Fury vs Ngannou

Jedi boro said:
Its not just fury though as let’s not kid ourselves AJ wouldn’t have took this fight either because I think we all know he would.
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Yeah the two of them, and the sport as a whole, is just pathetic now. I can’t even stand to listen to people like Eddie Hearn when he comes on the radio.

In fact I’d quite happily see it abolished now, and just remember the good times when Lennox was king and those before who treated it as an actual sport not a pantomime/cash cow.

David Haye was heavily involved in the destruction of this division if you ask me, too.
 
atypical_boro said:
Yeah the two of them, and the sport as a whole, is just pathetic now. I can’t even stand to listen to people like Eddie Hearn when he comes on the radio.

In fact I’d quite happily see it abolished now, and just remember the good times when Lennox was king and those before who treated it as an actual sport not a pantomime/cash cow.
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Problem is too many divisions now with no real desire to unify it like there was.

Puppet states pouring billions in is only going to go one way.
 
Ratedr69 said:
I get your point. But least AJ defended his belts with a much better resume and tried to make fights happen.
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Let’s not forget AJ started this whole circus by being the first to fight in Saudi.

The biggest problem is boxing doesn’t want to change though it’s not a sport anymore it’s an entertainment event.

It’s just a money making machine and no one want to risk their place on the merry go round by losing a fight.
 
Jedi boro said:
No because we’re calling it out for what it is
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But we're giving it attention and publicity. Some posters are discussing it as if it were a sporting event. That's what they're after. Every post that doesn't emphasise the barbaric nature of the Saudi regime normalises that regime.
 
TheYorkshireTerrier said:
I bet not many watching on here will have paid for it, I only bothered with the main fight.
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TBH, if I’d known Fury was gonna get his ass whooped I’d have watched it.

Fury will eventually take a fight that he knows he’ll get pummelled in for his first loss, purely on the premise that more people will tune in and watch it because he’s now so universally not respected, and it’ll make him even more money than if he was looking for the win. In fact it’s probably his end game.
 
atypical_boro said:
I just can’t help but feel that anyone with promise will now just be corrupted by the knobs who control the sport who make shedloads of cash without ever really doing anything.
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Absolutely

The only way fury loses is if he gets knocked out. With his criminal connections and the finances involved he will get every decision
 
Jedi boro said:
Problem is too many divisions now with no real desire to unify it like there was.

Puppet states pouring billions in is only going to go one way.
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Only really the heavyweight division and possibly the light heavyweight division you can say that. But Bivol would rather get the rematch with Canelo and doesn't want to lose that opportunity by being beaten by Beterbiev. Bivol v Beterbiev should be happening though

There's undisputed champs right through the divisions below that or not a stand out boxer
good enough to be undisputed.

Canelo
Haney
Crawford
Inoue

Have all been undisputed in the last year.
 
I think I’m the only one who though fury edged that fight.
Landed the cleaner jabs and more of them.
The knock down and the aggression made Everyone go for ngannou but it wasn’t the case.
He did come out of it the winner on the night tho. Fury was awful by his standard
 
Boroshirtmuseum said:
I think I’m the only one who though fury edged that fight.
Landed the cleaner jabs and more of them.
The knock down and the aggression made Everyone go for ngannou but it wasn’t the case.
He did come out of it the winner on the night tho. Fury was awful by his standard
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Fury landed more punches and was more active. Maybe that is what the judges saw. You don’t get more points for a harder punch!
 
The official result is irrelevant - everyone thinks Ngannou won in one way or another. The irony of this is team Fury has been building the Ngannou fight up for a long time saying he was a big danger whilst really thinking that it was an unbelievably easy fight. These things have a habit of coming back and biting you in the backside.

The fight itself was fantastic, the shock value was huge. Nobody expected what played out and it will go down as an historic event in boxing. What happened was one of the great sporting shocks. You just don't see that type of think happening. Fury and his team looked stunned after the fight.
 
I was at the fight and no way did Fury win it. Never in a month of batserd sundees.

The stuff before the fight was nothing to do with the boxing btw, was to open Riyadh Season 👍
 
MolteniArcore said:
Fury landed more punches and was more active. Maybe that is what the judges saw. You don’t get more points for a harder punch!
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Actually power of punches is a factor when scoring boxing. Landing more punches in a round doesn't automatically win the round. Judges also looking at who is controlling the fight, combinations rather than single shots, defensive work.

Counter punches and power punches such as hooks and straight shots will score more favourably than just flicking a jab out which predominantly what Fury did.

I've seen that screenshot of the amount of punches Fury landed v Ngannou and it only tells part of the story. It doesn't tell you the round distribution for instance. Fury could have out landed him heavily in 2 or 3 rounds but been outlanded in the other 7 rounds.
 
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