Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

He's a good guy (meaning moseley). I've always liked him a lot. I think its over, though

Xxpost. Not a big rap fan. Not high either, unfortunately. Thought the ll cool j- frank stallone wannabe combo was embarrassing. Quite frankly, it sucked so bad it was funny

he was in a fender-bender earlier today I guess? I couldn't believe a fighter'd even be able to put in any performance at all after getting nerves rattled like that. This was the worst Manny fight I've seen by some distance - the Margarito fight was fire, this only had flashes of what makes Pacquiao great. Still that "if you hit me, it inspires me" thing, he turned it on a few times and it's always like WHOA HERE WE GO.

by frank stallone wannabe do you mean jimi jamison, the lead singer of survivor?

such a waste of gus johnson

all the intro stuff was p terrible

just a payday for sugar shane, he never had a chance

if the shane who fought floyd had showed up he might have! weirdly uninspired from both fighters - living up to hype is hard but Pacquiao usually rises to the occasion. But it helps to have a villain. Margarito was perfect - 70s style club fighter gone widescreen, refuse-to-fall punishment-absorbing built-for-storyline. What's Shane's story? That Floyd put him off until he was overripe. It made for a compelling fight against Floyd, but with Pacquiao, the presumption that Pac was going to knock him out and Shane being too classy to get pissed about it meant there just wasn't a whole lot of tension.

Still, when Pac unleashes those rapidfire combos, I get a huge fanboy rush. Always beautiful to see.

(xp) gus is good when working boxing? he is so terrible with mma

Yes I mean that jamison guy. Didn't know mosely was in an accident. To be honest, I respect both fighters. I think pacquiao is one of those game changing guys you get once in a generation, like the guy who died today, seve ballesteros. They have that "it" factor.

Aerosmith-i agree word for word with your 119 post

no gus is not good doing boxing

No Pacquiao was in the fender-bender.

The Margarito fight was SO fun.

btw Pacquiao haters within seconds of the fight are posting this nonsense about him being juiced on EPO & that's the only way he wins fights. If you're not familiar with Pacquiao haters, they are some of the most unhinged nutballs on the web. Right after every fuckin' body else of course.

Gus rules at baksketball and football.

Who could hate pacqiaou? He's one of my favorite athletes ever. A class dude in every way.

Man a lot of people hate Pacquiao. Especially people who're susceptible to conspiracy theory - Floyd's headgame "blood test 30 days before the fight! no two weeks! no 72 hours!" bit really got into people's heads - they claim Manny's juicing (w/EPO, very hard to test for), that he makes people age out of their prime before he gives 'em a shot, etc. but honestly a lot of it's just straight-out hateration - Manny could jump through all their hoops & they'd still say HE'S JUICING! etc

Mayweather either fights him or goes down in history as a punk and a chump

Are there any other famous examples of a guy who ducked another fighter?

Kitscho bros refuse to fight eash other

Ooh, that would be fun sort of.

Can't believe they tried to sell this as a $65 PPV.

Are there any other famous examples of a guy who ducked another fighter?

Didn't Riddick Bowe throw his WBC belt in the bin rather than fight Lennox Lewis? I vaguely remember Lewis taking duck money to let Tyson fight someone else - eventually fighting him years later when he was done.

Too bad we are not seeing a repeat of what pacqiao did to that fraud hatton. Moseley deserves that treatment.

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Sunday, 8 May 2011 05:54 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hatton wasn't a fraud - just a good fighter who was found wanting at the very top level. Looked amazing on the way up - walking forward with lots of combos and body shots - but never looked after himself properly - bloating up 50 lbs between fights.

http://www.tkshare.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/094916kp0.jpg

tbf if your name was Hitman you'd think you had a 50% chance against someone called Pacman

Hatton wasn't a fraud - just a good fighter who was found wanting at the very top level. Looked amazing on the way up - walking forward with lots of combos and body shots - but never looked after himself properly - bloating up 50 lbs between fights.

this is otm - he just didn't have the discipline or will to keep training after he beat kosta tzsyu

Guys-i was shitfaced last night. I liked hatton. But he was clearly out of his element in that fight.

Watched this fight tonight - absolute shocker from the ref. Anyone would think he'd been told the 9-0-0 guy couldn't possibly be beaten by the 14-10-3 journeyman. Doran had already been down before being hurt another twice in the first round then the ref stops it as soon as Maxwell (that's MAX MAXWELL!) has taken two shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwZXzuW6CcE

100% record forever tainted imo

He was clearly staggered and before the ref stepped in, he was basically defenseless and ripe for a real pummeling. But the ref should have given him a standing eight count first. If he still seemed glazed over, THEN consider stopping it.

in almost all professional fights, there is no standing eight count.

it's an ok stoppage.

OK. Then the ref did a decent thing there. He was gonna get creamed in about two more seconds. Getting smashed around when your defensive reflexes are gone can leave permanent brain damage.

The referee gave his opponent a standing eight count about 20 seconds earlier. Maxwell was hurt but he wasn't even given a chance. Honestly watching the way it all went down it was like someone panicked at their future title contender suddenly turning chinny and vulnerable to being stopped by a very limited boxer. Doran was hurt several times but allowed to recover and continue.

bhop compares himself to tina turner and claims that all the years of boring fights were so he could save his energy for his hard-chargin late-40s

u.s.a., u.s.a.!!!

hope HBO makes Hopkins vs. Tavoris Cloud instead of a Dawson fight.

& said he'll fight til 50

sheee-ooot, dick tiger fought well after he was 50.

gus johnson called jim grey "j geezy"

gus johnson was kind of hilarious tonight

yeah so

fight fight fight

haye's not gonna enjoy this

If I can score more than 3s on Haye I'm tempted to have a fiver but really my head says no fucking way.

not if there were three of him in the fuckin ring, man

i'm pretty sure both Klitschkos have got more than Haye but I'm pretty sure they've not been tested that hard either

they won't be this weekend neither

Heavyweight div is basically a fucking pantomime the last 5+ years, i've got no clue nowadays

klitschko proper ard nut tho innit

Haye avoided that big lad, right enough, but he'll have to fight this time

Prob be shit tho

Haye's going to have a painful night. Might be best to do an Audley and get out of there early

yeah i wouldn't pay to see it and i don't think any of my locals will have it. might hook up a dodgy stream if i've got nothing better on

don't really care but haye is a nudnik and will enjoy the coverage if he gets sonned