Porkchopcash Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 Yeh Manny really should be a 140 fighter. He still looked good though. Would like to see him against either a Brook, Garcia, Thurman or maybe Crawford at 140. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 10, 2016 Author Paid Members Share Posted November 10, 2016 Â interesting Matchroom card on Saturday night (adding to the already ridiculous schedule). Real solid card, Matchroom are really pushing Luis Ortiz. I imagine he walks through Malik Scott but it makes an exciting heavyweight addition for next year. Two world title fights down the bill, Martin Murray. Tidy! Â * Note, Martin Murray/Arthur Abraham is off, Murray is fighting Dimitri Chudinov, sound replacement. Â Danny Garcia is in a nothing fight also against Samuel Vargas. Keep busy fight until the Keith Thurman fight next year. Garcia is 1/100 on to win, tells you all you need to know. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 I've never seen Ortiz fight before. Looking forward to seeing him on Saturday night. Nice lead in to UFC 205. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkchopcash Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Chudinov has now pulled out as well. Murray fighting some geezer i never heard off. He's undefeated, not that that means much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz25 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 Box Nation is now part of the BT Sports line-up. That's a pretty fucking big deal if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 11, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 11, 2016 (edited) Eh? So if you subscribe to BT Sports you get Box Nation? Â Just read about it. Anyone who subscribes to the BT Sport package will get Box Nation free from January. Great news. Edited November 11, 2016 by wandshogun09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz25 Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 From what I understand basically BT have got a deal to bring the channel over to their package. I'd imagine they've taken some shares in the company, although that's just a presumption rather than fact. Press release says they're hoping to do 20 live events across BT Sport channels that are simulcast on Box Nation - I'd presume this is for those on Virgin media and some other cable services that have existing deals with BT to provide customers with the BT Sport channels in their own TV pakages rather than charging a standalone extra fee like Sky Sports do. Deal seems good to me, exposes a channel to a lot more customers than it was currently doing so there'd been rumors circulating for a while now that BN has been basically in free-fall the past year or so due to lack of content and cancelled fights. Warrens been basically pissing away money on it. This deal gives them some money to pump into signing up a few exclusive deals and should also mean Hearn has to produce better cards generally speaking to stay top of the game, he's had it easy for quite some time now as the only real boxing promoter with a prominent TV deal.Warren now has BT and Channel 5 on-board, in-theory they must be looking eventually at building some stars through Channel 5 then sending them over to BT behind a paywall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossman Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 That main event was an embarrassment to boxing. Malik Scott spent 12 rounds running away, falling over trying to get counted out. Even when the referee did call some a knockdown, he was pulling Scott back up to continue the fight. The body shot knockdown was a blatant dive. If you're hit to the liver, its a delayed reaction. He took a bump like someone had unloaded a shotgun on him. They worked out, Scott threw 13 punches per round and about a third connected. Â Didn't see the Jamie McDonnell fight but heard he got the biggest gift decision. The best score I've seen for him was a draw. One judge had McDonnell winning by 6 rounds. Even the Sky commentators had Solis winning. Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted November 13, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 Solis was robbed. The best I could score it was Solis winning by 3 rounds. I couldn't imagine a scenario where McDonell won. When they announced a unanimous decision and the scores I thought justice had been done, but the Hearn bung must have worked it's magic, that can be the only explanation. Don't let the result put you off though, it's a really good fight. Â The Ortiz v Scott fight was horrific. The ref actually helped Scott up after a knockdown. Scott was down for 14 seconds. I wish it had been waived off then. A truly terrible fight. If you haven't seen it then don't watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 The Ortiz v Scott fight was horrific. The ref actually helped Scott up after a knockdown. Scott was down for 14 seconds. I wish it had been waived off then. A truly terrible fight. If you haven't seen it then don't watch it. It was Skelton vs Sprott without the comedy value.  I also had Solis winning. The scorecards were laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 16, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 16, 2016 Anyone watched Hands Of Stone yet? Any good? I'm going to end up watching it whatever you say, good or bad, because I love Roberto Duran. But if it's shit at least I can go in with low expectations and not be so disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Not yet, but I intend to. Over the past year or so, I've become a Duran fan. The Four Kings book helped that process along. I highly recommend it to anyone if they want to learn more about that era.  Seanz - Do you have a link about Warren having Channel 5 on board? I know the McGuigans have a deal with them, as it's them who is promoting George Groves's fight on the channel this weekend. However, I've read nothing about Warren. All I've read is that he's in bed with BT, and they're going to up their input significantly.  I think BT/Warren will end up with a near-monopoly on International fights. Boxnation already gets most of them anyway. I expect the Ward vs Kovalev superfight on Saturday to be one of the last major international fights on SKY for quite some time, barring fights that involve Matchroom fighters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 16, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 16, 2016 Yeah Four Kings is excellent. The Hands Of Stone book on Duran by Christian Guidice is pretty great as well actually. Â Duran's one of my favourite boxers ever. He was obviously before my time but I love that era in boxing and I've watched most of his career. Him and Marvin Hagler are my two favourites of the Four Kings. I like Tommy Hearns but not as much as those two. And I never really was a fan of Leonard. Great boxer but there's always been something that I found really unlikeable there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 16, 2016 Author Paid Members Share Posted November 16, 2016 Missed the fights last weekend but saw spoilers and Eddie Hearns post-fight stuff. Sucks about Ortiz, its not too late but it appeared Hearns has high hopes for the guy, hopefully a more game opponent on December 12th will bring something out of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Murtz Posted November 16, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 16, 2016 Can't wait for Ward Kovalev this weekend. I genuinely can't call it either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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