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Has Joshua's chin been tested yet?
The ghost of Wlad knocked him down and nearly out, Dillian Shyte wobbled him
Has Joshua's chin been tested yet?
He's no tyson xian, not even in the same league, when he was in his prime of courseI hate Joshua and I hate more that people call him the next Tyson, like WTF?!
Povetkin has definately got a chance, he's a banger and if he catch's joshua with a big shot he'll be in trouble.Povetkin isn't the fighter of years past. His best is behind him, IMO.
Having said that though, he most definitely has a punchers chance. If he lands that hook flush, interesting things might happen.
Glad that fight didn't go to the cards, because the judges all had Joshua up in the fight before the 7th.
It looked like the trainer wanted to keep him down. He was already trying to stop the fight before the ref did after Povetkin got up.Did anyone else catch the fact that after the first knockdown of Povetkin near the bottom ropes, Povetkins trainer actually grabbed his fighters hand/glove and pulled him forward, which caused his already dazed fighter to briefly stumble forward through the ropes. Bizarre.
Joshua weathered some big shots early on. It looked like his nose may have been busted and he had a type of glazed look in his eyes. But great closing of the show by him. Those finishing blows were huge and pinpoint.
After saying he wouldn't, Canelo has split up the middleweight title even more. He has refused to pay the sanction fee for the IBO belt he "won" from Golovkin, meaning the belt is now vacant. Asshat.
You, me and many others feel Canelo lost but he put the work in, the toughest fight 3G ever fought and him obtaining the belt is respectable. I think questioning this (putting the quotation marks around the word won) is a bit unfair.
Jacobs gave him a better fight than Canelo both times (and still lost).
It's not respectable at all. He clearly lost the fight. It was a great fight and Canelo had a great showing but he didn't win. This is boxing, there are no fucking participation awards. You don't deserve a belt just because you tried really hard.
But taking those belts he really didn't win, the least he could do is actually keep them unified.
We were just a few fights away from having ONE middleweight champion. Because if Golovkin won, he was going to hunt down the WBO belt Saunders has and the IBF belt that Derevyanchenko and Jacobs are about to fight for, and he'd keep them all together. Both Jacobs and Saunders have also said they would not split the titles up if they happened to win them all.
But now Canelo has already vacated the IBO belt and he'll likely vacate the WBC or WBA the first time one of them orders him to fight someone that he doesn't feel like fighting. So we're going to end up with probably 4-6 different motherfuckers walking around calling themselves World Middleweight Champion for years to come.
He's a fantastic fighter but he's a shitbag of a person. De La Hoya is a bigger shitbag, but Canelo doesn't respect boxing. He's a proven PED cheater, his promoter is crooked as fuck, all the scorecards in his fights come back dirty.
I don't agree. Not only was this a better fight than the Jacobs fights, but it IS debatable who won and Canelo isn't undeserving of what the judges deemed. I know boxing is a shady business but I've seen bigger controversies than this one.
I don't see seven rounds for Canelo. No way, no how. I don't even see six. But definitely not fucking seven.
Sorry, but it's not a respectable result at all. It's a blatant robbery, just like the first fight and just like the Erislandy Lara fight.
HBO announced that it will no longer be showing boxing after 35 years of fights on the network.
So there goes my HBO subscription I guess.