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Not on Green's part

Its a disgrace ain't it! I'm on the Aussie board alot and its all everybodies been talking about! It was 50 bucks on ppv aswell and Briggs got paid 250000 bucks the duries still out on the fix thing though because Briggs is in hospital! another twist is that well over a million bucks worth of bets went on an early stoppage just before the first bell!

yid14 wrote:Its a disgrace ain't it! I'm on the Aussie board alot and its all everybodies been talking about! It was 50 bucks on ppv aswell and Briggs got paid 250000 bucks the duries still out on the fix thing though because Briggs is in hospital! another twist is that well over a million bucks worth of bets went on an early stoppage just before the first bell!

How dose he think he will get away with this

Disgrace, Green obviously had no part in it he looked devastated by it. Pitty those guys n gals who paid to see it.

...and according to reports there were huge betting patterns on Green getting a round 1 ko.

I was reading an interveiw with Jeff Fenech where he said that Green Ko'd Briggs in sparring about 5 and a half years ago, and that the whole thing was cynical match up.

I think the betting will be because of the weight Briggs came in at, and the rumours of him vomiting in sparring.Mind you, this could be part of his ruse, and there was in fact a fix.I just can't see how he could have been hurt by that punch.

I don't think Green was involved as he looked incensed.Mind you, its time he stepped the level of competetion up.

big lennox wrote:I was reading an interveiw with Jeff Fenech where he said that Green Ko'd Briggs in sparring about 5 and a half years ago, and that the whole thing was cynical match up.

I think the betting will be because of the weight Briggs came in at, and the rumours of him vomiting in sparring.Mind you, this could be part of his ruse, and there was in fact a fix.I just can't see how he could have been hurt by that punch.

I don't think Green was involved as he looked incensed.Mind you, its time he stepped the level of competetion up.

He was incensed straight after the fight but had certainly toned down his opinions by the morning.

jizzle wrote:Not on Green's part

He shouldn't have been fighting a Light Heavyweight who hadn't fought in over three years.

JamesH wrote:

big lennox wrote:I was reading an interveiw with Jeff Fenech where he said that Green Ko'd Briggs in sparring about 5 and a half years ago, and that the whole thing was cynical match up.

I think the betting will be because of the weight Briggs came in at, and the rumours of him vomiting in sparring.Mind you, this could be part of his ruse, and there was in fact a fix.I just can't see how he could have been hurt by that punch.

I don't think Green was involved as he looked incensed.Mind you, its time he stepped the level of competetion up.

He was incensed straight after the fight but had certainly toned down his opinions by the morning.

True.His backflip makes him look rediculous.Its a fight that should never have happened in any event, and in many ways it got the result it deserved.

big lennox wrote:I was reading an interveiw with Jeff Fenech where he said that Green Ko'd Briggs in sparring about 5 and a half years ago, and that the whole thing was cynical match up.

I think the betting will be because of the weight Briggs came in at, and the rumours of him vomiting in sparring.Mind you, this could be part of his ruse, and there was in fact a fix.I just can't see how he could have been hurt by that punch.

I don't think Green was involved as he looked incensed.Mind you, its time he stepped the level of competetion up.

It sounds to me as if there is something neurologically wrong with Briggs but I hope I am wrong. Fighters have gone down from nothing shots before (most famously Ernie Schaaf against Primo Carnera) when the past has just caught up with them.

Something really dodgy about this. A nothing punch, an irate Green calling him a dog. Then Green changing his tune & paying him out. All very bizarre!

From about 5:00, his speech is just like from the WWE (professional wrestling) In fact, the whole thing could be from professional wrestling.

It's not a fix but it is a disgrace.

yid14 wrote:I'm on the Aussie board alot and its all everybodies been talking about!

You guys need to get out more!

whicker wrote:From about 5:00, his speech is just like from the WWE (professional wrestling) In fact, the whole thing could be from professional wrestling.

Yeah thats how I found it to be. very staged like the wrestling with Green shouting to the crowd

jonny wrote:

whicker wrote:From about 5:00, his speech is just like from the WWE (professional wrestling) In fact, the whole thing could be from professional wrestling.

Yeah thats how I found it to be. very staged like the wrestling with Green shouting to the crowd

Thats true i had't watched all the tape b4 i commented, after going back to it, it all does look a bit pantomime.

This is a bit weird. I mean, if you were going to throw a fight, wouldn't you do it more convincingly than that?

Shots to the top of the head can have a weird effect. If the guy did throw the fight in that manner, I'd say he's definitely mentally ill.

The punch missed though and what with all the money being laid for a 1 round ko, it looks very fishy.

Nightmare Roy wrote:The punch missed though and what with all the money being laid for a 1 round ko, it looks very fishy.

They were saying it missed but it looked as if it sorted of scuffed him on the top of the head.

Not exactly the same but a mate of mine was playing cricket once, in bat. He ducked to avoid a bouncer, which he did, just about. Didn't really hit him, just a slight graze. Seemed OK, continued to bat.

A couple of hours later sat in the pub, he started acting weirdly, talking utter random sh1te (not beer induced), got really confused. Took him to hospital and he had a bleed on the brain.

Now, I'm not saying this happened, of course, just that things to the top of the head are weird.

As I've said, if he threw the fight it was so, so badly done it's crazy.

From the Aussie board. Old news to them but I only watched the fight today:

Staggering truth: cash-strapped Briggs was not fit to fight
JAMIE PANDARAM
July 23, 2010

SO SEVERE were Paul Briggs's neurological problems in the weeks leading up to his fight against Danny Green that he was forgetting at which gymnasium he was training and mistaking strangers' cars for his own. His conditioning was so poor that he took one body shot in sparring and vomited.

Briggs's woeful 29-second performance on Wednesday night was not of a man taking a dive, but one who was so desperate for his $200,000 purse he was willing to risk his life in the ring. Briggs, his people, and much of boxing's circle knew the reality of the situation. This was going to be a farce.

But nobody could talk Briggs out of the fight. He was so reliant on the money he went in with a plan of trying to knock out Green with one quick shot, and should he take a punch, give up.

He completely lost his bearings after Green landed a probing left jab to the top of his skull – a punch that would not have moved a half-fit boxer – and Briggs said later he was trying to get up, but his body could not respond.

In the dressing room after the fight, Briggs had a conversation with a close friend and later asked those around him who he had just been speaking to, such was his delirium.

This is why Briggs should never have returned to the ring, why the Western Australian Professional Combat Sports Commission should never have sanctioned it when their NSW counterparts refused to, and why the International Boxing Organisation should have rejected any notion of Briggs fighting for one of their titles. A source close to Briggs said yesterday he was "battling"."

Seems very sad. :(

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:From the Aussie board. Old news to them but I only watched the fight today:

Staggering truth: cash-strapped Briggs was not fit to fight
JAMIE PANDARAM
July 23, 2010

SO SEVERE were Paul Briggs's neurological problems in the weeks leading up to his fight against Danny Green that he was forgetting at which gymnasium he was training and mistaking strangers' cars for his own. His conditioning was so poor that he took one body shot in sparring and vomited.

Briggs's woeful 29-second performance on Wednesday night was not of a man taking a dive, but one who was so desperate for his $200,000 purse he was willing to risk his life in the ring. Briggs, his people, and much of boxing's circle knew the reality of the situation. This was going to be a farce.

But nobody could talk Briggs out of the fight. He was so reliant on the money he went in with a plan of trying to knock out Green with one quick shot, and should he take a punch, give up.

He completely lost his bearings after Green landed a probing left jab to the top of his skull – a punch that would not have moved a half-fit boxer – and Briggs said later he was trying to get up, but his body could not respond.

In the dressing room after the fight, Briggs had a conversation with a close friend and later asked those around him who he had just been speaking to, such was his delirium.

This is why Briggs should never have returned to the ring, why the Western Australian Professional Combat Sports Commission should never have sanctioned it when their NSW counterparts refused to, and why the International Boxing Organisation should have rejected any notion of Briggs fighting for one of their titles. A source close to Briggs said yesterday he was "battling"."

Seems very sad. :(

Very sad, would he have been allowed to fight in a British ring?

leforge wrote:

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:From the Aussie board. Old news to them but I only watched the fight today:

Staggering truth: cash-strapped Briggs was not fit to fight
JAMIE PANDARAM
July 23, 2010

SO SEVERE were Paul Briggs's neurological problems in the weeks leading up to his fight against Danny Green that he was forgetting at which gymnasium he was training and mistaking strangers' cars for his own. His conditioning was so poor that he took one body shot in sparring and vomited.

Briggs's woeful 29-second performance on Wednesday night was not of a man taking a dive, but one who was so desperate for his $200,000 purse he was willing to risk his life in the ring. Briggs, his people, and much of boxing's circle knew the reality of the situation. This was going to be a farce.

But nobody could talk Briggs out of the fight. He was so reliant on the money he went in with a plan of trying to knock out Green with one quick shot, and should he take a punch, give up.

He completely lost his bearings after Green landed a probing left jab to the top of his skull – a punch that would not have moved a half-fit boxer – and Briggs said later he was trying to get up, but his body could not respond.

In the dressing room after the fight, Briggs had a conversation with a close friend and later asked those around him who he had just been speaking to, such was his delirium.

This is why Briggs should never have returned to the ring, why the Western Australian Professional Combat Sports Commission should never have sanctioned it when their NSW counterparts refused to, and why the International Boxing Organisation should have rejected any notion of Briggs fighting for one of their titles. A source close to Briggs said yesterday he was "battling"."

Seems very sad. :(

Very sad, would he have been allowed to fight in a British ring?

jUSTN jUUKO.

B.S.

THERE WAS PLE NTY OF MONEY THROWN IN LAST MINUTE FOR GREEN to win in rd1 ;;-)

hurlock wrote:B.S.

THERE WAS PLE NTY OF MONEY THROWN IN LAST MINUTE FOR GREEN to win in rd1 ;;-)

Yes, but that doesn't mean it was bent. Plenty of people might have been aware he wasn't up to it and was going to get blown away.