Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

the Teddy Atlas Fight Plan segment of Friday Night Fights is the greatest thing in the history of television btw

fast-moving but not terribly eventful round 1 in Rodriguez-Theophane

not watched a fight in ages actually. Any biggies coming up soon?

tomorrow is Marquez-Diaz II - Diaz is a reliably fun fighter to watch, real game head-down pounder, Marquez is a monster vet who I think handed Diaz his first loss last time around. Klitschko meets Peter on September 11th if you get off on watching half-asleep Russians beat up fat guys.

interesting bout going on between rodriguez & theophane right now meanwhile - rodriguez is the better fighter, longer reach & better fight plan, but theophane is the game little dude, who doesn't enjoy a game little dude, and instead of getting in close he throws huge looping rights from way downtown, two of which have connected

rodriguez will win but this is kinda fun

I'll check and see if the fights on sky. sometimes US PPV fights are free here on sky sports as noone would pay to watch. I hate it when its on PPV though. we get ESPN free with sky sports package so its better when it's on there!

I know about PPV being free in other countries - several times I've been away from home on business and ended up seeing big-ticket fights for free

great innit?

split decision for theophane, to the disgust of ESPN announcers and most of the crowd...oklahoma is where Holyfield used to go to find a doctor who'd give him to the OK to take another fight, just sayin'

holy shit patrick lopez just threw like 300 punches in 3/4 of a round

lopez over brewer via tko/stoppage

avila fiora a four-round brawl! amazing!

majority draw

crowd really hates it but the fight really was a draw

pascal/chad dawson fight has been p dope

man there is a great card on espn2 right now - despaigne vs paines dropping bombs on each other right now

that wasnt much of a fight, the one after only lasted 1 min 48 seconds though, lol

yeah I expected fights 2 and 3 to last a hell of a lot longer. did enjoy despaigne vs. paines though, nice style clash

Haye vs Ordinary Harrison

Jesus fucking Chrissssszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Dunno I think I'd quite enjoy Audley taking another beating or Haye being found out vs a limited fighter. Either way at least one of them will stfu about legacies (though I say that every time Audley loses and he still seems to think he's a player).

Wd be happy for Ordinary to be finally properly shut up but Haye's dodging of the Klitschkos is getting embarrassing now.

http://i38.tinypic.com/15f4znm.jpg

if i had a gif of toney getting choked out, i would post it

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.