Thread: World wide boxing news

^Price is damaged goods nowadays. He should have his license withdrawn, asap, before he gets seriously hammered.

Originally Posted by kmart

^Price is damaged goods nowadays. He should have his license withdrawn, asap, before he gets seriously hammered.

Agreed.

Once upon a time showed potential, but he always gets knocked out badly by anybody approaching mid to top tier.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Dreadful camera work. Gave me a headache watching it.
Derek War Chisora is one of my favourite current boxers and characters.
A slugger and a fighter from a bygone era.
Talks well too, an intelligent, interesting man.
And he don't take shit from nobody....

This Saturday night on DAZN, Canelo Alvarez moves up to the light heavyweight division to face Sergey Kovalev. It’s a risk either way, but is it foolish or calculated?

What’s at stake?

Kovalev (34-3-1, 29 KO) is defending the WBO light heavyweight title, while for Alvarez (52-1-2, 35 KO) every fight, no matter what belts are at stake, is him defending his status as arguably the biggest star in boxing. A loss in a fight like this could really hurt, even if logically it’d be perfectly understandable. DAZN paid $365 million for 11 fights in his career, thinking an investment in him could help anchor their launch in the US. It’s at the very least debatable whether or not the investment has been worth what he’s been paid to fight Rocky Fielding and Daniel Jacobs, but there are still a lot of big fights out there, and this is a big fight.

Canelo emerging as a betting favourite for this one. I'd go with him stopping Kovalev with body shots in the back half of the fight.

This fight going completely under the Canelo radar this weekend. Fucking stupid planning.

The top Featherweight and very entertaining to watch Miguel Berchelt defends his WBC title against Jason Sosa.

Some highlights below if you've never seen Berchelt before. Guy is a fighting machine.



https://www.badlefthook.com/2019/10/31/20941181/preview-berchelt-sosa-ancajas-rodriguez-headline-top-rank-doubleheader-espn-boxing-news

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Canelo/Kovalev seems to be running a bit late. Should be starting in the next 10-15 minutes.

OK the ring walks are starting so probably another half a fucking hour with all this shit.

Delayed so folks could watch the UFC BMF fight with Diaz and Masvidol. No spoiler though. Will say the doctor stopped it way to fast on a cut. Its the UFC for fcuks sake.

Originally Posted by aging one

Delayed so folks could watch the UFC BMF fight with Diaz and Masvidol. No spoiler though. Will say the doctor stopped it way to fast on a cut. Its the UFC for fcuks sake.

I don't watch that organised pub brawling shite anyway, so it doesn't bother me.

What's happened to Mr. "Let's get ready to rumble", this bloke seems to be nicking all his gigs these days.

Canelo getting outscored but I suspect he'll win this easily against a 36 year old. Getting the bigger punches away.

Got dragged into a meeting on the hour, so missed Canelo knocking him sparko in the 11th.

Game over.

^Great finish by the Mex, Kovalev was doing well in the fight until the 11th. Highlights here while it lasts:

Evander Holyfield's son Evan made his professional debut on the undercard, but they didn't really give us much of a chance to see what he can do by stopping it absurdly quickly.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

but they didn't really give us much of a chance to see what he can do by stopping it absurdly quickly.

A pathetic stoppage for sure.

Originally Posted by kmart

Great finish by the Mex, Kovalev was doing well in the fight until the 11th.

I was really surprised by the way that the bigger man was made to look smaller and that is what Canelo did. Amazed by the amount of power he gained moving up in weight it took 11 rounds to show it but still impressed and I am no Canelo fan as I think he lost every fight against GGG.

^Doubt that Canelo will stay around 175lbs to hang with the killers like Bivol, Beterbiev, Gvodsyk, etc. His team cherry-picked Kovalev as faded at 36yo, and immediately after a punishing fight with a young challenger (Anthony Yarde). He will go back down to 168 or 160lbs and look for easier targets.

Another "Fight of the Year" contender last night. The final of the World Boxing Super Series pitted Filippino legend Nonito Donaire against Japan's "Monster" Naoya Inoue at Featherweight.

Inoue is one of boxing's hardest punchers 'pound for pound' with a 90% KO rate, and has blown out every challenger en route to this final within 2-3 rounds. Veteran Nonaire has had a fortuitous route to this bout with injuries to other contenders gifting him a place in the final, and was expected by a lot of pundits (and bookies) to be easy work against the younger and ferocious boxer-puncher Inoue..
Didn't quite work out that way, and round #11 especially should get the nod as at least 'round of the year' if not the whole fight. This is pure boxing at it's finest. Full fight highlights up while it lasts:

Originally Posted by kmart

This is pure boxing at it's finest. Full fight highlights up while it lasts

Already down. Thanks anyway.

Worked for me... cheers enjoyed that

^^Still working this side, snubs. Just google "donaire v inoue full fight", and there are a lot of youtube vids to choose from.

Originally Posted by kmart

Still working this side, snubs.

Blocked in the US due to DAZN copyright.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Worked for me... cheers enjoyed that

+1, ta.
Great fight.

Sergey Kovalev has revealed what many fans suspected about his recent loss to Saul Canelo Alvarez by saying that he had no chance of winning because had little chance to recover from his previous title defense against Anthony Yarde. Canelo (53-1-2, 36 KOs) stopped Kovalev in the 11th round to take his WBO 175-lb title from him on the 2nd of November in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Kovalev looked weak against Canelo

A lot of boxing fans openly wondered after the fight why Kovalev looked so weak, and his punches with almost nothing on them. Some people have even said the Canelo vs. Kovalev fight looked like it was STAGED. They noticed how

Kovalev wasn’t throwing his punches with power, and they thought it was odd that he would do that. Even Kovalev’s normally powerful jab looked weak, and the strangest part. Kovalev arguably possesses the best jab in the light heavyweight division.

Kovalev took Canelo fight for financial reasons

Former WBO light heavyweight champion Kovalev (34-4-1 29 KOs) says he took the fight with Canelo due to financial reasons, but he had no chance of winning. started training camp for his November 2 just 3 weeks after his grueling 11th round knockout win over Yarde on August 31. That’s a fight in which Kovalev was close to being knocked out in the 8th round.

“Given the conditions, it was impossible to win. You are ignoramuses since you thought I could win. I climbed into this weight with torment & sleepless nights. Because it was a financially interesting offer,” said Kovalev to boxinggu.ru.

It sounds bad that Kovalev took the fight with Canelo for financial reasons. He’s said to have gotten a purse of $12 million. Of course, for the average boxing fan, they likely would jump at the chance to get a monstrous payday if they were nearing the end of their careers as well.

This confession by Kovalev puts a damper on Canelo’s win, because it clearly shows that the Russian fighter wasn’t at his best. Not only was he up there in age at 36, but he was worn out from consecutive camps without being able to rest properly. It was an old school situation where a fighter jumped straight into another training camp weeks after a hard fight.

Did Kovalev take it easy on Canelo?

The question that a lot of people have is did Kovalev purposefully lighten up on Canelo, and take it easy on him? It’s one thing being a little worn from having consecutive camps, but it’s peculiar that Kovalev didn’t sit down on any of his punches in the fight. A lot of boxing fans are complaining that the Canelo-Kovalev match looked “RIGGED” and not on the level.

People see Canelo as having cherry-picked an over-the-hill and worn out Kovalev rather than taking on the lions at 175 in Artur Beterbiev, Dmitry Bivol or Oleksandr Gvozdyk. In the weeks leading up to the fight, some fans painted the picture that Canelo was being heroic by moving up two weight divisions to challenge Kovalev for his WBO light heavyweight title. But Kovalev’s confession that he took the fight for money, and that he was worn out, it takes away the shine from Alvarez’s win.

Many knowledgeable boxing fans saw the fight as a cherry pick from the moment it was made, as Canelo didn’t select the elite light heavyweight champions Beterbiev or Bivol.

Canelo didn’t look good against Kovalev, and was at risk of losing the fight going into the 11th. In the 11th, Canelo backed Kovalev up against the ropes and dropped him with a hard right hand to the head to get the knockout. The way that Canelo performed, it’s highly unlikely that he would have beaten Kovalev in his prime. Even the Kovalev that defeated Yarde, would have an excellent shot at beating Canelo.

https://www.boxingnews24.com/2019/11...ssible-to-win/

^Yes. They (Canelo's team) cherry-picked Kovalev as past it at 36yo and worn out from a very recent tough fight, and successive training camps.

A lot of insiders are saying that Kovalev threw the fight, was 'pushing' his punches, etc. Not sure about that, but boxing these days is all about advantages gained / disadvantaging the opposition before the fight. All part of the magic.