Boxing Thread
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@kiwiinmelb Can't see it making any difference. AJ doesn't take well to getting hit, has a poor gas tank, and has never ever been a pressure fighter and never will be. He's a counter puncher with a decent uppercut but Usyk's style is all wrong for him.
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@African-Monkey said in Boxing Thread:
@kiwiinmelb Can't see it making any difference. AJ doesn't take well to getting hit, has a poor gas tank, and has never ever been a pressure fighter and never will be. He's a counter puncher with a decent uppercut but Usyk's style is all wrong for him.
Yeah everyone is saying he needs to get more aggressive, but that just exposes him to getting more gassed and getting hit more often. Catch 22
I think McCracken was aware of his weaknesses and trying his best to hide them .
But will be interesting to see what Garcia comes up with , He always comes across as a good fella . ##spoiler
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@kiwiinmelb Yes its much easier said than done, similar to Fury v Klitschko when people said that Klitschko needed to just let his hands go - more like he couldn't as Fury was just waiting for him to throw and fall short so Fury could counter as his control of the distance that night was some of the best you'll ever see.
Yes, Ushk has had his troubles with pressure fighters that are smaller like Chisora and Briedis, but its their specific style of fighting (Briedis to be fair has a bit more to his game), AJ can't fight like that and won't be able to change that overnight.
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Just saw this
Junior Fa in shock first-round knockout defeat to Lucas Browne
Kiwi heavyweight suffers devastating defeat on undercard of George Kambosos v Devin Haney world lightweight title fight in Melbourne.
Didn’t know they were fighting but Lucas Browne is rubbish so this isn’t good at all for Junior Fa.
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Sayonara
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Just saw this
Kiwi heavyweight's lawyer will file complaint after claims his opponent Lucas Browne twice hit Fa on the back of the head.
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@JK said in Boxing Thread:
One punch power but also some pretty shitty ring craft and technique. And don’t get me started on the fitness.
But yeah one punch is all it takes. And it got him alright
That’s why Max Baer, Earnie Shavers and Deontay Wilder went ok.
Fa doesn’t look that durable judging from that vid though.
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@JK Which will go nowhere. Fa's finished, may as well sell himself to up and coming prospects if he wants to make some coin from the sport.
@kiwiinmelb how was it? Pretty dull main event I thought, with Haney doing his usual jab and 1-2 throughout the fight and sticking to the gameplan. He does what he does well, but man I find him a boring watch sadly Kambosos had no answer to his jab.
Thought Nyika was also very underwhelming. Will do him some good having a fight like that but shipped way too many shots and still has an amateur style of fighting which won't necessarily succeed in the pros. He needs to fight more often and I seriously hope he isn't going to the Commonwealth games as he is well past that level now. The pro game is almost a different sport altogether compared to aamateur boxing and he needs to fight more in the pros to adjust his style a bit.
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@African-Monkey said in Boxing Thread:
@JK Which will go nowhere. Fa's finished, may as well sell himself to up and coming prospects if he wants to make some coin from the sport.
@kiwiinmelb how was it? Pretty dull main event I thought, with Haney doing his usual jab and 1-2 throughout the fight and sticking to the gameplan. He does what he does well, but man I find him a boring watch sadly Kambosos had no answer to his jab.
Thought Nyika was also very underwhelming. Will do him some good having a fight like that but shipped way too many shots and still has an amateur style of fighting which won't necessarily succeed in the pros. He needs to fight more often and I seriously hope he isn't going to the Commonwealth games as he is well past that level now. The pro game is almost a different sport altogether compared to aamateur boxing and he needs to fight more in the pros to adjust his style a bit.
It was a great day out even if the main fight was a bit lacklustre.
Devin played it safe sitting behind his superior jab controlling the tempo and distance, and George needed to find a way to close the distance to up the tempo but he looked a bit lost how to do that , when he did do it devin grabbed him .full props for Haney executing his fight plan . Marketing the rematch might be a hard sell.
Yeah the kiwi boys a bit disappointing, I probably didn’t rate fa that highly anyway , but nyika I had hopes for , but seemed a bit trying to impress a bit with all the switch hitting/ showboating but lacking in fundamentals, overall got hit too much. He wouldn’t want to be doing that with the big hitters of the division .
I haven’t seen any replays , all from my seat , up one level , 3 rows back in the main grandstand looking to the centre of the footy ground , probably 50 metres away , spent more time watching the fight on the big screen above the ring than the actual live stuff . And the reality, better view at home in the lounge room .
As a boxing fan , it was spot the boxing celebrities .espn had their media st up directly below us . Plus the walk way to the ringside seats . Tim Bradley, bob arum ( can’t believe he is 90 and still working ) wbc president Mauricio suliaman , haneys girlfriend and team etc , all getting around .
Just good to be at a big boxing event for me. I would go again .
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@kiwiinmelb Yeah I have heard others say the same about live boxing in stadiums. Still, glad you enjoyed the experience and it looks like they'll do it again at the end of the year.
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@African-Monkey wasnt my first time , I was here many years ago .
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Decent read here ( be sure to check out all four ) and a cautionary tale……why do SO many boxers get ripped off by their management team ?
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Even casual fight fans should check this out.
The 70s had the big three……Ali, Foreman and Frazier. I have no doubt it was the best era ever in terms of heavyweights…….however there were any number of other guys around the same time who could have been undisputed champs in any other era. Ken Norton, Earnie Shavers, Jimmy Ellis, George Chuvalo, Jimmy Young, Joe Bugner…….and this guy here, Ron Lyle.
This is a fucken slugfest, NO ONE went toe to toe with Foreman and survived but fuck me this guy came close.
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Usyk v Joshua 2 coming up in the next couple of hours
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Usyk to do him even easier this time round.
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Already been a robbery in the Jack v Rivera fight so Usyk better win well if he wants to get anh favors on the scorecards.
