Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

shane really showed up tonight. first time seeing canelo, not overwhelmed, a money fight with pac or floyd or whoever definitely not a good move for him yet

lmao bieber is carrying floyd's belts

bieber shd fight cottos son

wow, this is a brawl for floyd

arguable cotto couldve won the last 4 rds?

cotto's landing clean shots and winning rounds :0

cotto's gassed

floyd almost dropped him

Floyd lost what, one, two rounds top? Dominant as always.

yea cotto did a good job coming fwd, looking busy generally until rd 9 but nvr hurt him

why do you hate vowels, johnny crunch

Floyd knocked them all out of his words. Not enough $$ left to buy a vowel

that was a sweet fight until cotto gassed. rounds 4-6 belonged to him imo

take away all the bullshit and just look at his style and you just can't deny Mayweather. That was a tremendous performance, gauged Cotto almost perfectly. Cotto came to fight & did pretty well although I think Mayweather's accuracy in early rounds has a Tyson-like effect on his opponents: he scares them out of throwing their best punches because their instincts quickly tell them "that will leave you open, if you're open Floyd will land at least one." I gave 4-6 to Cotto too, but not super-decisively except for 4.

Alvarez looked really good, I love Shane a lot & always love fighters who just want to keep going but he needs to hear the message the scorecards are sending him & step down. Get into training imo, he could become a great trainer

The traditional home of boxing, um, Luxembourg, have sanctioned a Haye vs Chisora fight to be held in Britain despite neither boxer having a British licence.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/17987600

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-2142090/British-boxing-reeling-sensational-developments.html

This completely sucks. I really like Lamont Peterson but he's toast now - stylistically he's a much more interesting fighter than Khan imo. Oh well. Dumb athletes can't seem to stay off the juice so to hell with them

something about that fight stunk, but i didn't expect to find out he was on performance enhancing drugs for it too. Boxing doesnt need that kinda shit right now. Its stock has never been lower. Very sad and hope its not widespread.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/mannny_pacquiao.php

goddamit, I don't want to root for Pretty Boy Floyd if they ever fight

Convicted repeat woman-beater vs homophobe. It's a tough choice.

hmm yeah think the convicted repeat woman-beater is probably just a bit worse than the fundie moron

goddamit, I don't want to root for Pretty Boy Floyd if they ever fight

never gonna happen imo so you're safe

might be a better thread for this but..
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7940841/an-open-letter-manny-pacquiao-gay-filipina-american-concerning-champion-boxer-recent-comments-gay-marriage

goddamit, I don't want to root for Pretty Boy Floyd if they ever fight

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:36 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I realized the other day that 99.9999% of the reason I hate floyd is because he's ducking Manny, so in some universe in which he wasn't ducking him I really wouldn't have a problem rooting for him.

Manny's pretty bullshit these days anyway but if you read Ryan Songalia in re: the paper that "broke" that Pacquiao story, it's pretty shady

https://twitter.com/#!/ryansongalia

I'm not gonna get up in arms about him opposing gay marriage considering how many of the greatest boxers and how many of my favorite boxers were basically sociopaths.

David Price looked terrific vs. Sexton, hard to argue he's not the top heavyweight prospect.

fantastic atmosphere in Nottingham.

i dont think ive ever heard anything like this in 20 years

bookies dont give Froch a chance at all

after that round they might be wrong. What a round.

Bute's legs look dodgy.

All over. What a performance by Froch!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's given Bute a real doing here.

if you get the chance to watch this then please do so. What a performance by Froch. As good as i've seen in britain in years. it surpassed the atmosphere!

btw who is buying Smithy this?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91n8aw-40UL._AA1500_.jpg

Everyones saying thats up there with *that* Hatton fight and im inclined to agree

I missed this, wasn't being shown where I'm at but BadLeftHook's account of it suggests it was a master class by Froch

it was. He was devastating.

After his impressive battering of Bute, he said: 'Fighting like that, I'd beat anybody in my weight division. There's nobody that can touch me. If I catch Ward on the chin with some of the shots like I landed on Bute, it's game over. It's a simple as that.

'Andre Ward had a good night and Carl Froch had a bad night and that's the reason he won that fight.

apart from the weird third person, i didn't see that at all, ward just looked a lot better

he did but anyone can have an offnight. Plus Froch says he didn't stick to his plan.

Bute took such a beating id expect him to retire as i dont think a fighter can recover from such a hiding. The referee couldve stopped it earlier.

Paul "The Punisher" Williams, on the comeback trail after that very memorable KO by Sergio Martinez, was in a motorcycle accident today and is likely paralyzed from the waist down. He is said to be in good spirits considering the gravity of his injuries; obviously he won't be fighting Alvarez in September. He gets surgery on Wednesday, let's think good thoughts for that.

Also, Johnny Tapia died. Sad stuff.

tapia was a wild dude. this always felt like an inevitable outcome, unfortunately

fuck thats sad re: paul williams

ruh roh

http://www.examiner.com/article/floyd-mayweather-tested-positive-three-times

oh man I hope this is true