Boxing thread

[Lillian Thomson]

What did Floyd and the Big Show fight for?

To obtain great wads of cash from gullible fans.

 

[indiaholic]

So for the lineal gullible fan money championship?

 

[Niall]

Easy to forget the probable fight of the year is on later with all this Floyd talk

Probably jinxed him, but think Ward will get it done, but very excited.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Easy to forget the probable fight of the year is on later with all this Floyd talk

Probably jinxed him, but think Ward will get it done, but very excited.

Yeah, quite so. The Ring has them at #1 & #2 in their pound for pound list, so match ups don't get much better.

Throw in a (mildly) debatable decision in their first fight and what seems like genuine needle (as opposed to ****ish trash talk) and it could be a classic.

Each probably earning about a tenth of what McGregor will get for donating his chin to Mayweather. Sigh.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The boxing bloke on TALKsport reckons the top 100 amateur boxers in England of the same weight would beat McGregor. If he's seriously at that level it's hard to see how this fight can be allowed.

 

[social]

The boxing bloke on TALKsport reckons the top 100 amateur boxers in England of the same weight would beat McGregor. If he's seriously at that level it's hard to see how this fight can be allowed.

Money

To put things into perspective, one of the boxing commissions refused to sanction a fight between Ward and a top 20 fighter as they regarded it as a mismatch

McGregor is not a top 100 boxer

 

[hendrix]

Well this is gonna be interesting...

 

[indiaholic]

Hmmmmm...

 

[social]

Couple of low blows but Kov was basically done anyway as he was broken physically and mentally

Anyway, Ward is my favourite boxer but he is also incredibly dirty and uses whatever tools there are at his disposal to win

IMO, he is a more skilled version of Hopkins and I rate him above Floyd on a P4P basis as whilst they are both incredibly skillful with great boxing brains, Ward is also happy to turn it into a war if need be and is nowhere near as selective when it comes to choice of opponents

 

[Athlai]

To obtain great wads of cash from gullible fans.

Don't work yourself into a shoot

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Don't work yourself into a shoot

Okay........probably.

 

[Uppercut]

The boxing bloke on TALKsport reckons the top 100 amateur boxers in England of the same weight would beat McGregor. If he's seriously at that level it's hard to see how this fight can be allowed.

Not that I disagree with them (or have an opinion) but the boxing blokes are hardly going to say anything else. Saying McGregor has a chance would basically be admitting your sport is turd.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Not that I disagree with them (or have an opinion) but the boxing blokes are hardly going to say anything else. Saying McGregor has a chance would basically be admitting your sport is turd.

Maybe. But he's also not prone to making predictions that have the potential to make himself look silly.

 

[Shri]

MCGregor gets money whether he wins or loses, right? Whats stopping him from kicking Mayweather in the head?

 

[hendrix]

MCGregor gets money whether he wins or loses, right? Whats stopping him from kicking Mayweather in the head?

The same thing stopping any citizen from assaulting someone else, I'd imagine: the law.

 

[Shri]

Nah, are you telling me that he will be sued for a DQ?

 

[hendrix]

Nah, are you telling me that he will be sued for a DQ?

Definitely sued, possibly arrested as well.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

It's not really about being sued or arrested. There are a number of circumstances that allow the governing body of professional boxing to withhold a competitors purse. I haven't read the small print regarding such matters but I would venture the opinion that the use of karate is covered somewhere within.

 

[King Pietersen]

No doubt it'll be in the contract too that if he head-kicks Floyd he'll forfeit his purse. He'd be seriously dumb to do that.

They should make this a 3 stages of hell type series of matches. Fight 1 - Boxing, Fight 2 - MMA, Fight 3 - Kickboxing.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Another freak show on the horizon.

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