Showtime's listings have generally been a lot more accurate in the past.

diddy wrote:Who cares?

The people feeling the need to bill these boxers like they do with pro wrestlers and you for posting in this thread.

I was literally looking at Lomachenko's boxrec profile just yesterday; just checked again and apparently he's had a sudden growth spurt within the last 24 hours. Not as impressive as Naseem Hamed almost growing two inches taller years after his retirement, but still fairly remarkable.

His era wasn't any less weak than Bob Foster's was, and the latter seems to be a consensus ATG at that weight (I've seen some even consider him the greatest at that weight, which is just absurd and illogical to me.)

The biggest stain against him is his blatant PED use.

Arum also forced Void to go on vacation when Pacquiao accepted Mayweather's cutoff date, and he also forced him to offer him to offer his bogus flat fee three years ago, too. Not to mention the way he forced Mayweather to publicly challenge Pacquiao at a press conference, only to completely deny eve...

Tyson doesn't like Mayweather at all. There's little doubt in my mind that he'd have genuinely loved to have smacked him in the face. He's also a multi millionaire and unlike many (Tyson included) will probably be a multi millionaire LONG after retirement, I'm sure he can live with the ignominy of p...

A fight in which the result is disputed by a significant number is controversial, regardless of whether the fight was genuinely close or an outright robbery. I've always felt Norton allowed Ali back into the fight and allowed him to edge rounds after dominating through the first nine, but he still s...

There's no logical argument against withholding his purse.

Honestly, Mundine's level of opposition recently has been a murderers row run in comparison to the high level of shite that he spent so many years fighting on PPV.

BoxBuzz wrote:And more often than not, tout "lesser" champions.

Could be worse. They could recognise 'super' and 'regular' champions.

Antuofermo's success in the third period of this fight has been exaggerated, simply because he wasn't being handled as comprehensively as he was earlier on in the fight. Hagler was still generally outboxing him and landing the more authoritative and sharper punches in many of those exchanges.

Because he didn't need to. Joe Calzaghe said in a 1995 Boxing Monthly interview that he would never box for a WBO title. "That's too easy". He went on to recite the recognised world titles and a series of dangerous men like Julian Jackson, James Toney et al he was going to chase. Once he b...

His gauge of distance during the first five rounds was poor. I don't think Saunders is necessarily much quicker, but he looked it at times because of his superior footwork and sense of distance. You can be as quick and accurate as you like, but you still have to be in range to throw and land those s...

Eubank was consistently scoring on the inside with body shots and uppercuts throughout the second half of the fight. His work was probably less ragged in that period of the fight than Saunders' was. Its hard enough finding 5 rounds to give to Eubank, let alone 9.... BJS won that fight any way you sl...

Saunders barely exerted any energy through the first five rounds, so pacing clearly isn't an issue. He's simply severely lacking in that area and that, in addition to his lack of power, is why he's scraping by inexperienced, unproven novices like Eubank and Ryder.

Morrison was talking about Limond having a tune up in December before fighting for a European belt in February, but Hearn didn't mention anything about Scotland when listing future dates in an interview he did with Kugan in Dublin recently

The only people who want to see the Chavez fight are Froch fans, and their interest only came after he expressed an interest in the fight. They want to see him have a gimme as opposed to a genuinely competitive, challenging fight.

Because Tyson Fury is a sh*house, that's why.

Drug testing in general is utterly useless unless it's carried out on a regular basis throughout the entire year, which is what made Mayweather's fraudulent crusade such a joke in the first place. Porter's team already got them to push this fight back a month, so he's had plenty of time to flush all...

What has ever made you guys think Fury is frightened ? Did he look frightened on the scale ? Tyson has fought fat,unfit ,out of shape and at short notice , he's not scared whether in shape or not, i know these people and their not scared to face anyone, he's never pulled out , and lets remember he ...

The great Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns was a MONSTER at 154lbs. Nobody at the time that he was in, Benitez, Duran nor Leonard could have hang with him. Hearns had trouble with hands at the beginning, but that was over when DECAPITATED Duran and DESTROYED Fred Hutchings. He did not fight a l...

Still wondering when II Douche is going to grow a pair of balls and make a thread about how draft dodging Clay shamefully ducked Jerry Quarry for a third fight in 1974.

If Hearns would not had lose against Barckley he would had defended his title against Duran. Can the Duran that beat Barckley could had beat Hearns. I heard that against Leonard in the second fight he lost in 2 months 30 pounds and Leonard knew it i know now why the no mas fight, Against Hearns he ...

polecateddy wrote:
By your logic Frazier should have boxed a shut-out over Joe Bugner, a passive fighter with a low output. Yet the fight was relatively close. Funny that.

About as close as a 9-3 sort of scorecard gets, I suppose.

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That was actually the first fight where he was clowning around and coasting when the fight was very close. Curry beat him comprehensively in the rematch.