Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

Donaire looks huge

some of my fight DVDs I get Asian fighters who never really got a lot of US tv time like Pongsaklek Wongjongkam, so many good light-and-smaller weight guys...HBO should put together a "Window On Japan" series or something to showcase some Japanese fighters, if they got their moment people would dig it

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, October 2, 2011 5:09 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

I've always wondered: how hard would it really be to just send over a couple announcers, a microphone and one cameraman? The presentation for those Japanese shows is great already, and I'm sure they'd charge a pittance for the (American) rights to the fights. There's always 4 or 5 title fights in Japan each year that are big-time battles between top 10 guys in their weight class. And if you really wanted, you could chip in some money and make even bigger fights there.

Omar Narvaez: please go back to Europe and your meaningless title defenses.

Mark Cuban's HDNET is already doing that with MMA. They send an Australian and American (Frank Trigg) to Japan with a translator and use the already existing production.

xpost.

The other thing that's been happening wayyy too much lately is the big nets (especially HBO) allowing really awesome fights to end up on Fox Deportes or Box Azteca. Serious title fights that are guaranteed action. And in their stead we get dull setup fights for HBO's favored prospects or garbage title fights that will obviously be boring.

Omar Narvaez: please go back to Europe and your meaningless title defenses.

Jesus, otm. That guy's style was terrible. I'm with Donaire, what the fuck's he supposed to do, bust ass fighting a guy who doesn't wanna fight, but still...that fight sucked

good fight on HBO in a minute here, Kirkland v. Angulo

HOLY SHIT ROUND ONE ROUND OF THE YEAR.

fucking A everybody needs to see that. get the backstory on kirkland beforehand for maximum fuuuuuuuucck that was amazing.

crap i was about to flip that on and got distracted by "aladdin"

round 2 was also unfuckingbelievable

wait is it still on

whoa good last minute of that round

angulo's face is fuuucked up, he's going down next round - kirkland landed a couple really nice straight lefts

pretty impressed that he's still standing tbh, kirkland outpunched him like 35-7 that round

That was one of the best fights I've seen live. Just banging away until one guy had nothing left. Angulo pretty much left most of his power back in round one but he stayed in and kept showing up for every exchange.

round 1, seriously though...see it, if you didn't. just incredible.

rematch plz

they're talking Kirkland-Alvarez. Alvarez will eat Kirkland imo.

Kirkland sucks. Absolutely horrible defense and now he has a glass chin. He should rematch Angulo for the $$$$.

one of the great things about boxing is that mediocre talents can make for amazing fights through good matchmaking.

It's really a shame that Angulo punched himself out so totally. A smarter fighter would have taken Kirkland about to the two-minute mark in round 2 and then lowered the boom. Max K. is freaking out with love for Kirkland right now but I don't think Kirkland could really stand in with a disciplined fighter - he's not the only boxer who's well-conditioned, though to hear the commentators you'd think he invented training

one of the great things about boxing is that mediocre talents can make for amazing fights through good matchmaking.

super-otm and the reason the 70s & 80s at the Olympic Auditorium in LA saw some of the best matches ever between fighters no-one outside of southern California remembers: the promoters cared only about putting asses in seats, and that meant delivering fights that'd last a few round and provide maximum action

Kellerman's overrating of Kirkland is hilarious.

it's great how HBO pinned so much hope on angulo and kirkland becoming an eventual super fight PPV but since they were both exposed horribly as mediocrities they were like "oh well, fuck it, put it on Boxing After Dark against the biggest college football game of the year"

btw I'm pretty sure in order to get the shot against Alvarez, Kirkland will have to fight Martirosyan. Who is too good for him.

anybody shelling out to watch manny ring marquez's bell tonight?

yeah fo sho

Matt, you're a Vegas oddsmaker. Your job is to set realistic odds that'll get as many people as possible to bet, but which will shield you from having to pay out too much. What do you give the better who wants "Marquez by decision"?

Anyone have links to a live feed? Was gonna go out to see this but am shut in with a chest cold....

thx for reminding me it's on, gonna try as hard as poss to stay awake now.

pacquiao ftw inside 8 btw

Matt, you're a Vegas oddsmaker. Your job is to set realistic odds that'll get as many people as possible to bet, but which will shield you from having to pay out too much. What do you give the better who wants "Marquez by decision"?

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 12 November 2011 23:34 (Yesterday)

6:1, +600

bodog will apparently give 18/1

I see 10/1 on bodog

18/1 seems about right to me. I think Pacquiao takes it inside of 9 although when was the last time Pac was showing knockout power: 2009! He really should have knocked out Clottey. Decent chance that he just goes to another points victory unless he's under heavy fire.

can't believe u ppl aren't talking about tyson fury right now

Marquez is as good an opponent as Manny can/will face, so i don't begrudge either of them making an event of it or struggling to finish it. watched some poor commonwealth bouts tonight with a distinct lack of will to show knockout power but let's be honest in a bout like this anybody wd settle for outscoring the other guy

his name is pronounced brady who knew

round 6 of prescott/alvarado was fantastic but prescott's failure to keep the pressure on is pretty zzzz

That was pretty awesome.

please anesthetize jim lampley btw I am so sick of these AND NOW THE STORY TAKES ANOTHER TURN!! announcers forcing classic sports network narratives onto every damn fight they call

how the hell did casamayor get this shot?

lol this fight is terrible

if they're gonna give someone totally undeserving a title shot here, can it at least be someone exciting?

hbo should pay us for watching this

timothy bradley got 1 million dollars for that farce, wtf are arum and HBO thinking?

lol a million fucking dollars. what the hell

how many countries in the world actually have good national anthems? 5? 6?

I'm pretty excited here.

yeah I'm amped. just got some snacks and a root beer. living that snacks and root beer PPV life right now tbh

srsly make Jim Lampley stop with THIS IS THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE tho, and send Bob Costas a text that says FUCK YOU FOR SCREWING UP SPORTS BROADCASTING FOREVER