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Don’t see how it’s anything but Canelo UD, potentially a late stoppage.

Ideally I’d like to see Canelo robbed on the cards as some sort of karmic justice for GGG.
 
Deserved to win the first, got rightly beaten in the second can he muster a win and go into retirement on the back of a win?
 
Pressure fighter against a fighter coming off a loss, early days wouldn’t write off GGG..
 
Today is the day all drug loving, ref cheating, weight draining, ginger cnuts, get humbled, come on GGG!
 
Hoping for a GGG win after how badly he was robbed before. But fear that ginger cnut will win out, by fair or foul means.
 
3 hours is a long haul too boys, don’t be surprised if I miss this..
 
I really don't want to see Golovkin stopped :(

About as expected really. Makes it all the more remarkable how long Hopkins stayed around.

Think I'm gonna go back and rewatch the first two fights to make up for tonight.
 
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Yeah wasn’t great, GGG has slowed down a lot

But a nice pay day for him, he should retire
 
Anybody see Rashford in the crowd on the channel 5 card last night? Front row with Brandon Williams, hood up, sunglasses on and off, blinged out with jewellery...I really can't stand him. What was funny was the camera man and commentary kept mentioning him but seemed to have no idea who Williams was.
 
The only surprising thing was that Golovkin didn't get stopped and that he did better at the back end. The man is 40 years old, that is beyond ancient for a middleweight with a long and distinguished amateur and professional career. Great fighter in his prime, just a real shame he had nobody great to fight until he took on Alvarez where he didn't really get the rub of the green.

I actually thought Alvarez looked a bit off it too. Sharper, clearly he's much nearer his prime, but I feel like all the jumping around in weight, the training stress from having started so early as a teenager, and simply age is even catching up with him now. It wasn't a great performance against an old man that was probably there to be dominated. Does he want any part of somebody like Benavidez at this stage? Hard to say.
 
Dominant performance from Stevenson last night against a tough opponent. Be good to see him now move up weight and take on Haney/Tank/Loma.

The Haney fight would be pretty boring to watch but very technical, same with Lomachenko. A Tank fight would be interesting, as Tank would go for the KO whilst Stevenson is a much better counter punch.
 
Abraxas said:
The only surprising thing was that Golovkin didn't get stopped and that he did better at the back end. The man is 40 years old, that is beyond ancient for a middleweight with a long and distinguished amateur and professional career. Great fighter in his prime, just a real shame he had nobody great to fight until he took on Alvarez where he didn't really get the rub of the green.

I actually thought Alvarez looked a bit off it too. Sharper, clearly he's much nearer his prime, but I feel like all the jumping around in weight, the training stress from having started so early as a teenager, and simply age is even catching up with him now. It wasn't a great performance against an old man that was probably there to be dominated. Does he want any part of somebody like Benavidez at this stage? Hard to say.
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I hope Canelo doesn’t go on too much further either tbh, there’s really not that much left for him to prove.

Having said that, I think a break would do him well and I still think he’d be comfortable enough vs Benavidez. Charlo would probably be a tougher fight.
 
Anyone watching the Joe Joyce card?

might actually stay awake for this one.
 
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Not bothering with the card but I'm tuning in for the main event. Interesting fight, hard to call.
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I’m a Joe Joyce fan so I think a straight forward win for him.

Serrano fighting now but taking more punishment that the commentators are giving her credit for.
 
Deery said:
I’m a Joe Joyce fan so I think a straight forward win for him.

Serrano fighting now but taking more punishment that the commentators are giving her credit for.
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I thought it was interesting that Parker looked as heavy as I've seen him on the scales. For me that's a bit strange as I would have thought with Joyce he'd want to try and have some movement, stamina, speed to outbox him. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
 
I remember David Allen said he sparred Joe Joyce one time, left the gym, walked about town for 20mins, ended up at a KFC didn’t know where he was
 
3-2 Joyce. Parker landing the odd good shot but body language wise, I think Joyce has the fight he wants. He's putting on the pressure and Parker looks a bit uncomfortable
 
4-2 for Joyce, good round for him.

Kind of reminds me of Kelly Pavlik. Perhaps a random comparison, but the way Joyce arm punches and doesn't look great but the physical presence he has and heavy handedness is very similar.
 
Abraxas said:
4-2 for Joyce, good round for him.

Kind of reminds me of Kelly Pavlik. Perhaps a random comparison, but the way Joyce arm punches and doesn't look great but the physical presence he has and heavy handedness is very similar.
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If Kelly wasn’t such an alco he’d have been ATG
 
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