Boxing

[Guest Col city fan]

Just won my biggest bet so far this year...but at round 5 I was shitting it.

[foxfanazer]

AJ v Fury isn't a serious option surely! 

[Izzy]

6 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Devils advocate time, anybody think the stoppage was a bit premature?

 

 

Yes, I did think that at the time.

 

But only because I had money on Wlad to win on points 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Great fight between two genuinely classy and gracious blokes.

[Izzy]

2 minutes ago, Strokes said:

How can it be over hype if it lived up to it? Surely it's just hype  

Yeah ok, point taken.

But you know what I mean smart arse 

[Izzy]

Pabs and Gaelic are obviously busy drafting their post fight reports 

[Finnegan]

5 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

AJ v Fury isn't a serious option surely! 

 

I think it'll happen, it'll be worth a hell of a lot of money.

 

Fury, Parker and Wilder all in the next couple years maybe?

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

 

I think it'll happen, it'll be worth a hell of a lot of money.

 

Fury, Parker and Wilder all in the next couple years maybe?

Fury just seems a bit of a mess. Not something Joshua should be looking to associate himself with imo. Unless he cleans his act up of course

[kingfox]

DAMN!

[Izzy]

Sadiq Khan there in the ring getting a crafty selfie with AJ 

[Finnegan]

1 minute ago, foxfanazer said:

Fury just seems a bit of a mess. Not something Joshua should be looking to associate himself with imo. Unless he cleans his act up of course

 

£££££

 

Loving Bellew trying to wiggle his way in to this.

 

Joshua and Wilder could just keep him at arm's reach. I know people, myself included, keep underestimating Bellew and he does keep causing upsets but he doesn't have either the power or the skill to trouble this class of heavyweight.

 

Would be much better served getting back to his own weight.

[stix]

Joshua won't fight fury. Joshua v Wilder next. It's got to be. 

[Finnegan]

1 minute ago, stix said:

Joshua won't fight fury. Joshua v Wilder next. It's got to be. 

 

I don't think Hearn will go for it that early. He knows it's the fight, if Joshua keeps winning then that fight will definitely happen.

 

But you can see them milking it with a few other fights first, let the legend keep growing. A huge home all British fight with Fury gets him huge wedge and I think they'll view it as extremely winnable.

 

Parker's another good option, another belt, another unbeaten record.

 

 

[foxfanazer]

9 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

£££££

 

Loving Bellew trying to wiggle his way in to this.

 

Joshua and Wilder could just keep him at arm's reach. I know people, myself included, keep underestimating Bellew and he does keep causing upsets but he doesn't have either the power or the skill to trouble this class of heavyweight.

 

Would be much better served getting back to his own weight.

Yeah you're right it would be mega money. Wilder is the best option I'm on. 

 

You've got to give it to Bellew he's got some self belief!

[EastAnglianFox]

And yet after all of that, I still have the same worries about Joshua that I did before the fight.

 

His square on stance and feet movement are terrible and when rocked seems to take him an age to fully recover.

 

 

[Strokes]

1 minute ago, EastAnglianFox said:

And yet after all of that, I still have the same worries about Joshua that I did before the fight.

 

His square on stance and feet movement are terrible and when rocked seems to take him an age to fully recover.

 

 

I agree and he tires so quickly after a flurry if they stay on their feet he is vulnerable straight after.

[Guest Col city fan]

16 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Yeah you're right it would be mega money. Wilder is the best option I'm on. 

 

You've got to give it to Bellew he's got some self belief!

If AJ went for Bellew like he went for Klit in that 11th round, he'd paste him. Bellew needs to be careful.

Edited 29 April 2017 by Col city fan

[DJ Barry Hammond]

36 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Devils advocate time, anybody think the stoppage was a bit premature?

 

 

 

Down 3 times in a single round (in around 11) and had been knocked down previously? No.

 

What unbelievable heart from AJ to somehow get through the end of round 5 and then the 6th including the knock down. Massive credit to Klitschko too.

 

One final thing AJ must do mind... he needs to turn up at that auction and buy the USB stick!

[Guest Col city fan]

10 minutes ago, Strokes said:

I agree and he tires so quickly after a flurry if they stay on their feet he is vulnerable straight after.

He did tire but regained a second wind to kill the opponent off. Great sign that.

[GaelicFox]

Everyone looking and focusing on the knock out 

 

but for 4 or 5 rounds Joshua was BEAT ! He finished the old man off well ! 

 

But huge questions can't be ignored 

 

and right now there is only one heavy weight king 

 

the performance of Tyson Fury in German now ranks as one of the great all time away performances by any boxer from these islands 

 

AJ calling out fury now is very funny ... he wants a summer fight while fury is a Fat mess 

 

Fury will wait till next summer and get his Wembley sell out 

 

and if he is 100% and focused he beats AJ all day long ... but I fear we have seen the last of Fury 

 

well done AJ took guts , he was wiped out in that fight twice ! Took guts to come back and finish it 

 

but fury wouldn't have let him off the hook once  never mind twice 

 

 

so given that I can't see Fury making it back to a ring what next for AJ 

 

he will I'll take a simple defence end of year while The Bronze Bomber and the Scouse Bomber have a massive show down 

 

with the winner taking on AJ  

 

AJ beats either of them to be honest 

 

then AJ beats Parker late 2018 

 

and holds all the belts ! 

 

The division is already starting to look weak again ! 

 

[Strokes]

Just now, Col city fan said:

He did tire but regained a second wind to kill the opponent off. Great sign that.

Oh definitely, he impressed me. I thought he was a sitting duck and finished. I can't help thinking a couple of years younger and Vlad would've gone in for the kill though.

[GaelicFox]

2 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

He did tire but regained a second wind to kill the opponent off. Great sign that.

It is 

 

I'll agree that , and I had no stamina doubts 

 

Infact it was his stamina kicking in that win him the fight 

[EastAnglianFox]

1 minute ago, Col city fan said:

He did tire but regained a second wind to kill the opponent off. Great sign that.

 

I think it's how easily he needs a second wind that's the worry.

[GaelicFox]

Just now, Strokes said:

Oh definitely, he impressed me. I thought he was a sitting duck and finished. I can't help thinking a couple of years younger and Vlad would've gone in for the kill though.

2014 Wlad would have knocked him out 

 

lads he is 41 ... it's like asking ryan giggs to play in a champions league final for Barcelona ! 

 

Add to that he was a beaten and humiliated man 17 months ago and hadn't fought since 

 

and he almost beat the guy tonight 

 

AJ did well , but we need to objective here 

[Strokes]

1 minute ago, EastAnglianFox said:

 

I think it's how easily he needs a second wind that's the worry.

That's pretty much what I was getting at