Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

this fucking guy

This Crawford/Spence confrontation at the Hooker fight last night is actually pretty cute and heartwarming

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqRV2p2ATcR/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=155spfc88d9v3

I prayed for death on a daily basis … I woke up and thought why didn’t I die in my sleep … I tried to drink myself to death. I attempted to crash into a bridge one time.

fuck him up tyson

Fury is fucking terrible, I don't understand why anybody thinks otherwise.

A good rise and fall and rise story will lead people to overlook a lot

As it were

https://deadspin.com/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-tyson-fury-boxings-most-1830718880

I haven't seen enough of Wilder tbh but the prospect of Tyson bumbling and missing his way thru even one round is not enough to make me stay up. You're right about the back story Hoos and the logic of it makes me think he might even win this somehow.

I'm rooting for him as the better fighter making a comeback from a relatable rock bottom period, but yeah, there's no excusing his worst public moments.

My trainer the other day was taking over/unders and, in giving the uninitiated a rundown, said "Wilder punches like an idiot...but an idiot that can knock you out"

Imma be at the bar like Tyson please hit him and not yourself

Wilder completely loses control and looks like a two year old flailing around, I cannot support that go Tyson

Fury and Wilder are good names for fighters though.

Fury - Klitschko is probably the worst title fight I've ever seen

I have not watched the whole thing tbh -- its just boring I take it

At the time I said "I've been to poetry readings where more punches were thrown"

fury some ways the better fighter

ive been thinking a bit recently about the modern need to hold public figures to account for every unpalatable opinion and how that maps to somebody with tyson fury's background and i decided fuck it

Otm

Also yo I don't see any discussion upthread of Canelo GGG 2 but that's all online now and damn that was a compelling fight

listened to some v good podcast discussion on the buildup and eh yeah forgot to catch it ffs

My objections to Fury are all boxing-related tbh

ok but set against wilder and he looks like a phd in the sweet science tbh

i put some of wilder up on the tv earlier and swear to fuck one of his misses knock a lamp off my mantelpiece

lol

fury has said some really horrible and objectionable shit. he is a really powerful advocate for mental health awareness though, do give him some respect for that

and he can box

wilder seems like a deep down decent dude but he flails so much. money's on fury gassing and then getting clocked a belter

And like if anybody can outmaneuver Wilder's anti-aircraft right it's the dude whose movement confuses people

Hoos there's some Canelo GGG 2 talk right above my Inoue revive

The real fight everyone wants to see is Spence vs Crawford, which will happen eventually. I can hardly even imagine a more compelling fight, but then I thought that about Loma vs Rigondeaux lmao

I bit the bullet but this is pretty good

Fantastic fight

where can I re-screen

lmao at fury getting up from the second knockdown. looked like the undertaker

OK maybe should have stayed up

What a fuckin ending

never seen someone escape airplane mode so fast

The shutdown/restart sound effects though lol

https://www.twitter.com/MojahedFudailat/status/1069256788548247552

holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2emS52tdINY

For my money it's Naseem Hamed, he was absolutely freakish

wow did not know hbo was bowing out of boxing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjdnJPENitM

I hope Lampley doesn't disappear. Larry Merchant, otoh... (he's 87 so it's probably final bell for him)

i legitimately am warmed by how often lampley seems to cry

lol

Funny, that's what i said when i heard

Rounds 3 and 7 amazing stuff. So awesome for Mexico

James Corden to play Ruiz in the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT08TA_FeH0

WHAT IS oCCCCCCURRING IN THERE?!?!?

LOL "No...I heard the bell!"

that is fucked up

what a mess

last night i was on youtube playing old fights while i half paid attention and letting the algo pick, and so was just super entranced by the last exciting round of Chavez vs. Taylor II before it got to the final seconds and the angle on the ref suddenly clues me in that I've seen the very end of this fight before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgenYK7VaxY

but i'd totally forgotten it was coming and it felt like i was reacting to it in real time, just shocked!! which gave it a whole extra level of fun. an unbelievable if safe ending.

YOU'RE GONNA WATCH LOU DUVA GO CRAZY NOW
YOU'RE GONNA WATCH LOU DUVA GO ABSOLUTELY BERSERK

sit down