Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

Canelon in control 3 rounds in but I sense a fucking war coming

round 5 was great

GGG the aggressor now. Ultra compelling boxing

even so far. great stuff

Turning into a 'typical GGG fight' but I don't trust that

canelo looks cooked

THIS FIIIIIIGHT

GGG jab is unreal

I am not a Canelo fan but wake up, Canelo!!

canelo gonna have to dig deep

GGG going for KO in 12th, way up on points. Magnificent stuff

Watch it be split, I'll vomit

A DRAW ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING

Wooooow fixed for round 2

118-110 for Canelo what's that dude on!

lmao

118-110 lmbo

GGG won it 8-4 I thought

Otm

Still awesome fight

And I thought the McGregor fight was gonna be the fixer. Never change, boxing!

I had GGG at 8-4, but given the lack of obvious damage/knockdownsI could have seen a card going the opposite way 7-5 and it not smelling too bad - 10-2 is some bullshit, though.

Still not mad I chipped in to buy it.

great fight! i would go 8-4 or 7-5 GGG. those middle rounds where GGG was merrily strolling through everything canelo had were fantastic, as was the later-round canelo onslaught.

ripped canelo looked pretty cool but maybe not a great idea. canelo's always been prone to gassing out but i think that extra muscle may have weighed him down--it certainly didn't put enough extra on his punches to hurt golovkin.

boxing appears to be the goto for joke fights now
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/41322190

Rio is just starting out at 38?? I suppose he might get good enough to fill out a few undercards, but even that would be a stretch.

damn, wilder

I'm almost as excited for Lomachenko vs. Rigondeaux as I was for Canelo/GGG.

But maybe moreso considering it's gonna be on ESPN (Dec 9)! Manna from boxing heaven.

there has been no more jaw-dropping talent since RJJ than Loma

yeah im all over that fight

RIP Ferdie Pacheco, Ali's "fight doctor"

After Ali successfully defended the world heavyweight title against Alfredo Evangelista in May 1977, Pacheco suggested the champ retire. "Ali is now at the dangerous mental point where his heart and mind are no longer in it," he was quoted as saying by The New York Times.

Pacheco left Ali's camp later that year, after the fighter signed on to challenge Earnie Shavers, who "was about the strongest guy in boxing," he told USA Today in 2016.

After the bloody fight, Pacheco sent Ali's medical exam results "to Angelo, (manager) Herbert Muhammad, Ali and his wife (Veronica)," he told the newspaper. "I wrote, 'This is what's happening to you. If you want to continue, you have no shot at a normal life.' I never heard a word — *a word*. Because they knew I was right."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/17/564854428/ferdie-pacheco-muhammad-alis-ringside-fight-doctor-dies-at-89

If he did say "if you want to continue, you have no shot at a normal life" I can imagine Ali saying "I never wanted a normal life."

definitely hype for loma rigo

Every time I think Loma has this one I change my mind then change it back then change it again. Frustrating but that's how the best fights are.

Freddie Roach thinks Rigo wins

You gotta predict, right? Give me Loma UD. THIS IS ON ESPN HOHOHOHO

could this be a better matchup

https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/roy-jones-jr-calls-lomachenko-rigondeaux-best-pro-fight-on-paper-in-history/

so pumped for this! gotta go with Loma. hoping for some histrionics

team rigo checking in

Hmm what round ya think

Undercard fights non competitive so far

Stevenson very green but one to keep an eye on ime

yeah i liked him in Rio

they called that fight too early altho the outcome wasnt going to change

I think Loma will get caught tonight. Should make things fun. But still Loma by decision

it was early. i kinda think the 2nd fight was called early!

yea but peewee was wobbling all over the place

rigo fightig dirty. no way he wins this

gonna be SO disappointed if it stays this course

Rigo ain't going out like that I've got to believe

hes getting clowned so far. 5-0

loma is something else

finally the point

whit