Boxing Thread

[BennyHarp]

Looking more like Alvarez and DeLaHoya are going to chicken out of a fight with GGG.

Hardly surprising - the business of boxing is about protecting the cash cow these days.

[omaghjoe]

I think the fight will happen, there might be an interim fight for both fighters (GGG at least) tho

Alot of the stuff about catchweights, PPV figures, etc etc that you hear in the press is just posturing, a form of provisional negotiations before real discussions begin.

[bridgegael]

Anyone getting the fury fight tomorrow night? Don't know what to do. Klitschos fights don't usually have value for money. Any good fights on undercard?

[ONeill]

Fury to win within 8?

[BennyHarp]

Anyone getting the fury fight tomorrow night? Don't know what to do. Klitschos fights don't usually have value for money. Any good fights on undercard?

Not very exciting though Jono Carroll and Hughie Fury might provide a bit of interest if they can find him an opponent.....

THE undercard for Wladimir Klitschko and Tyson Fury's heavyweight clash is looking fairly sparse. Heavyweight Hughie Fury, Tyson's cousin, was without an opponent as of today's weigh-in.

Ireland's quality 8-0 Jono Carroll, a Prizefighter champion, gets a big platform, boxing the 13-3 (11) Miguel Gonzalez from Honduras.

In a new move two AIBA Pro Boxing competitors will be on show. The APB, a new format, is essentially a pro competition for Olympic boxers and this is the first time it's been combined with a regular professional event. Germany's David Graf with box Kazakhstan's Anton Pinchuk in an eight-round bout on this bill before they resume attempting to qualify for the Olympic Games next year. This is perhaps the start of 'amateur' and professional boxing working more closely together.

The rest of the undercard is comprised of:

Robert Tlatlik versus Said Rahimi

Samy Musa versus Jay Spencer

Patrick Korte versus Moises Distino

Dominik Tietz versus Javad Sadeghi

[Atticus_Finch]

Undercard is a bit of a farce alright.  I think they went to the closest gym to pick up Hughie Fury's last minute opponent, Konstantin Airich. The highlight of his resume over the last couple of years was lasting almost 2 1/2 rounds with Anthony Joshua.

If you are getting the fight out, I don't think the undercard is what is going to sway you unfortunately.  The most interesting thing about the undercard will be the tattoo that Jono Carroll has on his back. I always felt the Sky cameras tried to swerve it during the prizefighter tournament that he won ...

Hope I am wrong but not expecting too much excitement from the main event. Tyson does a great job of selling it but expecting klitschko to sit behind his robotic jab and claim a comfortable points victory.

[bridgegael]

Ordered in anyway, agree bout undercard, just thought might be some value in it as its PoV.
Think the degale bute fight on later should be a good one, any ideas of start time for it? 

[Atticus_Finch]

Should be kicking off at around about 4am with coverage starting about 3.

[ONeill]

http://gamblegeek.com/2015/11/28/klitschko-v-fury-betting-preview/?utm_source=hootsuite

[JoG2]

Anyone hazard a guess as to the start time of the Fury bout?

[nrico2006]

What time UK is the card starting? What link on the beast is likely to be best - don't see any Sky Sports box office links?

[BennyHarp]

Anyone hazard a guess as to the start time of the Fury bout?

Fury scheduled to ring walk at 9.45pm.

[JoG2]

Good man.  Have a few beers a chilling

[JoG2]

For anyone with Kodi,  Phoenix has a great stream under Live PPV Events

[Boycey]

Can't make my mind up if I want Tyson to get his head knocked off or not 

If anyone is using a dodgy skybox they'll probably have to do a new scan to find it..