James DeGale retained IBF Super-Middleweight title and hopefully sets up a unification with WBC title-holder, Badou Jack. Anyone bothered? I mean, in terms of 'boxing and popularity', etc ::
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I saw enough of last night fights to to see Jim Gray be his usual cunt self, while DeGale, Bute, and Jack did their best to be polite to each other and not knock Gray the fuck out of the ring.
They all suck. No wonder no one is talking. Yes I watched the whole card. It was balls. GGG would kill Jack and Funky, at the same time. Balls.
He troubled him but I thought it was more DeGale sleepwalking and taking a breather, every time he stepped on the gas he looked leagues above. He won clearly. The giving away of rounds is becoming an annoying habit though.
He's done it in his last three fights and he was doing it before he won the title. When he lets his hands go he can be class, but he goes missing a lot in fights.
Neither DeFail nor Jack are top-class fighters. I honestly don't know who's gonna win between the two, probably DeGale. Neither one is anything special though. 168 is a wasteland.
jack handled bute surprisingly easy i thought. need i remind you bute is better than anyone on ggg resume?
I went to the fights hoping to see an upset but Jack and Degale won pretty clearly. About half the people on another board had Medina winning or getting a draw.
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they both looked like shit. and ggg himself had head gear on. amateurs don't mean shit. everyone knows that.
Exactly. Buu its funny to see neil using all kinds of absurd arguments in order to defend shit matchup and protected record. As for degale, the guy is pretty good in his weird kind of way, but he might not hit as hard as it seems he does, which is why hell never be elite, cause a guy with his style needs huge power.
i disagree. great amateurs typically translate very well into the pro game. It is not by coincidence that Golovkin fought plenty of elite opponents in amateurs, many of whom went on to become successful professionals. In amateurs fighters do not have the ability to avoid certain opponents as is the case in the pros. the point is here, you want to claim that bute would be the best opponent golovkin has faced. if they fought in the pros with 10 ounce gloves/without headgear he knocks him out even easier. 10 times out of 10. when have i defended wade as an opponent? I said he sucks and it was the walkout fight.
While I would pick GGG to ko Bute, let's not pretend that an amateur fight they had a million years ago when they were barely past puberty means much (especially since Bute was winning the fight before the ko).
a fight is a fight. it ended with a brutal KO. two guys in a ring with gloves on. if a guy gets KOd in sparring pretty sure it means there is a good chance he gets KOd in an actual fight.
if ggg wants all the acclaim you think he deserves (and that in all likelihood he is worthy of), he will have to do better than wade. it's the bottom line. and his amateur record doesn't change that. by the way, if you are going to point to his amateur wins....how about his amateur losses? is ggg no longer undefeated now?
Ive only seen him lose once in amateurs. to that giant octopus faggot Gayderbekov. if anything can be gained from watching that fight it is that middleweight is the optimal division for Golovkin wade was an awful opponent, pretty sure he was the mandatory though.
DeGale basically said it outright and it sure looked like it to me that Medina's performance was illegally enhanced.
