AJ v Ngannou

Was there when Wlad fought Pulev and simply a great arena for watching boxing.

The only downside is those shuttle buses back to Stellingen station after the event but learned my lesson from the Haye fight when I arrived back at Hamburg Central at 6am. Hired a car and back in the centre 30 mins after leaving the arena.

The city is a great place for a good night out up the Reeperbahn.

 

Thought aside from a few big moments N'Gannou did nothing. He won 2 or 3 rounds and won his rounds better than Fury won his but on the standard rules for scoring a fight I can't see how he won. I'll have another watch of it.

 

Joshua has done a good job rebuilding against non punchers at world level. Only person he fought who could wack a bit was Helenius and he looked shite in that fight. Think another embarrassing night for the sport is on the cards.

 

He sort of done a Fury on Fury with his tactics.

Fury felt the power early and I thought he was expecting to weather the storm and take over in the 2nd half of the fight. Nothing worked for Fury all night and he ran out of ideas.

If he trained for a full 12 weeks in a training camp as he claimed pre fight, then he is indeed heading for a serious humbling when he faces Usyk.

You never know what is going on with Fury but I would never write him off.

 

Sounds like a great weekend, glad you enjoyed it. I was annoyed that Haye mugged off Lennox by making him wait for about ten minutes after doing his bit during his entrance. It was a shambles.

 

I thought the crowd was all Haye fans until he failed to appear when he was announced - soon realised 40,000 german boxing fans make some noise.

 

Is that true? I didn’t have have much time for Jurgen, but quite like reading Beales posts.

 

Money over titles and legacy.

 

Big John Fury stopped to have a word with John McDermott outside the Brentwood Centre after the first fight, shook his hand and had the decency to tell John McDermott that he won that fight.

 

I was the same back in the day- I really rated Haye.
I remember watching Haye Vs Enzo at cruiser thinking it would be a 50/50 fight and he wiped the floor with him.

Lost a lot of respect for him after the Klitschko fight

 

Was a huge fan myself and saw him fight live another 2 times against John Ruiz in Manchester and forgave him for the Wlad Toegate fiasco when attending the Del Chisora fight at Upton Park.

Great cruiserweight and I enjoyed him taking out Mormeck in Paris.

Would never have believed that he would sell that legacy for 2 bags of PPV Loot coming back as a glorified old cripple to make Bellew look good.

 

See for me Usyk presents a completely different task to N'Gannou. Stylistically the reason N'Gannou caused so many problems is Fury couldn't use his semi illegal clinching tactics at all.

Fury won the first 2 clearly enough for me, N'Gannou dropped him in the 3rd obviously after that I think the commentary got a little bit excited about everything he did but Fury definitely won most of the remaining rounds imo.

 

I was at Haye Wlad too. My mate got a very large unexpected bonus from work and treated us to £1500 tickets. I was right behind Jonathan Ross & Boris Becker. Shame the fight was a total dud.
V.I.P area was mad though that we were allowed into. Boxers including Lennox and Vitali passed through.

I was at 3 Haye fights; Wlad, Harrison & Chisora. Harrison fight was a spectacle if nothing else and had a good George Groves Kenny Anderson fight on the undercard.

 

You rate Ngannou higher risk than Ruiz, Whyte, Parker? He's had one fight, ok to arguably the number 1 or 2 heavyweight in the world but Fury wasn't prepared that was pretty plain to see or maybe he's on a rapid decline, it does happen. Either way it's hard for me to see how you've come to your conclusion. I think AJ is going to give him a hiding.

 

it's a knock on effect
it's about what ever one claims at that given time