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The Boxing Gym that myself and my son go to, Honestly there is lads in that gym that would beat the pair of them twats last night.

Truly awful fight. No words can describe how bad it was.

All in all I won a small fortune last night, Easy money.
 
TFC said:
Its not really boxing anymore is it. Long gone are the days I will look forward to a fight and there's no chance I'm ponying up money for this youtube celebrity exhibition shite.
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It was pretty shit, I watched it in Russian and Buffer goes Давайте приготовимся к грохоту!!! But there was no rumble, you know even when you have a dodgy stream you can still make out what the foreigner is saying?.. korner! Pas, gol gol gol gol! Mahrez, etc well last night all I kept hearing was 'clinch' 'paul' clinch' 'fureeeee' 'clinch'
 
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domalino said:
They know it's a joke but the sport is dying and the youtubers/reality tv stars have money and millions of fans so they look past it.
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Tbf think the sport is dying anyway even without youtubers if they still had put on great fights often boxing wouldn't even acknowledge this youtubers even for the PPV they would make but they need to extra eyes and cash right now
 
Nellies left peg said:
If people are fucking stupid enough to pay to watch that shit more fool them. Both of them are just making money from reality tv or you tube fans who don’t give a flying fuck about the art of boxing. Who can blame them as neither of these would do anything against world class opponents and the hype before this bout was ridiculous considering their quality
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To be fair mate I think Tommy wants to be legitimate I mean his old man was a bare knuckle boxer and his brother is one of the best to ever lace up in the heavyweight division. The problem is he is just a bit shit
 
There have been some good fights not on box office the last few week- Beterbiev, Lara. It would be good to get some of these back on ITV.
 
BoyBlue_1985 said:
To be fair mate I think Tommy wants to be legitimate I mean his old man was a bare knuckle boxer and his brother is one of the best to ever lace up in the heavyweight division. The problem is he is just a bit shit
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Defo mate he is in the shadow of Tyson who many will say is the best of his generation and he will never achieve what he has,but he is making a healthy living out of it so who are we to argue?
 
MCFC1993 said:
Which to be fair to him is why he's making sound business decisions, he's made more from that fight than most world title fights.

Not great for his career or the sport of boxing but it makes sense financially for him.

Jake Paul is the best that influencer world has got and he barely laid a glove on him and there are many influencers wanting a shot at Fury. It's silly to say no given the figures involved.
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How did we get to this sht. Best influencer out there! They both would struggle against any boxer ranked 150 and below. AND there aint that many active pros at their weight. Its pretty embarrassing people paying to watch a circus act.
 
Tolmie scores said:
How did we get to this sht. Best influencer out there! They both would struggle against any boxer ranked 150 and below. AND there aint that many active pros at their weight. Its pretty embarrassing people paying to watch a circus act.
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All of that is undeniable but the last part about people paying happens in any form of entertainment.

From Fury's perspective he'd be daft not to do what he's doing, I think his team know he's not a world title boxer, so from their perspective why not earn the money.

The best in their profession don't always earn the most.
 
MCFC1993 said:
All of that is undeniable but the last part about people paying happens in any form of entertainment.

From Fury's perspective he'd be daft not to do what he's doing, I think his team know he's not a world title boxer, so from their perspective why not earn the money.

The best in their profession don't always earn the most.
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Of course it all makes sense money wise - but its hijacking the sport solely for money which is pretty soulless. There's the ''meeja'' now (Johnny Nelson) saying boxers need to step up to compete! as in boxers need to be daft reality magnets to compete with these novices!! it's mental. A lot of the best boxers generally box to gain self confidence and do not always come from meeja friendly polished backgrounds! trying to make them into that is terrible as that is what the sport is designed for. Modern ''meeeeja'' is really shit, very little reporting even the mainstream news latch on to social meeja agenda's and characters as that is where the numbers are! That's not news that's celebrity trash for the hello magazine readers. Blokes today have lost their boolox, we need more to stand up, ignre this shit for what it is. I would never pay to watch inferior characters masquarading as boxers. Insult to hard working pros.
 
Nellies left peg said:
Defo mate he is in the shadow of Tyson who many will say is the best of his generation and he will never achieve what he has,but he is making a healthy living out of it so who are we to argue?
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There's no arguing that, like thousands of average novice boxers trying to make their way. Shame thousands (literally thousands) of much better boxers will not earn half as much as these you tubers / and now half boxer half comedy character, Fury. Fair play to them in a way but it's their fans that need thir heads testing. Sht product in reality, ok for novice first or second fight on a Wythenshaw Forum undercard but headlining a show....punters get what they deserve. They would have been better going into WWF as that circus is made for this weak sht. Punters are fools
 
Boxing only has itself to blame. Nobody wants to watch Jake and Tommy face off at tennis or captain 5 a side footy teams but human nature is such that people are always interested in watching people fight. Jake Paul spotted this gap in the market and is deservedly laughing his way to the bank.

And what does boxing do to attract this vast untapped audience ? Fuck all, in fact it does exactly the opposite and tries its best to drive fans away. Endless meaningless titles, dozens and dozens of “world champions”, pointless rematch clauses, the best avoiding fighting the best at all costs (Spence Crawford syndrome), tune up fights etc etc ….. all this shit drives people away.

The only real fight in the last decade that had as much interest from the casuals as Jake v Tommy was Froch Groves 2, that’s a terrible indictment of the state boxing is in.
 
Axel Freed said:
Boxing only has itself to blame. Nobody wants to watch Jake and Tommy face off at tennis or captain 5 a side footy teams but human nature is such that people are always interested in watching people fight. Jake Paul spotted this gap in the market and is deservedly laughing his way to the bank.

And what does boxing do to attract this vast untapped audience ? Fuck all, in fact it does exactly the opposite and tries its best to drive fans away. Endless meaningless titles, dozens and dozens of “world champions”, pointless rematch clauses, the best avoiding fighting the best at all costs (Spence Crawford syndrome), tune up fights etc etc ….. all this shit drives people away.

The only real fight in the last decade that had as much interest from the casuals as Jake v Tommy was Froch Groves 2, that’s a terrible indictment of the state boxing is in.
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Anthony Joshua has been a massive success amongst casuals.
 
All the biggest stars in boxing get the biggest paydays when they start to attract those outside of the hardcore boxing fan bracket, because there just aren't as many hardcore boxing fans as people think anymore and it's been that way for ages. Even in Mike Tyson's era, loads were just interested in boxing for his fights and nothing else, he became that big of a star. I don't think there is much wrong with that personally(didn't they used to term it "mainstream"?). There's probably parallels to be drawn to other sports and industries there.

The fact that non-boxers, who haven't dedicated themselves to the sport for very long(and even then it still feels like a side hustle for Tommy and Jake) are getting much bigger pay days than some of those who have, is probably a sign where boxing is heading, to try and attract the newer generations.

I don't think it's going to be a good thing personally, actual boxers who spend more time on social media, calling fighters out with no intention of fighting them. Only to choose(mandataries are a different matter) to fight someone nobody was calling for, is already something that annoys me.

Boxers are already becoming more like social media stars first, boxers second but it's having a negative impact. The PBC's fighters are notorious for it, they have an army of twitter and youtube agenda pushers(some have even been paid for it apparently), blaming everyone else, left right and centre. You'd be forgiven for thinking they must be doing something right by the volume of noise they make. However, take a look at the poor PPV buy numbers, the many rumblings that their fighters are annoyed that they aren't getting paid, FOX slashing the boxing budget and then not renewing the PBC TV contract in 2021(PPV only now), rumours that in-house fights that people would actually be interested in can't get made because the money isn't there to satisfy both camps etc. These clearly aren't the people who love boxing enough to pay for it, that or they know themselves the PPV cards they put on aren't worth it. Despite their passionate defences on social media, in the hopes of convincing others it's worth it.
 
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Anyone on here think Fury is still going to fight Usyk ? Or do we all think he will choose Wilder or Chisora again? What a joke the heavyweight devision has become.
 
Axel Freed said:
Boxing only has itself to blame. Nobody wants to watch Jake and Tommy face off at tennis or captain 5 a side footy teams but human nature is such that people are always interested in watching people fight. Jake Paul spotted this gap in the market and is deservedly laughing his way to the bank.

And what does boxing do to attract this vast untapped audience ? Fuck all, in fact it does exactly the opposite and tries its best to drive fans away. Endless meaningless titles, dozens and dozens of “world champions”, pointless rematch clauses, the best avoiding fighting the best at all costs (Spence Crawford syndrome), tune up fights etc etc ….. all this shit drives people away.

The only real fight in the last decade that had as much interest from the casuals as Jake v Tommy was Froch Groves 2, that’s a terrible indictment of the state boxing is in.
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Theres a gap in the market for forum challenges...who fancies dusting their gloves off v a rag cafe challenger
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Anyone on here think Fury is still going to fight Usyk ? Or do we all think he will choose Wilder or Chisora again? What a joke the heavyweight devision has become.
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News next week apparently.
Decent scrap later tonight.. Ritson vs Davies in a title eliminator. God knows what channel its on though, thank god for the dodgy stick.
 
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