Roujin wrote:

Mix a bit of performance and flair in with some athletic displays as a form of entertainment, all good with me.

Yeah, they had all that.



Lols aside, that's all it is. My boxing mates don't mind him fighting at all, just that they earned a few hundred to a few grand per fight and could all smash him.

But obviously he won't fight area-level dudes because it's a bad look when he loses, at the same time as the big names can't touch him because they'd be massive bullies for it. He might win a white-collar roidman prizefighter, but that's his standard. And if that's how he went about this, fair enough.

i see Jake Paul and Mayweather had an 'altercation' at their press conference. cos Jake Paul took his hat. and shouted 'gotcha hat'. and has now had 'gotcha hat' tattooed on his leg. which i find extra hilarious and proof he's an idiot since to me that means 'got you, hat' not 'got your hat'.

plus i'm sure the whole thing is just part of the show and he and mayweather gave each other congrats on the scrap once off camera.

Sooooo, Rumble gonna Rumble.



Still gutted it wasn't Romero he was facing. Never have I wanted a fight to happen so, so bad. Sigh.


And MVP gonna MVP


Turned yer man into a pug. He's so frustrating though. When he fights you watch and think wow, he's another Jones/Izzy/Fergo, he's so stylish, but then you realise his record is probably the most padded in MMA history, fighting bouncers and mechanics. The one time he went up against world class opposition, he got crumpled.

Ah well, Bellator gonna Bellator. We have fun don't we?

Saunders grew in confidence in 5, 6 and 7 as Canelo visibly tired, but it was never out of Canelo's control. He lulled Saunders into upping his output once he was sure his power wasn't enough to stop him, and the fight was really over when Saunders — trapped in a corner — ducked illegally low to avoid a shot.

It's very hard to catch him when he's fresh, but he's often shown a greater dislike of being hit than most fighters, so Canelo cast his line in the middle rounds to inspire activity for a better look, until his reassertion of pressure wrought a conspicuously negative reaction that became the finishing setup.

Those kissing-the-canvas ducks become increasingly tempting when your legs can't pedal hard enough any more, and Saunders has never not faded in the championship rounds. Late-career Mayweather's Philly guard was so effective at offsetting age-related fade because his feints were top-drawer. Likewise, Hopkins was a master at nullifying cardio advantages well into his 40s.

But Saunders was always losing this fight once he slowed down, lacking their craft to avert punishment, nor having Golovkin's fire-with-fire heart. I expected him to retire, just not with a genuine fight-ending injury. Very sensible; no complaints.

There's talk of a third Golovkin fight, but I don't wanna see it because I think G gets stopped at this point. After so many of us felt he won their first fight and drew the second, that's not the sendoff he deserves.

He challenged one of my mates to bare-knuckle; man's a lemon.

Money's a curse in boxing. Saunders needed a couple more hard fights (I'd have tried for Truax as a winnable grind for him), but he wouldn't risk losing his $6m payday. And I think the reason for that is also the reason I'm a boxing fan: because when a fighter's up against it you really see their character, and so if they're deemed to have fallen short of exceptional standards they're left high and dry under keyboard-warrior microscopes. The trenches in UFC might be as deep, but thanks to boxing's tighter rules they're often less appreciable IMO.

So the main thing boxing needs from UFC is fan acceptance of losses (as it used to be), since modern boxers are inclined (encouraged for sure) to big themselves up to chase that coin. A ground loss for a striker isn't a big setback in UFC, say, but everyone's on equal terms in boxing, in a world where losses have become regarded as mental failures as much as sporting ones.

Too many current boxing fans are dicks, basically. For them, the real appeal of Joshua-Fury isn't the fight itself, which is probably gonna be dull, but the guarantee that someone's going home crying. You wouldn't get that tension if they had a few losses between them, which I think they would with old-school matchmaking. Ruiz-Arreola was a ton of fun last week, but no human interest angle.

I'd trade fanbases with UFC in a shot right now. Joshua and Fury are way more scared of fan perceptions than they are of each other.

I watched the press conference. Connor back to old habits, but also looked a little too much like bravado. Hope he nails Dustin, as I think he can be a bit boring.

What, as a fighter? C'maaaaan. Hooker, Holloway, Alvarez, Gaethje. All absolutely sensational fights.

As a person, fair enough I suppose.

Edit: for griffo re: boring

I think Connor is going to batter the shit out of him.

Hot when female tho,sheesh

Tyson Fury has Covid, so the scrap with Wilder is off.

A sparring partner is the one who brought it in, 10 people in the camp including Fury have tested positive apparantly.

Phhhhhllllrrrbb

And that's surely mcgregor done as a top draw.

First reaction was he got downed too easy but it seems he broke his ankle trading blows. Nasty looking.

Some of Danas comments would lead me to think UFC want to get one more payday from this feud. Not a proper loss/ finish etc. 

I get thats it a shit way to go down, it looks like he just rolls his ankle when he brings back his foot. But still, thats how it goes.

The only fight left for McGregor is Ferguson, and vice versa.