Sergey's a dick but that comment is pretty unfair



Go to about 5 minutes.

Anyway, I wonder if Adonis Stevenson takes a shot at Sergey now given his recent fall from grace.

Think you’re in the minority there he was comfortably ahead on the judges scorecards (perhaps worth little because lol boxing) and media members. First theee rounds were close and I could see giving all to Alvarez I suppose altho I didn’t.kovalev rounds looked a lot more dominant to me starting in the fourth a

Fair enough

I’m watching Márquez Juan Diaz for the first time holy **** what a war. I got into boxing relatively late but right around 2010 when this fignt happened and I’m pissed I missed this live. Really interesting watching this with Márquez being the 35 year old who might be done and the young buck Diaz with what we know now . I really only know Márquez from the pacquiao fignts ( no strong opinion on them...very close) so this was quite the fight to watch and he is freaking 35. Legend. Sort of funny that even here Diaz is coming off a loss to Nate Campbell who I remember pretty vividly from some Friday night fignt cards v like Kendall holt lol. Looked up the odds and Márquez was like -140 at the time ... great fignt

I was there

I don't think this is necessarily true. A lot of this is what happens when the best fight the best. His fights up to Ward were more impressive in how he won than who he fought (and most observers felt he beat Ward the 1st time). That is not a knock on him, but it's the reality when your best wins are vs (an ancient) Hopkins, Chilemba, over the hill Pascal and Nathan Cleverly. Those aren't bad fighters at all, but they weren't the best at 175.

I definitely think there's a playbook for fighting him now, but his power early on is unquestionable.

You'd see a lot more fighters losing if they constantly tested themselves. We're so used to this way of fighting, where Danny Garcia gets like 4 soft touches for each challenging fight, or Manny Pacquao's team pretends someone like an old Lucas or a slow Rios is a "powerful threat" to him. Say what you will about UFC, but the best fight the best. Nevermind the major sports that see the best teams face off year after year.

Not an expert here but I would guess a bad boxing defeat is worse than a bad mma defeat for your overall health or no ?
At least that’s what the mma crowd use to say back in the days were it was clearly less popular than boxing.

a bad KO is equally terrible for your health, but definitely worse for the boxer from the career standpoint

bad mma defeats include things like being choked out which have zero long-term health consequences

pretty sure both sports are horrible for your health. Mma has the advantage of not having a long proven history of fighters frying their brains, but we are already seeing quite a few horror stories.

well yeah not many sports are great for your health on the highest levels anyway

Just saw Danny Garcia is only -160 vs Porter? Skills pay the bills and he hits harder. Feels like Porter's only chance to win that fight is to try and turn it into a brawl/dirty fight but odds seem low.

It should be an interesting clash of styles. Danny will need to be sharp with the quick counter punches all night because Porter will be charging in constantly.

Anything seems possible here, but I think a dirty close-closeish win from either side is most likely. Like the Brook-Porter fight but swinging either way.

Would be fun to see Porter run him over or even Danny KO him with a vintage left hook, but I think dirty and decision are the keywords of the night.

Porter is only going to win that one dirty. Garcia is smart enough to keep him at distance and not fall for Porters pressure. -160 seems like a solid bet.

Garcia is so overrated. Would love to see Porter dominate him.

I feel like that fignt will be a close decision like every single time. Garcia -160 seems about right to me. I can see a scenario where Garcia catches him and knocks him out but I just don’t think Garcia is good enough to clearly beat porter except maybe one of those fights where there are a bunch of close rounds and judges lean Garcia on all the close rounds..porter has too much dog in him to get embarassed IMO. I think porter is very live in that fight winning rounds on sheer aggression. I will be very surprised if it’s not a close fight. I can’t help but dislike Garcia and his complete lack of ambition ...I hope porter wins. I kind of like him in that fight while simultaneously thinking there is a pretty good chance Garcia knocks him down at least once. He def has more paths to victory as I can’t imagine porter knocking him out. Porter fights ugly but always effective I don’t think anyone in the world right now can embarrass him he is too strong and has too much willpower. I think he is always in shape and is a good kid with no out of ring distractions

I can def see an ugly brook porter type fight like Chicago said. In other news I still can’t believe Fury wilder looks like it’s happening and is basically 50/50 odds. Wilder is very smart to take this. Takes away an out for Joshua who could have always had the Fury fignt to fall back on. I do not understand this for Fury unless they are cashing him out thinking he is largely done as a serious contender . Interesting fight and I could be wrong of course whoever wins has a historic showdown with Joshua but imo wilder should be like 3-1 favorite I don’t understand why anyone would give Fury the benefit of the doubt he is a clown . Wilder KO imho with fury possibly quitting on stool. I could be convinced otherwise if Fury looks good today... but I don’t think he should ever be favored over Wilder with what we know about Fury...and again I really don’t rate Wilder but I respect him as a professional and I cannot say the same for Fury

Nothing from Fury today made me feel like he will beat wilder

Whole lot of nothing in that first round for anybody.

Is this Jackson guy any good?

EDIT: He isn't. Frampton dominating.

Good stoppage by Jackson's corner. He was about to get knocked the **** out by Frampton.

I can't be the only one who hates British boxing broadcasters. They make a living sucking the dicks of British boxers. Frampton definitely won every round but quit talking about the guy like the second coming of Christ.

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Watch highlights of the Fury fight and wasn't impressed. I think Wilder knocks Fury out but I don't discount Fury leading on the scorecards when it happens.

No I think it’s pretty well established that they are worthless homers. Some of the scorecards over the years are ****ing hilarious. The froch scorecard from a while back where like half the rounds were 9-9 still cracks me up

Wilder being wild and largely untested (not a knock on him so much as it is a statement of how weak the HW division is) is probably the bearish case to be made here.

I probably would take Fury because of his defense, but who the **** knows who we're getting with him. Could show up 300 lbs and/or coked out of his mind.

This is pretty funny, watch the clip - https://www.badlefthook.com/2018/8/2...per-efe-ajagba

What the ****. I'm not even mad, he just gave me something I've never seen before.

Yeah was watching that live last night with my buddies that **** was hilarious what the hell. Actually a pretty damn good card last night relatively speaking... big step up for a hot prospect stanionis who beat the wolf in only his 6th pro fight he is someone to watch mark my words. Beating that guy at 24 is no joke

Beltran/Pedraza close no matter what Delvin Rodriguez's card says.