Off Topic Sport Other than Football - formerly the Ashes Thread

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PleaseNotPoll said:
Did better than most people expected him to, though. Caused Usyk some real problems.
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Warning: Awful American commentary.
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He did well in the first few rounds.

Bellew reinvented himself as a heavyweight, made a decent fist of it (no pun intended) without really being a serious player in that division, but, perhaps more importantly from his point of view, captured the public imagination and had a few big pay days. If he's made £10M out of it through Hearn, it's a job well done.
 
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Turns out the Scream franchise isn't the bloodiest thing David Arquette's been involved with

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The following video features blood, light tubes, and Nick Gage reminding everyone that he was a scumbag even by Combat Zone Wrestling's standards
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humanbeingincroydon said:
Turns out the Scream franchise isn't the bloodiest thing David Arquette's been involved with

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The following video features blood, light tubes, and Nick Gage reminding everyone that he was a scumbag even by Combat Zone Wrestling's standards
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Why is David Arquette a wrestler now and why is he doing it at such a **** and dangerous level?
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
Why is David Arquette a wrestler now and why is he doing it at such a **** and dangerous level?
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Weirdly, there's quite a detailed answer for this...

Back in 2000 Arquette was the star of Ready to Rumble, a comedy that should've been long forgotten if not for one detail: as the film was about a pair of wrestling fans the producers decided to strike a deal with WCW to have various members of the company's roster appear in the film, and as a result WCW thought it would be a brilliant idea to help promote the film by not only having Arquette feature in their programming, but also have him win their world title (a move which Arquette thought was dumb, but then again that barely scrapes the top ten dumb decisions of 2000-1 WCW). Given this happened less than a year before WCW went out of business, for a long time Arquette's two-week title reign been held up as one of the main reasons of the company's demise - which is grossly unfair as the company was hemorrhaging cash before then, and were ultimately killed by Ted Turner's networks wanting to drop wrestling from their portfolio.

After eighteen years of being slagged off by wrestling fans and columnists alike Arquette decided to return to the ring, getting actual in-ring training not only to try and gain a degree of respect, but as he was working the indie circuit the idea was he'd help the bookers out by adding some name value to their cards, which certainly worked as his first few matches did get some word of mouth for the companies and boosted their profile.

Fast forward to the match in question, it seems whoever booked the show was one of those scumbags in the wrestling industry who can't tell the difference between having somebody pay their dues with letting some dickhead take advantage of them in the ring, which is why he was put up against Nick Gage in spite the fact that Gage has a reputation for messing up opponents he doesn't like - which is downright dangerous in wrestling, moreso in deathmatch-style matches given the glass, thumbtacks, barbed wire and hedge trimmers that get used (and, no,m none of those is made up) - but add to that Gage had a slight problem of being in prison between 2011-15 for armed robbery, so he;s a real fine example of humanity right there...
 
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Parking this here..... rather more carefully than this Formula 3 driver in the Macau Grand Prix!! <yikes>

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Great test in Sri Lanka. SL 9 down needing 101 to win. Pushpakumara comes in at no 11 and has hit 42 quick runs before tea, squeaky bum time England, SL need just 43 now.

Shame, the captain lbw 1st ball after tea, on umpires call.
 
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deedub93 said:
Great test in Sri Lanka. SL 9 down needing 101 to win. Pushpakumara comes in at no 11 and has hit 42 quick runs before tea, squeaky bum time England, SL need just 43 now.

Shame, the captain lbw 1st ball after tea, on umpires call.
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It was great.
Best Test in a dead rubber ever.
I don't think the series proves England are all that quite yet in Test cricket but there were a number of positives - not least that England bowlers looked threatening in spinning conditions and England batsmen played the spinning ball quite well (albeit against mediocre opposition).
 
littleDinosaurLuke said:
It was great.
Best Test in a dead rubber ever.
I don't think the series proves England are all that quite yet in Test cricket but there were a number of positives - not least that England bowlers looked threatening in spinning conditions and England batsmen played the spinning ball quite well (albeit against mediocre opposition).
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Foakes was surely the ‘find’ of the tour. Better keeper than either Bairstow or Buttler and coming in at 7 or 8 provides an incredible depth to the batting.
And Jennings finding form as an opener and short leg was a huge plus.
Great result in a notoriously difficult place to win a test series :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
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littleDinosaurLuke said:
Fury was robbed.
First boxer to show that Wilder is not all that
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I think that Luis Ortiz did that, to be honest. Had him absolutely staggering and he was lucky to survive.

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<applause>

I liked Malignaggie as a boxer, despite his powderpuff punches, but he's far, far better as a commentator.
He has a great understanding of the sport and of various injuries, having suffered most of them himself! <laugh>
 
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littleDinosaurLuke said:
Fury was robbed.
First boxer to show that Wilder is not all that
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I didn't see the fight, so I can't comment on whether the decision was fair. But I will say that Wilder's skills looked astonishingly rudimentary when I first watched him about five years ago. Last time I checked he had improved quite noticably, but still looked somewhere between raw and amateurish. On the other hand, he's a top level athlete with excellent focus and power and a strong heart.

Fury can box. It's his focus and conditioning which are questionable. Joshua is more like Wilder, except he's not as raw, outweighs him by thirty pounds, and may not have the same power. These three will probably put on a few more intriguing, dramatic fights in the next few years.
 
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For anyone that missed the Fury v Wilder fight:
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Fair play to BT for putting the whole thing on Youtube for nothing.
 
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Fair play to BT for putting the whole thing on Youtube for nothing.
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Other than the £7.60 they make per 1000 views, meaning they've made over £200k from it in the 18 hours since uploading it

Coincidentally, here's the figures for other countries
USA - $10 per 1000 views
EU - €10 per 1000 views

Thanks for that, Boris...
 
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