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Off Topic => Today In Sports => Topic started by: Cleo on December 10, 2005, 21:29:19 PM
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I understand Danny Williams is about to fight Audley Harrison.
I hope he sings "Moonriver" first...
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Enjoying a glass or six of Shiraz, Cleo? ;)
What I don't get about boxing is how on earth it makes any money. They pay out millions in prizes but no-one watches it because you have to pay about 30 quid on pay per view at 4am for about 90 seconds of action.
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Just recently the boxing authorities have recognized that their early adoption of pay-per-view has been disastrous for the sport and over here we've started to see more fights on free-to-air, notably recent Ricky Hatton and Amir Khan title fights.
Are you listening the English & Welsh Cricket Board? :-\
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Not a drop of Shiraz has passed my rosebud lips this evening LCB :)
It was on ITV1 after The X Factor ;D
Amir Khan is a surprisingly pretty lad for a boxer. I think he should have stayed amateur long enough to win the gold at the next Olympics though. He was only 19 on Thursday. ::)
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You just answered your own point Cleo - the reason he doesn't look like Ricky Hatton is that he's not old enough to have been battered about yet (you could say he's 'Amir' lad ;D). Give the lad time!
I can't stand boxing anyway so I couldn't care less whether Audrey wins.
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Er, he didn't - but I wouldn't call him Audrey to his face! ;D
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I think an interviewer accidentally did that once. Wonder if he's still eating through a straw?
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It's a shame that boxing has lost much of its appeal. No more 'Rumbles in the Jungle'..and poor old Frank Bruno never stood a chance against a proper world class fighter... let's hope this new boy Kahn kicks some serious American proverbial!!
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A boxing thread! And started by a woman? Even better! Are you a fan, Cleo?
I'm a huge boxing fan and have written articles and fight reviews for a few boxing websites so any boxing talk is more than welcome on this thread.
Here's a little gif file of Mike Tyson fighting a guy called Reggie Gross in the mid 1980s. He was well named because he made a gross error of judgement in trying to go toe to toe with Iron Mike...
(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8655/tyson55sf.gif)
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urrgh Tyson ..thinks Mark 'Chopper 'Read has met him twice !! :2funny:
agree with 'Swift' on the ...lack of appeal these days - true (think ol' Mike did'nt help this cause much either ) ::)
and big mouth tosser.. Anthony Mundine is dragging it down in oz too
boxing needs more nice Kostya's in the game !
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A boxing thread! And started by a woman? Even better! Are you a fan, Cleo?
I'm a huge boxing fan and have written articles and fight reviews for a few boxing websites so any boxing talk is more than welcome on this thread.
Here's a little gif file of Mike Tyson fighting a guy called Reggie Gross in the mid 1980s. He was well named because he made a gross error of judgement in trying to go toe to toe with Iron Mike...
(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8655/tyson55sf.gif)
And he's off ..... ::)
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urrgh Tyson ..thinks Mark 'Chopper 'Read has met him twice !! :2funny:
agree with 'Swift' on the ...lack of appeal these days - true (think ol' Mike did'nt help this cause much either ) ::)
and big mouth tosser.. Anthony Mundine is dragging it down in oz too
boxing needs more nice Kostya's in the game !
Tyson was boxing's biggest draw for nearly 20 years, sometimes for the wrong reasons, and perhaps the most exciting fighter I've ever seen. It's a shame to see him a shell of his former self. Even your fellow Aussie Jeff Fenech couldn't motivate him sufficiently to beat journeyman Kevin McBride. :-[
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.Iron Mike was a legend..he could have beaten Frank Bruno to a pulp in their first match only his wife had basically ruined his life and he was never the same again!!!.. I never saw the attraction with Bruno..all those people who supported him????.. What a waste of space!!!
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"Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up." - Muhammed Ali O0
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. only his wife had basically ruined his life and he was never the same again!!!..
Ruined his life by getting in the way of all those punches he threw at her, presumably. ::)
The guy's a total c*nt.
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Danny Williams is fighting Matt Skelton tonight whilst Amir Khan is up against Jackson Williams.
And Tolstoy is out of the country. ::)
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Joe C taught the American guy he faught a boxing lesson, serves him right for being all mouth.
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Isn't that what they are supposed to do, to hype themselves up? ???
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There's a difference between hype and arrogance.
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But surely you have to be that arrogant to believe in yourself totally!
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Er, he didn't - but I wouldn't call him Audrey to his face! ;D
No you wouldn't want to get drunk and diss Audley.
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But surely you have to be that arrogant to believe in yourself totally!
I don't believe you do, which is why I dislike politicians so much, they're so arrogant they think their way is best and anybody who doesn't agree with them is an idiot, Thatcher with the Poll Tax and Blair with his Tory Education "Reforms" spring to mind.
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Small reminder - this is a boxing thread. :)
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I just arrived back from Bangkok yesterday and have only this morning caught up on the boxing news. Joe Calzaghe, as I predicted months ago on a boxing website, outpointed the raw, crude and overhyped Jeff Lacy. A great performance which will forever put Calzaghe on the map and push Lacy's marketability down to relatively little.
Williams and Skelton fought a competitive but very scrappy fight and I got bored after three rounds. Williams should retire. His effort level is too low to compete at a high level and Skelton, whilst more aggressive, lacks size, weight and power to be considered as a serious contender for a world title.
Assessment over...I need a drink.
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Small reminder - this is a boxing thread. :)
Hear hear!
I just arrived back from Bangkok yesterday and have only this morning caught up on the boxing news. Joe Calzaghe, as I predicted months ago on a boxing website, outpointed the raw, crude and overhyped Jeff Lacy. A great performance which will forever put Calzaghe on the map and push Lacy's marketability down to relatively little.
Assessment over...I need a drink.
Well said!
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Isn't Audley Harrison rubbish. Maybe I could get away with calling him Audrey after all ... ???
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Isn't Audley Harrison rubbish. Maybe I could get away with calling him Audrey after all ... ???
I defended this guy in the early days of his career for fighting low class fighters but I'll no longer defend him after a performance like that against a guy who he outweighed by 2 stone and who had lost 3 of his last 5 fights - Dominick Guinn. Harrison did not want involved in a true fight, where he needs to take punches, nor did he let many of his own go.
He has no appetite or heart for the fight game. Stick to going to movie premieres and opening new leisure centres, chump.
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It's a shame that things have gone this way for him. After the Sydney Olympics, I truly thought that this guy showed some promise for the future. What happened?
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It's a shame that things have gone this way for him. After the Sydney Olympics, I truly thought that this guy showed some promise for the future. What happened?
Maybe getting his £1m ten fight deal with the BBC before he even threw a punch dulled his hunger a bit. As Marvin Hagler once said, and I paraphrase: "It's hard to get out of bed for a run in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas."
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I never thought I'd see the day but there is now only one black American heavyweight champion now - WBC title holder Hasim Rahman. The rest are held by ex-Soviet bloc fighters: WBO: Sergei Lyakovich; IBF: Vladimir Klitschko; WBO: Nikolai Valuev (the 7' Beast from the East, pictured.)
(http://index.hu/cikkepek/0410/sport/valuev.jpg)
Strange days indeed...
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Another "sport" that is more interested in cash from TV than providing quality entertainment .....
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Watched the Joe Calzagi fight a couple of weeks back and thought the referee was right to stop the fight as the guy he was fighting was hitting back at Calzagi, but who do they find for Calzagi to fight now?
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There's some sort of Boxing on my telly just now.Bed time methinks.Can't stand it
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David "The Hayemaker" Haye fighting some other guy called Ruiz - managed to satay up and watch it! Sorry love boxing (as long as it's not too slow and boring!) :)
Love David Haye :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
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Great performance from David Haye, how much punishment could this guy take?