The RedCafe Boxing Thread

Canelo has the more work to do to swing things in his favor for the proposed May re-match. I'm not sure how he acquires more stamina suddenly. He also has to do less to win on the cards than GGG. Realistically if he wins 5 or 6 rounds he's probably likely to get a decision. GGG it's mostly more of the same, but yes throw some body punches and then it becomes better for him.

I think a re-match will be a better fight.
 
Cant get any one who can watch that fight and come up with anything rather then a comfortable GGG win, tell you what tho both hard cnuts, both hit some power punches and both them took it very well, can only hope the re-match is better judged. is there a particular way to score rounds or is it actually just peoples preferences to how they judge them?
 
Murray3007 said:
Cant get any one who can watch that fight and come up with anything rather then a comfortable GGG win, tell you what tho both hard cnuts, both hit some power punches and both them took it very well, can only hope the re-match is better judged. is there a particular way to score rounds or is it actually just peoples preferences to how they judge them?
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The guidelines are supposed to be -

1. Clean punching
2. Effective aggression
3. Ring generalship
4. Defense

Obviously subjective and open for interpretation. I'd say 1 & 2 are the most important. Then 3.
 
Interesting. I hear Creed 2 is in the works so I'd imagine he will do a bit more acting down the road.
 
Inter Yer Nan said:
After some recent big fights here's my current pound for pound top 10 -

1. Terence Crawford
2. Vasyl Lomachenko
3. Gennady Golovkin
4. Mikey Garcia
5. Canelo Alvarez
6. Andre Ward
7. Sergey Kovalev
8. Errol Spence
9. Olaksandr Usyk
10. Leo Santa Cruz

Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, Keith Thurman, Naoya Inoue, Juan Francisco Estrada could all make a case to be anywhere after that top six for me. The next 6 months will probably see some changes too.
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1. Terence Crawford
2. Vasyl Lomachenko
3. Gennady Golovkin
4. Mikey Garcia
5. Canelo Alvarez
6. Sergey Kovalev
7. Errol Spence
8. Olaksandr Usyk
9. Leo Santa Cruz
10. Juan Francisco Estrada

No Ward, so slight change.
 
Technically a very good fighter, shame he had to retire.
 
Inter Yer Nan said:
General smuggness and ego that I can't take. He tries to play this humble son of god thing but has a huge ego and is very entitled. On top of that his style was awful. Bending all the rules and boring as feck. Too much grappling, headbutts, rabbit punches, low blows, you name it.
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You've described 90% of boxers :lol:
 
I watched some of Sugar Ray Robinson's highlights. Dude threw a hell of a left hook, jesus christ.
 
Inter Yer Nan said:
R.I.P. He was the oldest living world champion until today. Given his lifestyle and fighting style it's amazing he lived so long. Apparently he was very sharp too even late in life.
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Aye, he had a great innings all things considered. RIP.

Not the most earth-shattering news, but I just read that Ricardo Mayorga has a fight lined up for November at super-middleweight :lol:. He's about 15 years and 20lbs past his prime, but I'll probably still watch it.
 


Parker- Fury, Linares - Campbell previews.

Don't rate Parker AT ALL, so mediocre. Hope Fury smashes him.

Linares will expose Campbell, and win by wide decision or late stoppage. Maybe, I'll be proved wrong on this one and it's a coming of age fight for Luke, but can't see it.
 
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VorZakone said:
I watched some of Sugar Ray Robinson's highlights. Dude threw a hell of a left hook, jesus christ.
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Amazing fighter. Went on a huge unbeaten run of around 90 fights if i remember right. I watched quite a few of his fights and documentaries about him, I'd recommend watching the documentaries.

By all accounts he was at his best before they started filming fights so what you see isn't even him at his best. The frequency of his fights was incredible too at certain stages of his career and he was still smashing opponents.
 
Two great fights on ESPN then. Gilberto Ramirez and Oscar Valdez defended their titles with very tough fights.

Tomorrow will be good I think Campbell will do surprisingly well against Linares but not quite enough to win.
 
Anyone watching the Fury fight tonight?
£14.99 PPV on YouTube, I'm not bothering but it's a glimpse in to the future with Facebook and Amazon almost certain to enter the market for live sports rights.
 
I like parker, he interviews well. Hope he wins.
 
Fury has done nothing, other than run away and throw the occasional arm punch. He's losing this fight badly. I have no doubt that the judges will give the fight to Fury.
 
The commentary is absolutely hilarious. It's "appeared" that Parker has done well in this round.

Fury is an embarrassment.
 
The Bloody-Nine said:
Fury has done nothing, other than run away and throw the occasional arm punch. He's losing this fight badly. I have no doubt that the judges will give the fight to Fury.
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I think he won the early rounds and controlled the tempo. Didn't get hit, scored points.

He's lost the last few.

I have it 5-4 now.
 
He hasn't controlled anything. He has ran around the ring and flicked out the occasional arm punch. Parker has been walking him down and throwing actual punches.

Parker is going to be screwed by the judges. It was set after Fury faked an injury to get out of fighting in NZ.
 
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