Holyfield is 58. I don't get what people's expectations were. Foreman fought 5 guys in one night in the 70s. There's always been shit like this in the sport
Holyfield can barely talk. He sure can’t fight. His license got revoked for safety reasons in New York in *2004*. Boxing keeps doing this and one of these legends is going to die or get seriously brain injured. I’d rather overreact now than see 55 year old Riddick Bowe or someone take a bad punch and never wake up.
Even if he did it won't change anything as long as money is involved. You have boxers die in the ring every 6 months or so and no one really blinks
Rank and file guys, boxing at large definitely doesn’t care. A legend though? Different story I think, especially in one of these novelty fights. They’ll grind to a halt if (when?) it happens.
I guess I'm black pilled too much but I don't think anyone would really bat an eye. I mean if people actually cared about safety boxing wouldn't even be a thing
Last year or so the sport has been embarrassing. Letting YouTube stars dominate the headlines of the sweet science I already wasn’t going to watch last night and Trump getting involved solidified not even checking out a free stream
I love boxing it might be my 2nd favorite sport. I hate the spectacle aspect we have going right now. I wish they’d stop sanctioning these fights.
Per Top Rank, they have a deal. November 20th at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas: Bud Crawford - Shawn Porter. Hell yeah.
On Thursday came the official announcement from Matchroom Boxing and DAZN that former four-division titlist Mikey Garcia would end a 19-month layoff and return and face Sandor Martin on Oct. 13 in Fresno, California. But soon after, they also announced a pair of notable heavyweight bouts had been added to a fall schedule that already includes unified heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua defending against mandatory challenger and undefeated former undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on Sept. 25 in London, a fight on DAZN in most regions in the world but the last fight of Joshua’s contract with Sky in the United Kingdom. One of the fights made official is between WBC interim titlist Dillian Whyte (28-2, 19 KOs), 33, of England, and Otto Wallin (22-1, 14 KOs), 30, a southpaw from Sweden, who gave Tyson Fury all he could handle in a decision loss in 2019. They will fight Oct. 30 at the O2 Arena in London. I wrote about that fight here on Fight Freaks Unite just after it was signed on Wednesday. The second bout will pit former heavyweight titleholder Joseph Parker in a rematch with Derek Chisora on Dec. 18 at the AO Arena in Manchester. Parker (29-2, 21 KOs), 29, of New Zealand, and Chisora (32-11, 23 KOs), 37, of England, put on an entertaining fight when they first met on May 1, also in Manchester. In that fight, Chisora dropped Parker in the opening moments of the fight but Parker went on to win a split decision, with two judges scoring it for him, 116-111 and 115-113, and one judge having it 115-113 for Chisora. Parker has won five fights in a row since back-to-back losses in 2018 to Joshua in a title unification fight and then Whyte Chisora has dropped two decisions in a row to Parker and Usyk, but both fights were highly competitive.
Tagging onto this discussion. Anyone else who currently or has recently done this please jump in as well. What training gloves do you guys use? I’ve got two styles of everlast training gloves for the heavy bag I just hung in my basement. Just using a timer app to do cardio. Anyway, both pairs of gloves make my arms feel like they’re sunburned above the end of the wrist wrap. I have a feeling it’s the fake leather material or some kind of coating. I usually have a latex allergy around my face, but never felt it on my arms. Couldn’t find anything on their product info pages. Anyway, I didn’t want to (read: wasn’t allowed to) spend like $200 on high quality leather gloves, but maybe I need to. Thoughts or experiences?
I picked up a nice pair of Venum gloves for about £40, on sale direct from Venum website. There were cheaper/more expensive ones depending on fastening, weight, and design. Edit: This is the British site, which may or may not work for you: https://uk.venum.com/gb/sports/boxing/boxing-gloves.html
Plant throwing a left, Canelo slipping it and popping him with one of his own at the stare down is called foreshadowing, kids.
I've heard you don't want to push or throw at the press conference because you don't want the other guy to feel your power but I'm guessing it won't matter with Canelo
Aj in a close fight. Like y’all said I think he lands a bomb in the later rounds to end it. He better win. I really want to see Fury AJ with a shit load of hype around it. AJ losing dampens that a bit.
Ive always dreamed of a fight card in Wembley AJ/Fury main event Amir Khan/Kell Brook co-main Dillian Whyte/Daniel Dubois
BIG one today for the first time in a while. Card starts around 1PM ET, but main event time is not before 5PM ET reportedly. DAZN, 1:00 pm ET, Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk. Finally, a big damn fight again. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will host this one, with Joshua defending his three heavyweight title belts (WBA, IBF, WBO) against WBO mandatory challenger Usyk. The show will also have Lawrence Okolie making his first cruiserweight title defense against Dilan Prasovic, Callum Smith moving up to 175 lbs to face Lenin Castillo, and an interesting welterweight matchup between Maxim Prodan and Florian Marku. Anthony Joshua (24-1, 22 KO) vs Oleksandr Usyk (18-0, 13 KO), heavyweights, 12 rounds, for Joshua’s WBA, IBF, and WBO titles Lawrence Okolie (16-0, 13 KO) vs Dilan Prasovic (15-0, 12 KO), cruiserweights, 12 rounds, for Okolie’s WBO title Campbell Hatton (3-0, 0 KO) vs Sonni Martinez (2-4, 0 KO), lightweights, 6 rounds Callum Smith (27-1, 19 KO) vs Lenin Castillo (21-3-1, 16 KO), light heavyweights, 10 rounds Maxim Prodan (19-0-1, 15 KO) vs Florian Marku (8-0-1, 6 KO), welterweights, 10 rounds
You got an idea when the main event will happen? Aren't they usually around 5 et? I realize they're in the UK so didn't know how that would translate to Eastern Time
This is top notch time washing by DAZN I think it was GGG/Canelo 2 when the 3 undercard fights all went like 4 rounds or less and they had to talk about how to properly wrap your hands