Official Boxing Thread

2-2 so far, imo but could be 3-1

 

Yeah both hesitant so far

 

Neither one of them have many KO's

 

It's gonna be one of those "technical" fights

 

Fair outcome

 

Close fight and hard to score. I only caught moments of the fight.

Split for Barboza.

 

This guy is 5'8" and used to weigh 300+ lbs.

Now he weighs 169

 

Saturday, Feb. 22
DAZN PPV, 10:00 am ET, Artur Beterbiev vs Dmitry Bivol 2. A rematch of the excellent, mildly controversial October undisputed light heavyweight title fight that went to Beterviev by majority decision. It’s a big, big card beyond the main event rematch: Daniel Dubois vs Joe Parker, Carlos Adames vs Hamzah Sheeraz, Vergil Ortiz vs Israil Madrimov, Shakur Stevenson vs Floyd Schofield, Zhilei Zhang vs Agit Kabayel, and Joshua Buatsi vs Callum Smith, all for some combination of world or interim world titles. $25.99 for the DAZN PPV if you’re in America, which comes out to about $2 per world title up for grabs.

 

I thought Bivol won at the time but I semi rewatched it on The Pain Gane's channel and I do think Beterbiev won now

Sometimes fights can be really hard to judge in the moment

 

I think Bivol won the early rounds but rewatching it made me appreciate how bad the optics were of the 2nd half where Bivol seemed like he was constantly on the back foot and trying to get out of trouble

 

I don't hate that late replacement

 

Lol what the hell

 

Joseph Parker -215
Martin Bakole +164

 

New lineup

 

Lol let people drink and you'd have a better atmosphere.

 

It sucks that they get the majority of the big fights now

 

I'm picking Bivol to win the rematch.

No reason really but I did have him winning the 1st fight 115-113. It was a tough, technical, fight to score. But I have a feeling that Bivol gets this decision.

 

I also have a parlay with Bivol, Cruz, Bakole, and Zhang.

 

I'm not sure Parker has the power to stop Bakole from coming forward if Anderson didn't. I guess a wildcard is what kind of shape Bakole is in

 

I bought the PPV

 

So did I

 

streameast it is

 

Really good test for Buatsi. Smith is on the next level below Bivol/Beterbiev which is still an extremely high level

 

Kind of a slow sports weekend, I would have considered it too but gotta go out and do a few things so not gonna risk paying and missing some of it

 

This is a damn brawl

 

They need to pump in crowd noise to these Saudi fights. Shit is dead

 

not sure about 119-110

 

The rest of the bill has got a lot to live up to!

 

I got no problem with Smith winning but that 119-110 score was absurd

 

Basically just have to make it past the 5th to beat Zhang so we'll see

 

Great victory. He worked Zhang despite the knockdown

 

It's early but Madrimov is way above Ortiz level so far

 

It's seems like Ortiz is figuring it out some. Madrimov's movement is so bizarre it prob takes to time adjust to it.

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