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GGG wants a payday and who can blame him. He's willing to split purses with far lesser opponents at catch weights because he needs to earn.

 

I hate how the Premier Championship Boxing cards are spread over several channels with the full gambit of quality match-ups. NBC, CBS, TruTV, ESPN, NBCSN, HBO and I'm probably forgetting other channels will air PCB cards. I was watching a fight a few weeks ago and NBC moved the fight to NBCSN mid flucking main event fight. No joke. I was not happy since I had recorded the program.

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I have a beef, I must vent. this is by no means an novel observation, it's being discussed heavily all over fight forums as we speak.   Canelo is a great fighter and it made perfect sense to make th

Someone asked me "who won the fight last night", and I answered "the UFC".

My father was a pretty big boxing fan, so he was pretty sad that I grew up to be a faggot.   That being said, I was raised on Ali stories. If boxing was on TV, we watched, and my father always made

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Freddie Roach says that Cotto will face Canelo prior to facing GGG.

http://www.latinpost...eddie-roach.htm

 

Assuming Canelo gets past Cotto (he should), and if GGG doesn't duck (which he may), that (Canelo/GGG) would be a fight I might pay to see.

 

November 21st baby! I may have to take Cotto by decision if he's able to keep his cool and box instead of getting hit a couple of times and deciding to go toe to toe.

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Yeah I'm not so sure Canelo takes this down as I once was. Been watching some 2014/2015 footage of Cotto. He's actually improving into his mid 30's, which is weird for that weight class.

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Apparently so. The degree to which he dispatched Lemieux was basically as decisive as the canfest that is his record so far.

 

There was never any doubt he was the real deal but at this point, if they play their cards right, since he's white enough to be considered white, he can be as marketable as Mayweather ever was.

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Oh wow

 

Just watched that fight.... entertaining... But looking at past heavyweight champions, Fury does not look that great. I don't see him holding the title for a long time

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I disagree with the histrionics.

 

Horn was way, way more aggressive and had an overwhelming crowd advantage as the hometown favorite. From the vantage of the judges box in that stadium, it's not hard to see how they ruled for him,

 

Contrast that with Shitbag Atlas and his insanely slanted commentary and being a massive Pacquiao homer, sitting at home and listening to that turd call the fight, well, it looked different.

 

On the math, Pacman won. For sure. But tempo and aggression counts for a shitload too and Horn was absolutely the aggressor... which is going to tilt the scales in a fight like that with a hometown factor like that.

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On the math, Pacman won. For sure. But tempo and aggression counts for a shitload too and Horn was absolutely the aggressor... which is going to tilt the scales in a fight like that with a hometown factor like that.

 

So why wasn't Pac declared the winner when he was absolutely the aggressor vs Mayweather?

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So why wasn't Pac declared the winner when he was absolutely the aggressor vs Mayweather?

 

Apparently those judges valued the stats more.

 

I'm not saying it was a good call here, but I'm also not saying that it's totally baffling given how decisions like that are apt to go. Watching from home, listening to biased Teddy Atlas who was in the bag for Manny, that fight looked one way. Sitting ringside in a judges box, watching Horn as the aggressor, listening to that crowd react to Horn as the aggressor, it's not hard to comprehend how they make a homer-decision since the fight looks very different from that vantage.

 

The real winner was boxing itself.

Mayweather/Pacquiao was such a dud, after such a build-up... This fight was shown for free, on cable, with several undercard belts, and the main card, controversy notwithstanding, was a great ****ing scrap. If boxing can get a few more cards like this in the bag- major fighters, free on either broadcast or cable, exciting fights, big enough to be a real 'event' like this one was- it's possible it (boxing) might start gaining younger eyeballs again that have been taken away by MMA.

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Dude cmon, what do you mean it's not difficult to comprehend? Are we supposed to assume every judge is a total moron and can't fairly judge a fight because of crowd noise? And Atlas has nothing to do with anything. He is bad, and announcing can sway public opinion, but regardless of the announcing Pac won the fight. The guy was aggressive, so what, Pac connected more and hurt him more.

 

Boxing won nothing. It was a good fight that was marred by corrupt judging. More people were able to watch because it wasn't a ppv and more people were able to see how dumb boxing is because 3 unbiased judges can't come even close to fairly judging a championship level fight.

 

If every once in awhile there is an idiotic and totally confused judge, then ok. But how can all 3 judges be idiotic and totally confused?

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