I just performed a styles analysis on Joshua vs Parker

Good / Bad for boxing?

 

I never got the Hatton thing, the guy was wank and his fights were an eyesore. I guess it was that 'local hero' malarkey. Say what you will about Khan but he was always in more entertaining, wacky fights.

 

Saying that, I don't think I could ever go to a Joshua fight, 80,000 morons, with only 5% having any knowledge of the sport.

 

Precisely my point.

I mean, they turn up at Tyson Fury fights to start their own fucking fights.

 

Good because they keep boxing alive.

Bad because they are the reason boxing is in trouble to begin with.

A considerable effort was made in the late 80's and early 90's, by ITV and SKY alike, to glam up the presentation and improve the image of the sport which had suffered badly in the 1980's thanks to hooliganism and racism and what have you.

Today, thanks to mass migration and the Brits having bottled it in any case, and their being a fair-minded lot at the worst of times too, the hooliganism is back dressed up as chauvnistic support and patriotism, and racism, what little of it there is, is reserved for Bolshy parki's who get paid too much too soon and can't fight anyways.

I should write a book about this shit. I do but speak the truth.

 

To be fair, I wouldn't go to a Fury fight either, not because of a lack of boxing knowledge but because I'd be afraid of getting my head kicked in.

I've said it for a while but if Joshua-Fury were to happen at Wembley, shit is gonna kick off BIG TIME.

 

It never ceases to amaze me, considering how few people out there know how to behave themselves, how there isn't more violence.

It's like storing 200 gallons of petrol and 4000 boxes of matches beside each other in a basement.

It's just waiting to burn down.

And Fury vs Joshua would be the spark that get's it all going.

Their collective "Fans"* are about as diplomatic as herpes.

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* Fan is actually short for "Fanatic".

 

Do you remember back in the early 2000's how shit would kick off when the likes of Hide, Harrison and Williams were fighting? I mean that was a microcosm of all this. Joshua-Fury at Wembley would be a tinderbox of drunken aggression.

 

'Blue Moon', 'Hatton Wonderland' (funny when they collectively go out-of-tune at "walking along, singing a song" just toward the end), with "our Richard"s Mum sat ringside looking like she might have been in Razzle's Readers Wives back in 1989...

 

Lol. Mancunian Pat Butcher. Ricky himself looked a bit like a butch lesbian. In all honestly though, I quite like Hatton outside the ring, he's a genuinely funny bloke. I just couldn't stand him as a fighter or his brain-dead fans.

 

1980.
First time I saw hooliganism at a boxing match:

 

I won shitloads of money off the Mayweather fight betting with people. Easiest money I've ever made. Patriotism pays well.

 

I'd have nailed The Butcher back in the day:

 

You're on your own there pal...

 

In fact, I know its wrong and fucked-up....but back then, I'd gladly have been in a Butcher-McDonald sandwich:

 

Lol is that Liz? I haven't seen her face in yonks. EastEnders was the bollocks until the 2000's.

But still, if you'd bang Paaaaaaat Butcher you're a fucking mentalist.

 

I'm far too pretty to be this guy.

 

Definately Liz McDonald though: tarty barmaids from the UK!

 

It's because he was as white as snow...unadulterated Caucasian going way back to the caves of Northern Europe! He was one of the lads! The British like a good "lad" just like "ole 'Enry".

 

I'd like to say I was drunk or high when I typed this but since I don't drink or do any form of drugs, i can't use this as an excuse.

I wasn't tired either. I was hoping for the war that Parker promised that he'd engage in but he let me down with his negativity.

In hindsight I'm glad Whyte also beat him, putting him further down the totem pole of the HW division.

Parker you let down the sly one!! Negative Kiwi cuuuuuuuuuuuuunt!!!!

 

Parker obviously gained advice from his idol Tua on how rise to the occasion in his biggest fight.

 

Probably had some part to do with it. I mean, I don't want to be too harsh on the guy, he was obviously reasonably decent at world level and had some good wins, plus he was willing to tackle the best in their prime. I think it was more that he was labelled as an exciting fighter when he was clearly excruciating to watch, I just never got how somebody with such a shitty style garnered such a fan base.

 

Hatton was one of the most excruciatingly hideous fighters to watch ever ... a quick footed cagefighting humper ... ghastly

 

He was horrible, good shout about his footwork though. It was really quick and on point, it was basically his only world class attribute.

 

Sly.......why do Blacks love to say Whites are "Neanderthals".

 

In his youth, he had a World class beard, and a world class left hook to the body, fought all night long.

he's remembered badly and unfairly in my opinion.

 

Just trolling you since you live to insult black people

 

I'd give him 2 out of 3 on that.

 

Meh. Barring the absolute blinder he landed against a shot Castillo, that left to the body never showed up once he left domestic level. I would actually say Khan had a better left to the body than Hatton. He was dropped and shaken badly by Magee as well, who I actually think was underrated, but still, the beard can be questioned.

 

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Hatton NEVER had a great beard.

Eamon fuckin Magee badly hurt Hatton.

Old man Philips wobbled him with a right uppercut, but was too old and shot to follow up.

Hatton in his prime had what can be considered a decent chin, but nothing more.

His left hook to the body was indeed excellent, can't take that away from him. And I do agree with you that he's remembered unfairly. He was quite good. Not good enough to beat any of the greats at 140, but a top fighter none-the-less.

Just don't overrate his chin.