Weekends Boxing 22/8 (Whyte v Povetkin, Taylor v Persoon, Alvarez v Smith Jr etc)

generalgerry

Povektin looking very dangerous.

walshb

Digging in!!

squinn2912

Even enough round there. Whyte is an ignorant boy

squinn2912

Knock down this round

tastyt

Jesus that sky commentator is unbearable, you’d think whyte has been knocking him all over the ring by listening to him

ebbsy

tastyt wrote: »

Jesus that sky commentator is unbearable, you’d think whyte has been knocking him all over the ring by listening to him

You think you were watch an early Tyson the way they are going on.

normanoffside

weemcd wrote: »

Whyte is muck isn't he? Not saying he won't win, his style is just terrible to watch.

I've been saying for years how bad he is. I think Dubois or Joyce would beat him

ikeano29

tastyt wrote: »

Jesus that sky commentator is unbearable, you’d think whyte has been knocking him all over the ring by listening to him

He kinda is though with those body shots

generalgerry

Povetkin is funny, wants to slap gloves at the end of the round like it's a game of pool or something.

ebbsy

1000 days as number one contender.......

FrankGrimes

Most nervous I’ve ever been watching Katie, but delighted she got out of there with the win. We know Katie lacks the punching power that rocks a fighter with Persoon’s determination, but that for me was the classiest lateral head movement I can recall from Katie and if there’s two things judges value in the pro ranks, it’s clean powershots and lateral head movement is what they value on the defence side more than gloves up defence. It gives that champion gloss and that does affect their scoring.

If that was two evenly ranked contenders, many of the closer rounds could have gone either way. But for a contender vs undisputed champion situation, acknowledged or not, there is a subliminal “is this our champion” bias at play. If Persoon actually had either panache in her technique or real power in her punching to go along with her incredible doggedness, yep, she could get a lot of rounds in her favour.

But for all the comments about how Katie lacks power and how Persoon lacks accuracy, rarely, if at all, did Persoon show immediate fight ending punching power. Katie was disrupted, but never in that moment where you know you’re rocked and a feather could finish you.

So that for me is the real story here, not only was Persoon very poor in her technique to the extent you’d cringe if she’s to be crowned undisputed champ, she misses far too many shots to be regarded as an accomplished boxer, and she doesn’t have the killer shots to offset that. Normally, a fighter who has that wild punching style has you edge of seat as they could end it any moment. It’s not just Persoon who was not fearful of Katie’s shots, Katie wasn’t all that fearful of Persoons’s shots.

While the width of the margin can be debated, the better boxer remains the champion and I’m delighted for Katie, worried for her longevity as I may be.

ikeano29

Nice upper cut

UrbanFret

goodnight

Tandey

Game over.

tastyt

Wow 😯

squinn2912

Take that! F**k me

ctrl-alt-delete

Wow

ikeano29

Wow some knock out

fullstop

Goodnight :O

walshb

Delighted..

Hope Whyte ok..

generalgerry

Always the left hook

Utopia Parkway

Talk about out of the blue.

walshb

generalgerry wrote: »

Always the left hook

Uppercut I think..

taytobreath

Jesus

murphyebass

HOLY SHIIIIIT

squinn2912

That’s the danger AP always had mean hooks. Whyte will be devastated he was strolling it

earthwormjack

Sweet Jesus

generalgerry

f**k me I was watching a few seconds behind I thought ye were all talking about the left hook from Dillian in the previous round.

Stunned here. Poor Dillian.

walshb

This is not a shock..

Whyte is not great..

AP is hardy, and can punch..

AJ blasted Whyte a few years ago, and plodder Del Boy almost beat him..

weemcd

Holy F

After the knockdowns in the last round I was barely paying attention.

He fùckin buried him there.

Wow.