Boxing Thread

[BennyHarp]

Eddie Hearn tweeted today that for the official 30 day weigh in, Kell Brook weighed 176lbs and GGG weighed 165lbs.  Kell will be lucky to make middleweight at this rate! 

16 pounds in 30 days? No bother whatsoever.

Aye I know. I'd imagine he wanted to get as big as possible for this weigh in as part of the mind games.

[gallsman]

Brook will want to be careful he doesn't do a McGregor and submit skip the cut. Fight is in relatively short notice to be posting on serious muscle and doing the cardio to do go with it.

[ONeill]

Ward on now

[ONeill]

Two weird styles. Ward scoring.

[BennyHarp]

Two weird styles. Ward scoring.

They are very messy alright. Ward deducted a point now...

[mouview]

Ward's an awkward slugger - be no surprise if he loses I'm afraid...

[ONeill]

Hard one to judge. Like two drunken brawlers.

[BennyHarp]

.....and another point. This will be tough now!

[Harold Disgracey]

The ref was a bit of a joke.

[Tony Baloney]

Pathetic stuff. Was well warned about holding.

[mouview]

What did Ward do to get his reputation? Completely unable to defend himself..

[yellowcard]

Awful fight, Ward got what he deserved. Never came to fight, holding and brawling seemed to be his gameplan.

[ONeill]

Ward showed nothing there to suggest he was a potential medallist. Crap fight.

[yellowcard]

All the pre tournament bigging up of the boxers is backfiring. I heard numerous pundits tipping Ireland for 8 medals in the boxing. Instead 4 have gone home already and performances have been poor generally.

[moysider]

I dunno which was worse? The fight or RTE's panel of experts?

They built Ward up like he was a sure thing.

After they blame ref, not showing up, fitness and tiredness!!

Pathetic stuff.