HI5 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 That was painful for AB..Mikeys timing and game plan was solid. AB pulled a Chavez..showed up in great shape and didn't throw enough punches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Tune in while you guys still can.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 10 hours ago, HI5 said: Tune in while you guys still can.. Loma has always liked to come out a bit slow. This was only the third round. He's going to need some bigger tests. He needs Rigo and a rematch with Salido (I think he'd kill Salido this time around, but I want to to get some vengeance). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Goose Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 On 7/30/2017 at 11:16 AM, HI5 said: That was painful for AB..Mikeys timing and game plan was solid. AB pulled a Chavez..showed up in great shape and didn't throw enough punches. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5 Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Terrence Crawford w/3rd round bodyshot KO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5 Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Looks like odds have GGG beating Canelo..may have to place a bet! Think Canelo may win this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Goose Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 47 minutes ago, SILLY GOOSE said: These are always so much better than what Showtime puts out, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Goose Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 On 8/27/2017 at 9:47 PM, HI5 said: Looks like odds have GGG beating Canelo..may have to place a bet! Think Canelo may win this one. This is a really tough fight to try and make a prediction. Imma just sit back and enjoy the show! Any idea who is on the undercard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Goose Posted September 5, 2017 Author Share Posted September 5, 2017 Bernard Hopkins predicts Canelo with a hard fought decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 On 8/31/2017 at 4:27 AM, SILLY GOOSE said: This is a really tough fight to try and make a prediction. Imma just sit back and enjoy the show! Any idea who is on the undercard? 46 minutes ago, SILLY GOOSE said: Bernard Hopkins predicts Canelo with a hard fought decision. I haven't had a chance to look up the undercard. GGG is a beast but I think Canelo is a better boxer and could edge him out. I went with 50bucks Canelo by decision. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Chocolatito got knocked the #$%^ out by Rungvisai Saturday night in the 4th round. Can't say I am all that familiar with any of those two but the first fight was a beauty with Rungvisai getting the controversial decision, nothing controversial about the second tilt. Bring on Canelo/GGG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 This is how GGG learned to box: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2017/09/09/gennady-golovkin-exclusive-interview-brothers-would-pick-fights/ Quote Gennady Golovkin exclusive interview: My brothers would pick fights for me with grown men 'from when I was in kindergarten' 1 Comment Gennady "GGG" Golovkin hosts fans at an open workout in LA Credit: GETTY IMAGES Gareth A Davies, Boxing Correspondent, in Las Vegas 9 September 2017 • 3:28pm The hard sparring and painful miles on the hills of Big Bear, California, carry little hardship for 35-year-old middleweight king Gennady Golovkin compared with life as a kid in Kazakhstan in the early nineties. Food and water were scarce, and he had to fight to survive. He is boxing's most feared puncher, and can rightly be regarded as a great if he beats Mexican poster boy Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez on his Sin City debut next Saturday. After the faux strain of the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight last month, this contest pits two destructive forces at the very elite of boxing's firmament against each other. The making of Golovkin as a fighter - and a man - took root in Karagandy, Central Asia, in his formative years, just as the state was newly franchised from the old Soviet Union. And very messy it was. Golovkin was just nine years old, and growing up in a tough, blue-collar neighborhood in a time of scarcity. He lost two older brothers who died serving in the Soviet Army, and that impacted heavily on the young boy who has become the knockout artist now known simply as 'GGG'. <img class="responsive article-body-image-image" src="/content/dam/boxing/2017/09/09/TELEMMGLPICT000139707339_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqNvLtDx75wZSR0MSb26ou_7Bj_vSUByekM53qEVJFgs4.jpeg?imwidth=480" alt="Gennady Golovkin (right) in action against Daniel Jacobs"> Gennady Golovkin (right) in action against Daniel Jacobs Credit: GETTY IMAGES Golovkin, 35, speaking exclusively to The Sunday Telegraph from his US training camp, explained: "It was a very difficult time after the fall of the Soviet Union. Jobs were difficult and you had to fight to have anything nice." His father - also Gennady - worked long hours down a coal mine in Karagandy. His mother, Elizabeth, originally from a refugee Korean family to the USSR, was an assistant in a chemical laboratory. Golovkin was one of four boys - he has a twin, Maxim - and, as a young man, he suffered tragedy twice when his older brothers, Vadim, and then Sergey, died, four years apart, while serving in the Soviet Army. Kazakhstan was a survival-of-the fittest society back then, and his older brothers knew they had to toughen him up. They would walk around the streets, picking fights for him with grown men. Golovkin said: "My brothers, they were doing that from when I was in kindergarten. Every day, different guys." A career in the mines awaited him, had he not been invested into the Kazakh boxing programme as a teenager. Golovkin, unbeaten with 33 knockouts from 37 professional fights, said: "I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous." The fear of being forced to work down the pit drove him on as an amateur boxer, finishing as he did with a staggering 345 wins and just five losses. He won an Olympic silver medal at the Athens Games and a world championship gold medal in Thailand, both at middleweight. Early on, Gennady discovered that he had amazing power in his hands. He said: "From the beginning, when my brother Vadim first took me to the boxing gym at 10, I was able to punch hard and the coach always put me with older boys because of that. "My brothers first brought me to boxing. I dedicate the fights to them and my father and fight for my family." <img class="responsive article-body-image-image" src="/content/dam/boxing/2017/09/09/TELEMMGLPICT000108005480_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqx1rGucoo2J_ExhuM2sOt-2KkiXth0yvs1prgxg7PzaA.jpeg?imwidth=480" alt="Gennady Golovkin"> Gennady Golovkin Credit: PA His twin, Maxim, joins the fighter at every training camp for the last month. "He's an important figure," Abel Sanchez, Golovkin's trainer, said. "You have to remember it was a very difficult time for everybody, not just his family but the whole country. Kazakhstan became a country and all of a sudden they didn't have the backing of the USSR. Food was scarce, water was scarce, security was scarce. "The country took two or three years to rebound and become a country. I think it was difficult for everybody there. The times made people much more mentally tough. Him and his brother had to fend for themselves a lot. They had to fend for the family a lot." <img class="responsive article-body-image-image" src="/content/dam/boxing/2017/09/09/TELEMMGLPICT000138630708_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq7Ie8PkSw6zJj0WOAbK6siUqxYMpFvkH0i-0P7ycN7Bs.jpeg?imwidth=480" alt="Gennady Golovkin&#39;s opponent - Saul &#39;Canelo&#39; Alvarez&#39; - in training"> Gennady Golovkin's opponent - Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez' - in training Credit: AP It is for this reason, explained his promoter Tom Loeffler, that "unlike some other fighters we see, he appreciates everything he has and doesn't take anything for granted." Golovkin said: "It has been an honour to represent my country ever since the amateurs and I always try to do it with respect for my people." "It was frustrating when the other big names or champions wouldn't fight me, but now I have the opportunity to show that I'm the best. This is a huge fight and first-class boxing, and the winner between myself and Canelo will have the respect of the fans as being the best." This is hilarious to me considering how GGG talks and his puppy dog eyes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Goose Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 On 8/30/2017 at 0:53 PM, Down by the River said: These are always so much better than what Showtime puts out, IMO. The narration is always well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_bassi13 Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 (edited) 16 hours ago, Tre Mac said: Chocolatito got knocked the #$%^ out by Rungvisai Saturday night in the 4th round. Can't say I am all that familiar with any of those two but the first fight was a beauty with Rungvisai getting the controversial decision, nothing controversial about the second tilt. Bring on Canelo/GGG! That first one was one of the better fights I'd ever seen. I ended up missing this one, but I'm sad to see it end in an early knock out. Honestly surprised it did. Not because these guys wouldn't come out swinging like last time, just that from what I know about Choclatito, and how he probably outboxed Rungvisai last match, I would have expected him to take control. Edited September 12, 2017 by g_bassi13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 10 hours ago, g_bassi13 said: That first one was one of the better fights I'd ever seen. I ended up missing this one, but I'm sad to see it end in an early knock out. Honestly surprised it did. Not because these guys wouldn't come out swinging like last time, just that from what I know about Choclatito, and how he probably outboxed Rungvisai last match, I would have expected him to take control. Well the commentary crew seems to think Chocolalito days of being in the upper echelon of boxers is now over. He was knocked out for at least 2 min, and it was kind of sad when the camera panned to his girlfriend as she ran away from the ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 (edited) Sounds like Lomachenko and Rigondeaux for December 9th.... Since been confirmed: Edited September 15, 2017 by Down by the River Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5 Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 1 hour ago, Down by the River said: Sounds like Lomachenko and Rigondeaux for December 9th.... http://twitter.com/VasylLomachenko/status/908645531370606592 Glad this is happening..the way Lomochenko has been dominating his opponents its time to take the next step. Rigo is that first step and if he plows through him, theirs some other real good fights available. On 9/12/2017 at 11:26 AM, Tre Mac said: Well the commentary crew seems to think Chocolalito days of being in the upper echelon of boxers is now over. He was knocked out for at least 2 min, and it was kind of sad when the camera panned to his girlfriend as she ran away from the ring. I never really understood why Chocolalito was even on the P4P list. Had only seen a few of his fights and never left all that impressed. Think its quite evident now, we won't see him on that list again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Great fight but no way that was a draw. Oh well, rematch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI5 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 27 minutes ago, Tre Mac said: Great fight but no way that was a draw. Oh well, rematch. I would have given it to GGG by a few rounds. I was curious to see how the judges would have scored it as GGG was constantly applying pressure, yet Canelo going backwards was making him miss a ton of shots. Canelo gassed after 3/4 round, makes you wonder if the weight really effected him that much. Also one judge was clearly paid off by GoldenBoy. I got Canelo again in rematch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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