up and trying to get yourself in a mandatory position again because otherwise nobody gonna look for you for a fight?
Canelo would fight him no doubt but I doN't think Andrade will be his first or second or even third choice, he has no connections and he's high risk low reward, he really thinks Oscar jut gonna let Lemieux fight him? For what?
Sad to say but if he really thinks he's going to be ahead at 160 he's delusional
just stay at 154 secure that title shot and then if you win it you can move up as a champ. That's already a better starting point in a new division
#SOG_soldier
New York knicks and phoenix suns stan
When is the inoue card on hbo, brehs? I know my nikka gone still the show
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