Boxing Thread

How many stewards?

Didn’t know that, hope he’s alive and gets better, always struck me as a nice fella.

:smiley:

It’s been confirmed by a couple of well known journalists. Very sad.

edit: despite being ‘confirmed’ by said journalists there are still conflicting reports about this

This was confirmed a few hours ago. Crazy how fast he went. He was still working the corner in big fights a few months ago. He’s a huge loss to boxing, he was genuine class in a sport that doesn’t have much of it.

RIP Manny,one of the great trainers ,43 world champions a.great man to call a fight also

Gutted about this. :frowning:

Lovely tribute by Lennox Lewis in the papers today, I have to say.

Some hilarious shit unfolding as part of the ongoing Mayweather-50 Cent break up :lol:

A legendary battle of wits.

Elaborate please. Floyd is a good laugh in fairness to him.

I’ve just checked it now, great stuff. Floyd won this one hands down.

Missed the Q-finals of prizefighter but I see Craig McEwan was beaten by a guy with two previous fights.

Great fight with young Irish prospect Jamie Kavanagh on Mexican TV last night. You can tell Kavanagh is a Wildcard (Freddie Roach’s gym) fighter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipautGT6SE

Andy Lee got engaged to a friend of mine yesterday, I can exclusively reveal.

Sloppy seconds?

Boxing great Carmen Basilio died aged 85 today. Most famous for beating Sugar Ray Robinson for the Middleweight Championship of the World, and for telling the Mob to go fuck themselves when they tried to take over his career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVw3t_3lr4o

Vladimir beating Wach by a distance at the moment but the Pole won’t go down. Round 8 was brutally one sided, couldn’t believe the ref didn’t stop it.
Round 10 coming up.

FFS. I eschewed 12/1 on the fight going the distance.

Kell Brook will fight Devon Alexander for welterweight IBF title on Jan 19th. Alexander is fairly mediocre by world standards but it’s still a step up for Brook. Decent chance of a Khan-Brook fight happening at some stage if Brook wins.

Yet another impressive performance in the SBW division on Saturday night, with Abner Mares beating slickster Anselmo Moreno in an entertaining fight. Mares is now the primary challenger for Donaire’s crown as king of the division and is arguably one of the top ten fighters in the world himself. He’s also got the coolest ring walk gear since B-hop.

https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/2842930257/1bc1de6bcbd37f20a1d0ea4742f4b335.jpeg

Mares is a dirty slimebag of a fighter. Donaire will need serious balls protection if he takes on the fight

Have these been posted anywhere yet? Boxers before and after the fight (cant copy the pictures), Andy Lee is in there

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4644715/Boxers-photographed-before-and-after-stepping-in-the-ring.html

Any word on andy Lee at all? New trainer? Relocation? Will the kronk even continue?