Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

yeah wtf haye be a man and just go on the offensive

offensive like his ugly arse shorts

Ruiz looks pretty much done but you have to admire the guy for not taking a backward step.

how did that hare/tortoise fable end

noodle vague image bombed it

hare: u got sonned blud looool
tortoise: ;_;

not like Haye is the most exciting fighter in the world but thank God for a Ruiz L

Never in doubt tbh.

Dear David Haye,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_punch

Because this is a potentially fatal blow, the rabbit punch is illegal in boxing

Regards,
onimo

haye seems an unlikely hweight champ, he seems more charmed trickster than dull psychopath, you feel that if he did ever get hurt he'd find it difficult to come back

i guess he upped his psycho credentials a little tonight though

anything that keep Ruiz from scaring potential fans away is a positive imo

Ruiz fights worse than watching paint dry x10000

Haye will never beat the Klitschkos fighting like this, which makes me think the plan is to never fight them.

Haye's quite late to the division and I think he's felt a few heavyweight punches and decided to be a bit more circumspect in attack. Anyone with a bit of talent and power will stop him.

this hopkins/jones undercard has been pretty limp so far

hopefully mora brings something but I'm not holding my breath

whoa no sooner do I complain than green-mora round 2 completely slays! complaining on ilx works...who knew?

round 3 also great - this is a proper match

green extremely game in round 4 but mora like a fucking tidal wave - whole flurry of unanswered blows but green refused to clutch. green's punches are starting to lose steam tho

fucking GREAT fight

Mora relentless in round 5, buckled Green's knees at one point but Green is seriously on some I-will-not-fall stuff, like Frank Fletcher from way back - this is crazy but it can't last, he's gotta go in the next round or two

nothing on Green's punches in round 6. cornermen should think about calling it a night imo

stopped after too many unanswered punches in round 7. no knockdown. killer match

i enjoyed your live blogging , j0hn

thanks H! there's two more fights, I'll be here

post-fight mic-audible-in-the-house interview is a weird thing - makes the fights feel like reality TV, which no-one will be surprised to learn is not a direction I'm eager to see more of, even if the Contender is what gave us Mora

Angel Hernandez scarfing down punches all through round 1
down twice & out in round two, Reynard W TKO
decent action but a mismatch

Ray Narh, I mean

Litzau v. Juarez coming up - I like Juarez but he's a full head shorter than Litzau

It's probably a bit late to stay up for. Wonder if ESPN or Sky have it on here

did you guys know Mandalay Bay is the casino that has an indoor beach, well it does

Nope not on here it seems

lol Litzau is from St. Paul & his nick is "the All American Boy"

holds the NABF title but then I'm pretty sure I have an NABF title in some class or other

'savage beatdown division'

LJ's post there just reminds me of shit like cagefighting and how popular its getting and it just depresses me.

can't let it bother you imo - people like what they like, as long as there's boxing I'm happy

juarez litzau round 1 was a snoozefest

what worries me is that the more popular it gets the more money the fighters make then kids will get into it to make more money and the whole thing snowballs and boxing goes into decline and it's not on TV anymore. UFC has already taken a LOT of boxing fans away.

well boxing has barely been on tv at all over here for years, so the thinking goes if you can get people to watch dudes beating on each other, they might also be interested in boxing. and I agree with that. room at the table for multiple fighting sports imo

Boxing needs a couple of great exciting heavyweights to come along as that's been lacking for a good while now.
Middleweights always been my fave division, any good up and coming middleweights around?

Yeah same here j0hn, its sat/digital only mostly. And as soon as any fighter gets popular it's then PPV so hardly anyone ever sees the fights.

I miss all those big fights on sat evenings on the BBC & ITV I grew up watching in the 80s.

announcers insisting that litzau "is a showman" but conceding he "hasn't shown it yet" - fight meanwhile is like watching the hour hand on a fucking clock

middleweights? nobody I know of. edwin valero is the fun guy to watch right now, he's a lightweight, also I am a huge abner mares stan - undefeated bantamweight outta jalisco, really great

round 7 of juarez-litzau a surprising round of good boxing after 6 styleless exercises

round 8 - headbutts, blood, desperation - not as good as 7, these guys do not have really good styles

fight stopped by cut between rounds

litzau by decision - something pretty stinky about the stoppage, it was a fresh cut & they hadn't given the corner a chance to try and fix it

ok, huge lol as Hopkins enters the ring, in his executioner, to some redone version of "My Way" sung as "His Way"

but through it all/when there was doubt/he stepped in the ring/and knocked 'em out

not making this up

I have seen some dumb entrance music in my time but a personalized version of "my way" is really the living end

At least he wasn't singing?

I would pay to hear Hopkins sing! He has a great speaking voice

first two rounds not looking like much - cautious chessplay. these guys are gonna get winded fast though

Are there bathchairs in the corner instead of stools?

fans are booing but I don't know what they expected from Hopkins, who is playing his super-technical game