Boxing Chat & Discussion

It makes me angry when a boxing event is hyped up beyond belief, then fails to deliver. Audley Harrison is washed up and finished. Boxing is very hyped up these days, totally un-necessarily too. If you can get around the bullshit, there are occasionally good fights. But all too often the talk is bigger than the fight. Its a shame a lot of people paid a truck-load to watch that rubbish. I'm glad I avoided it.

I suppose its got to be the Klitschko brothers next for David Haye. There's not much talent in the heavyweight division at the moment to be honest, not like the eras of 10-20 years ago.

Harrison is a complete joke, i could've done better than that, he only got the fight due to it being billed as a great fight in England, i doubt the rest of the world would've given a shit. Haye could've just stood there & called him names & still beat him. From prizefighter to Heavyweight title fight..... Errrr NO!!!
To ask people to pay £15 for that is scandalous & not to mention the amount paid by people to sit ringside, Sky Box Office & Boxing should be ashamed of themselves.

Some of you boxing nuts should get into MMA & start watching the UFC, even a none spectacular card like UFC 122 in Germany last night still provided a good show & as part of a £9 a month package is..... Well like i said £15 for something that was outlasted by the fighters entrances.... Where's the punch line, something Audley Harrison will be asking himself no doubt...

Agreed 100% with Mitchell. The rest of the world didn't give a damn about that fight last night, and Haye made himself look foolish by being drawn into this joke-event. Harrison's been finished for ages now.

I used to be really into boxing, in the eras when there was a wealth of talent. You had Holyfield, Lewis, Tyson and the Klitschko brothers in their prime. That was a great era for the heavyweight division. In the middleweight division the likes of Calzaghe, Eubank, Benn, Collins were all great fight draws.

Those glory days of boxing are long gone now.

(14-11-2010 16:25 )Regenerated Wrote:  Haye made himself look foolish by being drawn into this joke-event.

Can anyone earning £5m for a fight be made to look foolish?

Another fantastic performance from Manny Pacquiao last night against the extremely tough Antonio Margarito.If u get the chance to watch the fight then just enjoy!!!12 rounds of top action.

Pacqiuao goes down as one of the greatest fighters of all time for me now.Unbelievable fighter.

Haye v Harrison...Yawn....Once again the British public are taken for a ride.In any other sport this match up would be investigated for being a fix or set up.David Haye obviously didn't try in the first two rounds as he had everyone he knew betting on a 3rd round stoppage!He knew he couldn't attack Harrison in Rounds 1 and 2 as he knew he would stop him as soon as he attacked!Meaning all family and friends bets would be down!So the decent people who bought the fight on Box office or bought a ticket for ringside have to watch that shit until Haye decides to end it!What a joke.

The fight should never have happened.

i actually thought Harrison had realized this was his last chance and got out with a bit of dignity putting up a fight, wrong. he looked scary whenever haye looked like throwing a punch. its a sorry state for the heavyweights when this was the right fight for haye to take. he couldn't agree terms with the klits and there is no one else, an easy fight with big pay day was the right way to go for him. he better be fighting a klitchko next if he is going to retire in a year and after that easy fight.

(14-11-2010 16:51 )woolleysheep Wrote:  

(14-11-2010 16:25 )Regenerated Wrote:  Haye made himself look foolish by being drawn into this joke-event.

Can anyone earning £5m for a fight be made to look foolish?

Money isn't everything. A lot of people have been cheated out of hard-earned cash, and Haye's reputation will take a knock for taking an easy fight. It was a joke.

Nobody was "cheated" out of anything. They were given a choice of whether they wanted to pay to watch a boxer who shouldn't have been within a million miles of a world title fight. Nobody held a gun to your head. Why is anybody surprised that Harrison was so bad? He's been bad his entire professional career.

OK perhaps my use of the word cheated was wrong, so I apologize for that.

But I'm not surprised Harrison was bad, I said he was bad before the fight. He has been for ages, I know that, thats why I said I didnt pay to watch it. And I still say there's not much talent in the heavyweight division.

(14-11-2010 17:47 )groundnpound Wrote:  Another fantastic performance from Manny Pacquiao last night against the extremely tough Antonio Margarito.If u get the chance to watch the fight then just enjoy!!!12 rounds of top action.

i sky plused that fight and watched it this morning, it was an incredible fight pacquiao's accuracy was frightening and credit to margarito he took one hell of a beating and he didnt even hit the floor, how he lasted the 12 rounds ill never know, quality fight best for along while, the pacquiao v mayweather surely has to happen soon.

i dont blame haye for taking that fight, the klitchko's are taking the piss in agreeing to fight so why he's waiting for them to sort things out why not give a beating to a joke of a fighter and earn alot ov money for a fight he was confident of winning comfortably. if he did dodge this fight harrison and the whole british public would be saying he's a coward and running scared which would be bollocks.