Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

No-one watching Burns v Martinez? Has been some struggle, both look dead on their feet, but still rallying for flurries of punches. Burns has been immense and should take it on points if he can stand up for a further minute.

Which he did, and he does.

mayweather's racist anti-pacquiao shit is so fuckin annoying, as is his pseudo-apology (he taped himself with a Chinese woman and a Thai woman and kissed them both - see, how can I be racist when I like these wonderful women?). I don't think pac-man should fight him at all, really, and i worry a little that pacquiao's getting older - which I think is part of mayweather's strategy - put off the fight three years, get pacquiao out of his prime. floyd's conditioning is so spectacular & he's such a natural, and his defense is so hard to penetrate, that he can afford that kind of game. I really think the reasonable response is exactly the high-ish road that pacquiao's been taking.

in other boxing news r.i.p. bob arum's son, sad stuff.

Floyd just destroyed whatever leverage he had.

Wladimir Klitschko (1/5) Samuel Peter (13/2)

hmmmmmn

"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is a philosophical riddle that raises questions regarding observation and knowledge of reality. Alexander T. Jackson, one of the great minds of the 20th century, is quoted as saying, "View points of this riddle differ based on the perceived definition of the word sound, often confused with the definition of the word hearing."

the fat tree fell over fwiw

Klitschko took his time but he eventually broke his punchbag.

dull as fuck

samuel peter kinda admirable tho

admirable aye but honestly they may as well have hung him on a hook

kinda feel the ref is complicit in fiiiiinally getting some action for the crowd even if peter has to get a bit of brain damage too

Yes it should have been stopped once his eye closed (6th round or thereabouts?).

http://www.myspace.com/RagRagBand

^^^ pacquiao's new theme song. I think we can all agree, this is absolutely terrible.

Amir Khan's wee brother Haroon looking quite handy in the Commonwealth Games - stoppage in his first match.

on the commom-people level, I recommend seeing Fred Wiseman's Boxing Gym (filmed at Lord's Gym in Austin) whenever it surfaces on PBS or elsewhere:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/boxing-gym/5059

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDr7M9EpXY8

Thanks for the tip Dr M I'll look out for it.

BBC coverage of boxing at the CG has been shit, they only showed the Khan fight because of his brother.

15 quid for the fraudly vs haye fight. so a pound for every 5 seconds or something?

Ha. I wondered if they'd have the gall to ppv it. Shd make them a tidy 150 quid each, ish.

crazy talk, it's in 3D they'll lap it up

If they were fighting outside my local I'd go back inside when I'd finished my cig.

brian viloria won in Manila the other day, love that dude

also fighting on that card was Wonpichit Twins Gym, whose (adopted) name cracks me up

doesn't quite roll off the tongue like Khaosai Galaxy does it?

Wow at weight difference for Haye vs Harrison - Haye not much over the Cruiserweight limit at 15 stone, Harrison is over 18st.

Strange that Sky haven't thrown the Pacquaio v Maragarito onto the PPV package with the Haye fight - looks like Manny's going to be on regular old Sky Sports 1.

lol Harrison giving it the "good big 'un always beats a good little 'un" trope - playing fast and loose with the "good" bit there.

interesting how the 24/7 has been pushing the "manny is so distracted" angle. i guess they need something to try and portray that this will be a watchable fight. i kinda like maguerito & think hes a tough dude but pacquiaos gonna be way too fast for him right?

I'm dog-sitting for friends who told me I could order the fight on their cable, but I think I'd feel bad wasting their $65 on this. I think I'll watch free UFC and torrent the fight afterward if it's actually good.

"you're shit and you know you are". Pity the fools who paid for that shit.
Haye still isn't that good though. Fraudley must surely retire now.

My brother-in-law was going to order the fight on PPV but was over-ruled by his missus. I just found this out - he could have come round here and paid for it to be on our telly rather than subterfugey internets.

Never even occurred to me to check regular Sky for the earlier fight, was too busy watching X factor :-(

But three rounds for the main event - not really worth the dosh, tbh.

ha, xpost

Manny Pacquaio v Antonio Maragarito on Sky Sp 1 in the middle of the night if you can be arsed staying up. Should be a better fight than the heavyweights - expect the good little 'un will win again.

Oh, thought it was earlier, cared so little I didn't even think to look for a result and find out there wasn't one because it hadn't been on :)

One punch Audley landed, one fucking punch. Pathetic.

Rios representing Oxnard to the fullest at this moment

Who is joining me? Its 4.50am here. Onimo? Jim? Smithy you better still be here!

Here we go..

Manny looks half the size.

Manny might just take him out here in the 4th

That was a great round, but Margarito is one tough cookie. He's cut though, he's gonna have to try knock out Manny quickly. I'm calling a classic 5th round now.

And it is so far

This is great stuff

If only fraudley showed this much heart.

Watching a Sky stream is weird - prefer the announcers, but it's strange to cut to commercial instead of listening in to the corners.

that was another great round , very close too

When Margarito just looks to get on top in a round (esp on the ropes) manny just comes back and Margarito just cant mantain it. But surely someones legs will go even if manny is seemingly clear on points. Manny is the boxer but he's not scared to go toe to toe with a guy much much bigger & stronger.

Whatever the result I think Margarito has gone someway to restore his reputation.

Margarito is taking huge punches here but he's not gonna go down. He's certainly capable of winning this fight. Manny has to box here forget the toe to toe (and he's doing exactly that) Whoever is fittest will win this.

That eye looks shut. fuck me he's a brave guy. He's not out of this. Got manny well ahead on points though.

Great round from Manny, thought it was gonna end there. I reckon Manny is 7 rounds ahead at the end of the 10th