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The Kalamazoo Kid
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5 minutes ago, RailwayRowdy said:
With not much action on the horizon due to the current situation I was trawling YouTube and come across this fantastic opening round from the ‘85 Hagler v Hearns fight. Wow !
Slugfest at its best !
Got to be one of the best rounds ever.
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2 hours ago, boslemportvale91 said:
I believe Pulev is mandatory for one of the belts.
Usyk name was being mentioned fighting Joshua as well.
Definitely agree about AJ and Fury it simply has to happen now
Pulev is currently Joshua's next fight, as the mandatory for the IBF (I think).
A plus of this is that Pulev & Fury share the same promoter, Bob Arum, so Pulev could easily be made to stand aside for a Fury-Joshua unification bout.
The only spanner in the works is if Wilder takes up the Fury rematch clause, that he has 30 days to activate. He shouldn't, as he's been comprehensively outboxed & outclassed twice by Fury, and shown up to be an amateur-like, unskilled one-trick pony (.......admittedly a very powerful right-hand one trick!)
You just know that he's going to take the rematch though & a heavyweight unification will get delayed even longer.
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AT LAST!!!
THE most unskilled heavyweight champion I have seen has finally been smashed, and his gob-shyyte spouting about being one of the best of all time was rammed down his throat. Luis Ortiz all-but beat Wilder in their 1st fight but ran out of gas just as he had the win in his hands.
Get in there Tyson!
Fury was utterly magnificent. Completely dominated and outboxed Wilder (again!) and made him look the p1ss-poor boxer that he is.
F**k a 3rd fight between these two - got to be a Fury-Joshua unification fight for all the belts.
Britain rules the heavyweight division!
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22nd February is the lined-up date for the Fury v Wilder rematch. Looking forward to it.
Can't stand Wilder (utterly gobby tvvat, and what's that ridiculous masked walk-on all about?!) so hopefully Fury can get it over the line next time as he was robbed of the decision last time as he took Wilder to school and completely outboxed him, despite getting caught and floored twice.
However, as unskilled and 'wild' as Wilder is, he does possess a massively destructive right hand, which at heavyweight can be all that matters I suppose. In fact, there has been talk of him having possibly the biggest knockout punch in heavyweight history, though IMO he wouldn't be in the top 50 heavyweights of all-time, so basic are his boxing skills.
As for AJ, a very nice, restrained, accomplished performance tonight. I don't see the merits of a 3rd Ruiz fight though, so he's surely got to angle for the unification fight v the winner of Fury/Wilder.
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What the hell happened, I didn't expect that, thought it was a mis-match the other way. Speed of Ruiz seemed too much for AJ I'm stunned.
I reckon that could be the end of Joshua, certainly in terms of aspirations to ever be undisputed heavyweight champion.
He didn't get beaten by a one-punch knockout, as Lennox did when he lost to McCall and Rahman. Joshua was exposed and taken apart by Ruiz, and had no answer (and seemingly no energy) as soon as he'd been knocked down the first time.
He admitted to McCracken in his corner that he was 'just looking to drop the bomb' [big right-hand] when McCracken was urging him to use the jab to keep Ruiz at bay and break him down, and Joshua even asked his corner 'what punch was it' that had put him down the first time. (.....he obviously never saw it!)
By the end he didn't want to know, was looking at his corner and the referee as though to say 'I've had enough', and seemed relieved and bizarrely happy after the defeat - I wonder if his heart is no longer in it? (he's talked for a while of his legacy and business-interests after boxing).
There will undoubtedly be a rematch and, while Joshua could obviously catch Ruiz with a couple of big shots, I reckon its likely that Ruiz will beat him again.
Certainly, Wilder (who is a poor boxer in terms of technique and skill but has the power) would blast Joshua out very quickly looking at Joshua's defence last night, while Fury would just school Joshua for 12 rounds and win easily on points.
In a way, I feel it serves Eddie Hearn right as he seems to have been treating Joshua as the golden goose, with many reports from other boxers/promoters of Hearn making 'low-ball' offers for opponents to fight Joshua. He needs to bow down to others' demands now, if Joshua is to get the real top fights that Hearn should have been making for the last year or so.
We'll see in the next 12 months or so if Joshua still has the desire to be no.1
I hope so.
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Wow! What a finish from AJ. He did really well after a dodgy end to the 1st round to then settle into the fight and get the measure of Povetkin (literally, as he was stepping out of range of the Russian's shots in the latter rounds).
Whoever wins the Battle of the Gobby B'stards (to paraphrase a Game Of Thrones episode title!) on 1st December has surely got to sign to face Joshua at Wembley on April 13. Unfortunately, if its Wilder there's probably no chance of it happening, as he seems to be running scared of AJ with no intention of fighting him (just like Riddick Bowe refusing to fight Lennox).
For that reason I hope that Fury can get into something like top shape, as if so I reckon he'll outbox Wilder and have too much ringcraft for him, and he wouldn't then duck out of facing Joshua. (.....although would Eddie Hearn allow his golden goose Joshua to fight Fury?!)
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Looks like AJ's next fight could be a WBA mandatory defense against Luis Ortiz possibly in Vegas.
I hate the politics in boxing. Both the IBF and WBA are demanding that Joshua fights their respective mandatory challenger next (either Pulev or Ortiz). He can't win (outside of the ring!) - just watch him get stripped of whichever belt he doesn't defend in his next fight. Getting an undisputed champion at any weight is pretty much impossible these days, as these various organisations are a self-serving joke.
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He's got to face the IBF mandatory challenger, some Bulgarian ('something-ov'!) or be stripped of their belt.
I imagine he'll have to take that fight, considering that Fury is still 'unavailable' and the other 2 title holders, Wilder and Parker, will both avoid/be steered clear of Joshua for as long as possible, to enable them to hang onto their belts and maintain their status as 'Heavyweight Champions', which they would clearly lose as soon as they face AJ as he'd hammer the pair of them.
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Absolutely loved that (.......eventually!). A modern day classic that will be talked about by boxing fans for years to come.
Tyson Fury is entertaining (ref. some of his press conferences!).....but more in the style of watching Reggie Cicilia!, as in he's comical to observe rather than being a genuine talent - Fury's reaction to tonight's win for AJ - https://twitter.com/Tyson_Fury/status/858438889241010176
If Klitschko doesn't take up the rematch clause, then I'd love AJ to spark Fury out!
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speaking of Wilder that was a great fight between him and Chisora shame it almost got ruined by those stupid press conference antics.
The Dillian Whyte - Dereck Chisora fight was fantastic, and as it was an eliminator for the WBC title, Whyte should now get a shot at Deontay Wilder, the holder of that belt.
Hopefully the winner of any Whyte v Wilder fight (would probably be Wilder, as he's rated along with Joshua as the best heavyweight around) will then face Joshua in a unification bout.
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Cannot wait for 29 April, although I think Joshua will win that fairly easily as Klitschko won't have fought for 18 months by the time that comes around, and he looked to have little left in his last fight, when he lost to Fury.
Hopefully, after that, the other current belt holders, Parker and Wilder, will face Joshua so that he has the chance to unify the division. He certainly seems the stand-out heavyweight by a distance.
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Assuming that they respectively beat Pulev and Wilder in their mandatories. Its never straightforward with heavyweight boxing - there's always some obstacle/politics (....corruption/bullshyyte!) gets in the way of making the real big fights happen.
I'm still gutted that the talentless git Wilder gets to have a third bout with Fury after being massively outclassed in the first two - just know that he'll get lucky and land one of his wild, windmilling right hands on Fury and balls up the proper unification fight.