Boxing Thread

[Rossman]

Groves came across a massive dick, real cringeworthy performance of trying to be a tough-guy. He's not going to knock Froch out thats a gurantee its more like the other way round. He's already been down in sparring with a head guard on which he tried to make light of in the interview. Groves has got rid of Adam Booth because he knows this is his biggest payday so he wants as much money out of it before he goes back down to domestic level.

 

Triple G is in action tonight against knockout specialist Curtis Stevens. I've seen Stevens a couple of times on ESPN doing what he does. A compact fighter who loves to go on the attack looking for a knockout. The big problem for him is that Golovkin is on another level. The losses he does have are against fighters not as good as Golovkin. Golovkins problem is that he's too good, no-one wants to fight him.

 

Nathan Cleverly's coming back, he's leaving the 2nd weakest division to go and fight in the weakest division. Yes, the desirable cruiserweight division. He's got a fight at the Copperbox for the Commonwealth title against Australian, Daniel Ammann. After the pounding he took from Kovalev, Ammann seems a perfect choice as he has won 29 fights, 6 of those are KO's.

[Egg Shen]

Golovkin cruised. It took a while because Stevens defence was so tight that Golovkin couldn't find a way through, but there was never any doubt.

 

Steven's isn't quite sure what's hit him

Edited November 3, 2013 by Ebb

[David]

Great, I'll watch that over the weekend. These boxing documentaries are coming thick and fast lately aren't they?

 

Can't wait for the Gatti vs Ward Legendary Nights.

I've got some free time this week, so I've armed myself with these documentaries plus the actual fights that go along with them. Should be fun!

[Egg Shen]

some shitty news coming after the war between Mike Perez and Magomed Abdusalamov (from the undercard of Golovkin-Stevens), Abdusalamov was placed in a medically induced coma and had brain surgery to remove a blood clot, he is stable though.

[Gooner]

GGG looked awesome as per usual. He took his time to finish the job and I thought he could have got the stoppage sooner, but with the power Stevens has I can see why he picked his moments. I'd love to see him next in against Martinez or Quillen but more likely they'll face one another and avoid GGG which would be the smart option. A move up to 168lbs to take on Ward would also be great to see, he's even talked and put feelers out that he'd be ready to drop down to 154lbs to face Mayweather, I can't see that happening but its a great thought.

[lightningxlock]

Just as I was about to cancel my Boxnation subscription this monster of a schedule appeared:

 

09 Nov - Roman Martinez vs Mikey Garcia/ Nonito Donaire vs Vic Darchinyan

 

11 Nov - Luis Ramos Junior vs Fidel Maldonado Junior

 

16 Nov - Sergey Rabchenko vs Cedric Vitu

 

16 Nov - Andre Ward vs Edwin Rodriguez

 

23 Nov - Manny Pacquiao vs Brandon Rios

 

26 Nov - Antonio Tarver vs Mike Sheppard

 

30 Nov - Derek Chisora vs Matteo Modugno / Nathan Cleverly vs Daniel Ammann

 

07 Dec- Paul Smith vs Luke Blackledge

 

07 Dec - Paulie Malignaggi vs Zab Judah / Devon Alexandervs Shawn Porter /Erislandy Lara vs Austin Trout

 

07 Dec - Guillermo Rigondeaux vs Joseph Agbeko

 

14 Dec - Juergen Braehmer vs Marcus Oliveira

 

14 Dec- Adrien Bronervs Marcos Maidana / Keith Thurmanvs Jesus Soto Karass

 

21 Dec - Stuart Hall vs Vusi Malinga

Edited November 8, 2013 by lightningxlock

[Mr Lawrence]

Pacman Rios and Broner Maidana are the only fights there look forward to really. Be interesting to see how the criwd react in China to the pacman fight. It starts at 10am in china so should be on about 2am over here. If the fights a huge success they reckon theyll be alot more fights over there due to the little tax the fighters have to pay. Where its being held is meant to be a place very similar to Vegas.

[wandshogun09]

Yeah, it's at the Venitian in Macao. The UFC held a show there last November.

[Fox Piss]

Top Rank are already heading back over there in Feb with two world title fights yet to be announced.

[Egg Shen]

The Boxnation schedule is fucking wonderful, fairplay. The channel just needs to go HD now! They promised it this year, and they aint done it

 

Did anyone catch James Toney on Ringside? He looks well but holy hell he's punch drunk beyond belief, it's not nice to see.

[jimufctna24]

Did anyone catch James Toney on Ringside? He looks well but holy hell he's punch drunk beyond belief, it's not nice to see.

Yep, it was sad.

 

I could not tell a word he said.

[wandshogun09]

I haven't seen Toney on Ringside yet but I've got it in my planner to catch up on. He's been punchy for a long time now hasn't he. It's quite scary when you think what an awesome defensive fighter he was in his prime, and even later. And even he's still ended up slurring and stammering his way through interviews.

 

For as incredible a fighter as Toney was in his day, I actually think he's a pretty big underachiever. I think he could have been seen as one of the best of all time if he'd kept himself in shape and kept his head on right. He's still given his due as one of the pound for pound best of his era, but I think he could've been even better.

 

I was watching a load of Toney fights a few months back and it's easy to forget now he's all fat and diminished, what a brilliant boxer he was at his best. The masterclass he put on in the Iran Barkley fight still blows me away. And his fights with Michael Nunn and Mike McCallum were great. The real must see of Toney's career is the Vassily Jirov fight though. An absolute war and one of my favourite fights to watch. The Barkley fight was probably his best performance, but Jirov was his best fight from what I've seen.

 

And look up his KOs over Charles Williams and Jason Robinson on YouTube. Proper highlight reel stuff.

 

Speaking of highlight reels, I love this Toney highlight;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&a...p;v=K8PX8O7mHIE

 

Look at the head movement, his work off the ropes and his hand speed in the Barkley clips. That's vintage Toney at his best there. I love the interview clips as well. "He said 'Uhh'. Then BOW! Left hook. That right hand was sumthin' terrible". Poor Jim Grey. Toney did not make his job easy did he?

Edited November 9, 2013 by wandshogun09

[jimufctna24]

Steve Collins said that Toney used to not take it seriously, drinking Coke instead of water at sparring sessions. I think most would agree he could have become more than what he was.

 

He also had the misfortune of being in the same era as a prime Roy Jones. Toney if you look at his record could be inconsistent in his pomp as well. I still quite like him though, even through his mumbling jibberish on Ringside there was a few good barbs against other fighters you could just about catch.

[wandshogun09]

Toney if you look at his record could be inconsistent in his pomp as well.

 

That's the thing though, even in his prime he had all distractions outside the ring, problems with his management, problems with his discipline and weight. He coasted by mostly on pure talent even back then from what I've read. Obviously the bad habits have got worse over the years and now he's a fat fuck.

 

I've heard the stories of him drinking Coke in camp as well. Johnny Tapia was the same, in his book he said most of his career he used to eat Snickers and drink Dr Pepper through camps. Some of that's probably exaggerated a bit but I don't doubt it with guys like that. Just imagine what they could've done had they committed fully to a proper strength and conditioning program and dieted right.

[Egg Shen]

missed the boxing over the weekend, i read Donaire didn't look great though

 

Who's tuning in for the clusterfuck that will be Prizefighter on Thursday night?