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E17yid

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I think Galahad won that fight, a draw at most. Pretty standard home decision for Warrington.

Was a bit dirty in those opening 2-3 rounds with the head wasn’t he. Thought a cut might stop the fight.

I agree, he edged it for me but was close. Kid looked more controlled and never looked in massive trouble.
 

poc

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It was pretty effortless for Fury

He is a classy fighter though; probably the best at the moment in his division
He is the best but Schwartz was awful how on earth a guy like that gets #2 ranking is beyond me. I guess not a lot has changed in boxing with that happening. It was always the easiest of the three fights.
 

NickHSpurs

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Hearn confirms they're considering WHL as a venue for AJ/Ruiz rematch but it sounds like AJ wants it back at MSG:

 

THX2208

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Is anyone going to be watching the Paulie Malignaggi Bare Knuckle fight tonight? I watched a fight last night on YouTube and I have to say the sport, if you can call it that, and it was a bloodbath. I'm definitely not a fan of it, it seems like the whole production does not have a lot of money. I'm sure there are a lot of supporters of this sport here. ❤️
 

SugarRay

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Is anyone going to be watching the Paulie Malignaggi Bare Knuckle fight tonight? I watched a fight last night on YouTube and I have to say the sport, if you can call it that, and it was a bloodbath. I'm definitely not a fan of it, it seems like the whole production does not have a lot of money. I'm sure there are a lot of supporters of this sport here. ❤️

Not a supporter as such, have a friend who fights bare knuckle and it’s not as barbaric as the name suggests.

Boxing gloves actually exist to prevent damage to the hand first and foremost.

As for Paulie, I won’t watch because it’s a freak show and lacking completely in sporting merit. It’s a cash grab for someone who is always angling for an earner. Good luck to him but not for me.
Mind you, I point blank refused to pay for Joshua-Ruiz and especially Fury-Schwarz. Such fights have no right at all being PPV. Lennox Lewis had 3 or 4 sky box office PPV fights in total. He’d beat Joshua and Fury in the same night, quite possibly at the same time!
 

ajspurs

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I will watch that fight tonight, but because I've seen a bit of the build up and it seems there's bad bloody, but I can't say I love the idea of watching such a thing. This may be the first and last fight of such nature that I watch.

As for Joshua, I've gone off him to be fair and was happy for Ruiz to beat him. I'm not sure who's responsible or what percentage of the blame should be directed at who, in concern with Joshua and Hearn or whoever else but the fact that Joshua hasn't fought Wilder or Fury is a joke. I'm sure all three are to blame to some degree but at least Wilder and Fury can say they've fought each other.

It was like Dana White said the other day when talking about the state of heavyweight boxing right now, there's enough money to be had for all three of them, so at least that shouldn't be the factor that prevents these fights from happening.
 

SugarRay

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I will watch that fight tonight, but because I've seen a bit of the build up and it seems there's bad bloody, but I can't say I love the idea of watching such a thing. This may be the first and last fight of such nature that I watch.

As for Joshua, I've gone off him to be fair and was happy for Ruiz to beat him. I'm not sure who's responsible or what percentage of the blame should be directed at who, in concern with Joshua and Hearn or whoever else but the fact that Joshua hasn't fought Wilder or Fury is a joke. I'm sure all three are to blame to some degree but at least Wilder and Fury can say they've fought each other.

It was like Dana White said the other day when talking about the state of heavyweight boxing right now, there's enough money to be had for all three of them, so at least that shouldn't be the factor that prevents these fights from happening.

It’s all about money and ego. Before Ruiz, Joshua held all the aces when it came to money. He didn’t view Fury or Wilder as worthy of 50/50 when Joshua was bringing 80% of the money to any potential match up. Right or wrong, as fans we don’t give a toss what they earn so it’s us who miss out.

Thing is, Wilder and Fury made roughly $10m against each other, with Wilder making a million dollars or two more than Fury. Since then they’ve made approx $10m each for their respective fights with Breazeale and Schwarz. Compare that to Joshua, who took $32m for Ruiz. Crazy difference really.
Joshua’s loss, in theory should make the fights easier to make, but we’ve already had Fury coming out saying he wants 80% of the purse in any Joshua fight since, so, there you go!

I’m hoping the other two also lose their next fights just so the egos get checked and we might finally see them all against each other.

It’s all very frustrating. The annoying thing is, Fury is happy without titles in a weird way. He can cherry pick awful opponents like Schwarz, earn good money, never have to deal with mandatories and keep talking about his mythical lineal title. He’s as bad as anyone when it comes to fights not being made. Out of the three the one who has showed he’s sort of keen to make the fights is Wilder, he didn’t have to take the Fury fight at all but he did.
 

dontcallme

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Any predictions for Dubois? He struggled a bit and got caught last fight.

Hope he continues to improve.
 

SugarRay

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Any predictions for Dubois? He struggled a bit and got caught last fight.

Hope he continues to improve.

Really looking forward to Dubois - Gorman. Think it’ll be a cracker and both will end up in the top 10/15 at some point in their careers.
Dubois has the slightly higher ceiling. Gorman keeps talking about what happened back in England junior camps etc but Dubois is two years younger, that’s huge when you’re 16/17
 

teok

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It's a really interesting fight. I've not seen either guy in any trouble. On the face of of it though if dubois keeps hitting you I can't see many many guys taking that. On the flip side like I said, I've never seen dubois in trouble, who knows how he reacts.
 

haxman

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Really looking forward to Dubois - Gorman. Think it’ll be a cracker and both will end up in the top 10/15 at some point in their careers.
Dubois has the slightly higher ceiling. Gorman keeps talking about what happened back in England junior camps etc but Dubois is two years younger, that’s huge when you’re 16/17
Well he can't go on about it anymore. I thought Gorman was quite poor but credit to Dubois, he didn't let Gorman get anything going.
 

SugarRay

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Very impressed with Dubois tonight. Composed, powerful and beat up and stopped a very good prospect in Gorman.

The current big 3/4 aren’t anything special in the grand scheme of things and if someone comes along with good basics, a very good chin and serious power, they’ll beat them all. Dubois could well be that man.
 

Gareth88

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I saw a video on Instagram of Nigel Benn when he met McLellan years after their fight I have been trying to find it on youtbe with no luck. It's one of the saddest videos you can watch and really buts boxing into perspective of how dangerous it really is.
 

THFCSPURS19

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I saw a video on Instagram of Nigel Benn when he met McLellan years after their fight I have been trying to find it on youtbe with no luck. It's one of the saddest videos you can watch and really buts boxing into perspective of how dangerous it really is.
Start of this vid:
 
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