Boxing Thread
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@African-Monkey said in Boxing Thread:
@kiwiinmelb Tank set up Rolly beautifully landjnvvthat left, slipping on the outside of the jab to change the angle before crunching him with a left that not many saw coming.
Wallop
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@African-Monkey yeah I think Tanks skills get over looked with most of the focus being on his power ,he is a great little boxer , some great match ups around that weight , lets hope we get to see more .
Ive scored some free tickets to Kambosis v Haney for this sunday , cant wait
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@kiwiinmelb Yeah Romero was winning rounds, but it was only a matter of time before he walked onto one.
Oh awesome enjoy! Was keen to go over for it myself but my football team Aston Villa are touring Aussie so I decided to go and watch them instead otherwise I would have gone to that too. 3 Kiwis on the card too so get behind the boys!
Would be nice if Tank targeted the winner of this fight funnily enough.
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@African-Monkey said in Boxing Thread:
@kiwiinmelb Yeah Romero was winning rounds, but it was only a matter of time before he walked onto one.
Oh awesome enjoy! Was keen to go over for it myself but my football team Aston Villa are touring Aussie so I decided to go and watch them instead otherwise I would have gone to that too. 3 Kiwis on the card too so get behind the boys!
Would be nice if Tank targeted the winner of this fight funnily enough.
Bit of politics but for Devon to get the fight he had to sign a 3 fight deal with top rank , if he wins the first one he has to do the rematch , I reckon bob will be lining him up with loma with all the belts on the line if he wins twice , keeping it in-house .
If George wins he can do as he pleases , I wouldnt be surprised if he fights Ryan Garcia , I think it will be the easier option for now that will still pay well. .
Yeah i see Faa , Hemi and David nyika are fighting on the undercard , should be awesome
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@kiwiinmelb Yes Haney did sign with Bob for this fight specifically and yes, he will try and put Loma in with Haney should Haney stay at 135. He has stated that he is looking at going to 140 very soon as he struggles to make weight.
Kambosos and Garcia will struggle to be made as their promoters DiBella and De La Hoya hate each other, similar to Bob and Al Haymon.
It would be nice if all of the 135 division was signed to the one promoter similar to the boys at 147. We'd see a lot more fights made thats for sure.
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AJ has allegedly teamed up with Robert Garcia as his coach to prepare him for Usyk , interesting choice
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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 .
