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10pm start time for this one:

Fuck off Wilder. 

I'm going to be a nervous wreck on Saturday night/Sunday morning. 

36 minutes ago, Zebra Kid Mark said:

My one main gripe with Rogan is he does tend to call the fight how he wants to see it. If his lesser favoured fighter is connecting 5 times with a jab he stays silent and then as soon as the fighter who he wants to win finally connects you can almost guarantee a reaction along the lines of "OH HE'S HURT HIM" then will spend the rest of the round talking about how the other guy is hurt and compromised.

He's been like that for as long as I can remember. 

I've never really understood the love for Tony Ferguson. I've always considered him to be an overrated fighter with a lame personality. 

Still, I really regret that the Khabib fight never happened. Not because I think Ferguson would have won or even been competitive, rather because it feels like the years of hype and arguments over the fight were all for nothing.

What a waste. 

19 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

Tibbs' post fight interviews have been pulled down

Someone has re-uploaded it:

Yes!

Mark Tibbs clarifies what happened in the corner. 

Perhaps Rogan and Goldberg needed one another. Goldberg just pisses about without Rogan around to keep him on the straight and narrow. While Rogan is perhaps a little too relaxed without Goldberg around to babysit. 

As Wand also alluded to, it also doesn't help that the UFC have encouraged his OTT reactions by filming them and also placed DC beside him. It should have been obvious that the pair would try and out-do one another. 

Nice.

Great fight too. 

2 hours ago, Egg Shen said:

Was it a farce? yes. Did i expect it to be a farce? yes. Did i enjoy following the whole weird caper? yes i did.

Vintage Ebb. 

1 minute ago, RancidPunx said:

Is it me or does Chandler seem like a bit of a cock ?

I don't find him to be particularly likeable. 

9 hours ago, wandshogun09 said:

My gut is telling me Oliveira catches Chandler in a sub.

My gut is telling me that Chandler is going to catch him early. It's based on a hunch. Nothing more. 

I hope to be wrong. 

59 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said:

Enzo got flattened by Frenkel

That was Frenkel's last fight. 

He was diagnosed with schizophrenia soon after the fight and was sectioned because of it. 

20 minutes ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

He was by many accounts a horrible prick to deal with for a long time. 

Aye, he once made Adam Smith cry apparently.

"Where was the respect?"

26 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

A big reason Naseem divided opinion was because of the arrogance and that flashy, cocky style. Anytime you get a guy clowning in the ring/cage you are gonna get a certain group of people wanting to see him get his comeuppance. Its the same reason MVP gets it in MMA, people just want to see that stuff backfire.

 

Both Khan and Naz have personality traits that understandably rub people the wrong way.

Still, a lot of the hate they receive is because they are Muslims. 

13 minutes ago, David said:

It's a weird British thing that, isn't it? You'd virtually never see a Mexican cheering on a Brit or an American against a Mexican fighter. I always root for British fighters unless they're absolute scumbags. All part of the fun, innit? 

Brits only support some of their own. Most of us got behind Bruno, Hatton and Joshua. Yet, for various reasons we never fully got behind Khan or Lennox Lewis.  

Personally, I tend to support whoever I fancy the most. 

26 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said:

It’s a tricky one because I can’t remember seeing much of Chandler’s BJJ defence. He’s never faced someone who’s as much of a threat off their back as Oliveira is anyway.

He defends well while in full mount. For example, Goiti Yamauchi couldn't get much going against him off his back.

I dislike both Canelo and BJS, so I didn't care who won between them really. 

However, I am not going to support a boxer just because they happen to be British. If I did that, I would have had to support Tony Bellew over Uysk, Jamie McDonnell over Inoue, or whoever Joe "Keith Lard" Gallagher trains. 

Cheers Wand. 

That's the fight I am most looking forward to. 

They should bring back Big Glenn and stick him on commentary after a few ales. 

And have Prince Naz and Tyan Booth as pundits. 

35 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

is he really doing darts?

Smith is the head of boxing at Sky, and i do like the guy, i just think he put himself in the booth because he's the boss.

 On the Sky shows, i always feel their better announce team commentates the early fights, then they switch to the shitter 'A' team of Smith & Macklin for the main fights.

Aye. I assume he'll become a permanent fixture on the darts from now on. 

Hopefully they will transfer Anna Woolhouse over as well. 

12 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

i said it recently, but one of best things about getting the boxing off Sky is not having to Smith in the booth anymore.

Sky have transferred him over to the darts. 

He's already trotted out some of his catchphrases:

"Big boxing fan"

"Family man"

"Great respect between the two"

2 hours ago, Egg Shen said:

Everyones in agreememt that Eddie Hearn is just riding out the Sky deal at this point.

Where is the respect?