Sheeraz v Adames

Wow!

Incredible night of boxing so far

Great fight - close

Once again , boxing shows its ugly side ….

The Shire Claret wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:09 pm

Once again , boxing shows its ugly side ….

equinox?

fatboy47 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:14 pm

equinox?

No the judging … lol

This has been a great card

Probably the best card of boxing ever that

Who was fighting and who won?

blatherwickstattoos wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2025 12:33 am

Probably the best card of boxing ever that

The Bivol fight was tremendous! The Parker fight was ridiculous the bakole fella had been dragged in off is holidays to replace Dubois.Looked so unfit but would doubt he is top level anyway.

Lack of any kind of atmosphere in Saudi still ruins it a bit for me.

Gp8419 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2025 8:44 am

The Bivol fight was tremendous! The Parker fight was ridiculous the bakole fella had been dragged in off is holidays to replace Dubois.Looked so unfit but would doubt he is top level anyway.

Smith / buatsi fight was a fight of the year contender. Started at 4.45 pm too. Brilliant they got about 5 world title fights on and crammed them all in before midnight.

Recently watched some of the classic British boxers on the net.

Mcguigan, Conteh, Watt, Benn, Eubank, Honeyghan, Hamed, Khan, Hatton, Bruno, Lewis Joshua, etc.

Now we have Dubios who is a serious prospect at Heavyweight.

Best fight has to be the Anthony Joshua v Vladimir Klitschko contest in 2017. Klitschko was an undisputed Heavyweight champion but Joshua currently held a belt.

One of the most reported aspects of the fight was the.articulate press conferences by both boxers and a mutual respect for each other.

Over 90,000 attended the bout at Wembley which was a showpiece event.

The fight was no let down. Klitschko being a tough, brave, experienced Ukrainian but Joshua was younger, fitter, taller and a better technical boxer.

The 5th round was incredible. Joshua battered Klitschko onto the canvas, the first time that the Ukrainian had been decked in a decade and he had a bad cut to his eye. The Brit then went all out to finish it off.

Klitschko was staggering about the ring until he released a flurry of big punches which landed Joshua on his arse but he survived. It was only then that I realised that there were about 20,000 Klitschko fans in the stadium.

In the 11th Joshua produced a huge upper cut and Klitschko went down for a 2nd time. Another few blows led the referee to end the fight.

Both met again to have a chat and tourned Wembley afterwards.

The Barry Mcguigan v Eusebio Pedroza 15 rounder at Loftus Road in 1985 was not too shabby either !

A personal favourite for me was in 86 when an unbeaten underdog Lloyd Honeyghan stopped Don "cobra" Curry , to win the World welterweight titles.

The most underrated British boxer was Joe Calzaghe.

Dressinggown wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:11 pm

The most underrated British boxer was Joe Calzaghe.

Give over , he was crap.

The two fights between Carl Froch and George Groves were top notch.

The first tear up was held at Manchester Arena. Groves knocked Froch down in the first round and dominated the fight until the 9th round when the referee stopped the bout early in favour of Froch whilst all 3 judges had Groves ahead on points.

The Boxing public and press demanded a rematch which was agreed and scheduled to take place at Wembley Stadium. Tickets went on sale and 60,000 were sold within an hour. Wembley had to release a further 20,000 tickets.

Froch knocked Groves out in the 8th.

One of the best punch ups occured outside the ring when Rob McCracken (Birmingham) met Steve 'The Viking' Foster (Salford).

McCracken was followed by Birmingham's 'Zulu Army' hooligans whiist Foster was backed by Man United's 'Red Army'. It all kicked off from the start as the venue and it's occupants were destroyed.

I think that Foster was on the undercard of the Benn v Eubank scrap at Old Trafford in 1993 which was entitled 'Judgement Day'.

His opponent was Warren Stowe from Burnley. Around 3,000 Burnley and Salford lads battled it out in the Stretford End prior to the start of the event.

55,000 attended with about 20,000 from Glasgow supporting Eubank as he had fought some of his high profile contests in the City.

Needless to say it was absolute carnage from lunchtime onwards.