Boxing: General News & Discussion Thread

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

5 hours ago, Egg Shen said:

Cant wait to see what they come up with for that

Frank and Eddie get to choose 2 weight classes each and His Excellency Turki chooses 1. The weights will be announced in the next couple of weeks and the actual fights will be announced in the Ngannou v Joshua fight week 

[Egg Shen]

Taylor & Catterall still dont like each other then.

 

 

[NeverYield]

Taylor with the look and demeanour of a man who has been heavily drinking,

Eyes look like they can't focus at certain points.

War Catterall.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

I watched the whole presser. Sam Jones really leaning into the whole heel manager gimmick was a delight. 

[Egg Shen]

16 hours ago, NeverYield said:

Taylor with the look and demeanour of a man who has been heavily drinking

 

Seeing lots on Twitter reckoning Taylor had been on the sauce.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

My cousin was at the presser as it turns out. She lives in Edinburgh and is a big boxing fan. She thinks Taylor had definitely had a wee drop of something. Knowing her, she probably had as well. 

[David]

If Taylor shows up in shape and on form, he'll take Catterall out within eight rounds. 

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

Taylor was very late today. He says he was stuck in traffic, I think he was having a few bevvies in the bar. 

[NeverYield]

Definitely something seems off about him, looked like he'd been up all night talking nonsense in somebodies kitchen the other day.

[Egg Shen]

Here's the latest cinematic trailer from Saudi...

 

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

I wish the Saudi's would put some effort in. 

[Egg Shen]

There's an actual 8-bit game to play on your phone too based on the advert

Here's the full fight card for next Friday, lovely stuff:

[d-d-d-dAz]

These Saudi events are living proof that the absolute *best* marketing is... when you've got a shit tonne of money and no real worry about ROI.

Still, good laugh whilst His Excellency can be arsed.

Get him down York Hall, give him a real feel for it.

[NeverYield]

You can never beat atmosphere imo. 

The production of the fights out there has been cracking, but the atmosphere terrible.

I'm real big on atmosphere I am, without atmosphere sport isn't half what it's supposed to be.

[Egg Shen]

don't disagree, that's the one downside of the whole thing from a viewing perspecting. The rest is quality, top fights on at a UK friendly time, i ain't complaining.