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17 Mar 2024 00:31:31
Joe Joyce, shocking
Never world class

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21 Mar 2024 11:34:48
He punches in slow motion and his only real weapon is his jab. If he lands clean it's going to hurt for sure (just ask Parker) but he's very beatable.

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11 Mar 2024 21:21:01
not aj's biggest fan and I know it was only an mma fighter, but that was an impressive ko.
and he's starting to look like the aj that used to destroy everyone, maybe being with ben davidson could be one of his best decisions.

funny thing was fury post fight, he was blatantly avoiding talking about fighting aj, when all he has done is call him out over the years calling hum every name under the sun lol.
as someone commented on another post, I agree fury won't fight aj.

i think if he beats usyk twice he will retire undefeated.
but saying that it won't surprise me one bit if the usyk fight gets delayed once again.

if that fight gets delayed again then the wbc should be demanding fury fights a top 10 contender, but they will prob just let him do what he wants

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09 Mar 2024 00:54:07
Folded like a deck chair, wow.

Fury won't fight AJ.

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09 Mar 2024 09:50:15
One of worse KOs seen since Manny flattened Hatton (generally worrying that one) - glad Francis was ok.

TBf Fury vs Osyk is rightly biggest fight scheduled (and can’t deny either a rematch as Osyk beat AJ twice) - after that will see what’s what. Though would say that is first MMA vs boxer fight that made boxing look good or boxer performed how you’d expect them to.

Hopefully boxing can focus on boxers fighting top level boxing. Imagine cáñelo would do farrrr worse to Jake Paul and boxers should follow this example to quiet fights of this nature

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09 Mar 2024 09:50:53
Awful fight AJ did what needed to be done.

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09 Mar 2024 19:07:19
Fair play to Aj. Biggest winner of the night was boxing, Biggest loser was Fury.

Hope this puts an end to this cross over lark before one of them get hurt.

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09 Mar 2024 00:50:57
Team Aj now for life.

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04 Mar 2024 19:49:47
Will be very disappointed if Joshua doesn't stop Ngannou.

Parker vs Zhang will be interesting. I think Parker will win by a close points decision, I suspect Zhang will start to lose momentum late on as he's got questionable stamina.

Nick Ball should win also.

Decent card to be fair.

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05 Mar 2024 12:06:54
Joshua to stop Ngannou inside 4.

Parker/Zhang is a real 50/50 but I think Zhang takes it on points.

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07 Mar 2024 12:56:09
Also think Joshua will win early.

Zhang v Parker is a good scrap, I'd say Zhang to big for him and will win by ko.

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08 Mar 2024 05:45:11
Zhang coming in at 290? Sheesh man is going to be blowing by 5.

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27 Jan 2024 08:38:33
Just for a bit of fun I decided to have a look and see what BoxRec had as the all time pound for pound list.

It's quite interesting to be honest, there are a lot of names that you would expect to be in the top 50 but there are also some that are mind boggling.as to why they are rated to highly.

I'm not going to denigrate any of the people in this list, they are all elite level fighters, but I don't understand some of them.

For example: Oscar De La Hoya comes in at number 17 which is baffling. He's rated above the likes of Canelo (22), Harry Greb (26), Joe Calzaghe (27), Willie Pep (30), Jake LaMotta (32), Archie Moore (37).

Some of those names listed should arguably be in the top 10, but they're not even in the top 20. I'd love to know what formula they use to determine the ratings.

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30 Jan 2024 22:15:19
They use a formula called the Whole-History Rating Algorithm, need to work for NASA to understand how it works.

The site was created by a guy called John Sheppard, I read a couple of funny things he's had to deal with over the years running the site;

An American boxer emailed BoxRec.com to say that he was disputing a bout he’d lost in Mexico. The fighter wrote that, at the weigh-in, he was four inches taller than his opponent. But when he entered the ring on fight night, the man he was facing was two inches taller than he was.

A Mexican commission submitted an event report to BoxRec that included a fight lost by “Jose Lopez.” There are more than a hundred “Jose Lopezes” in BoxRec’s database, so Sheppard asked for clarification as to which Jose Lopez it was. “We don’t know, ” the commission responded. “But he lost, it doesn’t matter, just pick one.”

A new commissioner submitted her first report to BoxRec and Sheppard noted that, in one of the bouts, both boxers were reported as winning. He telephoned the commissioner to clarify the result and she told him that a more experienced commissioner had spent a half-hour training her on fight night. One of the questions she’d asked was, “How do I know who won? ” The more experienced commissioner told her, “That’s easy. The referee will raise the winner’s hand.” He didn’t teach her about draws.

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31 Jan 2024 15:43:19
I believe that system is similar to the ELO rating system they use in Chess?

Oh man that's funny, Boxing is so broken.

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01 Feb 2024 19:34:31
I'm not sure about chess mate your probably right but.

Aye its the wild west of sports mate. Lol

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16 Jan 2024 16:03:32
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new sports article, Sporting Fairytales Part 4: The Rumble In The Jungle

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16 Jan 2024 22:08:40
Brilliant article Ed001 mate.

{Ed001's Note - thank you Roro.}

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17 Jan 2024 02:18:02
Good read, thanks Ed.

{Ed001's Note - thank you mate, I am glad you enjoyed it.}

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15 Jan 2024 15:22:13
That was always going to happen to Smith at the weekend there, never uses his size and reach advantage. Made for Beterbiev.

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15 Jan 2024 23:22:17
Smith irritates the life out of me. He has a height and reach advantage in all of his fights but he fights like he's the smaller guy.

How you get outjabbed by someone much smaller than you is beyond me. I know the ring was small, but fml he really should be beating people he has a 5 inch reach advantage over.

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16 Jan 2024 22:10:41
Yeah your right, hope he doesn't retire but. Still want to see him fight Yarde.

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17 Jan 2024 02:19:45
If he fought long he'd be considered a p4p fighter, he'd have definitely beaten Canelo and I think he'd have a better chance of beating Beterbiev.

Speaking of which, Bellew made a mess of himself (again) by calling Beterbiev a cheater and going on a rant about how it's dangerous, yet won't condemn Conor Benn lol

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25 Jan 2024 13:43:37
Looked like he had everything as a young fighter, Callum Smith, but he's just far too pedestrian and predictable. Looks like he's been over trained and forgot how to actually just fight. No fire, nothing explosive, just plodding. Massively underachieved.

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04 Jan 2024 05:44:41
Jarrell Miller has been arrested and charged with car jacking and battery.

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15 Jan 2024 15:19:48
Someone must have been too slow in the drive thru.

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03 Jan 2024 17:03:02
Krzysztof Glowacki has been handed a 4 year ban from Boxing due to adverse findings in his urine tests.

4 years for doping is a good number. But you can bet your life that if Joshua, Canelo, Crawford or Inoue tested positive, they'd either get swept under the rug or given a 6 month ban.

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15 Jan 2024 15:19:58
Money for u mate.

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