Block
12:56 Tue Sep 28
Re: Joshua vs Usyk
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Wouldn't be surprised if Ruiz is Joshua's opponent, after Usyk rematch.
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Council Scum
12:54 Tue Sep 28
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"fat Mexican mug"
Ruiz is no mug, far from it.
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chim chim cha boo
12:48 Tue Sep 28
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'I'm gonna make it sweet and short and simple. You better train your butt off like your life depends on it, because your life depends on it. Don't go up missing'.
'I'm going to smash your fucking face in, you prick. How's that for a fucking message'?.
I must have watched that about 30 times!
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lab
12:46 Tue Sep 28
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Yes ,if nothing else he’s entertaining .
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mallard
12:28 Tue Sep 28
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I saw that earlier - fucking superb!
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Lee Trundle
12:16 Tue Sep 28
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I just had a WHATSAPP message of a message to Fury from Wilder for their fight, followed by Fury's message back to Wilder.
LOL CLASSIC GYPO
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zico
11:26 Tue Sep 28
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Takashi Miike 2:34 Tue Sep 28
Hillarious, must say if he is really like that he comes across as a nice regular fella. Also a good watch is the Gary Neville interview with Tyson Fury. Totally changed my mind on Fury in the last couple of years as he seems just a down to earth regular bloke.
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zebthecat
11:21 Tue Sep 28
Re: Joshua vs Usyk
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Another thing that Bellew said about Usyk was this. Bellew liked to engage verbally with trsh talk to gain an edge but Usyk pretented not to understand English. He only realised that Usyk was playing the game in his own way when Usyk gave perfectly articulate interviews in English after their fight.
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Cilla_ Black A1
3:56 Tue Sep 28
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Bellew, for all his faults, is a tough man, let alone boxer.
He said Usyk had him blowing out his 'arris after 6 rounds.
Looking forward..
be interesting to see what
Frank Warren's next move will be after Fury despatches that other gym poser Wilder.?
Frank Bruno had the heart of a lion, its an insult to Frank to compare him with that fraud
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Takashi Miike
2:34 Tue Sep 28
Re: Joshua vs Usyk
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check him out dancing :.)
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zico
2:04 Tue Sep 28
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Seen a couple of clips on you tube on usyk. Never realised he was quite a character, bit of a nutter with a great sense of humour, funny guy.
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zebthecat
1:20 Tue Sep 28
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Lennox Lewis was excellent.
He'd wipe the floor with AJ or Fury.
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zebthecat
1:18 Tue Sep 28
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tnb 11:52 Mon Sep 27
I agree.
Joshua is a better boxer than Bruno was and he used to be lighter on his feet. He seems to think after the second Ruiz fight that he can beat anyone in a boxing match but he can't. Like Bruno he has does not have a great chin; in the fights Bruno lost he fell to bits as soon as he got hurt. As far as I can remember Bruno is the first person who hurt Mike Tyson but he didn't have boxing chops to finish it off.
My favourite Brit of recent times is Carl Froch. Not the best boxer but stupendously fit, had a granite chin and never, ever gave up. He was still dangerous right to the end of the last round.
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Takashi Miike
1:15 Tue Sep 28
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yes, Lennox was great
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Eerie Descent
1:04 Tue Sep 28
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I reckon Bruno would've beat Joshua.
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1:00 Tue Sep 28
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Joshua has never had, or looked like having, a legacy.
He is simply a fit,well conditioned big bloke, with a punch. Turned over by a fat Mexican mug and now given a boxing lesson by a wiley, blown up, cruiserweight.
If we want to talk about legacies of British heavies we need to go back to Lennox a man who could both box and punch. Lewis would have boxed Joshua’s ears off before stopping him.
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Takashi Miike
12:04 Tue Sep 28
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what tarnished his legacy was the stupid fucking speech last year, not getting beat by a world class opponent
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mallard
11:58 Mon Sep 27
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Good post tnb
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tnb
11:52 Mon Sep 27
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Joshua is a very good boxer and better than almost anyone who criticises him, as others have said he’s made the most of his talent and you have to say fair play to him. But what he’s not is a great boxer - very few ever are, and there are probably none in the heavyweight division right now. Usyk may be the next, time will tell. And so what you are going to see is the titles sitting with one person for a while, then changing hands, then sitting there for a while and maybe someone who has had them before gets them back for a bit. Rinse and repeat.
What Joshua’s camp failed to do was capitalise when he was at the top - who knows whether he will get another chance but even so his legacy is tarnished now after two losses. It’s a harsh sport but it’s true. A few years ago they could have ridden the wave, recognising he wasn’t ever going to be the great he was being talked up as but realising what people wanted was a spectacle. Dodging the Fury fight now looks a massive mistake because he’s not going to get close now - and I don’t think Fury is a great boxer either (again, a very good one nonetheless) but there was a time the hype would have been incredible.
As for the Usyk fight what you saw was a lack of boxing intelligence. Hardly surprising when one guy had over 300 amateur fights and the other was rushed into being a pro after less than 50. There is a lesson in here for British boxing and it goes back to Audley Harrison, but they won’t learn. Of that we can be sure.
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chim chim cha boo
9:19 Mon Sep 27
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I've always thought that AJ overthinks things.
Sometimes you've got to get your head down and go for it from the first bell.
As Nelson famously said 'never mind manoeuvres, go straight at them'.
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Council Scum
6:37 Mon Sep 27
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southbankbornnbred 12:34 Mon Sep 27
Re: Joshua vs Usyk
Rob McCracken, Joshua's coach,
Never rated him, seen enough of him in how he coaches and speaks to his fighters, AJ should have left him years ago. Its why he never reached his potential.
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