Boxing

Haven't been able to check the boards for a few days so it's cool to see a few replies. A boxing forum would be great

I agree Dub13, Bernard Dunne is definitely a man who is moving on to bigger and better things each year. Training in the US has been a great experience for him, especially with Freddie Roach.

Any of you guys giving Ricky Hatton a chance and Tszyu next weekend? I really think he could pull off an upset though Tszyu is the favourite (with good reason) Actually dreamnt that Hatton would loose by TKO in round 8...

Oh and one last thing. Anyone know if the Tyson vs McBride fight is being broadcast on Sky?

Big Ears wrote:

I do , I think Hattons incredible workrate will force Tszyu to fight at a tempo he doesn't like , remeber he's 35/36 , if Hatton keeps him working for every minute of every round (he can do this , its just ****ing amazing) Tszyu will tire and will quite possibly be knocked out .

On the other hand if Hatton ends up fighting at Tszyu tempo then I would expect a very early stopage . Its gonna be all about who controls the fight .

It's going to be interesting to see how Hatton reacts to all the home support. It could be a real encouragement but then again he might feel under pressure to go for the big punches early on (too early). I guess Hatton is at his best when he's on the attack and Billy Graham will have him well schooled on Tszyu's tactics. It's definitely gonna be an interesting fight...however long it lasts.

Anyone know what the televised undercard is going to be?

Also, any thoughts on Harrison vs Brodie? It's easy to forget about this fight since were all caught up with 'the big one'. It's pretty hard to pick a winner in this one. Scott wasn't on great form in his last defence...but then again how much has Chi taken out of Brodie? To be honest I think Brodie can do it...

Done

Someone made the point about posting boxing threads in the self defence forum. I think boxing has too much scope for something like that. Besides...gettting paid $1 million to KO somebody isn't really self defence

Wow, what a fight :eek:

Well done Ricky, awesome performance. My respect for Tszyu has doubled (if that's possible)

I was checking what the boxing coverage is like for the week ahead and couldn't believe what I saw on Setanta PPV 1.

Graeme Earl vs Kevin Bennett, for the british and commonwealth lightweight belts.

Is there anyone out there who plans to buy this? It's on next Sunday, coverage starts at 9PM. Personally I think it's crazy. If the fight was on sky sports I'd watch it, but pay? No thanks.

Checked the details on Setanta's website. They had no specifics apart from the main event, but here is what they did say:

Three other title fights and a superb undercard back up this show.

You can read their promo here - http://www.setanta.com/content/setanta/website.nsf/page/c4d9caf910cfede98025701f0030d4fe?open&pageid=6b8c2e174528a4e680256e74006a3432&

Does anyone know how committed to boxing ITV really are? I think it's great that they're showing these british fights, though I'm just wondering if they plan to pick up a few 'big' fights from the states. Maybe the ones sky aren't interested in?

Sky's boxing coverage this summer is great. So many big fights and all of them for free. Who'd have thought it a few years ago? Guess they got sick of all the emails telling them to get their act together. Good job Sky.