Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

I scored this so wrong, I had 15-12 Hopkins.

N.B. I know nothing about boxing but watch every big fight and at least I wasn't drunk this time.

you saw 27 rounds? You didn't half score it wrong!

Haha, 115-112 even, or was it 115-111? Anyway it was heavy wrong.

I had Hopkins with all a 40-35 lead after four rounds so it's hard to see how anyone could give it to Joe by more than a couple of points, particularly with Hopkins having his fair share of the last three.

As I see it Calzaghe didn't "finish Bernard Hopkins" as he claimed and Hopkins certainly didn't "take Calzaghe to school" as he claimed.

Calzaghe was the more adventurous fighter for most of the fight and Hopkins was cagey enough to prevent Calzaghe having much of an impact.

Both of them have had their best successes as counter-punchers. It didn't suit Joe to go forward and Hopkins never had any intention of going forward so it didn't make for a good fight.

i don't think either one acquitted himself very well. this was my first time seeing cal - dude's pretty dirty, even in contrast with hopkins. his swings are incredibly amateurish. if bhop had more than one speed he could've run away with the fight in the second half - overall he landed less but i thought when he did land his shots were a lot cleaner. cal couldn't hurt him at all, he was just slapping away at bhop the whole time. i don't have a problem with the decision, it was a close enough fight, but calzaghe came off like an incredible punk.

Thank god Hopkins and Hatton could never match weight.

Of course he came off like an incredible punk, he's a boxer.

Junior Witter RIP, heaven needed someone to focus more on Ricky Hatton than the dude he's actually supposed to be fighting.

Steady lollin' at Froch's ring entrance as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJS-HttWeio

"I'm the best light welterweight in the world"

He's calls out to the crowd "How many of you want to see me fight Ricky Hatton" - all 17 of them say "YES!"

Let's get it on!

British boxing: pretty good for a nation of white people that isn't Russia. Or Germany. Or Denmark.

Having said that, Froch's beating this Polish OAP into a coma at the moment, so it's not all :-(

I missed the fight, forgot all about it.

Aye, a good old-fashioned pummeling there. xpost

We have a new world champion http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7402980.stm

So Hatton wins. Anyone pay to see it or go to pub to watch it? (i didnt)

Sopcasted it. I think it may be safe to say Hatton will never be a P4P top 10 fighter ever again. His inside work looked like shit and he's quite clearly not gonna be able to keep up the pro-ana weight loss routines before every fight from now on.

He will make a fortune from another Mayweather fight, which is probably the only thing that keeps him going.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7422638.stm

That fucking guy...

they showed it on versus (free cable) here in the states and it was the most boring fukkin thing ive ever seen.

ugh as soon they mentioned welshman gary lockett i knew this fight would be fucking MURDAH

Dom, have you seen this?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44737000/jpg/_44737849_7ac0306f-9372-4c44-9818-83c6ebfb09a6.jpg

anybody who doesn't want to punch this guy in the face is dead inside

haha true

So another Amir Khan fight..

Michael Gomez: sombrero, Irish flag, introduced as "Manchester's Own".

Utter massacre

khan down

belter of a fight this

Lovin' Gomez already. Please tell me his day job is as bouncer for some really rough estate pub.

what a combination from khan there

gomez down now

khan wins. what a fight

Khans inexperience showed, but his brilliance won in the end. Don't think that will be enough to win a world title yet though.

That was great

and we're back for one last Calzaghe fight. What time are we expecting them in the ring?

I dreamt last week that Calzaghe took Jones out in the first round. So not gonna happen.
I'm going for Calzaghe with a very late stoppage.

oops. Calzaghe with as good a start as he made against Hopkins.

Then wins the next 11 rounds. Good fight but neither boxer at his best. Calzaghe seems to have lost a bit of power or he's protecting his dodgy hands. Jones seems to have lost a bit of everything.

Rematch in Cardiff or Joe's retirement?

Rematch in Cardiff, because then I won't have to give up in a pathetic attempt to keep my eyes open until early o'clock.

David Haye fight on Setanta NOW

Prediction: Haye KO 4

Decent scrap this

BANG!

It has to be over

Cant believe the ref didnt stop that

Saved by the bell.

Looks like dom's prediction is on

That was a slip