Official Boxing Thread.

Aye I'm not denying that...but at the same time the only person Fury has fought that is above the standard of AJ's opponents too is Klitschko... maybe Chisora at a push but he has always been overrated because he is British too. Anyway my point is Fury's previous 20 something opponents were all that standard too and he looked a lot less impressive in getting past them. He doesn't have that great a chin and has been put down a few times in his career by domestic level journeymen, his technique is poor and sloppy and he has nowhere near as much power as someone his size should. However his defence has drastically improved.

He obviously gets credit for beating Klitschko, its a great achievement and no-one really expected it, but i think the majority of the reason for that was him not showing up or giving Fury too much respect - i mean he barely threw a punch the whole fight whilst Fury just erratically bounced around barely throwing punches either. If Klitschko still has the hunger he should win the rematch comfortably... but if not Fury will get found out against the likes of Povetkin, Wilder, Haye and AJ. Boxers who I feel have better technique, punch variety, boxing skills and would have no fear of Fury. The main reason I think AJ would beat him now is simply the power aspect. I feel like Joshua could take Fury's punches all night, whereas Fury's best hope would be to try and avoid them like he did with Klitschko... only Joshua is younger, more mobile and hungrier and would be confident in his power. He'd only need a couple to connect and it would be over.

So after all the bluster, Joshua is fighting another random with an unbeaten record they can make out is a decent boxer.

RIP Amir Khan But nah he's always had a chin made of glass, I had no idea this was hyped to be such a big fight, the result was never gonna be anything different

So McGregor just posted about the Mayweather fight. Think he's making another mistake, Floyd will destroy him

To be fair the punch he took would have felled most people.

Wonder whats next for him.

He's probably just trolling, but either way its probably silly money and Mayweather won't hurt him. Easy pay day for him, even if he would lose a boxing match.

Probably another couple of years of dodging Kell Brook, or getting beat by Danny Garcia again

Haye v Bellew tonight.

Have stuck €20 on it to go to a decision and Bellew to win it.

How's everyone see it going?

That my friend is €20 down the drain. Think Bellew could end up in a coma, there's no actual reason as to why Bellew stands any chance against Haye

Nearly struck lucky there Kev. That was the only way Bellew was getting a win against Haye there