Joshua Buatsi vs. Dan Azeez | Sky Sports - 3 February 2024

[jameswilson]

Buatsi has beaten the better opposition and shown much more resilience that Azeez may not have.

Buatsi was taking body shots over and over from the Latvian fella and sending them straight back at him. I don’t think Azeez would be able to take those shots and push back to stop that guy the way Buatsi did.

[Boxerbeetle]

Totally forgotten this was on tonight, feels like a bonus night of boxing for me now

[jameswilson]

Any sign of a before the bell on youtube?

[SeanBrennan]

Any sign of a before the bell on youtube?

yes mate

[SeanBrennan]

only 1 fight tho

Hennessey on now

[skanksta]

Totally forgotten this was on tonight, feels like a bonus night of boxing for me now

Like finding £10 in your pocket..!

[jameswilson]

Totally forgotten this was on tonight, feels like a bonus night of boxing for me now

Like finding £10 in your pocket..!

That happened to me the other day. I was worried about how chuffed I was.

[SeanBrennan]

Totally forgotten this was on tonight, feels like a bonus night of boxing for me now

Like finding £10 in your pocket..!

That happened to me the other day. I was worried about how chuffed I was.

haha love it. If anyone is going out fishing message me. Have a lovely evening everyone.

[skanksta]

Totally forgotten this was on tonight, feels like a bonus night of boxing for me now

Like finding £10 in your pocket..!

That happened to me the other day. I was worried about how chuffed I was.

Don't listen to the logic that it was yours anyway and you'd lost it - celebrate the little wins !

[skanksta]

That was a good bad fight - Dov is a HW matchmaker's dream

[Cholo_cws]

This fight keeps giving me echoes of Honeyghan-Mittee from way back. My hunch is Buatsi brings more class and moves on to bigger fights and Azeez finds his level. Prepared to be proven wrong as always mind.

[jameswilson]

I look at Buatsi's uniform for the ring entrance and feel like the perfect matching music would be 'heal the world' by Michael Jackson.

And have all the crowd waving their hands above their head.

[jwfg]

Buatsi looks nervous as hell. Azeez is going to win this.

[SeanBrennan]

Buatsi looks nervous as hell. Azeez is going to win this.

he does look nervy but perhaps thats understandable

[jwfg]

Buatsi looks nervous as hell. Azeez is going to win this.

he does look nervy but perhaps thats understandable

Too true.

[SeanBrennan]

Buatsi looks nervous as hell. Azeez is going to win this.

aged well :)

[jwfg]

Buatsi looks nervous as hell. Azeez is going to win this.

aged well :)

Very well.

[Frostieballs]

I genuinely can't split them.

Buatsi seems (or seemed) to have the talent to go far, but Azeez has achieved more despite having to do it the hard way.

It is a genuine 50/50 fight, so on that basis I am betting on Azeez as he is 3/1 against.

Don't you have the nagging doubt that Buatsi is a level or two better than Dan ?

Everyone likes Dan - he's a likeable guy-next-door type with a style to match, while Buatsi is a prickly, talented aloof. god-botherer - Aren't you calling it a 50/50 because you want it to be so..?

This has proven to be an excellent post Skanksta.

[SeanBrennan]

both attended the post-fight presser, really decent attitude from both, Buatsi spent a lot of time praising Azeez after the fight, very classy. They've both come across really well with the performance and behaviour after.

[Coco]

I genuinely can't split them.

Buatsi seems (or seemed) to have the talent to go far, but Azeez has achieved more despite having to do it the hard way.

It is a genuine 50/50 fight, so on that basis I am betting on Azeez as he is 3/1 against.

Don't you have the nagging doubt that Buatsi is a level or two better than Dan ?

Everyone likes Dan - he's a likeable guy-next-door type with a style to match, while Buatsi is a prickly, talented aloof. god-botherer - Aren't you calling it a 50/50 because you want it to be so..?

This has proven to be an excellent post Skanksta.

He called it right, there wasn't much in the fight but Buatsi was always a step ahead.

[THEBUTCH]

Buatsi rose to the occasion to register his best win to date

Azeez pushed him all the way and can look forward to more big nights The knockdowns being counted were harsh. Unlucky Dan was slipping without punches being thrown !

No more pissing about for Buatsi now and should jostle for first crack at the winner of the unification clash between Beterbiev v Bivol in June.

[cormack]

Watching that was hard work frankly .
Dont agree that it was billed as a final eliminator - neither is good enough to challenge the top boys for a belt .
Buatsi lacks power which will be his undoing should he get a tilt .
Put him in vs yarde or callum smith to get a proper guage .

[SeanBrennan]

Watching that was hard work frankly .
Dont agree that it was billed as a final eliminator - neither is good enough to challenge the top boys for a belt .
Buatsi lacks power which will be his undoing should he get a tilt .
Put him in vs yarde or callum smith to get a proper guage .

seems harsh, do not agree with that. I think either is good enough to fight for a version of the world title.

[Coco]

Watching that was hard work frankly .
Dont agree that it was billed as a final eliminator - neither is good enough to challenge the top boys for a belt .
Buatsi lacks power which will be his undoing should he get a tilt .
Put him in vs yarde or callum smith to get a proper guage .

seems harsh, do not agree with that. I think either is good enough to fight for a version of the world title.

I agree that he will be beat by the top boys, but if Yarde and Smith are good enough, so is he.

Him v Yarde or Smith would be good fights

[THEBUTCH]

Smith, Yarde, Richards, Johnson & even Arthur have all had their title shots....now it's Buatsi's turn

Could it be Buatsi has been waiting for the storm to blow over and hope Beterbiev & Bivol will be creaking by the time he mounts his challenge