Big Boxing Thread

[McGlashan]

Wonder what he does from here. He’s obviously completed 140 but might hang around if one or two of the stars at 135 step up. Alternatively, he steps up and tries to get a fight with Crawford. Size probably beats him in that one though.

Taylor seemed keen on a homecoming versus Catterall. Both men being MTK means it's practically a lock. He and Bob both mentioned the possibility of Crawford afterwards.

[McGlashan]

Smashing fight, and Taylor is abs top class.  Knockdowns needed, as they were obv looking to do him on the cards.

I never really got Ben, but figured he'd obviously helped Tyson when he was in a dark place, and done well to craft himself a career off the back of that.

Longer he's around, the more he irks me

Taylor said he made 140lb easy and was disgusted at only winning 114-112. Voluntarily coasting over the line nearly cost them the fight. Horrible coaching.

[Marky147]

Smashing fight, and Taylor is abs top class.  Knockdowns needed, as they were obv looking to do him on the cards.

I never really got Ben, but figured he'd obviously helped Tyson when he was in a dark place, and done well to craft himself a career off the back of that.

Longer he's around, the more he irks me

Taylor said he made 140lb easy and was disgusted at only winning 114-112. Voluntarily coasting over the line nearly cost them the fight. Horrible coaching.

Yeah, just watched his interview while he was having his pizza

Bet they had a good night last night!

[Marky147]

Couldn't resist 15/2 about Linares, so had to have some of that in a single, and doubled with Poirier against Conor @ evens.

[McGlashan]

Bit of a sweat there for the last couple of rounds.

[Marky147]

Bit of a sweat there for the last couple of rounds.

Yeah, looked like he was gonna coast, but then Linares drew him into a battle and it got lively.

Shocked Linares didn't try getting him out of there in the 11th, given he must have known how far behind he was.

Good fight, though. Linares summed it up well, in that he was too tight first 1/2 of fight, and Haney was vv good.

Interesting to see what's next for him, and showed he has a chin, at least.

[arbboy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-9648479/Eddie-Hearns-Matchroom-Sport-LEAVE-Sky-DAZN-decade-long-boxing-partnership.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQBy5QclaCc

Sky sports just becomes less and less relevant and harder to justify paying for if you aren't that bothered about EPL.   Lost the tennis a while back, now the boxing.   NBA is shown free on all betting sites legally.  Apart from the darts (easy to watch all sky darts on twitch on quality streams anyway) and the NFL its tough to see what you actually are getting nowadays.   F1 isn't a sport.

[McGlashan]

The writing has been on the wall ever since Hearn inked the USA pact with DAZN.  Sky will have to maintain an interest in boxing going forward if they want to flog PPV's.

On that note I can see that Mayweather exhibition bombing now that books aren't taking a decent bet.

[Bazzaboy]

As a boxing fan the worst thing Sky ever did was sign the exclusive deal with Matchroom. It pretty much forced all of the smaller promoters out of the game as they couldn’t get any TV exposure. Hard to have any sympathy for Sky now.

[Marky147]

I love the DAZN app, and will likely keep paying for it even when they x5 the price in 3-6 months.

Also, Fight Camp will be back soon!


Eddie must be loving life, with this new deal, and the fact Canelo thinks he's the bollocks, too

[Bazzaboy]

I love the DAZN app, and will likely keep paying for it even when they x5 the price in 3-6 months.

Also, Fight Camp will be back soon!


Eddie must be loving life, with this new deal, and the fact Canelo thinks he's the bollocks, too

Yeah no complaints on the quality of DAZN coverage. Let’s see who he delivers for his broadcast team. No more Adam Smith thankfully.

[Marky147]

Yeah, I was wondering who they'll have for the UK operations.

Could be anyone, so not even going to try and figure it out

[Bazzaboy]

Roll on the Floyd freeroll tonight. Utterly incredible price.

[Marky147]

Roll on the Floyd freeroll tonight. Utterly incredible price.

Floyd's tomorrow isn't it?

Also, can there be a winner as it's an exhibition?

Sure they're not gonna do what they did in the Tyson thing?

[Bazzaboy]

Roll on the Floyd freeroll tonight. Utterly incredible price.

Floyd's tomorrow isn't it?

Also, can there be a winner as it's an exhibition?

Sure they're not gonna do what they did in the Tyson thing?

Yeah, woke up hungover and thought I had gone back in time as I tried to check result.

KO’s are allowed. So basically free rolling the Floyd KO as bets void if fight goes the distance. The lack of a distance winner means Floyd will try and stop him imo