The Boxing thread

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[jimharri]

Very few would have been able to carry on after that punch. As was mentioned last night, it was very similar to Lennox Lewis getting nailed by Hasim Rahman;

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inehc0s0rDs[/video]

Go to 3:53 in the video.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Poor from groves to get tagged by that just when he was getting a foothold in the fight. fucking hell if you can't defend the old one two then you have no business fighting for world titles. Frochs legend is assured he should call it a day now.

Not fair to say groves has no right boxing for world titles because he got caught by a one two. Pac man walked on to a straight right and is a 7 weight champion, frochs movement and speed of punch done groves the right was coming before the left had tagged him amd it was almost a counter punch as groves had swung, froch done his homework from the last fight and knew groves would throw the left to counter

 

[leighton]

To be honest it was a close fight until the KO and what a brilliant shot Froch caught Groves with. The cards at the time had Froch up in 2 and Groves up in 1. Groves landed more punches than Froch again and I thought he was getting better and going to kick on. And now its time for him to rebuild again. I think his trainer may well be gone and him moving back to Adam Booth be a good option. Also his new deal with Saurland could see him fight for another World title within 2 fights. I think Groves will win a World title still.

Also nice to see Jamie McDonnell winning the world title he should be double world champion only for being stripped of 1 of his belts. Also the Mitchell fight was a good 1 too. A good card on the night.

 

[garymj]

Poor from groves to get tagged by that just when he was getting a foothold in the fight. fucking hell if you can't defend the old one two then you have no business fighting for world titles. Frochs legend is assured he should call it a day now.

Not fair to say groves has no right boxing for world titles because he got caught by a one two. Pac man walked on to a straight right and is a 7 weight champion, frochs movement and speed of punch done groves the right was coming before the left had tagged him amd it was almost a counter punch as groves had swung, froch done his homework from the last fight and knew groves would throw the left to counter

Spot on mate, most knockout punches come from a "lazy" left jab followed by a straight right , very hard to defend against, check out marciano ko on jersey joe walcot, still the best ko ever imo.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

That punch would have knocked out a rhinoceros.

 

[andyhinch]

Poor from groves to get tagged by that just when he was getting a foothold in the fight. fucking hell if you can't defend the old one two then you have no business fighting for world titles. Frochs legend is assured he should call it a day now.

Not fair to say groves has no right boxing for world titles because he got caught by a one two. Pac man walked on to a straight right and is a 7 weight champion, frochs movement and speed of punch done groves the right was coming before the left had tagged him amd it was almost a counter punch as groves had swung, froch done his homework from the last fight and knew groves would throw the left to counter

Spot on mate, most knockout punches come from a "lazy" left jab followed by a straight right , very hard to defend against, check out marciano ko on jersey joe walcot, still the best ko ever imo.

I'd have said he was hook, think he was believing his own propaganda, never a shot I could make.

 

[shevtheblue]

Poor from groves to get tagged by that just when he was getting a foothold in the fight. fucking hell if you can't defend the old one two then you have no business fighting for world titles. Frochs legend is assured he should call it a day now.

I think he got over confident after taking most of Frochs shots earlier. He was countering with his left hook after blocking the initial jab (something he said he would catch Froch with) when he was actually cornered and should have been covering up to slip when Froch went on his crazy punch solos.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Poor from groves to get tagged by that just when he was getting a foothold in the fight. fucking hell if you can't defend the old one two then you have no business fighting for world titles. Frochs legend is assured he should call it a day now.

Not fair to say groves has no right boxing for world titles because he got caught by a one two. Pac man walked on to a straight right and is a 7 weight champion, frochs movement and speed of punch done groves the right was coming before the left had tagged him amd it was almost a counter punch as groves had swung, froch done his homework from the last fight and knew groves would throw the left to counter

Spot on mate, most knockout punches come from a "lazy" left jab followed by a straight right , very hard to defend against, check out marciano ko on jersey joe walcot, still the best ko ever imo.

[video]http://youtu.be/NGl58d2V30A[/video]

Tony disagrees

 

[conormcfc]

To be honest it was a close fight until the KO and what a brilliant shot Froch caught Groves with. The cards at the time had Froch up in 2 and Groves up in 1. Groves landed more punches than Froch again and I thought he was getting better and going to kick on. And now its time for him to rebuild again. I think his trainer may well be gone and him moving back to Adam Booth be a good option. Also his new deal with Saurland could see him fight for another World title within 2 fights. I think Groves will win a World title still.

Also nice to see Jamie McDonnell winning the world title he should be double world champion only for being stripped of 1 of his belts. Also the Mitchell fight was a good 1 too. A good card on the night.

Can you stop wanking off this loudmouth leighton. Groves has looked better in the 2 Froch fights than he ever did under Booth.

Another display of shit punditry by Jim Watt again last night. Does this man have dirt on the sky execs? How the fuck is he still in the job?! As is the Jim Watt blueprint, he basically decided who he was gonna score all the rounds for after about 5 minutes and just ignore every shot that the other guy lands. In this case he was ridiculously biased in favour of Froch.

I had Groves a round up going into the 8th and he was winning the 8th up till the KO. Although I am happy Froch proved the doubters wrong yet again.