Boxing is so dead!

Fowler / Fitzgerald is, to date imo, the British Fight of the Year.

A proper old skool scrap. Great build up that carried on into the ring for once.

It's these type of fights that I and I suspect many others wish to see.

 

Those would be great cards in any eras, British boxing was never that great

 

I don't get what great era you guys are remembering

When Calzaghe fought 40 bums in a row?
When Hatton feasted on bums before fighting only in the states for the tail end of his career?
When Audley Harrison was the next great hope?
When Amir Khan was PPV from the start of his career?
When Eubanks went on a world tour with Bazza Hearns and never fought any of the American Champions?

 

Of course I admit that he's the flag bearer for British boxing. But, (and acknowledging it's closer to eight months between fights):

Ricky Hatton didn't fight for eight months between Collazo and Urango.

Joe Calzaghe didn't fight for eight months between Mitchell and Mkrtchyan.

David Haye didn't fight for eight months between Harrison and Klitschko and twelve months between Barrett and Valuev.

Naseem Hamed didn't fight for eight months between Sanchez and Barrera and thirteen months between Barrera and Calvo.

Lennox Lewis didn't fight for nine months between Mercer and McCall and twelve months between Tyson and Klitschko.

Kell Brook didn't fight for thirteen months between Gavin and Bizier.

Chris Eubank didn't fight for thirteen months between Collins and Barrera.

Amir Khan didn't fight for twelve months between Algieri and Canelo, thirteen months between Diaz and Collazo and twenty three months between Canelo and Lo Greco.

Tyson Fury didn't fight for thirty one months between Klitschko and Seferi.

Now, all of those will have at some point or another been considered in the very highest echelons of British boxing. My question is why we seem keen to hold Joshua to different standards to others. Yes, eight months out is a significant gap between fights for him, but it's clearly, as shown above, not something unique to him. He's very likely to fight twice in 2019. In a thread entitled 'British boxing is dead,' highlighting a single gap in Joshua's record or suggesting he is in some way different to what has gone before seems evidently ridiculous.

 

“British boxing is dead/****”


... proceeds to spend every day of his life taking about British boxing on a forum...

 

2 lighter than the average woman fighters one a drug cheat. That won’t wet many appetites, Warrington will beat him easy. Zelfa Barret got battered off a virtually middle aged fella fresh out of prison didn’t he. Nar. Some fat lad against some other unproven lad topping a bill? One name on the undercard 6 weeks away from fight and even that’s a TBA. How is this great?

 

I think there are definitely less competitive fights in UK now and many more mismatches. But the same applies globally. Risk taking seems very rare.. Which is sad for boxing.

British boxing still has a fine variety and depth of talent but the matchmaking is pretty poor .

 

So you dont watch boxing at lower weight classes?

You are a ****ing clown, go watch UFC or WWE or something if you can't appreciate lower weight division boxing.

 

I can. I said it won’t wet appetites. Why didn’t you mention my other points you ****ing clown!?

 

They are all moronic points do you want me to go through them one by one

How won't it wet appetites, the British public love the fight and will get behind it 100%

 

Agree mate - the pony served up on Sky and BT including PPVs has been rotten in 2019.

Cannot remember a worse 5 months of boxthing on TV ever.

Hughie 'The Skirt' Fury on TV tonight to round off this period of pony.

 

Go on yes.

3 weeks away from the fight and I haven’t heard one person mention it. Obviously I’m not counting the so called hardcore.

Just scrolled through to find the last post on here about the fight I got to page 4 and got bored. So if people on this British boxing forum are speaking about it that sparsely the public won’t give a toss. The fights the public love are the ones where there’s loads of hype in the weeks before.

 

- You say you aren't counting the hardcore
- Then you use this forum to judge the hype, when most people here are clearly not the casual fans

You sure are a mong