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Good Welterweight contest this weekend:

Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter: Final Press Conference - Bad Left Hook

I fancy Thurman to win, maybe by stoppage late on.

Originally Posted by kmart

Good Welterweight contest this weekend:

Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter: Final Press Conference - Bad Left Hook

I fancy Thurman to win, maybe by stoppage late on.

Its gonna be a war ,Thurman carries the heavy artillery for sure ,for me Porter is a none stop action fighter who trades on his fitness without carrying a killer punch , for me Thurman on points I forgot to add ,I see Fury has pulled out of his fight with Klitchko with a bruised ankle .

A good show in London tonight too - many decent fighters and the main match should be interesting, the big Yank looks confident.

I see Eubank Jnr did the biz on a virtual unknown last night and now the drums are banging for a fight with GGG , I have no doubt the match can be made as Golovnikov thankfully has not got Canelo syndrome , if the fight is made it will be across the pond as IMHO they won't be able to match the purse here in the UK .http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/euba...for-you-343804

Porter v Thurman fight coming on True TV 685 !!!

Ali was something special... always been a hero to me, as a lad growing up.. much respect and admiration... RIP.

I am happy Joseph Parker, beat his latest rival - albeit, in a hard-fought fight. That being said, (on deeper reflection) his guard is low, similar to Ali... he forgoes a traditional 'high guard' stance and relies on his quick reflexes/unusual hand speed for defense/parry punches...

He is remarkably quick, for a heavyweight...not as fast as Ali, but not too far behind either... probably has the quickest heavyweight hands on the planet, he just needs to tighten his defense...

Problem being, it's almost impossible to change the basic attributes of a fighter once their technique has embedded itself in their DNA - they will always instinctively use that old habit as default...

I have changed my mind. I wouldn't put him against AJ yet... he needs more time to prepare. I feel he would be caught by the top tier guys - without adequate changes to his defense (which as I said, is very difficult to adjust this far in his career)..

I still think he stands a fair chance to become champ... they just have to groom him correctly first.

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Originally Posted by kmart

Good Welterweight contest this weekend:

Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter: Final Press Conference - Bad Left Hook

I fancy Thurman to win, maybe by stoppage late on.

Its gonna be a war ,Thurman carries the heavy artillery for sure ,for me Porter is a none stop action fighter who trades on his fitness without carrying a killer punch , for me Thurman on points I forgot to add ,I see Fury has pulled out of his fight with Klitchko with a bruised ankle .

You got it right. Thurman just landing the cleaner, more effective (and eye-catching) punches. Porter non-stop aggression, but nullifying a lot of his own punching by swarming forwards all the time.
Good fight though. Kell Brook hopefully will get to fight Thurman.

Originally Posted by kmart

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Originally Posted by kmart

Good Welterweight contest this weekend:

Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter: Final Press Conference - Bad Left Hook

I fancy Thurman to win, maybe by stoppage late on.

Its gonna be a war ,Thurman carries the heavy artillery for sure ,for me Porter is a none stop action fighter who trades on his fitness without carrying a killer punch , for me Thurman on points I forgot to add ,I see Fury has pulled out of his fight with Klitchko with a bruised ankle .

You got it right. Thurman just landing the cleaner, more effective (and eye-catching) punches. Porter non-stop aggression, but nullifying a lot of his own punching by swarming forwards all the time.
Good fight though. Kell Brook hopefully will get to fight Thurman.

I have always like Porter as a person ,having seen quite a few of his interviews, but his sort of brawling would be better off behind "The Pig and Whistle" WTF has happened to "The Sweet science "

Gennady Golovkin will fight Kell Brook

In a shock announcement Gennady Golovkin will fight Kell Brook in September, not Chris Eubank Jr
MATCHROOM Boxing and K2 Promotions are delighted to announce that Gennady Golovkin will defend his IBF, WBA, WBC and IBO Middleweight World titles against IBF Welterweight champion Kell Brook at The O2 in London on September 10, live on Sky Sports Box Office and HBO World Championship Boxing.
The two unbeaten stars collide in London with the US-based Kazakh KO king Golovkin stepping into the ring as a defending champion for the 16th time and looking to keep up his incredible knockout percentage – with 32 of his previous 35 fights ending early, including all of his World title outings, and the 34 year old is ready to add to that run in his first fight in the UK.

Another weird fight , brook moving from 147 to 160 to fight ggg....
wonder if Golovokin will get the criticism that Alverez got

My mates sons fighting Alverez next
Big big fight for the lad , can't see him getting it though
Beefy Smith kirkdale liverpool , 4 boxing brothers I've watched growing up
Good fighting family.
Gotta love GGG though he's a breath of fresh air ,good old fashioned fighter

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Ali was something special... always been a hero to me, as a lad growing up.. much respect and admiration... RIP.

I am happy Joseph Parker, beat his latest rival - albeit, in a hard-fought fight. That being said, (on deeper reflection) his guard is low, similar to Ali... he forgoes a traditional 'high guard' stance and relies on his quick reflexes/unusual hand speed for defense/parry punches...

He is remarkably quick, for a heavyweight...not as fast as Ali, but not too far behind either... probably has the quickest heavyweight hands on the planet, he just needs to tighten his defense...

Problem being, it's almost impossible to change the basic attributes of a fighter once their technique has embedded itself in their DNA - they will always instinctively use that old habit as default...

I have changed my mind. I wouldn't put him against AJ yet... he needs more time to prepare. I feel he would be caught by the top tier guys - without adequate changes to his defense (which as I said, is very difficult to adjust this far in his career)..

I still think he stands a fair chance to become champ... they just have to groom him correctly first.

Sorry mate I'd put him behind haye, fury,AJ and wilder, klitchco
I'd say Hayes handspeed would match his also
Looks on top of his game with his shoulder fixed but he needs a big fight before I would get too exited
I'd pay to watch Parker and Haye now it would be interesting

Bro, you'd put Ali behind the likes of Fury, Haye, Clit, AJ, Wilder??

No Parker he fuckin loon
There's only Tyson for me who would have beaten Ali hands down in his prime, but tyson lost it too young
But Ali is the greatest because of his longevity and pure balls
I'm sorry if that's how it reads, they could not lace his boots

Well,well,well who would have thought it GGG V Brook ? Not sure what to think about this match up , obviously with Golovnikovs fire power and the quality of his defeated opponents one has to fancy him, and Brook just cannot hope to trade with him mid ring so one would think he'll be on his bike for 12 hard rounds (or less) , either way the fight will be a sell out and the fans are in for a treat with Brook getting very likely his biggest pay day , Kmart any chance of running the slide rule over this one?

I am some what disappointed that this fight was not made , bearing in mind all the shouting that Eubank Jnr had done , Eubank Snr appears to be pulling all the strings for his sons future ,but FFS a mega pay day and a shot at the title, just what does he want? Hearn: Eubank chose not to take the fight | Boxing News | Fightnews

I've never rated Brook too highly, and I reckon GGG will knock him out within 5 rounds.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I've never rated Brook too highly, and I reckon GGG will knock him out within 5 rounds.

Hmm, yeah I would think that there will be a lot of money bet at the bookmakers on that very result .

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I've never rated Brook too highly, and I reckon GGG will knock him out within 5 rounds.

Brook is a big Welterweight, but he seems to be taking his domestic rivalry with Amir Khan to a strange new level of stupidity by trying to do the same thing (jumping up 2 weight levels) to fight the P4P most feared / avoided boxer out there.?
He is on a pasting. Two months to get up to full Middleweight..? Nah.

It's a bit sad that we might never see the best of Golovkin, tbh. I hope he goes up in weight to maybe take on the winner of Ward-Kovalev later on. The rest of the chicken-shit Middleweight division obviously don't want to know..

Interesting side note to GGG's next fight. Looks like the elder Eubanks may have cost his son a big fight.

Chris Eubank Sr.'s "crazy demands" cost his son a £3 million fight against Gennady Golovkin, according to promoter Eddie Hearn.
World middleweight No. 1 Golovkin will instead defend his WBC, IBF and WBA belts against Sheffield's Kell Brook at the O2 Arena, London, on Sept. 10.
Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) had agreed terms to face Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs), but the Brighton boxer stalled on signing the contract and Hearn instead offered the fight to Sheffield's IBF world welterweight champion Brook (36-0, 25 KOs), who jumped at the opportunity.
Hearn blames Eubank Sr., the former world champion, for his son not landing the fight against Kazakhstan's California-based knockout specialist Golovkin, which included demands on which television commentator would work on the fight and how much tickets would cost.
"I believe Eubank Jr. genuinely wanted the fight and we worked solidly for three weeks trying to make the fight," Hearn told ESPN.
"We had several meetings and contracts went back in forth. We sent them a final contract on Tuesday and said you have 24 hours and they never came back to us. We just ran out of time, so I offered it to Kell.
"The deal that Kell Brook is on is the same as what Eubank Jr. was offered, it's the same same pay-per-view deal as Anthony Joshua is getting and what Carl Froch got.
"It was so frustrating. It was the crazy demands that meant the fight could not happen for Eubank Jr. against Golovkin. They think it's negotiations but it's not a bluff when I say it's 24 hours to sign the contract. They were given a deadline and they chose not to take the fight.
"They wanted full operational control of the promotion. They were even asking things from Sky Sports like 'We want these commentators', which is ridiculous.
"I feel for Eubank Jr. because I don't think he knows what's going on and he was going to earn three or five million pounds. They have to understand that it's not playing a game.
<img class=" lazyloaded imageLoaded " data-image-container=".inline-photo">Golovkin, left, will now fight Brook on Sept. 10. Getty Images"Chris Eubank Jr. hasn't made one decision, he doesn't breathe without his dad's say so. All the negotiations were done with Chris Eubank Sr. and the lawyer.
He added: "They sent through their suggestion for ticket prices and I would have got publicly lynched if I had agreed to that."
Friday's surprise announcement has given Brook a chance to pull off a huge shock when he challenges the world No. 1 middleweight, who is ranked No. 2 in ESPN's pound-for-pound list.
GGG, as 34-year-old Golovkin is known, had been looking for an opponent since Mexican Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez pulled out of talks for a world title unification fight in September.
Golovkin has knocked out 32 of his 35 victims including Britons Matthew Macklin and Martin Murray, and will start as the overwhelming favourite against Brook, who will be stepping up two weight divisions just as his domestic rival Amir Khan did in May to fight Alvarez.
It is the big fight Brook has been craving since winning his IBF belt nearly two years ago, having since made three low-key defences.
Brook, 30, had been training in the Canary Islands expecting to fight American Jessie Vargas, the WBO champion, in a world welterweight title unification before Hearn made the offer to fight Golovkin.
It will be the biggest pay day of his career and Hearn has hailed Golovkin's UK visit as the biggest by an overseas boxer in years.
"Kell doesn't have to give up his IBF welterweight title and that was the defining decision if you like for him taking the fight because he has got nothing to lose and we believe he can beat Golovkin," Hearn said.
"If you are talking about fighters in their prime, when Mike Tyson and Kostya Tyszu came over they were past it, but Golovkin is very much in his prime."

Originally Posted by aging one

Interesting side note to GGG's next fight. Looks like the elder Eubanks may have cost his son a big fight.

Chris Eubank Sr.'s "crazy demands" cost his son a £3 million fight against Gennady Golovkin, according to promoter Eddie Hearn.
World middleweight No. 1 Golovkin will instead defend his WBC, IBF and WBA belts against Sheffield's Kell Brook at the O2 Arena, London, on Sept. 10.
Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) had agreed terms to face Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs), but the Brighton boxer stalled on signing the contract and Hearn instead offered the fight to Sheffield's IBF world welterweight champion Brook (36-0, 25 KOs), who jumped at the opportunity.
Hearn blames Eubank Sr., the former world champion, for his son not landing the fight against Kazakhstan's California-based knockout specialist Golovkin, which included demands on which television commentator would work on the fight and how much tickets would cost.
"I believe Eubank Jr. genuinely wanted the fight and we worked solidly for three weeks trying to make the fight," Hearn told ESPN.
"We had several meetings and contracts went back in forth. We sent them a final contract on Tuesday and said you have 24 hours and they never came back to us. We just ran out of time, so I offered it to Kell.
"The deal that Kell Brook is on is the same as what Eubank Jr. was offered, it's the same same pay-per-view deal as Anthony Joshua is getting and what Carl Froch got.
"It was so frustrating. It was the crazy demands that meant the fight could not happen for Eubank Jr. against Golovkin. They think it's negotiations but it's not a bluff when I say it's 24 hours to sign the contract. They were given a deadline and they chose not to take the fight.
"They wanted full operational control of the promotion. They were even asking things from Sky Sports like 'We want these commentators', which is ridiculous.
"I feel for Eubank Jr. because I don't think he knows what's going on and he was going to earn three or five million pounds. They have to understand that it's not playing a game.
<img class=" lazyloaded imageLoaded " data-image-container=".inline-photo">Golovkin, left, will now fight Brook on Sept. 10. Getty Images"Chris Eubank Jr. hasn't made one decision, he doesn't breathe without his dad's say so. All the negotiations were done with Chris Eubank Sr. and the lawyer.
He added: "They sent through their suggestion for ticket prices and I would have got publicly lynched if I had agreed to that."
Friday's surprise announcement has given Brook a chance to pull off a huge shock when he challenges the world No. 1 middleweight, who is ranked No. 2 in ESPN's pound-for-pound list.
GGG, as 34-year-old Golovkin is known, had been looking for an opponent since Mexican Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez pulled out of talks for a world title unification fight in September.
Golovkin has knocked out 32 of his 35 victims including Britons Matthew Macklin and Martin Murray, and will start as the overwhelming favourite against Brook, who will be stepping up two weight divisions just as his domestic rival Amir Khan did in May to fight Alvarez.
It is the big fight Brook has been craving since winning his IBF belt nearly two years ago, having since made three low-key defences.
Brook, 30, had been training in the Canary Islands expecting to fight American Jessie Vargas, the WBO champion, in a world welterweight title unification before Hearn made the offer to fight Golovkin.
It will be the biggest pay day of his career and Hearn has hailed Golovkin's UK visit as the biggest by an overseas boxer in years.
"Kell doesn't have to give up his IBF welterweight title and that was the defining decision if you like for him taking the fight because he has got nothing to lose and we believe he can beat Golovkin," Hearn said.
"If you are talking about fighters in their prime, when Mike Tyson and Kostya Tyszu came over they were past it, but Golovkin is very much in his prime."

Good post, and just proves what I have thought all along about Eubank Snr (kingsized dickhead) I watched an interview this morning with Brook and his trainer who both said that making welter weight 147) was not easy and he would be a more formidable opponent at 160 ,we'll see when GGG lands his first bone crunching right hand!!

Originally Posted by kmart

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I've never rated Brook too highly, and I reckon GGG will knock him out within 5 rounds.

Brook is a big Welterweight, but he seems to be taking his domestic rivalry with Amir Khan to a strange new level of stupidity by trying to do the same thing (jumping up 2 weight levels) to fight the P4P most feared / avoided boxer out there.?
He is on a pasting. Two months to get up to full Middleweight..? Nah.

It's a bit sad that we might never see the best of Golovkin, tbh. I hope he goes up in weight to maybe take on the winner of Ward-Kovalev later on. The rest of the chicken-shit Middleweight division obviously don't want to know..

Reading Age one's post ,the money on offer is a cool 3 million ,only a complete knob head like Eubank Snr would play hard to get for that sort of money (read AO's post).

^Yep, interesting read. Deluded Eubanks Snr really messing it up for Jr, by the look of things. I see a family rift ahead..

Brook might be getting a lot for this fight. I certainly hope so, as it might be his last for a while.

Originally Posted by kmart

Brook might be getting a lot for this fight. I certainly hope so, as it might be his last for a while.

He got what Eubanks turned down.