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Just caught up on Wilder vs Herndon, I thought it was going to suck and it really did! I wouldn't advise anyone watching it lol.

25 mins I won't get back
 
Wilder is one of those has he declined or was he crap all along questions. For me he was always guff but a one trick pony which was good against low grade opposition.

I always look back to that fight against like a 40+ year old Ortiz where he was getting owned until he pulled a Hail Mary shot out as the point I started to doubt he was much more than a flat track bully. The last 2 beatings Fury put on him finished whatever aura he had.
 
Psycho Ned said:
Wilder is one of those has he declined or was he crap all along questions. For me he was always guff but a one trick pony which was good against low grade opposition.

I always look back to that fight against like a 40+ year old Ortiz where he was getting owned until he pulled a Hail Mary shot out as the point I started to doubt he was much more than a flat track bully. The last 2 beatings Fury put on him finished whatever aura he had.
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The Fury fights were good but I think that's now partly been exposed as neither of them being that good. No doubt someone will start talking up Wilder AJ. Personally I doubt even Hearn could hoodwink the public into thinking that was a sellable prospect.
 
Reckon Hearn will try chuck Wilder in with Dave Allen, Whyte or Del Boy first to try rebuild his rep a bit with a view to getting the AJ fight on. Though tbh Wilder's that gone at the game now I'm not even sure he would beat them.

The boat has long long sailed on the never ending circus of Joshua, Fury and Wilder these guys should have been fighting before covid not in 2025.
 
The Jake Paul hype train goes on, unfortunately. He dominates Chavez Jr who came on strong the last 2 rounds but it was too little too late.
 
e36Adz said:
The Jake Paul hype train goes on, unfortunately. He dominates Chavez Jr who came on strong the last 2 rounds but it was too little too late.
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I didn't watch the fight but from the BBC report it sounds very suspicious. Are these guys just being paid to take a dive? It's weird that he essentially didn't fight back. If Paul is that good he should be fighting current professionals his age or younger.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jake Paul vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr: Paul claims unanimous points win

YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul outpoints 39-year-old former middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, who barely throws a punch in the early rounds.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Of course they are taking a pay day as scripted as any wrestling match. Mostly when they have run out of cash or MMA fighters that get paid laughably small amounts of money in their careers.

I cannot blame the Paul brothers either, so many kids that grew up on these clowns actually believe they could beat legitimate world champions. Sooner or later someone needs to step up and do us all a favour and eradicate ones of these two despite what a contract states.

Hopefully one of them bites soon and gives me a genuine title challenge and we can watch him get utterly humiliated. Not that I think he will take on someone legit in his weight class or even pass a drugs test.
 
Stu999 said:
I didn't watch the fight but from the BBC report it sounds very suspicious. Are these guys just being paid to take a dive? It's weird that he essentially didn't fight back. If Paul is that good he should be fighting current professionals his age or younger.
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I'm one of the few who believes these fights aren't rigged.

JP is big, he's young, fit, and he's clearly taking boxing very seriously. All this makes him an average boxer. He's very careful and clever in selecting his opposition, smaller mma fighters, retired boxers, but all recognisable names to attract crowds.

The fight wasn't rigged imo because in the early rounds, whilst JP was still fresh and moving around, he was boxing Chavez Jrs head off and pounding him as he was trying to come in. He prob weighed 220lbs or something, thats Deontay Wilders weight. Once JP had clearly tired the openings started to come for an out of shape, probably recently of our rehab, Chavez Jr and he went hell for leather. Those shots arent rigged, thats trying to take someone's head clean off. He actually landed a few times and JP took them surprisingly well.

Just because we all know a youtuber can't beat a professional boxer, we think it applies here but it doesn't. He  was a youtuber, hes been training and boxing for several years now gradually improving the level of his opposition. These arent professional boxers they are retired or has beens. JP will get found out eventually because all this 'success' may crazily enough land him a title shot somewhere down the line. When he fights a genuine cruiserweight who's actually still in their prime, it's not gonna end well for him. For now he can carry on ticking off big names who are willing to risk embarrassing themselves, or maybe a rematch with Tommy Fury who I think he now beats.
 
Boxing regulation is a joke

Retired for 5 years and walks straight back into a title fight

Good way to look after people coming into the world rankings
 
The_One said:
Boxing regulation is a joke

Retired for 5 years and walks straight back into a title fight

Good way to look after people coming into the world rankings
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Think I read that Jake Paul is 15th ranked now in the WBC lol...

UFC coming to the White House...

It's all gone mad really £££
 
The_One said:
catterall vs eubank on DAZN just starting

this should be good
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Nate75 said:
Yep just tuned in
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Nate75 said:
Bizarre bout
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Didn't watch this because I can't stand Catterall as a fighter. He has talent but he's awful to watch. I've yet to see a fight with him that has been any good. Yes he deservedly won the rematch vs Taylor but since then he's stunk the place out. I reckon Hearn might be regretting signing him because he's done nothing to encourage either anyone decent to fight him or any other promotoer to want to make a match with him.

The highlights were sparse and whilst I can't argue with the decision he got, it was yet another scrap where he was incredibly untidy and spoiling in his tactics. He had the world at this feet after the controversial loss to Taylor but he's blown his chance to make it at World level. The Eubank lad looked pretty average but Catterall makes every opponent look poor. One I'm glad to have missed live.
 
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