Should Turki stop funding boxers who are 'movers'

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  1. bluebird

    bluebird Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Haney
    Shakur

    Good boxers. God awful to watch. Should Turki stop pumping money into these stinkers? He needs better match makers.
     
  2. DoctorJones

    DoctorJones Member Full Member

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    There is movers and there is runners
     
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  3. LenHarvey

    LenHarvey Active Member Full Member

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    Ya they're awful.. I'm sure back in the older days what they are doing would be classed as fairly to engage... and they would have been disqualified by the referee
     
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  4. MrPook

    MrPook Boxing Addict Full Member

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    They should start giving out bonus $ for fight of the night and knock outs.
     
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  5. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    I hope so.
     
  6. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No. Thats some UFC nonsense and its against the spirit of competition and meritocracy on so many levels.

    If you're just going to choose your favorites why have fights? Being boring isn't against the rules.
     
  7. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    He didn't say it was but you can choose who to give money to and promote. If he were talking about banning them from competing, you'd have a point.
     
  8. MrPook

    MrPook Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ali was a mover. What if he was banned for moving?
     
  9. Libertine

    Libertine Active Member Full Member

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    Nah just make the rings 16ft
     
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  10. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Someone mentioned it in the rbr but giving out yellow cards Pride FC style where they take 10% of your purse if fight like a ***** should do the trick.
     
  11. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sounds like someone's favorite fighter look like shyte against a mover, lol.
     
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  12. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold Still raging that we didnt see Bowe V Lewis Full Member

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    This.

    Even a bonus for a knockdown would be sweet.
     
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  13. HolDat

    HolDat Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Even some action fighters aren't entertaining because they sometimes lack skill. Not liking a particular style shouldn't bother a "fan" this much.
     
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  14. Hanz Cholo

    Hanz Cholo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ali was a Stick & move guy
    Not a move & light Jab
    HUGE difference.
     
  15. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    They are runners

    The punch counts are PATHETIC. 225 punches over 12? disgracefull. Less than 20 punches a round anyone under cruiserweight is a disgrace.

    Turki should not be funding these frauds....thnakfully they've all been exposed now as nothing but money grubbing chumps. What a PATHETIC era of fighters. PATHETIC. Usyk & Fury made up for it it's just a shame it wasn't a few years earlier. We should have got Usyk Fury when that bodybuilding bum AJ was fighting Usyk so they were more prime against one another.