Boxing Thread 11/12 (Joshua-Pulev, McKenna Brothers, Top Rank/PBC Cards in US)

carltonleon

Jaysus, the lack of masks at an indoor event is nuts !!!!

How cringey is this sky love in, like shut the **** up Joshua . I hope he gets battered

lawrencesummers

carltonleon wrote: »

Jaysus, the lack of masks at an indoor event is nuts !!!!

More people with their heads stuck in their phones than in a mask.

funkey_monkey

Can someone please PM me a stream for the fight?
TIA.

Big Ears

I've been listening to the DAZN commentary......it's brutal tbh.
However as mentioned it's a choice between that and Sky's cheerleading of Matchroom fighters.

No matter which commentary you've been listening to, I think it's a must to avoid Sky for the main event. ''Lift off for AJ !!!!!'', and claims he's the greatest Heavyweight of all time will be the calls after he destroys a shot Pulev.

generalgerry

Joshua looks good, looks calm and confident.

My 50 euro hangs in the balance :-(

Jesus they need to shorten this introduction/walkout nonsense in boxing. Takes far too long, even had a slow motion highlight of AJ walking down the ramp that just happened a few seconds earlier. Embarrassing stuff really.

carltonleon

The first min has been like synchronised dancing

generalgerry

generalgerry wrote: »

Joshua looks good, looks calm and confident.

My 50 euro hangs in the balance :-(

Eh, he looks nervous and dodgy as **** mate.

BorneTobyWilde

Hope he boxes him in the belly .

eagle eye

Madelyn Tall Window wrote:

Eh, he looks nervous and dodgy as **** mate.

He won the round, realised towards the end of it how easy it is to hit Pulev.

darced

Joshua never looks comfortable

generalgerry

Madelyn Tall Window wrote: »

Eh, he looks nervous and dodgy as **** mate.

don't think so, I give him the first round. He certainly does look a bit adverse to being hit though. Keeping it well at distance. But if Pulev can't get near him it doesn't matter how good/bad AJ's chin is.

lawrencesummers

Jab working well for AJ

generalgerry

Pulev is going for the same left hook that White and Ruiz got him with!

generalgerry

generalgerry wrote: »

don't think so, I give him the first round. He certainly does look a bit adverse to being hit though. Keeping it well at distance. But if Pulev can't get near him it doesn't matter how good/bad AJ's chin is.

I'm watching a stream so behind

Hes still such a **** boxer though, he's absolutely there for the taking. Pulev is a tomato can

No doubt he will win this but ...

eagle eye

Joshua well on top, I think he can finish it anytime he wants.

One_More_Mile

Joshua looks a lot more averse to taking a shot since the 1st Ruiz fight.He could blow this guy away if he went for it
Edit spoke too soon

Blanco100

Joshua doesn't like to fight.

Looks like he is being re modelled as a HW who tries to use his physical advantage to control the distance.

won't be as exciting but more effective.

Pulev is done

lawrencesummers

Joshua saw the left from Pulev a long way out and hammered him.

Game set match.

eagle eye

No spring left in the legs of Pulev, one good shot finishes it.

Blanco100

HW boxing is always different. obviously the only weight class with regular weight/ dimensions differences.

AJ should blow Pulev away but a fight like this doesn't prepare you for a Fury, even a Wilder fight where your reach and height advantage is negated.

With his physical advantages AJ should be winning on points behind his jab by default.

lawrencesummers

Jab away and waiting for pulev to throw the left hook, then counter.

generalgerry

Exciting stuff. Fair play to Pulev for staying in there and fighting for my fifty quid his pride.

walshb

The longer AJ allows Pulev to be in this the riskier this is.

AJ needs to press home now and take Pulev out.

Blanco100

Hearn has had to beef up his match making staff since Ruiz 1 I believe. Some of his matchmakers were green.

BorneTobyWilde

Boxing must be the one sport where the standard drops ever decade rather than improves like other sports.

Blanco100

walshb wrote: »

The longer AJ allows Pulev to be in this the riskier this is.

AJ needs to press home now and take Pulev out.

Pulev will gas the longer this goes, Joshua should use this to get some rounds, try some things out

walshb

These DAZN commentators haven’t a clue!!

Blanco100

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Boxing must be the one sport where the standard drops ever decade rather than improves like other sports.

Amen to that. The gifted big men in the US are not boxing anymore.

generalgerry

I don't think that AJ would be still standing if he took the punches that Pulev took.

AJ well ahead, but I wonder is he getting flashbacks of Ruiz - "I had him pretty much finished but he's still there"

BorneTobyWilde

Pulex jabbed so many times he's now immune to covid

normanoffside

AJ is looking very nervous and vulnerable here.

Blanco100

generalgerry wrote: »

I don't think that AJ would be still standing if he took the punches that Pulev took.

AJ well ahead, but I wonder is he getting flashbacks of Ruiz - "I had him pretty much finished but he's still there"

In fairness Ruiz had some variety and handspeed (and a love of cheeseburgers unfortunately)

normanoffside

OmegaGene wrote: »

Pulev has a great chin

He doesn't really and he doesn't hit that hard himself either

titan18

The ref is going to have to take a point for these back of the head punches soon

lawrencesummers

normanoffside wrote: »

AJ is looking very nervous and vulnerable here.

Vulnerable?

No.

Blanco100

you need to make Joshua work every round. Test his engine. He takes the odd round off and then explodes into energy again.

walshb

AJ will be a few points up, no doubt, but needs to be careful here..Pulev is in the rounds, and dangerous.

generalgerry

Gareth A Davies taking a break from hanging around Kugan's GoPro

ASOT

walshb wrote: »

These DAZN commentators haven’t a clue!!

Terrible they are

gypsy79

Just as well the judges dont see the highlights

68-65 after 7

normanoffside

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Vulnerable?

No.

Yes.
He looks vulnerable and nervous, both of his chin and gas tank.

eagle eye

I think it's over in this round.

BorneTobyWilde

Pulev should have gambled on a 4 round fight. Try to finish it and be out of steam in 4. He can't win over distance against Joshua

Blanco100

You know when sky are praising the opponent they are just building Joshua's profile.

He's making hard work of this in fairness.

lawrencesummers

After the third the temptation for Joshua must have been to go for it in the fourth but he didn’t and stuck to the plan. Reckon we will see him up the pace soon and try and finish it now that pulev is fading.

lawrencesummers

normanoffside wrote: »

Yes.
He looks vulnerable and nervous, both of his chin and gas tank.

I don’t see any indication of either tbh.

normanoffside

Not impressed by AJ here at all, plus he looks nervous of Pulev who has little power.

normanoffside

normanoffside wrote: »

Not impressed by AJ here at all, plus he looks nervous of Pulev who has little power.

Do you watch boxing? What exactly did you expect