Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

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

and khan wins all 4 completed rounds

Barrera couldn't see because of the cut. I still think Khan would have won it though.

Despite dominating the fight against an old blind man he still hung his chin out for the left hook again. He makes for excellent viewing but I maintain his chin will be his undoing. When Willie Limond is flooring you with hooks you know you've got problems.

2341: Don King is claiming that the "head butt" from Khan in the first round is what cost Barrera the fight. But even before that Khan had Barrera rattled. I still think Khan would have done the job, perhaps the fight would have gone on a bit later though. Oh and replays show that the "head butt" was an accidental clash of heads.

Joe Calzaghe, friend to cyberbully victims.

looking fwd to winky v. williams

the O'Donnell vs Watson tonight was a classic.

Sounds like Froch could be about to lose his title here. Well done British TV companies for supporting him btw.

OMG He's stopped him in the 12th. AWESOME.

So that sounds like a terrible fight that we didn't deserve to watch, eh?

lol Froch's post-bout interview demeanour best described as "confident".

or as Duke Mackenzie just put it, "delusional".

knowing nothing about boxing, the dude who was destined to win got cuffed in the last round. This was exciting as fuck to the novice. He knew he was going to lose on points so he went buck-wild.

I had to listen to it on the radio cos our TV stations are shit but it sounded a great fight.

This was really awesome boxing. I've never seen the guy who owned the whole bout get his face put in in the last round. This was amazing.

Well I really mean the opposite. The guy who got owned the whole bout put the other man's face in.

Irony is Sky will be all over Hatton taking a right pummelling next week.