Boxing Thread
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Different class
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Lots of wisdom here from Virgil hunter
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Paul v Diaz
Entertaining watch
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Fury is bloody entertaining and great for the sport even if he is full of shit and contradictory a lot of the time ie saying he’s the best ever when he said Mike Tyson would have knocked him out in 30 seconds a few months prior……
……and it is baffling a guy in that kind of condition ( granted he slims down for actual fights ) is on top of the world.
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Bugger…..
The guy that looked so formidable against Joseph Parker has been brought down to earth again…….
Zhilei Zhang delivers brutal KO on Joe Joyce AGAIN
JEFF POWELL AT WEMBLEY ARENA: The short journey from Putney to Wembley ended with Joe Joyce a heap on the floor. Down in less than three rounds and out of the big-time reckoning.
Will either Fury or Joshua take up the challenge I wonder ?
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Joyce is a difficult opponent for most but a classic example of a one dimensional fighter meeting a fighter with a style that is all wrong him and he doesn’t have the answers .
But boy , zhang has some heavy hands
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@kiwiinmelb said in Boxing Thread:
Joyce is a difficult opponent for most but a classic example of a one dimensional fighter meeting a fighter with a style that is all wrong him and he doesn’t have the answers .
Look at the weights they both came in at, talk about Super Heavyweights.
You’re right, every fighter has their own personal boogyman. Joyce has found his.
Zhang is obviously a powerhouse though, dropping him with one punch when Parker couldn’t really hurt him.
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@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
Bugger…..
The guy that looked so formidable against Joseph Parker has been brought down to earth again…….
Zhilei Zhang delivers brutal KO on Joe Joyce AGAIN
JEFF POWELL AT WEMBLEY ARENA: The short journey from Putney to Wembley ended with Joe Joyce a heap on the floor. Down in less than three rounds and out of the big-time reckoning.
Will either Fury or Joshua take up the challenge I wonder ?
6'6 40 year old south paw Chinese boxer in the top 4 boxers, don't often see that.
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@kiwiinmelb It really has been a cherry pick gone wrong, like David Price v Tony Thompson10 years back. Nowhere to go now for Joyce sadly, whilst Zhang surely goes in with Usyk next.
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@nostrildamus said in Boxing Thread:
@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
Bugger…..
The guy that looked so formidable against Joseph Parker has been brought down to earth again…….
Zhilei Zhang delivers brutal KO on Joe Joyce AGAIN
JEFF POWELL AT WEMBLEY ARENA: The short journey from Putney to Wembley ended with Joe Joyce a heap on the floor. Down in less than three rounds and out of the big-time reckoning.
Will either Fury or Joshua take up the challenge I wonder ?
6'6 40 year old south paw Chinese boxer in the top 4 boxers, don't often see that.
I know.
It’s a bit scary to think 6 4 Joseph Parker is considered too small to bang with these big boppers.
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Another in a long line of very average British heavyweights
It looked like a pub fight with some young Turk calling out the bouncer who’s been on the doors for 20 years
We’ve all seen how that ends up
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@MiketheSnow said in Boxing Thread:
**Another in a long line of very average British heavyweights
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It looked like a pub fight with some young Turk calling out the bouncer who’s been on the doors for 20 yearsWe’ve all seen how that ends up
He looked the goods to me from what I saw until recently.
The way he plowed through anything Parker could offer was pretty ominous.
But as I said perhaps thats a reflection on JPs place in the pecking order ?
Fury has been pretty dismissive of the current heavyweight scene but you wonder if he fears a massive, awkward, southpaw hard hitter ?
Interesting times ahead.
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@MiketheSnow The poms could only dream of having a Joe Calzaghe like talent couldn't they 😉
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i Cant believe the money Fury is allegedly going to be earning to fight Usyk ,
And i Cant believe how sharp Bob still is at 91 years of age
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@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
Fury has been pretty dismissive of the current heavyweight scene but you wonder if he fears a massive, awkward, southpaw hard hitter ?
I have to hand it to Fury, I thought he was more of a canny dancer with great agility for such a huge man but he's also proved he's pretty durable.
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going to be an interesting fight ,
Usyk is technically close to perfect and a southpaw ,and fury has had issues with them
Fury is no slouch technically himself and a monster of a man size wise,
Interesting how a heavyweight at 6 foot 3 and just over 100 kilos is considered small in modern times
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@kiwiinmelb said in Boxing Thread:
going to be an interesting fight ,
Usyk is technically close to perfect and a southpaw ,and fury has had issues with them
Fury is no slouch technically himself and a monster of a man size wise,
Interesting how a heavyweight at 6 foot 3 and just over 100 kilos is considered small in modern times
Yeah that’s more or less how big guys like Ali, George Foreman, Ken Norton, Cleveland Williams, Ron Lyle etc were.
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@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
@kiwiinmelb said in Boxing Thread:
going to be an interesting fight ,
Usyk is technically close to perfect and a southpaw ,and fury has had issues with them
Fury is no slouch technically himself and a monster of a man size wise,
Interesting how a heavyweight at 6 foot 3 and just over 100 kilos is considered small in modern times
Yeah that’s more or less how big guys like Ali, George Foreman, Ken Norton, Cleveland Williams, Ron Lyle etc were.
in Rumble of the Jungle Ali was 6 '3 and 98 kilos George 6'4 and 104 . usyk was 6'3 and 100 kilos against joshua,
So he is like a throwback in some regards.
I guess its comparable to all other contact type sports , if you looked at the allblacks then compared to now, you would see a similar thing , maybe even more so , some of the forwards are monstors now .
