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Marcos Maidana has officially retired from boxing

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[Tee]

He has put on a bit of timber recently. Was an exciting fighter to watch in his day.

[Gibbo]

Program on GGG, SS2 at 7. Looks interesting enough.

[Gibbo]

Any predictions for this weekend then lads?

I think GGG KO R8

[Angryred]

Brook is having to gain weight for the fight against GGG who is supreme at Middleweight.

Can't see this one lasting 5 rounds for Brook!

If it was De Gale coming down, may be a match for GGG.

[labourRed]

Any predictions for this weekend then lads?

I think GGG KO R8

GGG in 3

[spud_gun]

GGG is 1/7 on with the bookies but you won't hear any of that when Sky are hyping their PPV all this week.

[Shaggy]

GGG in 2 or 3.

[marcus50bucks]

Fury v Klit confirmed for 29th October

Fury to win easily again

[Doc_Piptorious]

GGG in 7 if Brook boxes well.


In 2 if Brook decides to fight.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Fury v Klit confirmed for 29th October

Fury to win easily again

Hard fight to call.

Don't think it will be overly close though. Can see either Klitschko forcing a stoppage (or getting an outright KO) or Fury winning on points with a few rounds to spare.


Just depends on which version of each fighter turns up. Surely Klitschko cannot come out with the same mindset as last time. He has to bring the fight to Fury this time and has to let punches go.


Fury will be Fury. Horrible to watch, but effective (even moreso if his opponent shows too much respect/fear like last time).

[marcus50bucks]

Hard fight to call.

Don't think it will be overly close though. Can see either Klitschko forcing a stoppage (or getting an outright KO) or Fury winning on points with a few rounds to spare.


Just depends on which version of each fighter turns up. Surely Klitschko cannot come out with the same mindset as last time. He has to bring the fight to Fury this time and has to let punches go.


Fury will be Fury. Horrible to watch, but effective (even moreso if his opponent shows too much respect/fear like last time).

That's the thing taking the fight to an opponent is not what Klitschko is accustomed to doing. He's too scared to get hit having been ko'd in the past. I think if he takes the fight to Fury I can see him leaving himself open and getting picked off.

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[Doc_Piptorious]

That's the thing taking the fight to an opponent is not what Klitschko is accustomed to doing. He's too scared to get hit having been ko'd in the past. I think if he takes the fight to Fury I can see him leaving himself open and getting picked off.

Any boxer that takes the fight to another runs the risk of coming unstuck, but when you are the challenger you cannot go into survival mode and expect to have a chance of winning the belt.


As for Klitschko not being accustomed to taking the fight to another boxer, would have to disagree with that. He has done so pretty well in the past, and it was his lack of any sort of game plan that gave Fury such an easy night of it last time out. It was such an uncharacteristic performance from Klitschko that night, and whilst I am not saying he would 100% have beaten Fury if he had been more aggressive it certainly would have been much more of a test.

For me it was a case of Fury getting into his head last time and doing to Klitschko exactly what Klitschko had done to so many in the past, and that was to make him afraid to make a mistake or take a risk.


I still think that the fight next month is a 50/50 fight, well right now I think that. I could probably agree with a strong argument for either fighter to win, and whilst normally such a dire fight as the last one would put me off a rematch, in this case I am curious as to how each guy is going to approach the build up to this one and also as to how each guy is going to start the first few rounds.

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I think Klitschko wins the rematch handily.
His head was totally wrong last time - wife's post-partum depression must have been terrible then having a lunatic like Fury doing your head in.
He'll have a point to prove and hopefully Fury's reign as champion will be looked at historically as an anomaly and not as a damning indictment of the state of heavyweight boxing.