Boxing At The Weekend...

[YOKEL 2,340]

1 minute ago, mC HULL said:

similar to one the missus gives ya lol

 

1 minute ago, mC HULL said:

similar to one the missus gives ya lol

Oh, she gives fat worse sir, but, that's is definitely a black eye sir, and would have looked worse the following day, so, I think we can agree, usyk had definitely blackened an eye at heavyweight...

Yokel 

[Pardus 1,610]

Not boxing but Illia Topuria's hands are lethal.

[jackthelad 2,082]

1 hour ago, Pardus said:

Not boxing but Illia Topuria's hands are lethal.

That was some shot he dropped that fella with last night 

[Pardus 1,610]

10 minutes ago, jackthelad said:

That was some shot he dropped that fella with last night 

He's pure dynamite, the only UFC fighter that I think could excel in boxing.

[jukel123 9,276]

On 26/06/2025 at 23:02, gnasher16 said:

Now hang on a minute.....the post i responded to you barely made any mention of the weight discrepancy,you didnt like the fight itself......well which is it ?

There can be no denying that it was a brilliant  fight between two well matched fighters....whether it was only close because of the weights as a fan is neither here nor there.....you/we/fans dont care about a fighters well being we never have.......so why do the weights matter to you so much more than any other weight drained fighter ?

My point was that your Jake Paul,Mike Tyson,Furys brother,Conor Mcgregor type fiasco's damage the sport from a moral standpoint......low level fighters and has beens earning the highest money in the sport doesnt sit well with fighters.....we all know the physical risks and every fighter who gets between the ropes accepts those risks from the minute they get on the scales.....but what fighters wont accept is a con trick....and those fights were con tricks.

Looks like Eubanks hanging up his gloves now and good luck to him....but that fight in my eyes brought a little bit of the " old school " back to boxing....and thats not a bad thing.

To answer your question I didn't think much of the fight and I thought the weight limit imposed on Eubank was cynical and dangerous. The whole concept of weakening a man to bring him down to your level seems  unsporting  to me. Medical research shows that brain injuries are directly linked to dehydration. Which is why Eubank senior was so angry about the fight. He should know after  badly brain damaging  Michael Watson. His brother, also a boxer, died from brain injury caused by boxing.

I never bought into the story that it was a grudge match for family pride. Jackanory stuff. It was a carefully orchestrated, shrewd, money making venture.  The fight itself was a bit lairy and there was genuine aggro and a bit of spite between the two which always adds to the atmosphere. There were some haymakers swung by Benn which mostly missed the target. But it was a con. Benn won very few rounds and lost on all scorecards. The classier , more telling punches were landed by Eubank. Benn had no real right to be in the same ring as Eubank.

Benn is a carefully protected fighter. 23 fights at 28 years old and all he's won is a European intercontinental belt with a 60% KO rate. No wonder he's undefeated. He hasn't fought anybody of note in their prime. I dont think  he's a patch on his father. Nigel Benn had a psychopathic, kamikaze style of boxing which gained him an 83% knockout rate against some quality opponents. We will never see his like again imo. He held the WBC title at 28 years of age.

Imo they weren't well matched fighters at all. Eubank has mixed it with some serious dudes like De Gale, Smith  and Groves. He has held the British Middle weight belt and he holds the IBO belt for his weight division.  Not the best belt but not to be dismissed. He's a much classier, stronger, heavier  boxer than Benn.

In the closing rounds Eubank was obviously fighting on auto pilot because of the dehydration demands of the contract. At the end of the fight he was barely conscious of where he was and had to spend two nights in hospital. This was a backwards step for British boxing and for boxers' safety.

I also don't agree the boxing community doesn't give a f**k about injured boxers. Fallen warriors are highly respected, even loved amongst true fans. Look at the  reaction you get when you mention Johnny Owen, Paul Ingle ( a big favourite on here for his love of whippets and ferrets) Michael Watson and many others. There are specialist charities for injured boxers and fund raising events are often held for specific boxers. I've seen both Eubank and Benn sobbing years later about the fate of their badly injured opponents... Watson and McClelland. I remember you complaining bitterly that badly brain injured Blackwell had stopped being competitive in his fight against Eubank jnr and should have been pulled from the fight much earlier. Eubank senior instructed his son to stop targeting Blackwell's head and was  banging on the canvass screaming at the ref to stop the fight. Not the actions of somebody who doesn't care about injured boxers.  Eubank recently donated a Rolex to Watson's brain injury charity and has joined Watson when he completed the London Marathon. You have written sensitively and caringly in the past about injured boxers on here. I would say promoters and the Boxing Board of Control don't give two fucks about boxers, but not true practitioners or lovers of the sport.

I've read there will be a rematch. Good luck to them at a reported 18 million and 12 million notes apiece! That is fantasy money for boxers of their ability. Probably far more than their father's earned throughout the whole of their careers. They are unashamingly trading off their father's names. Who cares?   Good luck to them. But don't ask me to believe it's a genuine, competitive fight between two equals. It's  far from it.

Having said that I wouldn't be surprised if Benn 'wins' and there's a third deciding match. Its all about the story and the  money.  Jake Paul fights are almost exactly the same format. They also trade on recycling famous names from the past.

I think I have more than had my say. Sorry for the long windedness. By all means reply but I'm out of this thread now.

Edited June 30 by jukel123

[shaaark 11,342]

On 29/06/2025 at 19:44, jukel123 said:

To answer your question I didn't think much of the fight and I thought the weight limit imposed on Eubank was cynical and dangerous. The whole concept of weakening a man to bring him down to your level seems  unsporting  to me. Medical research shows that brain injuries are directly linked to dehydration. Which is why Eubank senior was so angry about the fight. He should know after  badly brain damaging  Michael Watson. His brother, also a boxer, died from brain injury caused by boxing.

I never bought into the story that it was a grudge match for family pride. Jackanory stuff. It was a carefully orchestrated, shrewd, money making venture.  The fight itself was a bit lairy and there was genuine aggro and a bit of spite between the two which always adds to the atmosphere. There were some haymakers swung by Benn which mostly missed the target. But it was a con. Benn won very few rounds and lost on all scorecards. The classier , more telling punches were landed by Eubank. Benn had no real right to be in the same ring as Eubank.

Benn is a carefully protected fighter. 23 fights at 28 years old and all he's won is a European intercontinental belt with a 60% KO rate. No wonder he's undefeated. He hasn't fought anybody of note in their prime. I dont think  he's a patch on his father. Nigel Benn had a psychopathic, kamikaze style of boxing which gained him an 83% knockout rate against some quality opponents. We will never see his like again imo. He held the WBC title at 28 years of age.

Imo they weren't well matched fighters at all. Eubank has mixed it with some serious dudes like De Gale, Smith  and Groves. He has held the British Middle weight belt and he holds the IBO belt for his weight division.  Not the best belt but not to be dismissed. He's a much classier, stronger, heavier  boxer than Benn.

In the closing rounds Eubank was obviously fighting on auto pilot because of the dehydration demands of the contract. At the end of the fight he was barely conscious of where he was and had to spend two nights in hospital. This was a backwards step for British boxing and for boxers' safety.

I also don't agree the boxing community doesn't give a f**k about injured boxers. Fallen warriors are highly respected, even loved amongst true fans. Look at the  reaction you get when you mention Johnny Owen, Paul Ingle ( a big favourite on here for his love of whippets and ferrets) Michael Watson and many others. There are specialist charities for injured boxers and fund raising events are often held for specific boxers. I've seen both Eubank and Benn sobbing years later about the fate of their badly injured opponents... Watson and McClelland. I remember you complaining bitterly that badly brain injured Blackwell had stopped being competitive in his fight against Eubank jnr and should have been pulled from the fight much earlier. Eubank senior instructed his son to stop targeting Blackwell's head and was  banging on the canvass screaming at the ref to stop the fight. Not the actions of somebody who doesn't care about injured boxers.  Eubank recently donated a Rolex to Watson's brain injury charity and has joined Watson when he completed the London Marathon. You have written sensitively and caringly in the past about injured boxers on here. I would say promoters and the Boxing Board of Control don't give two fucks about boxers, but not true practitioners or lovers of the sport.

I've read there will be a rematch. Good luck to them at a reported 18 million and 12 million notes apiece! That is fantasy money for boxers of their ability. Probably far more than their father's earned throughout the whole of their careers. They are unashamingly trading off their father's names. Who cares?   Good luck to them. But don't ask me to believe it's a genuine, competitive fight between two equals. It's  far from it.

Having said that I wouldn't be surprised if Benn 'wins' and there's a third deciding match. Its all about the story and the  money.  Jake Paul fights are almost exactly the same format. They also trade on recycling famous names from the past.

I think I have more than had my say. Sorry for the long windedness. By all means reply but I'm out of this thread now.

hmmmm, yep, it is a tad warm.

[Greyman 31,239]

Interesting will the Arab get Canelo in the ring with benevedez if they both win ??

[shaaark 11,342]

3 hours ago, Greyman said:

Interesting will the Arab get Canelo in the ring with benevedez if they both win ??

As we all know, G, money talks, but alvarez is already a muti millionaire, and doesn't need the money, also, he doesn't want to, and never has wanted to fight benavidez.

Deliberately been ducking him, and taking relatively easy options the last couple of years.

Just checked, as of May 19 2025, alvarez is worth 300 million dollars.

He ain't gonna fight benavidez.

Edited July 3 by shaaark

[mC HULL 15,584]

11 hours ago, shaaark said:

As we all know, G, money talks, but alvarez is already a muti millionaire, and doesn't need the money, also, he doesn't want to, and never has wanted to fight benavidez.

Deliberately been ducking him, and taking relatively easy options the last couple of years.

Just checked, as of May 19 2025, alvarez is worth 300 million dollars.

He ain't gonna fight benavidez.

lol my god you are  dense 

so canelo a great who has fought legends from young until now is scared of benividez lol hes been in with bivol let’s see how benevodez gets on with yarde

 

[shaaark 11,342]

1 hour ago, mC HULL said:

lol my god you are  dense 

so canelo a great who has fought legends from young until now is scared of benividez lol hes been in with bivol let’s see how benevodez gets on with yarde

 

Quit with the insults, Gooey.

The densest c**t on this site is you.

And yep, alvarez has picked and avoided more than a few fights the last few years.

[mC HULL 15,584]

1 minute ago, shaaark said:

Quit with the insults, Gooey.

The densest c**t on this site is you.

And yep, alvarez has picked and avoided more than a few fights the last few years.

who like golovkin? or bivol ? lol have a day off t

benivedez alvarez  mexican roots a massive fight if benivedez can gets some good wins 

 

who as alvarez ducked ?

[Greyman 31,239]

1 hour ago, mC HULL said:

lol my god you are  dense 

so canelo a great who has fought legends from young until now is scared of benividez lol hes been in with bivol let’s see how benevodez gets on with yarde

 

He only fought bivol because as usual he thought his inexperience would give him another easy win until bivol handed him his arse bivol then offered to come down to canelos weight for the rematch and take all his belts but canelo wanted non of it he’s been running from benevedis for years and can’t age him out like he did to old crusher you do have some mad tinted specs on when you watch boxing mate you see everything totally different to the majority 

[Greyman 31,239]

5 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

who like golovkin? or bivol ? lol have a day off t

benivedez alvarez  mexican roots a massive fight if benivedez can gets some good wins 

 

who as alvarez ducked ?

Who ain’t he you mentalist aged out glovkin and covileve ? He’s always been a massive cherry picker only you can’t see it again but you did think fury is better than Ali so really I should have drew the line there 

[shaaark 11,342]

10 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

who like golovkin? or bivol ? lol have a day off t

benivedez alvarez  mexican roots a massive fight if benivedez can gets some good wins 

 

who as alvarez ducked ?

Kin el, Gooey, you had the cheek to call me dense!!

 

[mC HULL 15,584]

21 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Who ain’t he you mentalist aged out glovkin and covileve ? He’s always been a massive cherry picker only you can’t see it again but you did think fury is better than Ali so really I should have drew the line there 

wow so someone who went from fighting mayweather at lower weights to bivol at light heavy win undisputed in 3 weights is a cherry picker ?