Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

Lara vs. Williams tonight, I think Williams's first after the savage KO by Martinez?

anybody watching Antillon-Rios right now? looks like the better choice than Williams-Lara. Cintron looked sluggish and uninspired in the undercard fight, lost by unanimous decision.

well, if you missed round 1 of Antillon-Rios, you missed one of the best rounds of the year. Jesus! rock-em sock-em stuff.

holy shit all boxing hands on deck for this one this is like the olympic auditorium in the 70s. two full rounds of non-stop banging.

rios is nasty

well it's over now but it's nice to see a hit-and-hit-back fight, fucking A. everybody goin nuts.

I'm flipping over to Williams-Lara but there is just no way it can measure up

williams is just a huge target & gets hit way too much

Margarito in street clothes in Rios's corner...dude does the sleazy look better than pretty much anybody

Lara-Williams is ok Rios-Antillon was just...that was fucking great.

Paul Williams given a joke of a decision against Lara. Everybody in the building knows Lara destroyed him, everybody's completely disgusted.

wow i had turned that off b4 the decision

rios' punches seemed hard as hell & was kinda walking thru antillons shots

antillon caught him with good stuff imo, it's just that rios is pretty unshakeable right now - he's got pac-like intensity

teddy atlas going OFF about the wms-lara decision on FNF right now

damn you guys this wolak-rodriguez fight on espn2 is some fast and good action

wolak's winning but his eye is so swollen it's completely grotesque

like, you can see it on the overhead shots

holy fuck this fight

seriously nobody else saw that? you guys, damn

Turned it on waiting for the poker coverage -- dude looks like a Ferengi.

this was Gatti-Ward level action, just nuts, except Wolak refused to actually bleed

majority draw & a correct decision imo. post-fight interview all class from both guys. teddy atlas going nuts praising both fighters, invited them to rematch on espn while noting that he doesn't actually have the power to offer that. wolak's eye swollen so huge he looked like something from the eye of the beholder twilight zone ep., just horrifyingly/comically huge (ymmv, it was horrifying until you hear him talking, he doesn't seem any more than irked about it)

great great great fight

more fighting on showtime right now in case anybody's wanting more - nabf jr. lightweight championship, magdaleno v. perez

i miss cable

Aerosmith vs Thread was better than Klitschko-Haye. I was off the Internet watching the fight in a pub full of English Haye fans who by the end were, like me, hoping Haye didn't land a lucky shot as he didn't deserve a fucking thing. If you're going to what is essentially your opponent's home territory and aiming to take two belts from him you've got to do more than run and hide, throw five wild swings and fall over a lot (well done to the ref on deciding to fuck with Haye by counting him on one of those btw). Can't criticise Wlad too much as he convincingly won almost every round but I honestly thought Haye was there for the taking and that Wlad was pissed off enough with the pre-fight shit to have gone for it.

thought it was amusing that jim defended klitsch with the old defence for mourinhoish football teams like 'u can only beat whats in front of u/ got the job done' given he's ilx' biggest barcelona fan

wlad could and should have ended the torpor and torn into him with intent

I am at most a casual boxing fan but if a regular ILF poster was all 'fuck this shit, they should be ashamed, Puskás would've had five' after some unexceptional 1-0 Madrid win, he'd probably get baited a little as well.

aerosmith was just a lil hyperbolic but it was a really boring fight

two remedial looking fuckers are hitting each other on sky right now

is it good? Was half considering tbh but duty calls elsewhere

id stay with georgia salpa if i were u

mitchell likely to finish it next round

swapped gs back for ms mac tbh, i'm a sucker for her risotto.

hmmn should have put cash on that xp

hey aerosmith, funny that you rage about how bad a fight is one week then totally praise a pre-mendozesque scrap a week after that as if that was meant to be boxing :p

if you say so champ

People who watch boxing boxing disagree with jim in glasgow

haha, was trolling a bit there. was a great fight to watch.

lol cheers

actual lol, I was in full "WHAT HOW DARE YOU SIR" mode here

to be real though dudes needed to work on their defense!

it's true but guys who can take a punch (i.e. guys who will be staggering around seeing everything double when they're 48) don't need it - it's refreshing to see guys answer the bell and go straight to the middle of the ring

Brian "the Hawaiian Punch" Viloria took the WBO title last night, once against demonstrating the fearsome power of a kick-ass nickname

However, the fight was in Honolulu and the scoring looks really, really fishy

So... Chisora v Fury is getting underway shortly on Channel 5. Anyone watching?

It seems really weird having Mark Pougatch and his massive glasses presenting something on telly.

Celebrities the cameras have zoomed in on ringside: Stacey Solomon, Shane Richie, Max Clifford.

Chisora appears to have amended his entry music to make it a bit more racist towards Irish dudes. Hmm. Yeah, this is gonna be fucking strange.

David Essex also seems to be ringside, I think this means all of the Moons off EastEnders are there. For I do not know what reason, the ring introductions are being read in both English and French.

Oh look, there's Spoony.

"Let's have a listen to the Fury corner" - cut to ad break.

OK, that second round was rather good. Fury winning at range, til Chisora properly rattled him with a left hook, then caught him with a monster right later on. One round apiece, very intriguing now.