Boxing

[RichC]

Paulie is by far the best boxing pundit; actually knows what he's talk about

[Chris]

Interesting.

Why is that?

I just reckon the drug dealing snide who hits after the bell or when people on the floor is more who he is than this loveable fella girls would take home to the parents that ya see in interviews. Not that it's a big deal and I might be wrong but just can't take to the fella at all.

[Chazza]

fair enough.

Thinks you could take to him ever? Or is it a most people and Tyson fury thing?

[RichC]

Get him in with Derek.

Every champion has to beat Derek.

Haye, mcCrory and Froc just said about our Derek

[Chazza]

Gonna happen isn't it?!

Del

[RichC]

A proper British level heavyweight - be a good test for him

[Chris]

fair enough.

Thinks you could take to him ever? Or is it a most people and Tyson fury thing?

Might like him a bit more on the day he ****s off Eddie Hearn, though think he signed a new 3 year deal recently so won't be for a while yet!

[Chazza]

Haye 'I took him out in 5 rounds'

Frock got nowhere to go with a sell out Wembley effort.

[Gibbo]

Joshua's persona reminds me a lot of that of Jon Jones.

He does have this media nice side, and I reckon there is a ****house side to him without a doubt.

[Chazza]

He's no frank Bruno.

[Gray]

Meanwhile in Russia, Enzo Maccarinelli beats Roy Jones Jr with fourth-round knockout

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/35084571

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[Chazza]

Patrick Trueman

[RichC]

Paulies face

[Doc_Piptorious]

Enjoyed the Joshua-White bout.


Might be a useful domestic/European level fighter in White if he watches his conditioning and someone teaches him how to throw a straight punch.


Good wake up call for Joshua. He finally had a fight in which he did not get it all his own way and in which he had to go a few rounds.

Really needs to develop his gameplan to be more than simply head hunting. His jabbing is pretty poor, and he does not really show any speed in adjusting to incoming punches.

His finishing shots were really nice though, especially the shot to White's temple that had White doing the chicken dance, but am very curious as to whether or not that power is genuine (yes my usual bugbear with Joshua ) or whether it would be absorbed by the better than White fighters in the division.

Joshua is hardly the first big imposing fighter who got lauded for having awesome power before having faced any real quality, but we have seen similarly big guys in the past like Michael Grant get called the complete package only to get horribly exposed by the top guys in the division.

Course the truth could well be that White has very good punch resistance and that is how he managed to stay in it that many rounds before getting blasted out of there.

He is still a year or two off being ready to try out the likes of Fury, despite only being a year or so younger than Fury, but needs to start feeding on the names in the bottom half of the top 10 listings sooner rather than later if he is become broken in properly.

Would actually like to see him in with Wilder within two fights as I think that pairing would see someone getting exposed as a hype job, just not sure who would be getting exposed.

Good night for Joshua in the ring, but thought he was a bit classless in his post fight interview when he gave White no credit at all for his part in the clash, and his dad came across as a right tit with his shouting in the background about steroids