Boxing Thread
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@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
@Crucial said in Boxing Thread:
Who need elite. He averages $1M (US) a fight and much more against the second tier. Even as a gateway fighter he probably nets a few million a year. I'd take that.
I get what you mean but seriously, how much would he have made fighting the guy he just fought ? Such a step down from Joshua/Joyce etc.
Presumably he needed to show off his improved ring attitude and lined up a bum to do it. Fury turning up pointed to the team looking at Oz as a market and he did a good sales job. It wouldn't surprise me at all if a decent fight emerges from an Oz promoter. Fury dropping hints about fighting there (even as a warm up) would attract eyes and dollars plus a better opponent for Joe on the undercard. No one at the top wants to fight Fury but there are a couple of guys that might fancy a rematch.
He surely has to reposition himself (which looks like what they are doing). He isn't the contender to get past at the moment and those wanting to be contenders are wary of him. Someone will roll the dice and take him on. I reckon someone like Sanchez needs a 'name' fight.
I reckon they are trying to set him up with Ruiz somehow. The attraction for Ruiz is overcoming the black mark on his CV that was Joe.
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@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
The guy he just fought doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page.
Oh shit I just realized I can't be an elite boxer!
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@nostrildamus said in Boxing Thread:
@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
The guy he just fought doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page.
Oh shit I just realized I can't be an elite boxer!
Na don’t sweat it. Send me your details and I’ll make up a page for you. I’ll also pad out your record with some imaginary bouts against made up fighters ( they’ll have Wikipedia pages too ) and we’ll get you a title fight in no time.
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@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
Na don’t sweat it. Send me your details and I’ll make up a page for you. I’ll also pad out your record with some imaginary bouts against made up fighters ( they’ll have Wikipedia pages too ) and we’ll get you a title fight in no time.
Thank fudge for that! I was worried I might need to develop skill, fitness, and toughness!
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@nostrildamus said in Boxing Thread:
@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
Na don’t sweat it. Send me your details and I’ll make up a page for you. I’ll also pad out your record with some imaginary bouts against made up fighters ( they’ll have Wikipedia pages too ) and we’ll get you a title fight in no time.
Thank fudge for that! I was worried I might need to develop skill, fitness, and toughness!
Na fuck that, we’ll just fudge the page and also mention your incredible strength, technique, mobility, showmanship and heart.
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On Parker , while it feels like he has been around forever now , he is only 31 and apart from the Joyce fight , has escaped any real beatings ,
I think he is in this for business, by all reports he has been pretty smart with his money and is well set up , and while title aspirations are probably out of reach,at the same time the division doesn’t bat that deep .you only have to look at fury and Joshua’s last opponents to see they were lower ranked than joe , he might still sneak in a few more paydays and line his super before hanging them up .
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@Duluth interesting scenario developing . He has been Charlos ( jermell) mandatory for some time . They paid him step aside money while Charlo unified the belts at 154 . Then Charlo develops an injury that requires surgery and needs time out . Meanwhile Tim stays active , has fought and beat other top contenders in convincing fashion.
If we go right back to the start I didn’t give Tim much of a chance to be honest , just thought he was over his head , now with the improvement he has shown and Charlo being inactive, this is developing into a 50/50 imo . -
It's on like Donkey Kong
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@MiketheSnow Wish Fury would go away and be stripped of his title. His blatant ducking of Usyk is a disgrace and now he's resorting to this rubbish.
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@African-Monkey said in Boxing Thread:
@MiketheSnow Wish Fury would go away and be stripped of his title. His blatant ducking of Usyk is a disgrace and now he's resorting to this rubbish.
The fact it’s in Saudi who want to put the fight on, gives me a glimmer of hope.
We also have Aj v Whyte ( bit risky for aj with the wilder fight on the horizon)
Usyk v DuboisCrawford v Spence the big one ,
Canelo fighting jermell and signing a 3 fight deal with pbc gives us hope for a benevidoz showdown.
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@kidcalder said in Boxing Thread:
Also Zhang v Joyce 2 should be a decent scrap to look forward to.
Lock me in for that. I still can’t believe the previously indestructible looking Joyce actually lost the first one !
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@kiwiinmelb Hopefully we see AJ v Wilder once he gets Whyte out of the way and as Fury clearly doesn't want anything to do with Usyk, we'll probably see him up against Hrgovic as a mandatory.
Problem for Usyk is the Fury fight is the only fight out there for him, he's too good for everyone else and doesn't really need to be wasting time fighting anyone else.
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@African-Monkey said in Boxing Thread:
@kiwiinmelb Hopefully we see AJ v Wilder once he gets Whyte out of the way and as Fury clearly doesn't want anything to do with Usyk, we'll probably see him up against Hrgovic as a mandatory.
Problem for Usyk is the Fury fight is the only fight out there for him, he's too good for everyone else and doesn't really need to be wasting time fighting anyone else.
Wilder would beat Usyk.
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@MN5 Lol yeah nah. As much as I like Wilder, Usyk is far too cleaver and slick for Wilder's one straight right hand and would easily avoid it for 12 rounds.
Glass jawed Artur Szpilka gave Wilder fits before Wilder landed one in the 9th and he ain't anywhere near Usyk's class so yeah, Usyk ain't getting beaten by anybody.
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@African-Monkey said in Boxing Thread:
@MN5 Lol yeah nah. As much as I like Wilder, Usyk is far too cleaver and slick for Wilder's one straight right hand and would easily avoid it for 12 rounds.
Glass jawed Artur Szpilka gave Wilder fits before Wilder landed one in the 9th and he ain't anywhere near Usyk's class so yeah, Usyk ain't getting beaten by anybody.
You’re probably right but Wilder is ALWAYS a punchers chance. More so than anyone else in the division. Massive heart too as he showed in the third fight vs Fury.
