"The Sweet Science" - Boxing

[Prime Time]

I guess the big news in Boxing might be that Tyson Fury, for many still the real heavyweight champion of the world, returns to the ring on June the 9th to take on Sefer Seferi.

It's presumed that he'll want whoever is the winner of the Wilder and Joshua match that's expected for the Autumn or Winter, if his comeback goes as planned.


I don't know if I fully buy into it though. He's good at self-promotion. He's certainly awkward. But I'm yet to be convinced he's done anything other than beat a decent fighter (but no better) in Chisoara, and then got lucky in catching Klitschko on an off-night. I guess now he's back in boxing he's a chance to prove that for good, but as of this moment I'm yet to be convinced.



I do think Wilder/Joshua is the fight the sport needs right now, so I'm hoping that comes off.

[Shee]

That fight literally showed us nothing about Fury. The fight in the crowd was more interesting.

Too much antics for me. Never really got going although Fury looked to be getting into it more before the stoppage. Fury still carrying a lot of weight, is no where near a Joshua or Wilder fight.

Bellew making a bit of noise. Wouldn't mind seeing the two of them get it on. Although I can see Fury fighting again quickly against someone lower down.

Edit: August 18th in Belfast he will fight again. No chance it'll be Bellew by then. Hopefully someone substantially better than Seferi.

[Prime Time]

Yeah I see Bellew has changed his tune. Was saying he couldn't fight a guy that size but didn't take long to chirp up, did it?

Adds another interesting match in that division though, doesn't it. Seems like Britain is flying the flag for heavyweight boxing right now.... Unless Wilder beats them all, of course....

[Prime Time]

Tyson Fury saying that he's nearly got a fight with Wilder sorted out. That surprised me. I can't see him beating Wilder though... surely?!

[Funker]

In a word, no.

[Prime Time]

Short and sweet.

The GGG vs Canelo rematch is set for a few weeks. Who do you have winning it? Or has the drug test fail pretty much killed your interest in this one?

[LWO4Life]

Deontay Wilder I feel like knows he's the best fighter in the world, and really, really wants to fight Joshua. Joshua isn't biting so Wilder is settling for Tyson Fury (maybe the greatest boxing name I've ever seen in my life). I don't think Fury beats Wilder, and a victory here just makes it harder for Joshua to avoid Wilder.

[Prime Time]

I hadn't heard anyone here say Joshua was ducking Wilder until Frank Warren said it, and given he's Fury's promoter I'm taking it with a little bit of a pinch of salt. I still see them coming together down the road. I think it's probably in part just that the British boxers seem to have more marquee value than the Americans now (MAJOR role reversal from my youth) and they are playing hardball with regards to how much they want to make out of it. And I think it probably does make sense to try and get everything you can out of it, given that at heavyweight all it takes is the right punch and you're done.

It's smart by Wilder - and Fury too, for that matter - to try and spread it around though. Might get the Joshua camp to take it on less smart terms than they otherwise would. And even those people who don't really buy it will be watching Joshua and his dealings now to see if there's any truth in it.

[Prime Time]

Well, didn't see that one coming personally. Missed the fight though, only going off reports and sounds like it could easily have gone either way. Hard to see them not going again.

[Gooner]

Same here, too late for me. If you look at the official scorecards, going into the 12th it could have ended 114 for each, but two of them gave it to Canelo. Looking forward to watching this when I get the chance, reports suggest technically a very good fight, better than their first.

[Gooner]

AJ KOs Povetkin in 7 rounds. I had Povetkin ahead by that point too, a very game Russian catching AJ in each round, with AJ probably a bit tentative. But AJ just showed his power and caught Povetkin flush. Only one winner after that.

After heavily favouring AJ in a fight against Wilder, I'm starting to have my doubts. AJ doesn't half get hit an awful lot for a heavyweight...

[Prime Time]

It sounded like everyone either had it level of Povetkin ahead after a bright start. I don't know of anyone who had Joshua in front by that point.

Fair play to him though, pulling it out in adversity. Felt like an important win, that one.

[Funker]

Was a good win.

Saunders might lose his title after the Massachusetts board refused him a licence.

Brook and Khan have supposed to agreed a weight for a clash next year.

And to cap it all, just six weeks until Wilder and Fury, and the WBC has already said that they will sanction a unification bout against Joshua.

[Prime Time]

I'll watch Brook and Khan, but obviously Wilder and Fury is where all the real interest is right now, especially as it might mean we end up with a kind of a round-robin with Joshua. Plus, a big American heavyweight in legit fights might actually be what the sport needs to get it's mojo back in the USA.

Khabib Nurmagomedov has apparently called out Floyd Mayweather following his win over MacGregor. I mean you can see the logic but I'm not sure that an MMA guy who doesn't have the headline power of a MacGregor is going to be such a big draw for Floyd. But I wouldn't be surprised to see it, and I imagine it'd go much the same way.

[sucky]

Looking forward to Fury/Wilder.

Two legit nutcases, someone is getting KO'ed.

Anyone see Alvarez sign that huge deal with DAZN?