Boxing Thread

[Blowitupref]

Fight won't be on until 4am by the looks of it?

[gallsman]

Fight won't be on until 4am by the looks of it?

Big Vegas fights usually around 4-4.30am Irish time.

[new devil]

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[gallsman]

Regardless of the decision here, Pavlik is well on his way to being a shot fighter.

[gallsman]

Outstanding final warm up fight between Arce and Vasquez. Joe Cortez let the final barrage go on too long, Vasquez resembled a bottle head by that stage. Didn't look like he was jumping in until the towel was thrown in.

[Blowitupref]

Wow that was some fight, some turnaround by Jorge arce

[Blowitupref]

Pac-man packing the punch again, Mosley will do well to recover from that round.

[Blowitupref]

Mosley has recovered & no doubt will be looking to go the distance now.

[gallsman]

Dreadful knockdown call in a round Pacquiao dominated!

[Blowitupref]

Yeah joke though it's a Poor fight, crowd sounding very frustrated.

[gallsman]

Deserved win, but poor fight in the end. No relentless pace from Pacquiao like we're used to, showed flashes and the left has Mosley's head snapping a few times.

Mayweather wouldn't have been made any more terrified having watched it.

[bridgegael]

how did prizefighter finish up?  how did perez go?

[Atticus_Finch]

Perez won.

In some style as well - I missed his first fight but won the others by early stoppage.  Seemed to be a cut above everyone else on show.

Although in saying that, the lineup wasn't of the best quality on the night,  it was hit by the withdrawal of Juan Carlos Gomez and Fres Oquendo (David Haye's sparring partner).

But still Perez did well and hopefully looks set to inject a bit of excitement in the heavyweight division and even with the looming contest of haye vs Klitschko that is always still welcome.

Laughing at someone here describing him as a cork lad, i was just waiting for him to refer to the rest of his opponents as "langers" when he was getting interviewed last night !

He's one out of a trio of lads that defected from Cuba a number of years back and are now based in Cork.  Out of the three of them, Alexei Acosta is the one that was regarded as having the most talent you might have come across him along with the other cork based cuban Luis Garcia on the undercard of a couple of Brian Peter's shows.  Was told that Mike Perez didn't show the best attitude and was partial to a sup since his defection.  He couldn't have done much more to impress last night and hopefully prizegfighter will open a few doors for him.  He has a great ring entrace tune - Shipping up to boston by The Dropkick Murphys.  The irish have clearly already warmed to him.

Just finished watching the highlights of the Pacquiao vs Mosley bout - glad i did not stay up to watch it.  It was nothing more than Joshua Clottey the sequel.  Mosley was always going to be content with going the distance.  If there's anything to be taken from that fight at all - you could say that it strengthens the case for those that would argue that Mayweather would come on top should him and Pacman ever meet.  If Pacman found it difficult enough to open up holes in Mosley's defence, he's not exactly going to find it easy to achieve against PBF.  Although at this stage if they ever did fight you'd have to wonder would PBF suffer from any ring rust he hasn't fought for a year but providing these court cases go his way i tihnk he's due to fight Victor Ortiz later this year - I could be wrong in thinking that.

Enjoyed the Arce vs vaquez show prior to it - at least it had a bit of drama in it.

I've got one eye on the Pavlik fight while i'm typing this, if Pavlik is going to be made mandatory challenger for Froch's WBC super middleweight crown, i really don't think Froch has anything to be worried about.  Good to see that going forward it appears that Froch will get some of the exposure he deserves on sky.

MR - just a quick retort to one of your last posts - i've never said that McCloskey is world class - as regards for you saying he is way off the mark compared to Khan i completely disagree.  Bookies clearly had him way off the mark with the way they priced up the bout.  But Dudey did himself no harm by his display and made Khan look the level that he truly operates at, people will say the gameplan of a late stoppage by McCloskey's camp was flawed in hindsight but like me they'll never know what would have happened if that ridiculous decision didn't take place.  If Dudey had obtained a late stoppage then everyone would have been lauding the game plan as genius.  <--- that's the last time i'm talking about the Dudey vs Khan fight on this board.   

As for where Dudey goes from here, i think on the basis of his fanbase he is a draw and will get fights, have heard a few names being floated about but still at an early stage from any definite fight being made.  What i would say is - that if he is to enhance his boxing pedigree as well as his profile, his next fight should be in the States.

[Milltown Row2]

Don't get me wrong Dudey is a good enough fighter who will earn enough respect followed by enough money to make a life out of boxing, he comes across well when doing interviews and could well get a job in commentating after his career finishes. (could do no worse than the other clampits who currently do it)

I went to two of his bouts so it's not like i was basing my opinions of him from afar. He should get a few more cracks at various B titles of which he'll have to win well to get another dig at big men of that division. A lot of good fighters in the top flight and Khan probably the worst of them.

I accept your take on how Dudey was going about his fight that night. Well all have opinions and views and we wont always agree so we'll leave it at that

When do you think he'll get another fight?

[Atticus_Finch]

There's a chance he could be chief support to Khan's next proposed bout which would be 23rd of July.

Problem being with team Khan nothing is straightforward and once upon a time that fight was to be against timothy bradley - that doesn't look like it'll happen now and Khan's plan B is to look at opponents that dudey was tentatively getting matched with.

So it would really depend on that in my opinion but at this stage i think it would be unlikely that he wold fight on July 23.  Froch joining up with the Hearns probably isn't the best of news for Dudey.  Froch will deservedly be their number one boy and they will rightly devote quite a bit of energy to promoting him just hope that's not to the detriment of Dudey.

No matter what, i would be surprised if Dudey doesn't have his next fight before October.

From watching the highlights this morning I can see that Sky are putting a lot of efforts into advertising their next PPV adventure - Groves vs De Gale.  once again not a ppv event in my opinion, even if Nathan Cleverly is on the undercard.  Sky seem to be a bit too keen to put the British fights on box office.  Only British box office fighters out there at the minute in my opinion are Carl Froch and David Haye.

I see it looks like Khan has gone crawling back to Alex Ariza (strength and conditioning coach for the Maidana fight) i hope Ariza tells him where to go - that's my last bit of Khan bashing for a good while, promise