Boxing News Thread

[heyzel]

A month after the IBF ordered lightweight contenders Richard Commey (24-0, 22 KOs) and Robert Easter Jr. (17-0, 14 KOs) to meet for its vacant world title, the sides have been unable to make a deal. So, on Thursday the sanctioning body ordered a purse bid for July 19 at IBF headquarters in Springfield, New Jersey, to determine who will have promotional rights to the bout and how much money the fighters will earn. Commey, 29, of Ghana, and Easter, 25, of Toledo, Ohio -- both of whom have knocked out their past five opponents -- will be meeting for the 135-pound belt vacated by Rances Barthelemy, who moved up in weight.

Notes: Commey-Easter lightweight title bout headed to purse bid

 

[naner12]

this is gonna be awesome. 9/17/16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZn8dTB9BjE


Krzysztof Glowacki - 26-0
Coming off wins of Steve Cunningham and awesome KO of Marco Huck

Oleksandr Usyk - 9-0
Coming off Pedro Rodriguez win. Won Gold in Summer 2012 Olympics, great amateur career

Such a dope fight. Cruisers don't get much love but one thing about them is top cruiserweights are always fighting each other. I don't think there's another division in boxing that consistently has top 10 guys going at each other like they do.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

what in the actual FUCK!?!?


Dan Rafael ✔ D @danr afaelespn
Hold onto your hat: GGG team tells me Eubank declined fight & GGG will fiace Kell Brook at 160 Sept. 10 at O2 Arena!! Whoa.


damn, Brook has more balls than Canelo + Eubank and Jacobs.

Eddie Hearn ✔ E @eddie Hearn
On Sept 10 at the T @the o2 - G @ggg Boxing v S @SpecialK Brook for the unified Middleweight World Championship!!! @SkySports
9:15 AM - 8 Jul 2016

 

[battle619]

what in the actual FUCK!?!?


Dan Rafael ✔ D @danr afaelespn
Hold onto your hat: GGG team tells me Eubank declined fight & GGG will fiace Kell Brook at 160 Sept. 10 at O2 Arena!! Whoa.


damn, Brook has more balls than Canelo + Eubank and Jacobs.

Eddie Hearn ✔ E @eddie Hearn
On Sept 10 at the T @the o2 - G @ggg Boxing v S @SpecialK Brook for the unified Middleweight World Championship!!! @SkySports
9:15 AM - 8 Jul 2016

GGG keeps getting exposed for being the biggest fraud in the middleweight division. I was completely against the Canelo Khan fight. So please, tell me what you think of this fight and GGG now?

 

[naner12]

GGG keeps getting exposed for being the biggest fraud in the middleweight division. I was completely against the Canelo Khan fight. So please, tell me what you think of this fight and GGG now?

It's a bad fight. Answer me this, how many middleweights declined/avoided a fight with Canelo before he settled on Khan just to get a fight in?

 

[drunkaholic707]

GGG keeps getting exposed for being the biggest fraud in the middleweight division. I was completely against the Canelo Khan fight. So please, tell me what you think of this fight and GGG now?

that canelo is pussy and scared of him

 

[battle619]

It's a bad fight. Answer me this, how many middleweights declined/avoided a fight with Canelo before he settled on Khan just to get a fight in?

I never disagreed with you or Sixx on that issue. My issue with GGG is that he doesn't want to challenge himself as a fighter. Canelo has done that already. Now it's time for GGG to do the same. The worst part about this fight is that it's not even a catchweight! This is super scary!

 

[battle619]

that canelo is pussy and scared of him

Or maybe for GGG it was never about unifying the 160 division and Canelo caught on to it.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

I never disagreed with you or Sixx on that issue. My issue with GGG is that he doesn't want to challenge himself as a fighter. Canelo has done that already. Now it's time for GGG to do the same. The worst part about this fight is that it's not even a catchweight! This is super scary!

He tried to fight Canelo, Saunders, Jacobs and then Eubank before finally settling on Brook. Eddie Hearn promotes both Eubank & Brook, so when the Eubanks started asking for more money after Golovkin signed his side of the deal, Brook came in willing & able to sign immediately and Hearn closed the deal.

From a boxing point of view, it's a mismatch. Pointless fight. Let's remember this comes after Canelo/Saunders/Jacobs & now Eubank all turned him down. So it was either this, or fight some random middleweight bum no one has ever heard of like Dominic Wade. I'm guessing K2 knew they couldn't afford to do that.

I don't like this fight for Golvokin though but I understand why K2 took it.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

Or maybe for GGG it was never about unifying the 160 division and Canelo caught on to it.

He had three of the four middleweight belts and tried to fight Saunders for the fourth belt you dolt lol. What would you call that? Unifying?

 

[naner12]

I never disagreed with you or Sixx on that issue. My issue with GGG is that he doesn't want to challenge himself as a fighter. Canelo has done that already. Now it's time for GGG to do the same. The worst part about this fight is that it's not even a catchweight! This is super scary!

I don't understand your argument then. He can't challenge himself as a fighter if people don't want to share the ring with him.

Don't get me wrong I hate this fight. Wish he would've signed on to at least fight a 154lber, but you can't say out of one side of your mouth that GGG doesn't want to challenge himself and then say you agree that people don't want to fight.

If Saunders would've been willing to fight him, I'd have no doubt that GGG would've fought Saunders over Brook. Same with Jacobs, Canelo, Eubank Jr. etc. He's trying to fight top MW's and they don't want to fight him. So his options become fight a lesser/smaller fighter that's willing to take the risk/reward that comes with fighting GGG or remain inactive until you can secure a legitimate fight and the latter is just not reasonable.

 

[drunkaholic707]

I never disagreed with you or Sixx on that issue. My issue with GGG is that he doesn't want to challenge himself as a fighter. Canelo has done that already. Now it's time for GGG to do the same. The worst part about this fight is that it's not even a catchweight! This is super scary!

lmao canelo has been going after fighters at catchweight going for smaller fighters when it came time to fight someone in a weight class he had the title for he abandoned it cause he is a pussy ass bitch

 

[2-0-Sixx]

I don't understand your argument then. He can't challenge himself as a fighter if people don't want to share the ring with him.

Don't get me wrong I hate this fight. Wish he would've signed on to at least fight a 154lber, but you can't say out of one side of your mouth that GGG doesn't want to challenge himself and then say you agree that people don't want to fight.

If Saunders would've been willing to fight him, I'd have no doubt that GGG would've fought Saunders over Brook. Same with Jacobs, Canelo, Eubank Jr. etc. He's trying to fight top MW's and they don't want to fight him. So his options become fight a lesser/smaller fighter that's willing to take the risk/reward that comes with fighting GGG or remain inactive until you can secure a legitimate fight and the latter is just not reasonable.

Plus k2 was already working with Eddie Hearn. Hearn has said he gave Eubank a deadline, that he set up everything the way Eubank wanted and then Eubank demanded more money and Eubank Sr wanted the entire PPV system to be structured differently which isn't possible. Hearn gave the same type of deal he gives to Carl Froch, Anthony Joshua, etc but Eubank wouldn't budge and wouldn't sign. So after the deadline, Hearn told K2 they could get golovkin Kell Brook instead and they agreed to terms.

Eubank was there last option so I understand why K2 took it. If they abandoned this, then they'd have to go shopping for more opponents after being turned down by four different fighters.

 

[heyzel]

Real talk I had to think about this this is a bitch move on ggg part it's plenty of mofo to fight from 160-168 I'm done with homie

 

[heyzel]

FightNights.com™ @boxing

Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook opens up @ 7/1 odds
1:18 PM - 8 Jul 2016

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[heyzel]

Christopher Eubank
✔ C @chris Eubank
G @ggg Boxing You are scared of us No response from T @tom Loeffler1 or @MatchroomBoxing O2 or Vegas. Don't hide @KuganCassius you may now have 1
5:47 AM - 8 Jul 2016

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[2-0-Sixx]

Christopher Eubank
✔ C @chris Eubank
G @ggg Boxing You are scared of us No response from T @tom Loeffler1 or @MatchroomBoxing O2 or Vegas. Don't hide @KuganCassius you may now have 1
5:47 AM - 8 Jul 2016

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Eubank's own promoter is saying it was all on Eubank and Golovkin signed his end of the deal long ago. Eubank turned down a rematch with Saunders, then Jacobs and now Golovkin. Big pattern is starting to emerge (that Eubank Sr is delusional and he's messing up his sons career):


Hearn: Eubanks Made The Gennady Golovkin Deal IMPOSSIBLE!

"I was negotiating for three weeks on that fight and negotiating with Chris Eubank Sr. made it seem like three years. We got into a position where everybody was ready to sign, he was offered the same pay-per-view structure as Anthony Joshua, Carl Froch and the one Kell Brook accepted - but unfortunately they made the deal impossible," Hearn told Sky Sports. "There were certain things they wanted that made it was just a complete no-go. They had deadline and they chose not to take the fight. There is a huge future for Chris Eubank Jr. He could fight the winner maybe later on in the year. He has a huge future, he misses out this time but I'm sure he'll get his shot in due course." - See more at: Hearn: Eubanks Made The Gennady Golovkin Deal IMPOSSIBLE! - Boxing News

 

[2-0-Sixx]

Real talk I had to think about this this is a bitch move on ggg part it's plenty of mofo to fight from 160-168 I'm done with homie

Who though? Canelo, Saunders, Jacobs and Eubank turned him down. That's everyone relevant at middleweight. Only guy I think of who might be available at 168 is ramirez.

 

[T-Rip]

Even though Brook is better then Khan this fight is just as bad as Canelo vs. Khan

 

[2-0-Sixx]

Even though Brook is better then Khan this fight is just as bad as Canelo vs. Khan

It's not a good fight but not quite that bad lol. Khan is so damn chinny, got brutally KO'd multiple times and hurt/dropped by almost everyone he's fought. Brook at the very least is undefeated and bigger than Khan. The problem though is he's fighting Golovkin, and not say, Billy Joe Saunders or Danny Jacobs or someone like that where he might stand a chance.

What we should have got:

Brook vs Khan
Canelo vs Golovkin

This is boxing so of course that got all fucked up, Khan refused to fight Brook, Canelo refused to fight Golovkin and instead we get the retarded fights that make zero sense :dead: