Over the moon for george groves, to have 3 goes and be hard done by twice and come again shows remarkable resilience. He's also a very unorthodox boxer which is nice and refreshing for British fighters.
What a shame. Still think he is our best boxer but seems to know when to pull out now. Fuck me they are right Spence and Gervonta are the future let's hope we have someone to fly the flag bar Aj and his casuals.
What a shame. Still think he is our best boxer but seems to know when to pull out now. Fuck me they are right Spence and Gervonta are the future let's hope we have someone to fly the flag bar Aj and his casuals.
This is what I've said for a long time, every time someone says "British boxing is booming" they mean it's making a handful of people a lot of money. We have lots of people who hold versions of world titles but as soon as most come up against credible world level opponents they get shown up. Don't get me wrong Kell Brook is an excellent boxer but I think he essentially gave up in a sense when he fought Golovkin. That's just the way things go, but from the days of Lewis, Calzaghe, Hatton, Hamed, Nelson all absolutely dominating their divisions (remember Hatton never lost at 140lbs) I think we are weak and whilst at Heavyweight we have some strength remember Joshua beat a man who had been comfortably beaten by another Brit and as good as the fight was as a spectacle it could very easily have ended differently.
Billy-Joe Saunders knows damn well he isn't fit to fight either Alvarez or Golovkin but what else is there for him to enable him to say he's the main man.
Even Carl Froch in recent times can say he was never disgraced in a ring and showed his mettle against Taylor and Groves and fought everyone. We've got world champs who can't say that and know bloody well they will lose their belt first time they have to really face a test.
Some of thw best boxers walking the earth at the moment in no particular order and nor is it restricted to
I don't see a British fighter that beats any of them except maybe Khan being quicker than Thurman but I seriously rate Keith Thurman and it would need him on a bad night and Khan on his best
I said back when we had 16 or 17 world champions, how many are the best at their weight? Could only really say Degale. Nothing's changed since then imo with the exception at heavyweight but even that is a bit messy with the AJ/Fury but at least they're both British.
What a shame. Still think he is our best boxer but seems to know when to pull out now. Fuck me they are right Spence and Gervonta are the future let's hope we have someone to fly the flag bar Aj and his casuals.
but from the days of Lewis, Calzaghe, Hatton, Hamed, Nelson all absolutely dominating their divisions (remember Hatton never lost at 140lbs)
end of the road for Brook ? .. he's come up just short against the very best, where else is there for him to go ? .. he's starting to risk serious injury should he carry on
What a shame. Still think he is our best boxer but seems to know when to pull out now. Fuck me they are right Spence and Gervonta are the future let's hope we have someone to fly the flag bar Aj and his casuals.
but from the days of Lewis, Calzaghe, Hatton, Hamed, Nelson all absolutely dominating their divisions (remember Hatton never lost at 140lbs)
Nelson? You mean... Johnny Nelson?!
Yeah, defended the title for a very long time, and its only Marco Huck with the benefit of some veru shady decisions who overtook him, granted he could send you to sleep but he was excellent at what he did
end of the road for Brook ? .. he's come up just short against the very best, where else is there for him to go ? .. he's starting to risk serious injury should he carry on
I wouldn't be surprised if he retired now. But the Khan fight will still make them both a lot of money
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Good win for Groves, well deserved. Looking forward to hopefully a fight against Eubank Jr or Degale.
That final round was cracking! Boxing is quality
Prince Naseem is about 50 stone
Spence by KO.
Left hook to the body.
Body work may be telling towards the end of the fight though.
Eye didn't look too bad but he knew it could get worse so pulled himself out.
Billy-Joe Saunders knows damn well he isn't fit to fight either Alvarez or Golovkin but what else is there for him to enable him to say he's the main man.
Even Carl Froch in recent times can say he was never disgraced in a ring and showed his mettle against Taylor and Groves and fought everyone. We've got world champs who can't say that and know bloody well they will lose their belt first time they have to really face a test.
Some of thw best boxers walking the earth at the moment in no particular order and nor is it restricted to
Lomachencko
Kovalev
Ward
Gonzalez
Linares
Crawford
Golovkin
Alvarez
Rigondeux
Thurman
I don't see a British fighter that beats any of them except maybe Khan being quicker than Thurman but I seriously rate Keith Thurman and it would need him on a bad night and Khan on his best