Rossman Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I think Donaire's got enough to knock Rigondeaux out, or at least put him down on the canvas. His reach advantage, speed and greater experience in the pro ranks should send him through. If Rigondeaux can beat a 4 weight world champion in his 12th pro fight, I would be very impressed. Â Even though Channel 5 said they're not going to have boxing on for a while. They're going to be broadcasting the Tyson Fury fight live. It's on in the afternoon stateside, so we should get it around 11pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted April 14, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 14, 2013 ahhh great news! That's a night in next Saturday, Rule Britannia and Tyson Fury, quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Goldberg Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Just a rumour but I hear the Kell Brook fight might be off again. Â A foot injury or so I'm told. Kell waiting on scan results Monday morning. Â I feel for both guys if true. This fight just seems like it's not meant to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossman Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Double stress fracture in his foot, so they say. That and the previous ankle injury makes it look like he's training for a marathon rather than a boxing match. Â Episode 1 of Guerrero/Mayweather All Access is up on Youtube. Guerrero portrayed as the good old boy, bible thumping, family man. Mayweather as the bad guy. Then at the end, they flip it around with Guerrero getting arrested. I don't want to be harsh on Guerrero but 4 world titles at different weights and that's his house? Hopefully he's saving his money for retirement. Â Rigondeaux/Donaire was a good fight. Rigondeaux is so slick with his movement its more like he's dancing. Donaire looked like he was lost. I wish he put more pressure on and pinned him into the corner so he couldn't escape. I still think Rigondeaux has a susceptible chin, his legs buckled a few times but he instantly knew and unleashed punches of his own. The HBO commentary was a bit wayward. They take Harold Lederman's unofficial scores as gospel and see what they want to, instead of calling it down the middle. Roy Jones Jr. is not a patch on Emmanuel Steward as the analyst. I think Showtime coverage is much better though, Bernstein is great and I like Paulie M as the analyst with his current insight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lawrence Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Double stress fracture in his foot, so they say. That and the previous ankle injury makes it look like he's training for a marathon rather than a boxing match. Episode 1 of Guerrero/Mayweather All Access is up on Youtube. Guerrero portrayed as the good old boy, bible thumping, family man. Mayweather as the bad guy. Then at the end, they flip it around with Guerrero getting arrested. I don't want to be harsh on Guerrero but 4 world titles at different weights and that's his house? Hopefully he's saving his money for retirement.  Rigondeaux/Donaire was a good fight. Rigondeaux is so slick with his movement its more like he's dancing. Donaire looked like he was lost. I wish he put more pressure on and pinned him into the corner so he couldn't escape. I still think Rigondeaux has a susceptible chin, his legs buckled a few times but he instantly knew and unleashed punches of his own. The HBO commentary was a bit wayward. They take Harold Lederman's unofficial scores as gospel and see what they want to, instead of calling it down the middle. Roy Jones Jr. is not a patch on Emmanuel Steward as the analyst. I think Showtime coverage is much better though, Bernstein is great and I like Paulie M as the analyst with his current insight.  What did u watch it on? Boxnation had timothy bradley and some other bloke commentating, i found them pretty poor. To be honest i thought it was a shite fight. There where times when they were just doing nothing. I think the first 30 seconds of the fight set the tone for the next 12 rounds. Donaire got caught early and was to cautios from then on, maybe with good reason. I think if donaire had have commited himself more after the knockdown he could have gone on to win. Saying that Rigendoux looked pretty solid if unspectacular. I dont think to many people will be wanting to see a rematch. Nice arena though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted April 14, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 14, 2013 very frustrating fight to watch...certain fans will argue that it was 'one of the purists' and in that respect you have to admire the skills of Rigondeaux, but on the other when two boxers are landing between 3-15 punches a round you aint for an exciting night whatever way you wanna look at it. Â Donaire just couldn't get off, he went into his shell early and other than the 10th round he stayed there. Agree about the commentary on HBO, if you wasn't actually watching the fight and just listening you'd have thought Rigondeaux was giving Donaire a bit of a pasting but that wasn't the case, there were alot of occasions when there was not alot happening in rounds and the HBO team were still spouting off that they thought Rigondeaux was dominating, Roy Jones just talks shit too. Â Rigondeaux is claiming he's p4p no. 1 now, and whilst he just defeated the 2012 Fight of the Year and can claim that all he wants i don't think he's a guy fans are gonna be clamouring over themselves to watch fight. Â As for Kell Brook it aint happening for him is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossman Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Double stress fracture in his foot, so they say. That and the previous ankle injury makes it look like he's training for a marathon rather than a boxing match. Episode 1 of Guerrero/Mayweather All Access is up on Youtube. Guerrero portrayed as the good old boy, bible thumping, family man. Mayweather as the bad guy. Then at the end, they flip it around with Guerrero getting arrested. I don't want to be harsh on Guerrero but 4 world titles at different weights and that's his house? Hopefully he's saving his money for retirement.  Rigondeaux/Donaire was a good fight. Rigondeaux is so slick with his movement its more like he's dancing. Donaire looked like he was lost. I wish he put more pressure on and pinned him into the corner so he couldn't escape. I still think Rigondeaux has a susceptible chin, his legs buckled a few times but he instantly knew and unleashed punches of his own. The HBO commentary was a bit wayward. They take Harold Lederman's unofficial scores as gospel and see what they want to, instead of calling it down the middle. Roy Jones Jr. is not a patch on Emmanuel Steward as the analyst. I think Showtime coverage is much better though, Bernstein is great and I like Paulie M as the analyst with his current insight.  What did u watch it on? Boxnation had timothy bradley and some other bloke commentating, i found them pretty poor. To be honest i thought it was a shite fight.  I downloaded it because I prefer the HBO commentary over the Boxnation one. The other bloke with Tim Bradley was Colonel Bob Sheridan, one of the worst commentators out there. He was probably good in his prime but its past him by now, he's been calling fights since the 70's. Him covering the Mayweather/Cotto fight was the worst I have ever seen. If he wasn't putting Mayweather over like he was god, he was talking rubbish to fill the spaces when Cotto was attacking. Saying things like: "Mayweathers shorts are made of leather. Once they get wet, then they will be heavier to carry around the ring." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lawrence Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Yeh the mayweather cotto commentary was the worst ever. They were like them two old blokes from the muppetts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyT Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Bob Sheridan is one of the worst, respect though as hes done it so long. Benny Ricardo's another one who does my nut in, although if Im honest the only commentators I really like are usually fighters like Paulie, Jones, Tarver. I actually rather liked Enzo on commentary when BN started. Â Yeah, they acted like Mayweather was toying with Cotto when in reality it was a competitive fight regardless of the outcome and the score cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossman Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Matthew Macklin has signed off to fight Gennady Golovkin at the end of June. Its good to see the British middleweights are now getting their chance on the world stage. Â Brook vs. Alexander is definitely off. Alexander is still going to box on May 17th but against a different opponent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted April 16, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2013 Macklin/Golovkin's gonna be a bit of a war. The Brit's always seem to do alright with grabbing this high profile fights over in the States, they have very little success but they always go over and give it a go. Â We got Martin Murray trying to dethrone Sergio Martinez in 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyT Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Matthew Macklin has signed off to fight Gennady Golovkin at the end of June. Its good to see the British middleweights are now getting their chance on the world stage. Â Brook vs. Alexander is definitely off. Alexander is still going to box on May 17th but against a different opponent. Its not like they haven't had the chance already, Murrays interim WBA champ, Macklins challenged for a world title twice already, Barker got a shot etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fox Piss Posted April 16, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2013 Barker is currently in the race to fight Chavez JR. Â Wouldn't be surprised to see all 3 lose and return to fight each other including Andy Lee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Signed up for a month of Boxnation mainly for the Khan card next weekend. Â Plus, I do not want to miss a bit of Big Audley! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted April 16, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted April 16, 2013 (edited) Good time to sign up. Look at this lot.  April 20th  7pm - Wembley Nathan Cleverly vs Robin Krasniqi Dereck Chisora vs Hector Alfredo Avila Liam Walsh vs Scott Harrison Yaqub Kareem vs Paul Butler Frank Buglioni vs TBA  2am - San Antonio Canelo Alvarez vs Austin Trout  April 27th  7pm - Sheffield Amir Khan vs Julio Diaz Audley Harrison vs Deontay Wilder Anthony Ogogo vs Kieron Gray Haroon Khan vs Stefan Slavchev  2am - Argentina Sergio Martinez vs Martin Murray David Saucedo vs Gary Buckland  May 4th  2am - Las Vegas Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Robert Guerrero Daniel Ponce De Leon vs Abner Mares  That's just the next few weeks. They'll also be showing Price vs Thompson 2 on July 6th. Some good stuff coming up. The Khan bill looks great top to bottom. As well as the main event, you've got Big Audley, Ogogo's pro debut and Amir's brother Haroon's pro debut.  Really looking forward to Canelo vs Trout and Walsh vs Harrison especially this weekend, and I like the look of Buglioni so his fight as well.  Like everyone else, I was a little bit disappointed in Donaire vs Rigondeaux. I was really looking forward to itl, Rigondeaux is such a tricky fucker though, I kind of thought the fight might play out like that if he could get his game going.  Edited for saying "as well" about 873 times. Edited April 16, 2013 by wandshogun09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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