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it is astonishing that some of the best journalism on boxing can be found in the yearly op of a dead thread in a dead sub of a dead forum. excellent work. write that book. me, i'm looking forward to the antics of the #1 strawweight phenom 'knockout cp freshmart' who is me https://imgur.com/a/PYj2joa
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The Ninth Layer posted:I saw an article claiming Floyd told TMZ he plans to do more bullshit $10 million exhibition fights in Japan sometime in June or July, since those fights are basically risk free paychecks for him compared to having to fight real opponents. I don't know how true this is but yeah lol it sure does sound like a Mayweather move. good for him. he's old as gently caress, has very few lingering questions about how good he really was, and making 10 million with zero risk of head trauma or 36 million for fighting a world class fighter seems like a no brainer.
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jacobs / canello will be good and bud / khan will be a brutal domination but yeah nothing much on the horizon for boxing in 2019. i'm hoping some promising prospects become breakout stars while the current stars are busy marking time. i really want to see that josh kelly kid fight someone competent.
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Yeah you're making hammer at +245 sound like a great bet.
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Apr 11, 2019 22:52
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The SituAsian posted:Yeah what I hear from those who I would say know boxing (and I include our esteemed friend MMM Whatcha Say in that list) is that this while this is close to a pickem on the boxing merits, it is being promoted as the vehicle that launches Shields into a crossover star. So Hammer will have to stop or completely wash Shields to get the win oh, i forgot about boxing. my b. strong bet on shields by points and in case hammer wipes the floor with her i'll hedge with a draw
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Apr 11, 2019 23:32
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mike12345 posted:not sure if this is the right thread, but I'm looking for a book or video that collects peculiar/notworthy fighting techniques from various fighters over the ages. maybe one fighter was famous for a specific defensive technique, another for the way he threw the hook... does something like that exist? I'd be curious. Sorry man don't know any personally, but all these looked good: Probably the least helpful: Boxing Basics: The Techniques and Knowledge Needed to Excel in the Sport of Boxing https://www.amazon.com/Boxing-Basic...WXZ00SNXK4XV8C6 Something probably a bit closer and very specific: Power of the Pros: Striking Techniques of The Greatest, Explained https://www.amazon.com/Power-Pros-S...1D1ACN1DVF5NGRD The next two are more historical collections of amazing fights that will feature all the sick and noteworthy fights: Tales from the Vault: A Celebration of 100 Boxing Closet Classics & AN Illustrated History Of Boxing https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Vault-...SEAH24VTK0JPEN2 https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-History-Boxing-Nat-Fleischer/dp/0806522011
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Apr 14, 2019 01:33
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Golovkin just got booked against Canada's 4th best middleweight. He had a great loving career and will go down as one of the best and most dangerous middleweights ever. Happy to see him getting some low risk high reward wins in before he's gone, sad that he'll never fight anyone of actual substance again.
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Apr 16, 2019 22:20
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there's no way he'd fight canelo again now that he's even slower and more diminished and even if he kicks his rear end again he'll lose. from my perspective the second fight was even more clearly for golovkin than the first (media outlets 10 ggg, 8 draw, 1 canelo for the second fight) and the scorecards were worse. he cannot get a fair fight anywhere in the americas. he could still convincingly bash just about anyone else and convincingly beat the small remainder so i'm fine with him gravy training out.
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basically just doing what fedor did but instead of being in his prime he's in the twilight years of his career. this is boxing's fedor / brett rogers.
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Apr 17, 2019 02:20
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Jose posted:Jesus that's the drug they abandoned testing on rats because it gave them cancer everywhere at once There's less insane ways to get out of getting murdered by Joshua that's for sure. Lol.
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Apr 17, 2019 10:01
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It is genuinely amazing that after dying twice I still feel fury was robbed.
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Apr 30, 2019 08:22
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ggg won both fights unambiguously and crediting canelo with a w in either case is a pity / stan vote. his win against jacobs is good. if he beats smith, i'll forget about the ggg robbery. if he 'beats' smith, gently caress canelo forever and his legacy.
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May 7, 2019 09:32
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The SituAsian posted:Per Akin Reyes (one half of Ak and Barak on DAZN) on the Sirius XM boxing show Errol Spence-Shawn Porter is a done deal. this would have been a great fight 18-24 months ago. as it stands though congrats errol spence on your effortless victory.
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May 10, 2019 23:57
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mikey, what are you doing? hope he's getting paid.
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May 14, 2019 22:09
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i wish inoue had a potential superfight. it was cool thinking about inoue / gonzalez way back when. is rigondeaux retired? is that possible?
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May 19, 2019 22:27
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so loma is fighting a guy named campbell and after looking him up it's a match i'm interested in seeing. loma should still win handily, obviously, but an olympic gold medal and pro experience with the likes of linares indicates to me that campbell is probably good enough to make dominating him impressive. has anyone actually seen him fight? what's your read on the match up?
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May 28, 2019 11:14
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Cigar Aficionado posted:Wilder/Ortiz II has been signed, likely for September 28th. Terrible news obviously, as it means Wilder is tied up for the rest of the year, and it probably also means that Joshua and Fury fight guys like Trevor Bryan and Adam Kownacki next, instead of each-other. this is insane to me. ortiz is a terrible match up for wilder and ortiz almost knocked him the gently caress out in their first fight. i have no idea why wilder wants that again.
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Monday Bandele posted:I think Josh Kelly might get exposed in his step up by the New/Real/Whatever Ray Robinson, he fought like a clown in his last fight against a no hoper and still got hit too much and cut under the eye. good call. did anyone see the fight? this will put the breaks on the hype train for sure.
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also i don't know if anyone watched taylor / persoon just now but it's the best fight i've seen in a long while.
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Jun 2, 2019 02:22
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The SituAsian posted:Idk it was just too sloppy at the end for me. Maybe that's slightly misogynistic of me because I know I'd be losing my poo poo if those were men but it is what is. Close fight but Persoon got robbed eh it is what it is but when two people have been going balls to the wall since the first bell the fact that it's sloppy at the end just adds to the narrative for me. i thought persoon won but it was so close that i can understand the champ getting the nod.
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Jun 2, 2019 02:36
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aj looked uncomfortable as gently caress on the back foot being stalked. he's gotta sort it out lol
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Jun 2, 2019 04:01
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i always wanted to experience a buster / tyson can't stop laughing.
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Jun 2, 2019 04:20
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sportsgenius86 posted:I want Ruiz to unify all the belts. who could stop him except for the best boxer on planet earth joseph parker?
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The Ninth Layer posted:Ruiz also said he specifically wanted Joshua and believed he saw openings he could exploit. he looked to me like he was fully in control of the fight. i've never seen such an effective negation of a reach difference before (live). he seemed to be maintaining a perfect distance from joshua, cutting the ring very effectively and exploding into a range that joshua found extremely uncomfortable at a speed joshua was not ready for. i'm not convinced joshua wins the rematch easily. if he wins it, he'll have been in a fight.
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The Ninth Layer posted:Andy Ruiz says that if AJ wants the rematch in the UK, he wants $50 million. good for him. he brutally knocked out the consensus best heavyweight on a month's notice while working as a part time security guard and looking like a full time security guard. get paid.
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Jun 9, 2019 04:36
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what the gently caress? jesus christ.
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Jun 11, 2019 00:44
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The SituAsian posted:https://twitter.com/DAZN_USA/status/1140009934945431562 to be honest it's been a little while since something this egregious has occurred.
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Jun 16, 2019 02:17
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The Ninth Layer posted:https://youtu.be/Lg2uQ1uoBJU such a dramatic fight. re-watching that i'm actually more ok with the draw despite it being genuinely impossible with competent judges.
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Jun 16, 2019 02:28
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fury looked great. good to see him back in shape. hype as gently caress for fury / wilder 2.
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are you alright? can you continue? yeah i'd like a mojito FINISH HIM
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Hey guys, there's a new belt in the world of boxing and it's got the weirdest rules a belt can have what the gently caress? The SituAsian posted:https://twitter.com/MikeCoppinger/status/1143986170411438081?s=19 what the gently caress?
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The SituAsian posted:As much as I agree with that sentiment-at least the feeling of wanting to see Canelo take another definite loss at this point-I feel he would beat Kovalev. Basically there is no way they would make that fight unless they drained Kovalev down to probably 171 and Sergey has shown weakness to the body before. As crazy as it sounds I would pick Canelo to stop Kovalev in any fight that they make unless it's not a catchweight. If they were to make it the full light-heavyweight limit of 175 and Canelo gets a clean win then really no one could ever really say poo poo about him ever again in good faith. really? because kovalev is washed. and there's rumours that ggg was flooring kovalev in sparring when he was one of the scariest active fighters in the sport. beating kovalev at 175 today is a great achievement but it does not wipe out the two gifts he's received against ggg. callum smith though...
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Cigar Aficionado posted:Tyson Fury is saying that he's signed the contract for a rematch against Deontay Wilder, for February 22nd 2020. gently caress yes.
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Jack B Nimble posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUfIqOZfV8 hey he's back.
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Is Keith Thurman better than that Australian guy whose only attribute is 'pretty tough'? The jury is still out apparently. I'm betting on Thurman.
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yeah i thought that was an auto-loss like puking / making GBS threads yourself.
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i can't imagine what must be going through his head. these things happen sometimes and hell sometimes it's not even down to negligence or incompetence. sometimes.... rip. this sucks.
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personally, i have a fascination with fighting. i've been watching fights basically all of my life and pay money to go and get hit by people better than me. i've fought people in sanctioned fights. according to this article, boxing takes the eleventh spot in a list of sports with most body counts, lagging behind bull fighting, bull riding, jai alai, auto racing, motorcycle racing, skydiving, big wave surfing, loving swimming, cave diving and base jumping. i don't see many fans of swimming having many existential crisis over how many bodies their completely unwatchable sport is racking up. although the bull fighting fans should take a good, long look at themselves. it is an absolute tragedy when a pro fighter dies. i was moody for weeks when that duke roofus amateur kickboxer died due to gross negligence. but i get it. i strongly believe there are few tests of physical skill, endurance, and a litany of intangibles quite like fighting another equally skilled man in the ring. it is precisely because of what they risk that when i see two fighters leave it all in the ring / cage i'm drat near moved to tears (well, since i turned 30 anyway, for some reason). life ends tragically for so many people every day. and so many of those people weren't even doing something they liked, or something that brought them a modicum of respect, or was mourned by so many people they'll never even know. it's not good when a fighter loses their life. my heart goes out to their family. and the next time i see two men fight their hearts out - those deaths, in some small way, adds to my admiration for every person, amateur or professional, that feels like i do about fighting and risks it all to experience the agony and ecstasy i am all for making the sport as safe as we can possibly make it, but i will always want to see the most skillful men on earth have a fight. they risk it all. there's something special about that.
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