Boxing

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Hello someone's looking for a Payday
Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye says he is ready to make his return to boxing.
David Haye would welcome fight against Anthony Joshua
SKY

[Vermilion]

Toe must have healed, finally!

[Shaggy]

What time's Joshua on tonight, anyone know?

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Here's the latter part of the running order....

8.10pm: Charlie Edwards vs Louis Norman
10 x 3 mins English Flyweight title

Followed by: Dillian Whyte vs Brian Minto
10 x 3 mins WBC International Silver Heavyweight title

Followed by: Dave Ryan vs John Wayne Hibbert
12 x 3 mins Commonwealth and WBC International Super Lightweight titles

Followed by: Anthony Joshua vs Gary Cornish
12 x 3 mins vacant Commonwealth Heavyweight title

[Shaggy]

Cheers mate

[Daniel 7]

10pm or thereabouts for Joshua

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Joshua fight is just about to start.

Sky are hyping this kid to the absolute heavens.

Won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics apparently......

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errrrrr

[Daniel 7]

Did you miss it? I blinked, ffs

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"He's a joiner by trade, been given 6 weeks off work to get ready for this fight"

top, top match making.

[Zapater]

Groves doing some break dancing.

[marcus50bucks]

Mayweather landed 232 of 410 punches (57%) including 83 of 191 jabs (43%) and 149 of 219 power punches (68%). Berto landed 83 of 495 punches (17%), including 39 of 301 jabs (13%) and 44 of 194 power punches (23%).

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Floyd'Boring+I only win on points'Mayweather

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Mayweather landed 232 of 410 punches (57%) including 83 of 191 jabs (43%) and 149 of 219 power punches (68%). Berto landed 83 of 495 punches (17%), including 39 of 301 jabs (13%) and 44 of 194 power punches (23%).

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No.

[Vermilion]

Just listening to this story on Radio.

RIP Emile Griffith, Gay Boxer Who Killed A Man In The Ring.

Emile Griffith was gay boxer in a era when homosexuality was classified as a disease that should be medicated (often by chemical castration). It was condemned as a sin and classified as a crime in most counties.

Consensual sex between two adult men could result in their imprisonment. The American Medical Association, meanwhile, persisted in classifying homosexuality as a “psychiatric disorder”.

At the pre fight weigh in Griffith’s long time adversary Benny Paret was in a party mood. In his underwear Griffith stepped on to the scales. Paret pointed at the marker and laughed. He could not believe Griffith had come in “as light as a fairy” – at 144 pounds.

Griffith was about to step off the scales when he heard his trainer Gil Clancy shout: “Hey, watch it!” He wheeled round. A smirking Paret gestured at intercourse with him as his trainers laughed hysterically. He shook a finger at Griffith. “Hey maricón [spanish for f*ggot],” Paret whispered, “I’m gonna get you and your husband.”

In boxing’s macho subculture at the time there could be no greater insult – especially when it was an open secret that Griffith was “different”. This is how the fight ended:


Fight footage is brutal.

http://www.craziestsportsfights.com/11the-night-emile-griffith-killed-a-man-in-the-ring-after-calling-him-a-faot/

That night, rage and hurt poured out of Emile Griffith. Carnage broke out in round 12. It started with two brutal right hands from Griffith. Paret teetered backwards, collapsing in the corner from the barrage of punches (initially thought to be from exhaustion), fell into a coma, and died ten days later at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan from a massive brain hemorrhaging.

On reviewing the replay in a post fight interview Griffith was quoted in a harrowing voice as saying: “I just kept punching”. “I just kept punching …”