boxing General Boxing Thread!

[Rappy Veteran]

well it seems the fix was always going to happen...go back to last week at the press conference!

[dippednbutter]

Seriously. At least 3 years ago the only boxing match left was Paq vs Mayweather. Promoters trucking along with PPVs matching up whomever against whomever. Now they riddled us again with a rematch. Making your cable bills higher while providing the fans with regurgitated athletes.

Its like a taste of humble pie ala Marquez. DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE! Paq vs Mayweather is the ONLY match up. You're just donating to some douche promoter otherwise.

[Rappy Veteran]

David Haye won the grudge match!

[Rappy Veteran]

Khan just got knocked out!

I think Amir is done career wise, he said he could beat Mayweather :rofl:

[Rappy Veteran]

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[Rappy Veteran]

Fraudley Harrison :rofl:

[MightyJordan]

Let's revive the thread with a little bit of comedy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuoUoxNlXdw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqexur5ZzAI

[Rappy Veteran]

LOL

that fight was funny, I hope he never fights again because he frankly awful

David Price looked sharp (Y) Tyson Fury looked crap (Y)

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Off to a friends house to watch The Pac-Man | Marquez 4.

A huge part of me would love to see Pacquiao lose. He is almost to good for his own good.

[Rappy Veteran]

Off to a friends house to watch The Pac-Man | Marquez 4.

A huge part of me would love to see Pacquiao lose. He is almost to good for his own good.

It's been an epic series of fights tbh and he should of lost the last encounter, I sense this one will not go distance though

[helios01]

I thought Pacquiao had died for a second. What a vicious knockout by Marquez, at a time when Pacquiao seemed to be in control and really getting to Marquez who had a broken nose by this point and was bleeding a lot. Great fight. Two boxing legends.

[Zoom7000]

Well, that devestating KO puts the final nail in the coffin to any prospect of a Pacquiao/Mayweather fight. Floyd breathes a sigh of relief before sitting back and laughing his head off!

[D. S. Veteran]

Well, that devestating KO puts the final nail in the coffin to any prospect of a Pacquiao/Mayweather fight. Floyd breathes a sigh of relief before sitting back and laughing his head off!

They can probably still make the fight, but it won't be for 100 million a piece that's for sure. How many belts does Pacquiao still have?

[Rappy Veteran]

Whoa I said it wouldn't go distance and I was right but didn't expect that KO, what an epic series of fights and yeah no real reason for Pacman vs Floyd now other then for $

[Rappy Veteran]

[Rappy Veteran]

Manny Pacquiao will not give up boxing, despite pleas from family

Manny Pacquiao is ignoring pleas from his mother and wife to stop boxing following his defeat by Mexican rival Juan Manuel Marquez.

The former eight-division world champion was knocked out by Marquez in the sixth round of their non-title fight in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Pacquiao, 33, listened to his wife Jinkee and mother Dionisia make tearful appeals for the Filipino to quit.

But he said: "I'm looking forward to a rest and then I'll be back to fight."

The defiant stance is at odds with the wishes of his wife Jinkee.

In a television interview she said: "When you see your husband get hurt, you cannot even sleep."

And when asked if she wanted her husband to retire from boxing, she said: "You know the answer to that. He knows what I am asking him."

Pacquiao's mother Dionisia made a separate appeal to her son, asking him to give up boxing and concentrate on his other interests - including his work as a congressman, hosting a television game show and Bible preaching.

"I have long asked you son, it is time to retire because you started boxing at such a young age. I always pray that he will stop. I asked God to tell my son to stop," she said.

Pacquiao, who started fighting professionally at the age of 16, insists his defeat was not a sign of a decline in his ability.

He added: "I am OK. I just got over-confident in this fight. That is part of the game - sometimes you win, sometimes you lose."

The knockout was Pacquiao's second successive defeat after a controversial loss to Timothy Bradley in June. That was his first defeat in seven years and came despite the Filipino fighter landing 94 more punches.

Mexican Marquez, 39, floored Pacquiao to record his first win over the Filipino in their four-match rivalry. Pacquiao had won the previous two encounters, with one drawn.

[D. S. Veteran]

He really can't. He's completely broke. A true Mike Tyson story.

[Rappy Veteran]

Froch vs Kessler could be a MOTY candidate if it lives to hype!

[D. S. Veteran]

Froch vs Kessler could be a MOTY candidate if it lives to hype!

It won't.

[Rappy Veteran]

It won't.

:rofl:

[Rappy Veteran]

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IBF welterweight Devon Alexander pulled out of his scheduled February 23 fight against mandatory challenger Kell Brook on Monday, citing a biceps injury. Now it looks like Alexander-Brook is on the backburner as Alexander is now now close to a May 4 showdown with Floyd Mayweather, according to Floyd himself. It was expected that Mayweather would face either Robert Guerrero or Canelo Alvarez, so it?s possible Alexander is being used as a bargaining chip.

[Rappy Veteran]

Undefeated eight-time world champion Floyd "Money" Mayweather, boxing's pound-for-pound king and the highest paid athlete in the world, has entered into a groundbreaking pay-per-view deal with Showtime Networks Inc. and its parent company, CBS Corporation. Under the new deal, SHOWTIME PPV? will collaborate with CBS Corporation to comprehensively promote Mayweather's events on the CBS Television Network and via the corporation's expansive media platforms.

The deal, a unique revenue-sharing arrangement between SHOWTIME PPV and Mayweather, will enable him to fight up to six times over a period of 30 months, with the first mega-event taking place on May 4, 2013, when Mayweather will fight Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero. More details of this upcoming event will be announced shortly.

Mayweather's new deal is by far the biggest in the sport of boxing (specific financial details are contractually confidential). Mayweather is the PPV king and averages over 1 million PPV buys per event, which is the highest PPV buy average of any boxer in history. At this record-setting PPV performance level, if all six fights contemplated by this deal occur, it will be the richest individual athlete deal in all of sports.

[Rappy Veteran]

David Price, another British Heavyweight who is a disappointment :(

in other news Audley Harrison won Prizefighter :/

[Rappy Veteran]

Wladimir Klitschko will defend his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles against former sparring partner Francesco Pianeta in Mannheim on 4 May.

Ukraine's Klitschko, 36, is making the 14th defence of his second stint as a world heavyweight champion.

Pianeta, who is from Italy but resides in Germany, is undefeated in 29 professional fights, with one draw.

"Many see me as an outsider but I will knock Klitschko out and turn the world of boxing on its head," said Pianeta.

Victory over the 28-year-old Pianeta would probably see Klitschko fight Alexander Povetkin in the autumn, although the unbeaten Russian has avoided fighting Klitschko in the past.

Klitschko's last victory was a unanimous decision over Mariusz Wach in November.

Wladimir's older brother Vitali holds the WBC title while Britain's David Haye and Tyson Fury are ranked in the top 10 by the WBA, IBF and WBO.

[D. S. Veteran]

He's going to get decisioned so hard it won't even be funny.