Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

So on ITV's cards, Pascal needs the knockout now.

Aye Pascal is reduced to throwing haymakers in hope rather than expectation. Still dangerous all the same.

hey william did j ross go home empty handed?

Sort of, except I think he was already at home. Not as comedy entertaining as Alan Carr, apparently.

And they've made it to round twelve! How?

Froch's mum looks like she'd be pretty handy, too.

terrific fight, cant believe it went the distance. Reckon froch dominated the 2nd half of the fight and won by 3 or 4 rounds. But both looked like world champions.

Must be Froch, surely. Don't think he'd fancy a re-match.

Best fight in a long long time. Awesome it was on ITV so everyone can see it.

Heckuva fight, no idea how to score that last round, but I think Froch's later rounds were that much better that he must have it. Surely there'll be a rematch, though. (Probably on Setanta)

"From NUTTINGAM!"

8 rounds on one card? lol

And Mikkel Kessler's still got the WBA strap, too.

Absolute classic, I could watch that again and again. Must be in the top 10 of fights I've seen.

McGuigan reeling off that list of potential fights for Froch did make things sound very exciting.

Pascal very classy in defeat too. Hope he gets another crack at a belt - given that Lucian Bute's the IBF champion...

Pascal looked like a world champ. That's how great Froch was.

Fancy Froch vs Calzaghe?

Not sure he's a big enough name yet for it to be an offer Calzaghe can't refuse. I'd say Kessler should be next for Froch - that gives him and Calzaghe a common opponent, and, if Froch can beat him well, it gives him a point to needle Joe with.

Can't see Joe going back down to Super Middle and I think Froch will want to stay there.

Froch and Kessler both look to have great chins, could be as good as the Froch vs Pascal fight.

Ring magazine has these five rated above Froch:

1. Mikkel Kessler
Country: Denmark
Record: 41-1-0 (31 KOs)
Ranking: This Week: #1 | Last Week: #1 | Weeks On List: 209
Titles: WBA

2. Lucian Bute
Country: Romania
Record: 23-0-0 (18 KOs)
Ranking: This Week: #2 | Last Week: #2 | Weeks On List: 139
Titles: IBF

3. Librado Andrade
Country: Mexico
Record: 27-2-0 (21 KOs)
Ranking: This Week: #3 | Last Week: #3 | Weeks On List: 181

4. Anthony Mundine
Country: Australia
Record: 34-3-0 (23 KOs)
Ranking: This Week: #4 | Last Week: #4 | Weeks On List: 324

5. Jermain Taylor
Country: USA (Little Rock, Ark.)
Record: 28-2-1 (17 KOs)
Ranking: This Week: #5 | Last Week: #5 | Weeks On List: 42

Just read through this thread for first time in a while - a few good calls (Calzaghe/Hopkins) and a few ridiculous ones "I think Roy Jones would take his (Calgazhe's) head off."

Strange that Khan being wrecked by Prescott didn't make the thread.

From an ABC story on De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao (TKO in 9th round):

Fighthype.com's score cards had Pacquiao winning, 80-72, throughout eight rounds. Compubox indicators also showed that Pacquiao landed 195 out of 333 power punches compared to de la Hoya's 51/164.

iow, 4:1 punches landed == not much of a fight. too bad. Oscar should retire now.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/53814/original.jpg

are you serious???

he looks like he's wearing a fat suit

I think it's more depressing that he's reduced to hosting at the National Video Game Awards or whatever the fuck it was.

Hayve vs Vitali fight is off

Haye

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7816556.stm

He's trying to get Wladimir though

"as long as I get to beat up somebody in that family, I'm fine"

Amir Khan will face seven-time world champion Marco Antonio Barrera on 14 March.

whaaaaaaaaaa?

wait what

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jyXekN-xdn9VTdEjb8rrYeTkEMwQ

was very surprised berto got the decision vs collazo

man seeing margarito get his ass beat was great

who cares, the FEDOR v ARLOVSKI fight was tonight!!!!! spoiler: it owned

Reg Gutteridge R.I.P.

man seeing margarito get his ass beat was great

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RIP Ingemar Johansson

drudgesiren.gif Undefeated world super-middleweight and light-heavyweight champion Joe Calzaghe has retired from boxing drudgesiren.gif

wau @ juan manuel marquez

Just watched the Marquez fight on youtube. The accuracy in his punching for the two knock-downs was unbelievable.

Final round:

Khan vs Barrera is on. Listening on 5live. Barrera has a bad cut apparently so i dont think its gonna last long, khan on top.

It's all Khan, hes won every round apparently. Still it only takes one punch..

its over

tko

cut

but he sounds as though he was hammering him anyway so it doesnt matter really. Khan haters (there's loads on 606) will still say how Barrera was past it etc

It doesnt matter if you dont have a chin if you dont get it

*Hit

Actually its gone to a technical decision on points