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Anyone watch the Porter Thurman fight that took place a few weeks back? I've only just got around to watching it but it was a pretty good fight. Not keen on Porter's style but you have to give him credit, he does know how to get in people's faces.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
His son now won't face a premature death, so I guess the measure of success depends upon perspective ;)
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why does everyone think GGG would have walked all over him

only person of note GGG has faced is murray who took golovkin 11 rounds and eubank is easily a better fighter than murray

hope he gets to fight the winner (Which will be GGG)
 
The_One said:
only person of note GGG has faced is murray who took golovkin 11 rounds and eubank is easily a better fighter than murray
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He's fought 3 or 4 top 10 fighters in his last 5 fights and all are of a better calibre than Eubank has ever faced. Eubank's fight record in comparison reads like a who's who of human punchbags bar BJS who beat him.
 
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Ridiculous fight, I hear he came in at the last minute but they'd have been better off putting in someone from light heavy because Arreola offered literally nothing! Wilder showed him far too much respect. I can see Wilder being a tough nut for AJ to crack, though...he's very defensive/negative, but then perhaps that is the ideal way to beat AJ, run and counter from distance.
 
I thought Dillian Whyte looked like an amateur in his last fight and he looks worse tonight.

Beginning to think his tactics of getting under AJs skin so he would come forward and leave himself open was the only way he was ever going to win that fight.

Edit: Doughnut snatcher wins an easy decision.
 
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The_One said:
why does everyone think GGG would have walked all over him

only person of note GGG has faced is murray who took golovkin 11 rounds and eubank is easily a better fighter than murray

hope he gets to fight the winner (Which will be GGG)
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I think Eubank will be better in time, but I'm 100% sure the Martin Murray that fought Golovkin would school Eubank right now.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
I thought Dillian Whyte looked like an amateur in his last fight and he looks worse tonight.

Beginning to think his tactics of getting under AJs skin so he would come forward and leave himself open was the only way he was ever going to win that fight.

Edit: Doughnut snatcher wins an easy decision.
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I was impressed with the fight. I thought Whyte put in an almost perfect performance.
 
BaZ87 said:
Listening to an interview with Hearn on why the Eubank-GGG fight didn't happen. Can't link it because of some colourful languange but if you search for IFLTV on youtube it's there.

He basically says Eubank was offered the same financial terms as what Joshua and all his other PPV fighters gets - Hearn runs the event and takes his commission with all the profit going to the fighter. Hearn claims that Eubank Snr wanted complete control of everything and wanted to charge double the ticket prices of the last Joshua fight. If true it only makes me believe even more that Eubank never wanted the fight and knew what they were asking for was never going to be accepted.

Hearn also as good as admits that Brook took the fight because he couldn't make any other big fights for him.
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Crazy demands and so irrelevant.
 
jigger said:
I was impressed with the fight. I thought Whyte put in an almost perfect performance.
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He may have been doing something I wasn't aware of but to me it looked like his only tactic was to club him to death. He wasn't looking for combinations to open up his opponent and he had his hands down very low for most of the fight. Think he thought he would blow him away with his power but didn't come close to doing so.
 
That whole night was a pretty mediocre night of boxing to be honest.

Campbell's opponent was too fussed about defense - now don't get me wrong, I admire the art of defending but you still need to throw something back and have a go!

Whyte's opponent didn't do much either, I think if Whyte had progressed at all since the Joshua fight he should have got the guy out of there within the distance. Still needs to work on his cardio.

Similar comments with Nurse, he should have got Coyle out within the distance...poor effort, especially by someone who thinks he's world class. When Campbell fought Coyle the difference in quality was huge.

I was quite impressed with Warrington! He does genuinely seem to be improving with every fight. It's a shame he doesn't have the knockout out power because he does pretty well in every other aspect. I love his footwork.
 
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