Fights You Watched Today

Josh Taylor vs Ohara Davies

Davies is indeed poo. His style.........he looks like a guy who goes into a store for one item, doesn't pick up a basket.... but keeps seeing things he needs and so by the time he reaches the check out he's clutching everything to his chest. When he punches he looks like a guy trying to put all the stuff down without breaking it. Horrible, crab arms pushy style. I actually was sure he was southpaw, because arms just did not look like they were where they needed to be for an orthodox fighter.

Taylor does indeed have fast wicked body shots. I have no idea how he makes 140. His facial tissue might impede him, as might his relationship with noted moron Shane McGuigan.



AJ vs Ruiz {One}

Not much to say really.

 

i mean you tell me..........what stance this guy is......

 

1. Yeah, Ohara Davies is shit. He's nothing more than Domestic level.

2. Taylor is no longer associated with the McGuigan's. He's now trained by Ben Davidson.

Taylor and Frampton both hate the McGuigans.

 

A kid I know was mixing in those circles and he got sparring with George Groves who is from West London. He was telling me all about this...and..... McGuigans name came up. Both of us, in perfect unison, as if it were recited said "he's an asshole".

NOBODY likes him. NOBODY.

I'm pretty sure it's all £££ related. Everything with that pair is £££.

It's because the father got ripped off so badly....the McGuigans fart in private for fear they'd have to share the smell with anyone else.

 

Rewatched McCallum v McCrory for the first time in a few years.

Milton really gave a good account of himself, but the Body Snatcher just systematically took him apart.

My feelings on McCallum remain unchanged - the only one of the "Fab 5" (not 4) i would pick him over is Duran.

McCallum loses to Hagler, Leonard, Hearns, and Benitez imo.

 

Also rewatched Monzon-Griffith 1 last night.

Brilliant performance by Monzon. He was a such a master of distance and ring generalship, and his shots were always unbelievably accurate.

Note that the announcer gives Monzon ZERO credit the entire fight. He acts like Monzon is fighting an underwhelming, boring fight, when really he's taking Griffith apart masterfully. Then Howard Cosell, fuckin idiot that he was, chimes in and says, "Monzon is not a great fighter. In fact, he's an overrated fighter, but he does have a good overhand right."

Monzon not great? Yeah, we see how right Cosell turned out to be.

Cosell hated Monzon.

 

Worse announcing performance was the re against Nino. Completely ignored all the punches Monzon landed, and act surprised that the fight was stopped

 

That particular version of Monzon would have been Hell for Hagler.

I dunno, maybe Marv being a southpaw is the difference, as Monzon said himself he didn't like fighting southpaws.

But on paper, the styles seem to slightly favor Monzon.

 

Cossell was gay. Griffith was gay. Cossell was a patronizing- literally patronizing- gay Jewish patrician man who regarded Griffith as "one of ours".

Then this Monzon animal comes along, the very antithesis of Cossell- and naturally Howard Cosell hates him.

You got a better chance of getting sense out of Max Kellerman if was ever forced to sit through Michalczweski beating up Roy Jones.

I saw the same thing in Harry Carpenter when he was with Ali. Ali could have unzipped himself and asked Harry to do the business and Harry would have done it.

Total adulation, patronizing pederastic fanboy worship. Skin crawling stuff.



"Carpenter's rapport with former WBC World Heavyweight Champion Frank Bruno was well known. Carpenter often conducted post-match interviews with Bruno, whose catchphrase was "know what I mean, 'Arry?". Bruno's agent later stated that Bruno saw Carpenter as a "real friend."




You tell me.

 

"If you think his fingers are long then wait till............"




Yep. Gay guys in love with boxers. It's not surprising that they'd hate anyone who beat their favourites. Especially if that guy was the antithesis of everything they weren't.

 

LMAO! Truly seems like he's hard in this pic.

 

Honestly, Harry was as gay as tgey come and idolized Ali.

 

Watched Chul Ho Kim vs Koki Ishii. It was just uploaded.

Kim was quite damn good. He always impressed me. Maybe H2H a top 10 super flyweight?

 

Watched Francisco Vargas-Takeshi Miura and Bernard Dunne-Ricardo Cordoba today.

A couple of come-from-behind stoppages. Vargas battled back from an early knockdown and nasty cuts after taking a pasting in the previous round to suddenly put Miura on rubber legs and force a stoppage. Meanwhile, Dunne might have battled back even further. After being nearly out in the fifth after two knockdowns he continued to ship punches over the rest of the fight but kept hanging in there until completely turning it round in the 11th with two KDs of his own and then forced the stoppage. Cordoba was stretchered out but thankfully recovered. Dunne would only fight once more before retiring.

 

Liam Williams vs Android.


I won't be watching it again.

 

Rewatched Breland v Honeyghan for the first time in many years.

Breland was so much better than that goddamn bum he was training.

 

ODLH vs Vargas.

That fight was not close.

Oscar was basically beating the shit out of him down the stretch.

 

Self explanatory. I mean that Mark P4P was far superior to bum ass, non-fighting ass Wilder.

 

I haven't watched DLH-Vargas in over 15 years. But yeah, from my memory it was close to even for awhile, then Nando really faded and Oscar pulled away before stopping him.

 

Speaking of Vargas, I did rewatched Vargas-Quartey two nights ago. I watch it every couple of years.

Good fight, and Nando won 8-4 imo.

Quartey was definitely hampered by inactivity though. I kind of doubt that Vargas could have handled the Quartey of 4-5 years prior.

 

Rewatched Ray Leonard vs Bruce Finch. Maybe Leonard at his true peak, coming off the Hearns win. At the apex of his confidence, skill, and ability.

Leonard would have wiped his ass with Crawford and Spence.

 

Arreola vs Wilder and Kow.

I know dealers who don't push their product like Arreola pushes his punches.

Watched them to see if Arreola has anything left for the Ruiz fight.

He has a bit left but it's a matter of which round Ruiz ko's him in.

Ruiz is a much much better unit.

 

Problem is, Ruiz is more talented than Arreola ever was, even in his prime.

He's washed up now, so it figures to be a mismatch in Andy's favor.

 

Agree. Arreola was a plodder with no fast-twitch. He had a bit of chin, and bit of heart, some power.

Ruiz is much much better.

I see a mid rounds KO.

 

I am intrigued to see how Ruiz carries himself without the grasso.

Probably won't be as heavy handed, but might be a bit more crispy, faster.

I also had another look at Spence vs Brook.

I think if Brook had never taken the GGG fight he'd have seen the Spence fight out, and maybe had it a bit closer.

Still doesn't win.

 

It really was a foolish career move on Brook's part, taking the Golov fight. It was painfully obvious that he was gonna take damage that would effectively end his prime.

You're right, he never beats Spence, but he could have potentially beaten Thurman and Garcia. He certainly would have beaten Garcia imo.

 

I wonder why he did it. He maybe just felt, as I did, that GGG was slipping......he saw it as his Tszyu vs Hatton moment, big full crowd, suddenly he finds a way to win, instant immortality.

 

I'm sure he did it for money

 

I've always thought Brook fought GGG to try and one up Khan.