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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 9, 2021 6:32:06 GMT
i love boxing and know i'm in the minority on here, but surely i can't be the only poster creaming their pants over this one?
i'll be up early tomorrow morning pumped-up and hoping for a fury win, but my head tells me that wilder is going to win early by KO. i hope i'm wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2021 8:39:38 GMT
i love boxing and know i'm in the minority on here, but surely i can't be the only poster creaming their pants over this one? i'll be up early tomorrow morning pumped-up and hoping for a fury win, but my head tells me that wilder is going to win early by KO. i hope i'm wrong. Big boxing fan here. I feel the same way Skopey, except that Fury does seem to be in Wilders head. Wilder isn't a great fighter in all truth , he is quite limited (lack of movement and jab) he continually has his big punch permanently cocked to pull the trigger as his get out of jail card. Wouldn't want to put my last dime on any particular outcome. |
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 9, 2021 8:45:02 GMT
i love boxing and know i'm in the minority on here, but surely i can't be the only poster creaming their pants over this one? i'll be up early tomorrow morning pumped-up and hoping for a fury win, but my head tells me that wilder is going to win early by KO. i hope i'm wrong. Big boxing fan here. I feel the same way Skopey, except that Fury does seem to be in Wilders head. Wilder isn't a great fighter in all truth , he is quite limited (lack of movement and jab) he continually has his big punch permanently cocked to pull the trigger as his get out of jail card. Wouldn't want to put my last dime on any particular outcome. i love you LJ. i wished you lived on the costa blanca, rather than the GAY islands of greece. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2021 10:34:58 GMT
Great fight. All credit to Fury he simply dominated Wilder and deserved his victory.
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Post by tory on Oct 10, 2021 11:17:18 GMT
I'm no Boxing expert at all, yet can see that there is something gloriously unquantifiable about Tyson Fury. He is enormous and yet moves with staggering speed. Without doubt the greatest Heavyweight of the last 30 years.
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Post by blue on Oct 10, 2021 18:19:25 GMT
Of the past 30 years? I think Lennox Lewis might have had too much for him.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 11, 2021 14:42:20 GMT
it was a fight and a half. i've been watching it over on repeat.
not quite bowe-holyfield I, but very close.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Oct 11, 2021 15:42:38 GMT
They showed the first two fights here last week along with profiles of both fighters' training camps and history.
I don't know why, but I would have bet Fury based on the last fight. I didn't pay for it, but it looked like fans got their money's worth. Boxing is at such a low mark these days. ESPN and HBO used to show lots of boxing in prime time, but now none of them do.
I grew up with a subscription to Ring magazine, but I hardly know anyone now. In the US, the next round of great fighters always came from the Olympic ranks, except for Tyson who lost in the trials, but I couldn't tell you one Olympic champion since Andre Ward. And that was 2004.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 11, 2021 15:46:23 GMT
The brutality of MMA tends to make boxing look quaint, and it seems to fit our times, despite not being very compelling.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 11, 2021 15:47:13 GMT
the brits are dominating the heavyweight division at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2021 15:48:24 GMT
Good points Sloop. Boxing shot itself in the foot with all the pay per view crap. Here in Britain we would watch Conteh, Minter and McGuigan for free and people still remember the fights.The vast majority of people don't know anything about the boxing world or even how many different titles are available.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 11, 2021 15:48:52 GMT
The brutality of MMA tends to make boxing look quaint. mma is boring as hell. all over in a blink of an eye. |
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 11, 2021 15:55:11 GMT
fury was magnificent. big fat fuck, but such an intelligent fighter.
top ten sporting event.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 11, 2021 16:03:50 GMT
The brutality of MMA tends to make boxing look quaint. mma is boring as hell. all over in a blink of an eye. It's no surprise that Gav likes it given all those sweaty men wrestling with each other on the floor. |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Oct 11, 2021 16:21:19 GMT
The brutality of MMA tends to make boxing look quaint, and it seems to fit our times, despite not being very compelling. Just too gratuitously brutal for me. |
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