Boxing

[Mr Darko]

Any predictions of Canelo vs. BJS?

Hoping Canelo wins by a brutal KO, although I believe he'll win by UD.

[labourRed]

KO in eight for me.

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Dislike both.
Hope they knock each other out.

[RichC]

BJS might struggle to come back from that.

[Zapater]

BJS might struggle to come back from that.

Depends the extent of the injury and how it heals, fighters have come back from much worse. What's the latest?

Really good stoppage from Canelo, but I'm pretty bleak about the scorecards. For me Saunders was winning the fight quite comfortably at the point of the stoppage, unfortunately all of the judges had him well ahead. He was plodding, hitting air for the main part, whilst Saunders was fighting the type of fight he would want to fight, landing the jab and creating angles.

I'm glad it didn't go the distance because I would have been furious if Canelo lost again and got the nod. Makes me wonder if he'll ever lose a decision again.

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Depends the extent of the injury and how it heals, fighters have come back from much worse. What's the latest?

Really good stoppage from Canelo, but I'm pretty bleak about the scorecards. For me Saunders was winning the fight quite comfortably at the point of the stoppage, unfortunately all of the judges had him well ahead. He was plodding, hitting air for the main part, whilst Saunders was fighting the type of fight he would want to fight, landing the jab and creating angles.

I'm glad it didn't go the distance because I would have been furious if Canelo lost again and got the nod. Makes me wonder if he'll ever lose a decision again.

Not sure how long these highlights will stay up

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83n9U86OqE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83n9U86OqE[/ame]

[marcus50bucks]

Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder agree to third fight July 24 in Las Vegas: Sources

Lance Pugmire
May 20, 2021 9:56 PM

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have verbally agreed to fight again on July 24 in Las Vegas, sources confirmed to The Athletic on Thursday. The fight will be held at either Allegiant Stadium or T-Mobile Arena, with each offering full capacity.

An arbitrator ruled on Monday that Wilder was entitled to a third fight with Fury. They previously fought to a draw in December 2018, then signed a two-fight deal in 2019, with Fury stopping Wilder in Round 7 in February 2020. Wilder exercised the rematch clause but the third fight never happened because of multiple delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fury had agreed to fight Anthony Joshua for the undisputed heavyweight championship on Aug. 14 in Saudi Arabia.

On "The Pugg and Copp Boxing Show" Thursday, The Athletic's Mike Coppinger and Lance Pugmire discussed the possibility of Fury-Wilder 3 and the unravelling of Fury-Joshua.

How we made it to Fury-Wilder 3

Lance Pugmire, senior boxing writer: Following Fury’s miracle rise from the canvas to preserve a December 2018 draw in their first clash, the fighters struck a two-fight agreement that seemed on pace after Fury delivered Wilder his lone defeat by TKO.

When television conflicts scrapped attempts for a December bout, Fury pursued Joshua and Wilder flexed his right to arbitration and won a ruling that their trilogy bout needed to happen by September.

Why wouldn't Fury have paid Wilder step-aside money?

Pugmire: Wilder was never interested in step-aside money after declaring he would avenge the TKO loss, which he said was the result of wearing a heavy leg-fatiguing walk-in costume for that bout.

Fury told The Athletic’s Mike Coppinger Thursday that he had no interest in paying step-aside money to keep his planned four-belt unification bout against Joshua in line.

“I wouldn’t pay him 20 grand. I pay in ass whippings. … I’m going to crack his skull wide open this time.”

What’s next for Joshua?

Pugmire: The three-belt champion from England is moving toward accepting an August mandatory challenge from unbeaten and former fully unified cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.

The World Boxing Organization is expected to formally mandate that bout on Friday after Usyk reached mandatory status in 2019. Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn said he expects to finalize that deal in short order.

Joshua railed at Fury on Twitter this week, asking, “If there was an arbitration going on, why announce to the world we are fighting!?”

https://theathletic.com/news/tyson-f...hE1X3i44?amp=1

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Josh Taylor vs Jose Ramirez for the UNIFIED IBF, WBA, WBO and WBC world super-lightweight titles on Saturday night

What a ****ing achievement if Taylor wins on Sat.

Sadly there's been a criminal lack of coverage for this fight. It's not been picked up by Sky, BT or any of the terrestrial channels. It's on FITE TV (!??!)

Reminiscent of Frochs early Super Six fights on some random streaming site.

Taylor should be afforded better.

[RichC]

That's a shame it's not on a mainstream channel, good on him he's always been a good watch the fight against Prograis was a great performance.

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I’ll download it when I wake up the morning after.

[spud_gun]

Buy it you tight ****er.

It's only a tenner to watch the best 'pure boxer' in the country unify a division

[spud_gun]

Taylor

[RichC]

His promoters need to get their act together. How this wasn’t on a mainstream network is a disgrace.

[spud_gun]

He's with Top Rank. You'd think they would know what they were doing.

The coverage of the fight on the PPV was ****. Broadcast went off air less than 5 mins after the fight.

Still pumped after that fight.

I saw him box back at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow in 2014. He looked good but i don't think anyone thought he'd go on to unify a division in 18 Pro fights

[RichC]

Called out Terrance Crawford, could be a cracking fight if that takes place