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Miller has fought literally no one.

 

This is one fight where I actually hope AJ lives up to the hype and smashes that fat lad to pieces.

“He’s got a big head, easy to hit”... that made me laugh.

 

Frank Warren was on talskShite yesterday ... pretty sure he said that Tyson had actually put Miller on the deck 7 times in sparring sessions ...

 

He’s a fat mess, I’d laugh if he KO’d AJ mind but I hope AJ smashes him.

 

It wasn't on in the first place as they haven't even agreed to fight yet - Arum has stated that he has sent Wilder a new deal that undoubtedly will be negotiated for a long while yet.

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=26036778

 

Joshua appears to have uploaded most of his fights to his Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCughIsCoDkmTpwcX47lZQQw/videos

 

Heard he was trying to get the rights to them back from the broadcasters - good on him not putting them behind another paywall.

 

DeGale v Eubank Jr this Saturday - I will be watching in the hope that DeGale smacks some sense into Eubank Jr but doubt it.

Either way hopefully it will be a good fight and the winner retires Khan.

 

Anthony Crolla is going to face Vasyl Lomachenko on 12 April 2019.

I just hope that it isn't a repeat of Fielding vs Canelo and Crolla gives everything he has against the best boxer in the world imo.

 

Missed the fight but Eubank Jr beats Degale on points - apparently he also gave him a spinebuster after Degale spent most of the fight climbing over him.

Either way that should be it for Degale - Olympic gold and 2 world titles are a very decent legacy.

 

He absolutely dominated him, despite two of the scorecards coming back as 115-112 and 114-112. Laughable.
I'd struggle to give DeGale a round. He drew the one where Eubank lobbed him on his arse, but that's about it.
I expected a fairly competitive fight, but it was totally one-sided.

Joe Joyce used Stiverne as a rather fat punchbag and it should've been stopped before it was. The Haitian's finished.
Douglas put in a shift against Selby, but the difference in quality told in the end. Took a lot of punishment, but rarely looked troubled.
Selby's lack of power at that weight was evident, though the volume that he landed was easily enough for the win.

 

The Wilder vs Fury fight has been cancelled and will be "at another date so Fury can explore other opportunities" to paraphrase the various statements https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/47380748

Wonder if his fans are going to accuse him of ducking a world title match with Wilder so his stock isn't damaged if he loses at the beginning of his £80m ESPN deal because he apparently "is in boxing for titles not the money"?

 

James DeGale has retired https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/47400085

Whatever else you can say about him, he deserves respect for being the first Briton to win a Olympic gold and a World Championship.

 

Meh. Never really did it for me as a pro and lost his title to a 66/1 nobody. I did think he beat Groves though so things could have been different if he’d been given that decision.

 

Dubois and Yarde on the BT Sport bill tonight. Not fighting anyone significant though, unfortunately.

 

Williams v Mullender: Awful decision by the ref to let Mullender continue after being knocked down. Totally gone and gets buried by one punch.

 

From the BT lineup on Friday:

And this is the fight that provoked this comment:

Best fight of the evening, in my opinion and it's the only one that they haven't put up in full :

 

Probably won't watch it because of the time, but that's a big fight for free.

 

Dubois has potential - hopefully will gain more dimension then just power.

Good showing by Yarde - hopefully will get more meaningful fights.

I agree with you about the Williams v Mullender fight - should have been stopped after the knockdown and hopefully the referee gets a severe reprimand at the least.

The Garton vs Jenkins fight is one of the reasons I love boxing - in truth this is probably the highest level for both boxers but they fought like it was for a world championship.

 

Hopefully the replay will be on a decent time.