Coronavirus and its impact on boxing

[Boxing Prospect]

Why look to doctors in this time of need when you’ve got absolutely uneducated morons preaching about something they know less than nothing about, have never studied and no medical background whatsoever... on a boxing forum? Thanks for your input. It’s duly unnoted

Mate you are the clueless one here. Believe any old lies the media feed you.

Do some research buddy boy. You will find that the average age of those that have died in Italy is 80 years old and that 99% of them had underlying health problems

600,000 people die every year from normal flu.

Thus far 13,000 have died from this "killer bug"

Yeah buddy, I conclude that this ain't no normal flu bug.

Fake news. Wake up you moron and start thinking for yourself

I imagine you are one of the Muppets standing in line from 5 am to stock up on toilet paper??

From 13,000 dead on the 21st to 22,000 dead now (with Italy likely to confirm another ~700 later today). How many die before you realise how serious it is? 50,000? 100,000? 1,000,000?

[margaret thatcher]

Wind up succeeded lol

[rd350lc]

Wind up succeeded lol

You're probably right , but why be a dick at a time like this ?

[DazBoxingFan]

Wind up succeeded lol

You're probably right , but why be a dick at a time like this ?

I don’t think he is right, I think he’s legitimately a dick. Anyway in reply to the post I don’t think Boxing won’t return till the end of this year

[gregregegg]

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Why look to doctors in this time of need when you’ve got absolutely uneducated morons preaching about something they know less than nothing about, have never studied and no medical background whatsoever... on a boxing forum? Thanks for your input. It’s duly unnoted

Mate you are the clueless one here. Believe any old lies the media feed you.

Do some research buddy boy. You will find that the average age of those that have died in Italy is 80 years old and that 99% of them had underlying health problems

600,000 people die every year from normal flu.

Thus far 13,000 have died from this "killer bug"

Yeah buddy, I conclude that this ain't no normal flu bug.

Fake news. Wake up you moron and start thinking for yourself

I imagine you are one of the Muppets standing in line from 5 am to stock up on toilet paper??

600,000 people in a year without lockdowns or huge societal change . This doubles about every 4 days without intervention. at that rate UKs gos from 10k cases, to 10 million cases in about 6 weeks. of those about 10% die once the hospitals are overran. and yea it kills predominately very old people while hospitals are fully functioning, but once fully over ran, healthy people start to die at a pretty decent percentage. If you want to see how harmless this is when hospitals are at 500% capacity look at Italys Deaths vs recoverys. its about 50-50. when was the last time you went life and death with a seasonal flu?

If this dosent kill hundreds of thousands of people, its not because its a mellow virus, its because people changed behavior, locked down, and/or incredible medical reaserch efforts were made.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Apparently, Sky Sports are doing an AJ day from 6am.

I think itt's Arena, they're just basically showing all his fights.

[margaret thatcher]

Apparently, Sky Sports are doing an AJ day from 6am.

I think itt's Arena, they're just basically showing all his fights.

OMG boner !

[polecateddy]

I’m presuming pro boxers are struggling to train if they can’t go to boxing gyms and can only leave the house for 30 minutes exercise a day on foot.

[rd350lc]

I’m presuming pro boxers are struggling to train if they can’t go to boxing gyms and can only leave the house for 30 minutes exercise a day on foot.

Not heard the 30 min rule , new one to me .

You could imagine sportsmen and women across all sports struggling with fitness , but I should imagine those at the top of their game would have some kit at home .
It's down to self motivation then.
Bet some heavyweights will be massive by the time this is all over .

[tony1234]

It's 20 minutes exercise outside a day , alone too so can't see that being much use to an athlete

[Wee Tommy]

The three pros I know personally are running and training very hard as usual. Just going long runs and cycles, doing pads, abs etc. Only difference is no gym so no sparring. Boxing doesn’t need much equipment.

[polecateddy]

You've kind of got to feel for the pro's that are around 33 years old and on a good run. If they end up not fighting again for 12 months it could really impact on their ability to cash out before ageing really kicks in.

[rd350lc]

You've kind of got to feel for the pro's that are around 33 years old and on a good run. If they end up not fighting again for 12 months it could really impact on their ability to cash out before ageing really kicks in.

Yes , could get "old " overnight and if this thing last for that time could spell the end .

Also big fights that were in the pipeline could be lost for ever .

[DazBoxingFan]

You've kind of got to feel for the pro's that are around 33 years old and on a good run. If they end up not fighting again for 12 months it could really impact on their ability to cash out before ageing really kicks in.

Yes , could get "old " overnight and if this thing last for that time could spell the end .

Also big fights that were in the pipeline could be lost for ever .

It won’t be 12 months. Fights will be back in June/july. Not sure about the small hall shows tho because they run on ticket sales

[polecateddy]

Well at this point nobody knows how long the lockdown will last. If China ends up with a second wave it could end up being a hell of a long time.

[margaret thatcher]

That results section on the homepage, it's got as many results as dom ingle's head does hairs

[Ruthless-RKO]

Anthony Yarde has just lost his father due to Covid19

[polecateddy]

Geez that is terrible. His Dad was filmed in a jokey Twitter post just 6 days ago, telling Anthony he could be prosecuted if he goes out for two runs in a day. Shows how deadly this thing can be!

[Petercattermole]

RIP Mr Yarde Sr

Anthony Yarde has just lost his father due to Covid19

[Boxerbeetle]

Anthony Yarde is having a terrible time of it, poor guy.

[margaret thatcher]

forcefraser thinks they needed to step up?

RIP Yardes , that's some tough luck on my boi Ant

[tiny_acres]

Anthony Yarde is having a terrible time of it, poor guy.

Damn. It just gets more real by the day

[Delta Jay]

It’s serious, we all know someone who’s considered high risk, and we must all be feeling nervy about it.


On a lighter note, I haven’t seen anything about length of time outside. I thought it was just once. We’ll see who wants it the most in a few months on Instagram when everyone’s back in the gym 2 stone over fight weight.

[Ruthless-RKO]

So sad that Yarde lost his father and now his grandmother. I just read and saw someone already posted it here.

[ThereByTheGrace]

So sad that Yarde lost his father and now his grandmother. I just read and saw someone already posted it here.

Such a shame. Thoughts to the yarde family at this very difficult time