Fox Card Friday 14 August 2009

[Brute]

Vea is moving overseas. He has run out of opponents in the South Pacific.

[adnileb]

This is my final post on this forum as I am officially disgusted by Australian boxing - which has become nothing more than a bloodsport.
Look at just about any card - particularly tonight's - and it is ridiculously easy to pick the winner of every bout on the card.
Andy Raymond talks complete rubbish, with Jeff Fenech complicit, as the imported fighters get battered in one-sided contests to boost the records of Vea, Zappavigna, Ganoy etc. It won't be long before we have another fatality (and I've seen one).
Who wants to watch one-sided contests in which the result is pre-ordained? And if there is any chance of an upset, the referees and judges make sure Dib etc get the decison regardless of low/late blows etc.
As someone who has closley followed the sport for three decades, I am disgusted by the bias, the racism and the lack of honesty. Boxing in Australia is finished unless someone is brave enough to clean out the cheats.
At least the NSW Boxing Authority has tghe guts to over-rule ridiculous results like Dib's most recent "win" - but too little, too late.
Goodbye and goodnight.

Seeya! Only the strong survive

[Hounddawg]

This is my final post on this forum as I am officially disgusted by Australian boxing - which has become nothing more than a bloodsport.
Look at just about any card - particularly tonight's - and it is ridiculously easy to pick the winner of every bout on the card.
Andy Raymond talks complete rubbish, with Jeff Fenech complicit, as the imported fighters get battered in one-sided contests to boost the records of Vea, Zappavigna, Ganoy etc. It won't be long before we have another fatality (and I've seen one).
Who wants to watch one-sided contests in which the result is pre-ordained? And if there is any chance of an upset, the referees and judges make sure Dib etc get the decison regardless of low/late blows etc.
As someone who has closley followed the sport for three decades, I am disgusted by the bias, the racism and the lack of honesty. Boxing in Australia is finished unless someone is brave enough to clean out the cheats.
At least the NSW Boxing Authority has tghe guts to over-rule ridiculous results like Dib's most recent "win" - but too little, too late.
Goodbye and goodnight.

Seeya! Only the strong survive

[toppity]

well going all Kamakaze isn't the answer mate. The industry needs to hear the truth. Not sure how many people of influence read forums like this....and more importantly, how many take notice, but I'm not giving up yet. I love the sport, I'm not sure why, but I do. Will it ever be a massive sport again??? well.... never say never i reckon. Lets keep talking the talk and hope someone pays attention to the unsilent majority.

[Brute]

We have had long periods of little results before, but boxers have to keep fighting. There was a long gap between Carruthers and Rose/Famechon. For a long time the game was kept going by boxers fighting fights with 2 minute rounds in clubs and Festival Hall, Melbourne (because if a champion was KOed in a fight with 3 minute rounds and both fighters under the limit he lost his title under local rules.)

Mismatches? Sometimes you have to fight who is available. This part of the world is hardly flush with top rank fighters. Then you get somebody like Cliff Couser who comes out here and proves North America is not that flush with them either.

No offense, Cliff, but your record in North America is better than your record here.

[Marlin]

well going all Kamakaze isn't the answer mate. The industry needs to hear the truth. Not sure how many people of influence read forums like this....and more importantly, how many take notice, but I'm not giving up yet. I love the sport, I'm not sure why, but I do. Will it ever be a massive sport again??? well.... never say never i reckon. Lets keep talking the talk and hope someone pays attention to the unsilent majority.

Green v Jones Jr will bring a ton of mainstream attention back to boxing!!! We need the powers that be to build on that!!!