The Boxing and MMA thread

That’s not a viable solution, we can’t just get riyadh of people that easily.

Lomachenko was robbed vs Haney

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It definitely had the feel of a fight judged with an acknowledgment that its probably “better for boxing” for the young start to not be knocked off by the 35 year old

Eddie saying the Eubank Benn fight back on for September, hoping to get it made in the UK if Benn can be cleared in time, Eubank was scheduled to fight Smith in the rematch in 2 weeks but for Smith pulling out to injury.

Saw this a little while ago…

Couple of heavyweight showdowns next month, can’t see anything past a comfortable Usyk win but the rematch could interesting considering AJ’s fall from grace for some time now. No surprise both being shown on PPV.

naoya inoue absolutely smashed stephen fulton earlier. only way he loses is if he goes up the weights and eventually fights someone to big for him.

His younger brother is also now the title holder of one his old bets at Bantamweight.

Here we go baby, the fight we’ve been waiting for!!!

Spence looks like he’s just overcome diarrhea for this fight, something defo up with him.

Good first round from Spence, since then Crawford’s put on a savage beating on the guy.

This is an unbelievable performance from Bud, never seen such a dominant display over another top tier world champ.

Big up Herb Dean for dropping the people’s elbow on Poirier after Gaethje took his head off tonight

Crawford is sensational. Such a shame it took until they were 33 and 35 to get this fight on.

Crawford’s performance last night was one of the best I’ve ever seen, completely demolished Spence.

Meh, wasn’t that arsed about watching that fight again anyway. Would have been a mismatch like the first fight. Whyte has screwed himself out his last big pay day.

Seen rumours of Chisora stepping in and for the blokes well-being I hope that doesn’t happen.

Shame. Another dent in a sport fast becoming more of a joke than football.

Probably too late now for Eddie to do anything to salvage the show, there isn’t anyone higher ranked than Dillian who’s available and would accept the fight on a weeks notice to justify keeping the show on PPV other than maybe Hrgovic (who was actually due to fight on his undercard).

Agit Kabayel posted on social media that he would be available which I don’t like but the sport has become a joke anyway.

Don’t think he would stand a chance against AJ but he deserves his big payday.

Looks like Joshua is about to fight Helenius, as replacement for Whyte. Then, if it goes well for him, the plan is to fight Wilder.

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Anthony Joshua was on the Alastair Campbell / Rory Stewart “Rest Is Politics” political podcast. It seems an odd choice but he was quite keen to do this before the (now cancelled) fight. It’s quite enlightening of his mindset.

Eddie’s done well to source a late replacement but Helenius is about 103 years old, surely he can’t justify this being a PPV attraction.

As far as Wilder goes, he cleans AJ out inside 4 rounds.

Maybe they will go with the Rocky Balboa angle? Wasn’t that based on a real boxer anyway?