Boxing Thread
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Entertaining fight.
Some more highly rated heavyweights could take note at how they both kept swinging. SBW showed heart, skill ( particularly early on ) and toughness but a fighter of Hunts calibre is obviously just a bridge too far.
@Rancid-Schnitzel in terms of his punditry I find him so bad that he’s good, certainly more entertaining than any NZ based ones anyway.
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@Duluth said in Boxing Thread:
I know nothing about boxing , other than 15yr old Mike Tyson was the scariest dude on the planet
But watching that replay, SBW just appears to have zero jab, despite the reach advantage? I'd have expected him to use reach to keep him at bay and clock points? Weird tactics
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@voodoo said in Boxing Thread:
@Duluth said in Boxing Thread:
I know nothing about boxing , other than 15yr old Mike Tyson was the scariest dude on the planet
But watching that replay, SBW just appears to have zero jab, despite the reach advantage? I'd have expected him to use reach to keep him at bay and clock points? Weird tactics
Exactly what I was going to ask.
Why let Hunt get in close and swinging when SBW has that reach advantage? -
@voodoo said in Boxing Thread:
@Duluth said in Boxing Thread:
I know nothing about boxing , other than 15yr old Mike Tyson was the scariest dude on the planet
But watching that replay, SBW just appears to have zero jab, despite the reach advantage? I'd have expected him to use reach to keep him at bay and clock points? Weird tactics
I thought the same; why with a reach advantage are you constantly coming forward and crowding a shorter opponent with a reputation as a hard puncher?
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@antipodean said in Boxing Thread:
@voodoo said in Boxing Thread:
@Duluth said in Boxing Thread:
I know nothing about boxing , other than 15yr old Mike Tyson was the scariest dude on the planet
But watching that replay, SBW just appears to have zero jab, despite the reach advantage? I'd have expected him to use reach to keep him at bay and clock points? Weird tactics
I thought the same; why with a reach advantage are you constantly coming forward and crowding a shorter opponent with a reputation as a hard puncher?
Report I read said that SBW did have a good jab and used it well but Hunt decided wtf and started walking through it. Tough guy throws caution to the wind and backs himself landing a good one (which he did)
Good that SBW seems to understand his ceiling though. Hope he retires from this game and good on him for having a go. -
@Nogusta said in Boxing Thread:
@mikedogz heard from a good sauce he's gonna get back in the ring for that often dreamed/talked about fight that never happened with Iron Mike.
Better late than never I guess.I’ll believe that when I see it.
Would have been interesting in their primes though. At their respective bests I think Iron Mike woulda taken it comfortably but Tua whilst never having that “peak” was more consistent for longer.
Tyson seemed to abandon the sweet skills, head movement and combination punching later on.
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Reasonably comfortable decision to Parker in the end. Massey improved as the fight went on.
Critics will point out that Parker should have knocked a pumped up cruiserweight out though I’m sure. Probably not the convincing win he’d have hoped for.
I’ll stop talking to myself now
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@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
@Bovidae said in Boxing Thread:
A decision is like a loss for Parker. Andy Lee might say that Massey was negative but Parker needed to find some answers and be busier.
Massey was tough. Took some pretty big hits.
Yes, but the shots were from Parker. That has always been his problem, a lack of a reasonable punch.
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@Pepe said in Boxing Thread:
@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
@Bovidae said in Boxing Thread:
A decision is like a loss for Parker. Andy Lee might say that Massey was negative but Parker needed to find some answers and be busier.
Massey was tough. Took some pretty big hits.
Yes, but the shots were from Parker. That has always been his problem, a lack of a reasonable punch.
I said “pretty big”
Parker has decent enough power but you’re right, not compared to others. He did look to have improved this a few fights back though.