The thoughts/news thread, Kovalev, Ward, Khan, Alvarez and anyone else

i havent watched them yet. ive backing quigg for a while

 

Kovalev- Ward

I'm quite sure Ward won't face Kovalev unless the deck is hugely stacked in his favour.

This would include everything from location, to ref's, to judges, to purse split, ring size, to glove type. Most importantly for Ward he would need to know for sure that Kovalev can't juice, while he does, in a similar way to how the final years of Mayweather's career became about anything but a level playing field

For more see this thread:
http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=559123

Huck- Afolabi

Not overly interested in this fight, and while it might be entertaining it'll probably will end up being close/controversial again. Seems both have more to lose than much to gain. Sure the winner could earn a world title fight- but could they not also just get one now?

Alvarez-Khan

I think you hit the nail on the head on why Khan took this instead of the Brook fight. The Brook fight could still happen if he's coming off a loss. Even though Khan is earning less for this ($6m with none of the PPV revenue) than he was being offered to fight Brook ($10m)

However I do give Khan a better chance here than he would have against Brook. Watch both Canelo and Brook's fights with Matthew Hatton and Lovemore N'dou and it's quite apparent not only Brook hits harder at Welterweight than Canelo does at Jr Middleweight, he also has better timing and accuracy which would prove to be a nightmare for Khan, so can't really fault Khan's decision here, as I would've avoided Brook if this fight was available too.


Chudinov-Sturm

Sturm does look quite shopworn. However of the 4 titles holders at 168 I'd consider Chudinov to be the weakest of the 4 belt holders (and really DeGale is the only decent one). Watching the first fight, I thought Strum could've won if he dug a bit deeper. Maybe he'll be better prepared this time- or maybe at this stage of his career that's as much as he can do. But the pick is for Chudninov on points

 

Well for the longest time I have picked Frampton, but as fight night approaches it's clear as day Quigg's camp are the confident one's.

Apparently Frampton is tight at the weight (he missed a media lunch earlier today), so I think I'll make my final predictions after the weigh in

 

I'm not convinced Martin is a step up from Whyte.

I have a feeling Martin's team look at the top 15 of the IBF and thought 'any of these guys could beat us, let's take the biggest payday and hope for the best'

At the same time, Joshua's team probably looked at it and thought we might as well take the title shot now, because we can win, then continue to develop against any of the guys in this rankings. The only fight it the top 15 they probably want to wait until it makes more money on is Joseph Parker- and Parker's team won't want to face Joshua until it makes more money either.

 

whyte is a more determined, and tougher fighter than Martin. i can tell that the rivalry between the two, made whyte perform pretty well.

martin is a sloppy fighter, and he would have not survived the shots joshua was the landing on the Villian in round 1

 

:good People sometime delude themselves when they see 'southpaw' like it's a big problem because some guy leads with his right hand. It makes no odds to elite fighters like AJ. How many southpaws has Brook destroyed now?

You think Joshua was coming against the Heavyweight Joe Calzaghe they way people are wittering on

 

That hypocrite Conte (who works in some form with Ward I believe) sent out a tweet congratulating Ward on taking the test.

I remember the man also worked (or still does) with Shawn Porter who people was highly suspicious of when he suddenly went from being a pillow fisted midget to a knock out artist with endless stamina.

When he faced Kell Brook, the fight was originally scheduled for September 2014, however I remember after the purse bids Eddie Hearn wanted drug testing for the fight- then all of a sudden the date in September is no longer available and the fight is moved to mid August (a mere 5 weeks later), of course this seemed to allow Porter to do what Conte talked about and what Ward appears to be doing.

Fortunately justice prevailed and The Special One™ schooled that cheat anyway. :happy Fingers crossed Barrera beats down Ward, but he's no Kell Brook