Canelo-Jacobs started off the month with a disappointment, but things have been great since then. Williams-Hurd was a very good fight, a very good performance from J-Rock, an upset, AND it drew great viewership. The following week you had Inoue providing a scary good performance, Taylor-Baranchyk was a good fighter, and of course, the Wilder KO had the mainstream buzzing. Now tonight, the mainstream is once again buzzing after a big upset. Boxing is definitely kicking the shit outta Homo cage fighting this year.
It's been entertaining but the quality has dropped but yes, they would still beat Gage fighters and they are still more entertaining.
We've had a few very high profile robberies, and another one last night. Fury deserved the Wilder victory, Canelo lost AT LEAST one of his fights with GGG, Katie Taylor didn't win last night either.
All of those fights were entertaining and dramatic. Taylor probably did more for women’s boxing in that controversial win than any “name” female fighter because it was legit entertaining.
I agree. It's been entertaining. And that's been it's saving grace. Imagine all these bad calls had been based on shit fights. Taylor got her head punched off in that final round.
Irish commentary/literature on the fight. The Irish know how to polish a turd. Taylor digs deep to become undisputed lightweight champ Katie: Thank fuck that's over. Ross Enamait: We got away with this. Brian Peters: Things could be worse, at least I am not Eddie Hearn.... Eddie Hearn...."Woooooah anthony Joshua.......err what was that Brian?" Brian Peters:Nothing mate enjoy the fight, nice tux.
And it proves I have rated Joshua incorrectly, not that the heavyweight division sucks, much less all boxing. Plus, I have always been a huge defender of fat heavyweights, so in fact I won...
The intriguing thing about the HW division is that the general quality is so poor that every decent contender that has some decent attribute is like a comic book character with his own unique superpower. Wilder has his Right Hand of Doom, Fury is Mr. Fantastic, Joshua is The Thing without the rock chin, and Fat Andy is like Spider-Man with his amazing reflexes and hand speed.
I don't get the theory that because AJ got exposed it proves Wilder and Fury aren't shit, especially as a lot of people had him losing to both guys before last night anyway.
Agreed. Nor is the result a very good argument for 'in boxing skills always win' since Ruiz hardly is a master technician. It mainly tells us about Joshua's limitations
I'd never seen a full Joshua fight till last nite Seems hard to understand what all the hullabaloo was about
The thing is, for me, AJ is shit because of a very very select set of problems he has which are uniquely applicable to him and uniquely fatal in all fighters....it's the blend of problems that he has........rather than the individual issues per se. He's blind at point blank range, he can't maintain movement and volume to maintain distance, he let's guys get close therefore and hit him on the top of the head, which seems thin. {maintain distance, dictate pace, dictate pace....win the fight} He doesn't have the jab required to maintain the distance, and therefore the pace. Fury and Wilder are flawed but that blend of flaws isn't fatal. Fury's chin isn't great but it's not total mush and he doesn't get hit all that often. He's carrying fat but his motions are so effortless he can conserve energy. Wilder likewise, and Wilder is so slim that he can move and move and not burn through gas. Joshua just has a unique blend of problems.
Marketing............if you lived in London you would see what I mean. Joshua is the big black politically correct man of the era, the nice guy with just enough bad-boy street cred to keep the kids, the football casuals, the yardies, etc on board. It's London 2012, it's the Olympics, it's OOOOOOHHH ANTHONY JOSHUA.............SWEET CAROLINE, DOO A DOO.....cashing in the deflation that Muggy David Haye caused. Haye went to Germany in 2011 and stank it out. One year later.....Joshua medalled Gold at the Olympics and was perfectly poised to fill the gap left by Hayes demise. But just before that happened, literally weeks, Haye beat Chisora in an angst-filled episode in East London, perfectly setting the tone for boxing. As I say, Joshua won the gold in 2012 and rode that wave every since.....before Saturday night. Clever matchmaking, very well done market-research by Eddie Hearn....crafted and moulded this product.
