Boxing Thread

Mikhail Prokhorov · December 13, 2020, 12:15:49 AM

Quote from: JoG2 on December 13, 2020, 12:00:55 AM
Quote from: Mikhail Prokhorov on December 12, 2020, 11:45:16 PM
fury beats joshua i would think, pure sky hype

Why would they not hype it? Its the fight everyone wants to see. Joshua v impressive tonight against a tough man. That 3rd round was seriously impressive. Hagleresque, Joshua couldn't miss! Fury won't be near as open though.

haha he couldn't miss against a 40 year old journeyman. comparing him to hagler is ridiculous

. fury will beat joshua easy on points, aj is not a boxer as ruiz proved

JoG2 · December 13, 2020, 12:20:04 AM

Quote from: Mikhail Prokhorov on December 13, 2020, 12:15:49 AM
Quote from: JoG2 on December 13, 2020, 12:00:55 AM
Quote from: Mikhail Prokhorov on December 12, 2020, 11:45:16 PM
fury beats joshua i would think, pure sky hype

Why would they not hype it? Its the fight everyone wants to see. Joshua v impressive tonight against a tough man. That 3rd round was seriously impressive. Hagleresque, Joshua couldn't miss! Fury won't be near as open though.

haha he couldn't miss against a 40 year old journeyman. comparing him to hagler is ridiculous . fury will beat joshua easy on points, aj is not a boxer as ruiz proved

Decent record for a journey man. I compared 1 x Joshua rd to Hagler ie Joshua couldn't miss in the 3rd. Pretty much every punch landed. Hagler was famed for it.

gallsman · December 13, 2020, 08:41:22 AM

Hagleresque ffs! Joshua missed plenty in the 3rd round. If that's as good as you've seen him, you've not been watching him much. Wild and uncontrolled once he was hurt, to the extent that Pulev got out of a round and fought on when he should have been flat on his back. He threw triple uppercuts multiple times in the fight. Fury will laugh at that.

"Good record for a journeyman." The man is a 39 year old who had previously had one world title fight, which he lost. He was in there giving up a huge size and reach disadvantage. He was meant to be cannon fodder. Joshua did what he was supposed to do and nothing more.

Fury will start a significant favourite, and rightly so.

nrico2006 · December 13, 2020, 10:31:25 AM

Fury will stop Joshua. Joshua usually dictates the pace but on the occasions he hasn't he has been shown to tire pretty quickly.

whitegoodman · December 13, 2020, 10:49:17 AM

If you take out Wilder and Klitschko who has Fury fought ? I appreciate they are two of the best around at that time but if you look at his fights before and in between they were all complete bums.

AJ has found all the number 1 contenders ( of which Pulev was ) and beat them all other than Ruiz. Has Fury fought anyone of the stature of Parker, Povetkin or White.

Could you even name the fighters Fury has fought other than Klitschko and Wilder?

nrico2006 · December 13, 2020, 12:40:36 PM

Joshua has fought a higher standard of opponent constantly. But Furys wins over Klitschko and Wilder trump any of Joshua's wins.

whitegoodman · December 13, 2020, 12:47:36 PM

Fury beat Klitschko by dancing around the ring for 12 rounds, AJ knocked him out !

nrico2006 · December 13, 2020, 01:00:47 PM

Fury completely outclassed Klitschko by out boxing him from round 1 to 12. Klitschko could barely lay a glove on Fury. Compare that to an older and inactive version of Klitschko who nearly knocked Joshua out.

bennydorano · December 13, 2020, 01:56:48 PM

Oddschecker has it 4/7 Fury, 7/4 AJ.

The twittersphere would certainly have you thinking Fury just has to turn up.

AJ has to improve tactically to beat Fury and I think he can definitely do that, he might have to get in a coach specifically for him. It'll be 50/50 imo because so much will be on the line, it will be one of the biggest fights ever.

JimStynes · December 13, 2020, 02:47:26 PM

Quote from: whitegoodman on December 13, 2020, 12:47:36 PM
Fury beat Klitschko by dancing around the ring for 12 rounds, AJ knocked him out !

Fury beat him by outclassing him with superior boxing skills.

whitegoodman · December 13, 2020, 03:09:23 PM

I wouldn't dispute that but how many fights of Fury out of 31 has been against top 5 rank opponents? I would suggest 3 including 2 against Wilder. David Price would beat the opponents he faced on his comeback ffs.

nrico2006 · December 13, 2020, 03:24:55 PM

Quote from: whitegoodman on December 13, 2020, 03:09:23 PM
I wouldn't dispute that but how many fights of Fury out of 31 has been against top 5 rank opponents? I would suggest 3 including 2 against Wilder. David Price would beat the opponents he faced on his comeback ffs.

Who is top 5 firstly?

gallsman · December 13, 2020, 03:27:20 PM

Quote from: whitegoodman on December 13, 2020, 12:47:36 PM
Fury beat Klitschko by dancing around the ring for 12 rounds, AJ knocked him out !

Lololol. This is an appalling take. Fury utterly bamboozled and outboxed a 10 year champion in his own back yard. AJ beat the same guy having been floored by him after he should have been finished.

whitegoodman · December 13, 2020, 03:41:14 PM

Bottom line is Fury didn't have the power to take him out, AJ did. If he catches Fury he will do the same.

BTW why do u have to be so condescending in everything u say. Do u believe ur the fountain of all knowledge on boxing and if someone says something that u don't agree with then they are obviously wrong?

JimStynes · December 13, 2020, 03:49:04 PM

Quote from: whitegoodman on December 13, 2020, 03:41:14 PM
Bottom line is Fury didn't have the power to take him out, AJ did. If he catches Fury he will do the same.

BTW why do u have to be so condescending in everything u say. Do u believe ur the fountain of all knowledge on boxing and if someone says something that u don't agree with then they are obviously wrong?

It's heavyweight boxing. 90% of the them have the power to knock the other one out as Ruiz did to Joshua. Joshua will need to try and knock fury out. If it's a boxing match there will only be one winner.