Pac Man would win on workrate.
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Just watching the Pacman fight now. What a ****ing fight this is. Two fantastic fighters going for it toe to toe. Proper boxing unlike the **** we saw last night.Comment
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Just finished the fight myself after avoiding the result all day. Brilliant boxing from pac man, incredible bravery from Margarito.
Just like everyone that knew anything about boxing knew, it put that shambles that sky were charging for to shame.Comment
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Where could I watch the Pacquiao fight? Missed it
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Repeated again tomorrow at 9amOriginally posted by kris90210 View PostWhere could I watch the Pacquiao fight? Missed itComment
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James Lawton:
A crime against boxing in which everyone involved was complicit
Haye's only recourse is to take one of the two fights he has been so strenuously avoiding since the start of his heavyweight pantomime
Monday, 15 November 2010
Yes, what happened in a boxing ring in Manchester on Saturday night had to be described as a crime – and no less shocking for being so easily anticipated.
The indictment is of fraud perpetrated not only by the promoters of David Haye's sickening dispatch of the ultimately pathetic Audley Harrison but all those who, down from the great Lennox Lewis, simultaneously affected a knowledge of boxing and still gave the wretched affair even a scintilla of credence.
You were either complicit in the scam, or hopelessly gullible, if you set foot in the MEN Arena or, say, paid £40 to watch on a big screen in somewhere like the Sports Café in the West End of London.
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The first boos came before the referee was obliged to remind the combatants that they were involved in something called a fight and that while larceny was one thing, bare-faced, egregious, contemptuous, shameless thievery was something else again.
Don't let anyone tell you this was a fight that went wrong when the first bell sounded. It was one that should have been killed at birth and with no more punishing a weapon than pure, undiluted scorn.
Haye, whose capacity to insult the intelligence of the public is unlimited – although it has to be said he has scarcely lacked encouragement – brought a new refinement when he announced that he and his friends had wagered heavily on a third-round stoppage. For the average mug punter, this must have felt a bit like having the shirt just removed from his back shredded and sprinkled over his head.
No heavyweight champion had ever entered the ring with phonier credentials than Haye. He was praised for a "defensive masterclass" when winning his WBA crown against an embarrassingly shambolic, and non-aggressive, Russian giant named Nikolai Valuev. His one defence before the weekend fiasco was against John Ruiz, who was less than impressive in his youth but by the time he faced Haye in his late thirties was so eroded he was, as the Americans describe no-hope opponents, no better than a "tomato can".
The former Olympic champion Harrison's situation is almost beyond boxing analysis. The BBC gave him a million pounds of public money to launch a career that was made somewhat questionable by his confession that working with the pros in the gym tended to give him a headache. His four defeats as a professional include one by a Belfast taxi driver. His lack of resolution against Haye would have been pitiful but for the fact that he was said to be earning the best part of another million for another dreadful impersonation of a serious fighter.
This, of course, didn't check another wave of self-congratulation from the Hayemaker. No one is saying that he lacks ability, only that it is utterly unproven at the heavyweight level, which is unfortunate in a successor to the likes of Ali, Tyson and Lewis, who, whatever his contractual commitments, must, we can only hope, have felt a strong urge to walk away from Saturday's scandal.
Haye's only recourse, if he is at all interested, is to take one of the two fights he has been so strenuously avoiding since the start of his heavyweight pantomime.
He must meet the men who have a share of the title, the Klitschko brothers, Wladimir and Vitali. It is the least he can do after inviting such ridicule on a prize that used to be the most celebrated in all of sport. Either that, or take his lightly earned money and keep on running from anything that even vaguely resembles a genuine heavyweight fight.
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WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has denied betting on himself to beat Audley Harrison in the third round of their world title fight on Saturday.
The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) were investigating claims that Haye had placed a wager on the bout.
"I didn't need to bet, I made enough money from the fight anyway," Haye told BBC Radio 5 live.
Haye added that it would be "harsh" for the BBBC to withhold some of Harrison's purse after his dismal showing.
In the aftermath of his demolition of fellow Briton Harrison in Manchester, Haye claimed to have "put a lot of money on the third round."
But asked to clarify the comments, Haye said he had merely encouraged friends and family to bet on that outcome.
"I didn't physically go into a betting shop and say here's X amount of money," he said.
"What I did say is I would knock Audley Harrison out in three rounds. My prediction was the third round and I told a lot of people that and it was true.
"It makes the fight a lot more exciting for people. It did feel like I'd bet on myself because so many people had put money on it.
"If it had gone into the fourth round I would have felt guilty."
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Fraudley got paid £1m for that pathetic showing. 1 punch landed and £1m payday.
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Quick retraction from him there then, the lying *******
"It did feel like I'd bet on myself because so many people had put money on it." Sure, sure.
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Audley Harrison is facing being hit hard financially following his abject defeat to WBA heavyweight champion David Haye on Saturday.
Harrison barely threw a punch before being stopped in three rounds, with the 39-year-old being criticised for his performance.
And the British Board of Boxing of Control have confirmed that they will now "have to consider" withholding some or all of Harrison's purse for the fight.
"It is a very difficult course to take to stop someone getting paid when they have just frozen," said BBBC secretary Robert Smith.
"But rescinding some of Audley Harrison's purse is something which we will have to consider.
"You have to bear in mind it was such a letdown for the 22,000 at the MEN Arena and the thousands watching at home.
"The board have rescinded purses when we feel a fighter has not tried. He did nothing all night."
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Even if he had bet on himself he wouldn't have broken any rules.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Not techinically no, but it wouldn't have been great for the integrity of the sport. It's more bad publicity boxing just doesnt need.
If I had, for instance, put my hard earned cash on a KO in round 1 or round 2, I would be justifyably pissed off he purposely didn't even try in those rounds.
Anyway, how embarassed must Audley feel he pretty much could have named the exact second he would knock him out
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I'm pretty sure it's only illegal to bet on yourslef to lose.Originally posted by Vermilion View PostComment
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WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has denied betting on himself to beat Audley Harrison in the third round of their world title fight on Saturday.
The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) rules prohibit fighters from placing wagers on their own bouts.
"I didn't need to bet, I made enough money from the fight anyway," Haye told BBC Radio 5 live.
Haye added that it would be "harsh" for the BBBC to withhold some of Harrison's purse after his dismal showing.
In the aftermath of his demolition of fellow Briton Harrison in Manchester, Haye claimed to have "put a lot of money on the third round".Comment
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