We watched it on a foreign stream in HD on 52" plasma with surround sound, so we didn't hear the commentary. Pre fight we all thought if the soft southern ginger fairy was going to pull off the impossible, it would be in the first 6 rounds. We all thought it'd be done by round 10, my mate called frotch round 8 (I didnt listen more fool me). I got sidetracked a bit there but we all thought groves was ****e and were counting the clock before he got knocked the **** out. I was praying he'd hang on til round 7 so I could cash in on my lovely frotch 7-9 bet. I'm not even that in to boxing but it was obvious to anything with half a brain cell who would win after 30 seconds from the body language and confidence of either man. I cNt believe Khan said that, what a clueless muppet.
If dutch is on i hope he gives you your own thread..... Oh and look at the top of the page, I've got a sticky thread hehe
If you drive round to mine I'll give you a friendly kick. I've had a few hence I can't make the journey myself. Your choice pal. Ps. You might have to lie down for me as I think if I try wrestle anyone to the ground I'll end up arse over tit.
You ****ing ****stain. Argentina? Are you off your ****ing head you total twat? Go fight on the Falklands ****. See if you still say that then.
i arnt that arsed with boxing these days but it was now way near anything like the hype the media played it out to be . Neither are fit to lace the gloves of Benn , Watson or Eubank ! total piss take fight of fanny slaps and pissing about
i agreed with Khan in that clip , i couldnt understand the commentators spunkathon over Froch when he had done little in those early rounds . As i said at the time ,it felt like i was watching a fight between a Brit (froch) and some johnny come lately Polish bloke (Groves) the comms was galling and biased
Maybe he did. I'm no expert when it comes to boxing, I said as much at some point over the last booze fuelled hour or so. It looked to me like a yorkshire terrier puppy against a veteran checzslovakian wolf dog. An over excited minnow against a specialist seasoned fighter. Lots of over excited barking and jumping around from the terrier early doors, with little gain, but the wolf dog stood and weathered the drizzle whilst waiting for the right moment to unleash the imaginary giant cloud blower (I imagined a leaf blower but 10000x the size in the hands of Brock Lesnar on extra steroids and injected with water like supermarket chicken) to blow the petty drizzle away amongst a turmoil of thunder and hurricane force winds. Froch looked in control to me from start to finish and just let Groves huff and puff like a little puppy whilst biding his time waiting for the opening. Think Guardiolas Barcelona v Fat Sams Wet Spam. Edit: poor analogy. Think Ollie twatface forgot his name Hollowheads (I think?) Blackpool v Lord Jose Mourinho's Chelsea (first coming).
Groves wasn't in the fight - the unofficial scorecard from the professionals reflected that, as I'm sure the official one would too. How the **** could Groves be ahead? He was getting backed up and hit. Groves probably had 2 rounds marginally before getting sparked. Froch was jabbing and scoring, disrupting any rhythm that Groves had wanted to start with.
Erm, it was... as you posting on page 6 of a football forum topic devoted to it suggests Pretty much anyone I know was talking about it this week and most posts on Facebook and Twitter in that hour were devoted to it. Granted social media was not around at the time of the Benn Eubank era but tonights fight captured everything about what boxing is and certainly on a par with those fights of the past. Nice to see Watson make a comment or two prior to the fight btw.
He was worried that he burned out last time. He can't do 12 rounds with Froch. We'll never know if he'd have won if he came out of the block in the same style as last time.
It's a fairly safe bet Groves thought he didn't have what it takes to fight Froch that way or he'd have tried it again. As I put earlier, Groves' self doubt was evident in the need to try to keep Froch from his own settled approach by trash talking. Groves is now saying it was done to hype up the fight, but I'll bet it'd be a different story if he'd won. Fair play, it was by no means a classic, but a lot of people got a lot of pleasure watching the trappy southern tart being given a lesson and getting sat on his arse, and taking a few quid from the bookies in the process, so his talk upped the interest massively. Khan though. Another one where mystic Meg here took money from the bookies when I predicted he'd stumble against quality because if they didn't fall over, he had no plan B.
Take away their previous meeting, the pre-fight hype and wembley stadium.... it was a pretty dull fight.
