Boxing

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Who's Whytes best win? Parker?

You're hatred for Fury is clouding your judgement here.

Whyte is a gatekeeper, nothing more. Fury should UD him with relative ease

That 2-1 should be free money for you then Spud - lump on

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That 2-1 should be free money for you then Spud - lump on

The last time i bet on boxing i put 50 quid on Wlad to beat Joshua.

That was enough for me.

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The last time i bet on boxing i put 50 quid on Wlad to beat Joshua.

That was enough for me.

Just follow my bets - you'll be well up in the long run.

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Spud gun, how do you respond to your hero, Fury and his media response on the events of last week?

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/boxing/tyson-fury-jack-catterall-josh-taylor-b985998.html

“I think the judging these days is a disgrace,” he told BT Sport Boxing. “I think they need a good kick in the arse for it.

“They can't change the decision now and they've absolutely destroyed Jack Catterall's life and career. It's disgraceful.”

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Hero?

C'mon let's not get carried away.

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Man crush?

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Yeah, that'll do

[Doc_Piptorious]

Spuddy and Fury in a tree

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

First comes passion and energy

Then Fury with some sodomy

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Wood Vs Conlan

Wow!. Fight of the year contender

Edit Conlan knocked clean out of the ring to end the fight. Conlan being tended to by medics.

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**** Conlon. Just a piece of trash.

Don't care what he does in boxing if he, just like Fury, wants to associate with utter scum like Daniel Kinihan.

If they are happy to be associated, and sign up, with a man who has been convicted of drug dealing on a global scale , of arms dealing on a global scale and whose criminal organisation has cost the lives of many people in Ireland and in other countries, then **** them and hopefuly karma catches up with all of them later on in life.

And **** Wood too as he has ties to the Kinihans too. His trainer certainly does.

Laughable when Conlon goes on UK tv saying stuff like how all of Ireland is behind him. You are ****ing despised in boxing circles here fella and you know it. Same reason why you get **** all coverage in the media in the Republic anymore. You tie yourself to a crime cartel and nobody wants to know you. Don't wish him any long lasting health issues after the hits he took last night, but I do hope he pisses blood with some discomfort for a week or two after it.

Had sympathy for Conlon in 2012 over the scoring at the olympics, hope he would do well in his pro career. Then he decided to get into bed with drug dealers, arms dealers and killers and laud those people in public, so **** him. Hope his career crashes and burns.

When Conlon is in the Irish media is is usually in articles like this one from yesterday. It spells out quite clearly what is thought of him here in the Republic.




https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/oth...l-big-26450153

Michael Conlan's world title bid has been tainted by Daniel Kinahan

It’s not hard to figure out why interest in Conlan’s fortunes south of the border has dipped.

On A Friday night in January, 2019, it became clear that the ban was over.

It happened when Ryan Tubridy made the introduction and Michael Conlan walked out as the first guest on that edition of The Late Late Show.

It would be another couple of weeks until MTK Global made the official announcement.

But Conlan’s Late Late appearance showed that they were bringing an end to their ban on boxers giving interviews to Irish media south of the border.

That odd media ban sums up the way a very odd company operates.

It worked too, in a different way to whatever way that they’d planned, as the boycott forced many to look into the company’s background, and how it was built.

That led to many hard questions. When Daniel Kinahan is part of your origin story, that’s always going to be the case.

And those questions aren’t going to magically disappear just because MTK say Kinahan no longer owns the company, or because that strange ban is over, or because Kinahan is an ‘advisor’ to MTK boxers, rather than their boss.

In a typically-daft and grandiose move, MTK announced that their media ban would expire at midnight on January 29, 2019.

Presumably, they then readied themselves for press queries at 12.01am...

A statement accompanied the end of the ban. Here are a couple of lines from it.

“We are a truly global company but Irish boxing will always remain close to the heart of MTK. It would be nice to be free to operate there as we do in every other country in the world and my hope is that the Irish press will support our efforts to do so,’’ said MTK Global President, Bob Yalen.

So they wanted support. The wanted cheerleading, not reporting.

But many, rightly, wonder where the money to build MTK came from. Those questions didn’t disappear with the media ban.

Tonight should be one of the biggest in the recent history of Irish boxing. Conlan will take on Leigh Wood in Nottingham and at stake is the WBA world featherweight title belt.

Well, it’s the ‘regular’ title. The WBA have a ‘super’ one too, which is held by Leo Santa Cruz. That’s the weird way boxing operates.

It’s nearly 10 years since Conlan became one of the most high profile figures in Irish sport.

Himself and Paddy Barnes would take bronze at the 2012 Olympics and they were quite a double act — the Belfast Blood Brothers.

Posing for selfies with Usain Bolt; winding up Marty Morrissey in RTE interviews; bossing the ring in the ExCel Arena; telling the world that they were going on holiday together to Bundoran — and then slipping off to Ibiza.

Conlan would go on to become the first Irish male fighter to become an amateur world champion. In 2015, he was named RTE Sportsperson of the Year, finishing ahead of the likes of Paul O’Connell, Rory McIlroy, Conor McGregor and Jack McCaffrey in the voting.

A year later, he went to Rio as one of the favourites to take Olympic gold. We all remember what happened when he came up against Vladimir Nikitin of Russia. Even Nikitin looked stunned when his left hand was raised in victory, slumping to his knees on the canvas.

Conlan’s reaction was to pull off his vest and throw his arms about, prowling around the ring, and giving a middle finger salute. Up in the stands, Barnes, the Ireland captain, was just as animated, gesturing towards the seats where the judges were perched.

We were to never see Conlan in an Irish vest again. He expected his swansong as an amateur to come on a podium, standing tall to Amhrán na bhFiann, facing the tricolour with precious hardware around his neck.

The decision made no sense, and Conlan called out the judges, the AIBA, the sport itself. His action has been described by ESPN as having changed amateur boxing forever.

There was so much goodwill towards Conlan then. Now look where we are.

Ordinarily, last weekend’s Sunday newspapers would have carried previews of an Irish boxer’s world title fight. There wasn’t a word on Conlan v Wood.

Off the Ball on Newstalk carried 30 hours of content this week, covering many different aspects of Irish sport. Conlan’s name wasn’t mentioned once.

Later in the week, a couple of pieces appeared in papers and online but this wasn’t what we would have expected in 2016 if we were told Conlan would be fighting for a world title.

North of the border, it’s business as usual. Plenty of media coverage of the fight, no hard questions asked. According to promoter Eddie Hearn, 3000 Irish fans will be in Nottingham cheering Conlan on. The vast majority will be from Belfast.

It’s not hard to figure out why interest in Conlan’s fortunes south of the border has dipped.

Conlan is still listed on their website as an MTK fighter, but it’s been reported that he has cut ties with them. In January, questions were sent to Conlan Boxing seeking to clarify the situation. There was no response.

His trainer, Adam Booth, works for MTK. Wood is an MTK fighter. His trainer, Ben Davison, works for MTK and has been vocal in his praise for Daniel Kinahan’s involvement in the sport.

To many in Ireland, anyone associated with Kinahan is beyond the pale.

Across the water, the Fight Disciples podcast sent a list of questions to Kinahan this week and he replied by email, with his answers broadcast on Thursday.

Kinahan painted himself as a benevolent figure in the sport, with only the interest of the fighters in his heart and he talked of how one of his goals has always been more transparency in boxing.

We’d all welcome that, and Kinahan could make a start by answering questions from journalists — not YouTubers.

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So you're not a fan?

[Doc_Piptorious]

So you're not a fan?

Of people with close associations with criminal gangs?

I think most decent people are not fans of that sort of person.

Same reason why Conlon does not get asked to do many appearances at ABCs in Ireland and why his reps go around asking if clubs want him to do special appearances only to get knocked back once the name Conlon gets mentioned.

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Warrington Martinez is some fight!

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Kiko should retire imho.

He is a very game fighter and is pretty durable which leads to him staying on his feet like a sponge for longer than a lot of other fighters would. That ability to take a lot of heavy hits is a big part of how he grinds out wins and will not be good for him later on in life.

I know he got a win from miles behind against Kid Galahad, but that was an exception rather than the rule.

Warrington was breaking him down round after round both fairly and unfairly (using the head) and there was enough of a gulf in class for his corner to get their man out of the fight as he was always going to be too brave for his own good.

At 36 years of age he needs to be avoiding guys as good as Warrington if he wants to stay in the sport but I would hope he has made enough from he sort to just hang up the gloves or if he has it about him to maybe get involved in coaching instead if he wants to remain in the sport.

Warrington was good value for his win. It was a mix of old school dirty and modern clinical hitting from him at times. He looked very sharp and was in great shape. Showed how well he can tweak his gameplan on the fly a few times too when Martinez tried to change his defensive game.

Warrington soaked up that broken jaw amazingly well too. Tough SOB and he should be on track for that two to four more bigger money fights before retiring that he has spoken of.

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Another associate of one of boxing's sportwashers arrested.


https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-41494827.html



Kinahan is a blight on boxing and no amount of him hiding away in his luxury pad in Dubai and getting big name boxers and UFC names to have him as their "advisor" will wash away the stink of heading up a serious crime cartel.

We get upset over the owners of Man City, Newcastle and PSG for their attempts at sports washing and what their owners are linked to in their home country.

Well with the Kinahans, we have Irish and British boxing being influenced by guys who have charges and convictions to their names for international gun running, international drug smuggling and many deaths and injuries.

Makes me laugh when the likes of Fury, Conlon and others have a blind eye turned to their connections with a sportswasher and cartel leader, but football clubs and players doing similar are somehow more wrong.