and the award for worst boxing article of the weeks goes to??

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2011/degale-v-grovessome-boxing-fans-are-just-never-happy

 

That article is awful but he got the whinging bit right, i don't mean about this fight just in general us brits love a good whinge.

 

Tony Weeks to referee Maidana-Morales
March 27th, 2011
By Jason Kim: The April 9th fight between Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) and Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 Ko’s) will have referee Tony Weeks working the fight. Usually fighters aren’t all that concerned about who the referee will be for the fight.


Maidana though isn’t happy with the referee that worked his last fight against WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan last December. Maidana felt that the referee that worked that fight, Joe Cortez, was getting in the way while Maidana was trying to finish off Khan in the 10th, 11th and 12th rounds after hurting him badly in the 10th.
Maidana wasn’t happy with all the clinching that Khan was getting away with in the fight. Khan was doing more than clinching. He was doing a lot of grabbing of Maidana’s right arm and clamping down on it to keep him from nailing him while in close.

Maidana did what all smart fighters do when an opponent grabs their arms, he used his free arm to tag Khan over and over again to get him to let go. However, Cortez separated Khan and Maidana on at least one occasion while Maidana was tagging Khan with shots with his free arm.

It seemed like Cortez should have either warned Khan about the holding or let Maidana continue to pound Khan with his free arm. Maidana lost a point in the fight for throwing an elbow in response to Khan draping his arms around him and holding on to try and keep Maidana from punching. The elbow that Maidana threw never hit Khan. Instead it hit Cortez, who promptly took a point away from Maidana even though he never hit Khan with the elbow.

Maidana has a less mobile opponent in the ring with him with Morales and this should be a lot more interesting fight compared to the Khan-Maidana. Morales will be looking to mix it up with Maidana and he won’t have to chase Morales down to land his shots like he did with Khan.

 

**** article.

brits love to moan, its very simple, the more they moan, the more they're gonna pay attention to this fight. guys a ******

 

That was terrible.

 

Do the anti-Haye rantings of White Tiger count as articles?

Nothing like a good moan, Charlie Brooker and Stewart Lee have forged careers from doing just that

 

Boxing fans do seem to moan even more than the general populace though.

 

Very true.
Miserable ****s that we all are.

 

its forums.... as a forum user you lend your ears to 90% moaning look at the topics on the forum

 

yep.

did you notice that my comment was basically me moaning :good

 

its wierd as boxrec news is generally quite good and doesn't have this kind of ****.

basically just slagging everyone off lol. I havent heard anyone moaning about Coldwell not staging the fight, I havent seen anyone moaning about Booth not being able to train Groves because of the Haye fight 7 weeks later...

theres a difference between an article and a forum post. this is nothing more than a forum post thats been put on a news page and its stuff like this that gives internet journolism a bad name because this **** wouldn't make it near a newspaper or magazine.

 

"Sky should bring Ringside back."
"Sky boxing is **** they should get Adam Smith in to sort it out"

2 weeks later....

"****ing Ringside was wank again this week"
"Adam Smith is a ****, he's wrecking Sky boxing".

 

The article is shocking.

Rob, there are forum posts I have seen that would quite comfortably sit on the scene or boxrec news.
Talented bunch British esb are!

 

I know you're referring to the Mad Matt Hatton Express. Very kind of you

 

You read my mind