The Boxing thread

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Eubank is a very good middleweight. In the top 10 in the world by just about anyone’s reckoning. ( before yesterday at least ) It’s not his fault he isn’t his dad. Some fans seem to use a measure of boxers that isn’t applied to any other sport. That if you’re not the best in the world, you’re shit.

Not really, I just expect him to back up all that pre fight trash talk

 

[SWPISHOME]

Eubank is a very good middleweight. In the top 10 in the world by just about anyone’s reckoning. ( before yesterday at least ) It’s not his fault he isn’t his dad. Some fans seem to use a measure of boxers that isn’t applied to any other sport. That if you’re not the best in the world, you’re shit.

He's not a good fighter, Zero head movement, Constantly flat footed is probably his biggest concern. He has three defeats now Billy Joe Saunders, Liam Smith and the one people tend to forget is George Groves who had a dislocated shoulder and beat him with one arm that night not only beat him but dismantled him. The fight would have went the same way last night as Smith gets better as thee rounds go on. Smith will spank him again in the rematch.

 

[mexico1970]

Eubank is a very good middleweight. In the top 10 in the world by just about anyone’s reckoning. ( before yesterday at least ) It’s not his fault he isn’t his dad. Some fans seem to use a measure of boxers that isn’t applied to any other sport. That if you’re not the best in the world, you’re shit.

The point people are making is that he is relatively shit, and by that they mean that considering the hype and the coverage he gets he should be a lot better.

I have every respect for people who stand there and get punched in the face for a living but better boxers than Eubank have had little to no coverage compared to his leg up, carefully managed crappy boxers can go a long way in the boxing game.

 

[shevtheblue]

He's not a good fighter, Zero head movement, Constantly flat footed is probably his biggest concern. He has three defeats now Billy Joe Saunders, Liam Smith and the one people tend to forget is George Groves who had a dislocated shoulder and beat him with one arm that night not only beat him but dismantled him. The fight would have went the same way last night as Smith gets better as thee rounds go on. Smith will spank him again in the rematch.

Billy Joe is a brilliant fighter and George Groves was a true Super-Middleweight and a really talented one at that. He's a really good fighter, is he a great fighter? Nah.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Billy Joe is a brilliant fighter and George Groves was a true Super-Middleweight and a really talented one at that. He's a really good fighter, is he a great fighter? Nah.

Groves was a brilliant fighter and as you said a true Super-Middleweight but the fact is he was fighting Eubank with his left arm dangling and still dishing out a lesson to Eubank.

I just don't see it with Eubank I think he's bang average, I don't think you can put anyone down as a really good fighter with victories against Williams, O'Sullivan, Abraham, Morriston ect He's come up against three seriously good boxers in his entire career Smith, Groves and Saunders and beaten in all three.

I don't know where he goes from here, Prince Naseem was right all that time ago, Time to hang the gloves up before he gets hurt badly.

 

[Salford in the City]

Not seen the fight, as I refused to fork out extra, on top of my £100+ per month Sky/BT package!

I can't remember the last time a decent boxing event was screened where you don't have to pay upwards of £25.

A real rip off nowadays!

 

[Crooked_rain]

No one arsed about the fact Smith is clearly homophobic? The crowd weren't either.

Well Eubank started the gay topic a week or two earlier insinuating that Smith was gay, saying “what kind of man slides into another man’s DM’s”

The reality is I think they were just both being juvenile. I don’t think they meant any major harm when they said it but it never comes across well

 

[Stephen230]

He's not a good fighter, Zero head movement, Constantly flat footed is probably his biggest concern. He has three defeats now Billy Joe Saunders, Liam Smith and the one people tend to forget is George Groves who had a dislocated shoulder and beat him with one arm that night not only beat him but dismantled him. The fight would have went the same way last night as Smith gets better as thee rounds go on. Smith will spank him again in the rematch.

Well we all have our own personal definition of what we consider “good” By most fair definitions I’d consider someone who is in the top 10 people on earth at what they do in their category as pretty good. Doesn’t mean you can’t have limitations.

 

[bluemc1]

Well Eubank started the gay topic a week or two earlier insinuating that Smith was gay, saying “what kind of man slides into another man’s DM’s”

The reality is I think they were just both being juvenile. I don’t think they meant any major harm when they said it but it never comes across well

I think this is spot on, just blokes being juvenile and daft but no malice there, the hysterical woke snowflake mob just want to label and brand people and actively search for something to scream they’re offended about

 

[Stephen230]

The point people are making is that he is relatively shit, and by that they mean that considering the hype and the coverage he gets he should be a lot better.

I have every respect for people who stand there and get punched in the face for a living but better boxers than Eubank have had little to no coverage compared to his leg up, carefully managed crappy boxers can go a long way in the boxing game.

We all know Eubank isn’t getting within a million miles of headlining a PPV event and selling out the Arena without his name. But that’s hardly on him. If punters are prepared to pay, what’s he gonna do, insist the fight goes on at The York Hall on a Wednesday night?