Leigh Wood vs. Mauricio Lara Acosta & Dalton Smith vs. Billy Allington RBR.

I do examine the history of boxing and I acknowledge and pay due reverence to the fact that the tiny majestic isle of Great Britain is the spiritual and ancestral home of modern boxing and it's just an indisputable fact that Great Britain produces the greatest, most toughest and fearless warriors within the sport of boxing. There's a reason why British domestic dust ups are the envy of the world and why virtually every other one is a FOTY contender. That doesn't mean that other countries and geographical regions don't also produce great boxing talent and fierce warriors.


We Brits are a warrior people and even though British Slickness is the benchmark all other forms of slickness are measured by, and our boys are slicker than oil on grease when they choose to switch to slick mode, our warrior spirit and desire to entertain and give the fans their money's worth compels us to go to war.

Do you know what a nobbins is, Olu?

'Nobbins is British slang for money thrown into a boxing ring by the crowd in appreciation of a good contest'

ie. the crowd in attendance would literally shower the ring with their hard earned money by way of appreciation for the combatants fighting like warriors and entertaining them

Whilst I have a great deal of respect for the American legends of the sport, and in particular the greats from the black and white era or pre 90s ones, I'm not a fan of the American school of slickness especially the modern one which I consider a fear based and unmanly slickness. For a slick boxer to impress me they have to possess otherworldly mesmerizing skills, especially if they're back foot slicksters who are obviously not to be held in the same esteem as front foot aggressive ones are. One fearless warrior is worth 1000 fear based slicksters. That's just me. The warrior or the Brit in me speaking.

Regarding Wood suffering a fatal or life altering injury? Of course I would be distraught about it, as I have everytime I've witnessed a ring tragedy. However, as said, he's a Gatti gene fighter, has a track record of coming back from the brink of defeat to go on to win fights, he was in a handy lead, defending his world title at home, and there was only seconds to go before the bell. Davison acted hastily when a cooler head was needed. He should've been motioning to the ref to instruct Lara back to a neutral corner which would've bought valuable seconds for Wood to recover. But he didn't.

Jesting aside, I'm not going to crucify him for pulling Wood out but I do believe he could've handled the situation better. He should've had his Angelo Dundee hat on


Stop making the mistake of judging Gatti gene fighters by the standards we judge mortal man

Did you not watch Wood vs Conlan and Gill vs Guerfi? Those fights were literally a couple of weeks apart

The great Ali rose from the dead twice

 

Warrrington suffered a perforated eardrum in round 4 in the first Lara fight and after getting dropped and clambering back up he managed to make it all the way to the 9th round even though he ate a sickening amount of savage flush bombs and was on wobbly bobbly legs from the 4th round onward

I don't even like Warrington but any fighter who can display that amount of heart and toughness gets my respect



Point being. Warrington literally ate god knows how many flush bombs from Lara whilst in a badly compromised state

 

Thank you


Whilst the USA has traditionally been a super power in world boxing and we do and must pay due reverence to its legends of the sport, boxing is much much more of a global sport these days whereas it was very different for most of the 20th century and this is only a good thing. You only have to take a glance at the current P4P top 10 for confirmation of that



Also, we have to acknowledge that the deck, for reasons I have outlined before, is still heavily stacked in American fighter's favour which obviously helps the US to maintain it's grip on the sport.

This is why I respect your Ali's and SRR's

Because they were road warriors too


Yes, Lara was a voluntary defence for Wood. He chose one of the baddest and dangerous hombres in the sport and indeed one of the sport's biggest punchers for a voluntary defence. This is what I mean when I saw we are a warrior people because very few would've done that. There were less risky and much more lucrative domestic match ups out there for Wood but he made straight for the bull when he climbed over the fence instead of the cows.

Was it ill-advised? No doubt.

Would I have steered him in that direction had I been a member of his team? Absolutely not, especially given his age and the lucrative match ups that were available for him first.

And it's not like he would've been ducking legit threats and milking his title because these domestic match ups were also against world class opponents and weren't easy fights for him and Lara was only his 2nd defence of the title and no one should really begrudge him had fought Conlan and Warrington in his 2nd and 3rd ones instead before taking on someone like Lara.

 

Wowzers! Uncanny.

Not only doesn't Davison not possess the Gatti gene

He possesses the David Brent one

Someone posted these in the Brit forum

Check this out



Naughty language warning on this one!

 

Honestly we really don't. Maybe Warrington and Wood do but tons of Brits were actually rooting for Lara against Warrington and fighters like Kiko have come over here many times and beaten many of our boys and we have nothing but respect for him. Providing you're not a vile POS, are a warrior and win fair and square we British boxing fans are generally very fair and good sports.