Tyson vs Jones - glorified sparring match

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  1. reckless

    reckless Active Member Full Member

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/53555388

    This is going to be another glorified sparring match like Tyson's one against Corey Sanders in 2006, in fact it will be worse because Tyson will be 14 years older.
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    You've got to laugh at the likes of Bernard Hopkins who thinks that Tyson could beat Joshua and Fury today. He mustve been paid to make such a ludicrous statement.

    Tyson and Jones are legends but they are disgracing boxing, they're not much worse than the likes of ksi and Logan Paul. In no other sport would two 50 year olds be talked about this much. Has heavyweight boxing sunk so low?
    I certainly won't be buying this if it's on PPV.
     
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  2. Richmondpete

    Richmondpete Real fighters do road work Full Member

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    They aren't disgracing boxing at all. They are putting on a show. Lighten up
     
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  3. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Yeah, I'm glad it is, they're both in the 50's. I don't want to see either of them unloading on one another, also Roy has been violently KO more than enough, I have no desire to see it happen to him again. Who cares. It's just two old legends trying to make a buck, and give us a watered down glimpse of what it might have looked like when they were in their primes. Calm down. If you don't want to pay for it, don't. No one is forcing you to watch it. Sit this one out. It's a free country.
     
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  4. reckless

    reckless Active Member Full Member

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    The thing that annoys me is when people say that these guys would have a chance at the heavyweight title today! In no other sport would a 50 year be taken seriously as a title contender, nof even golf!
     
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  5. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Anything with Tyson will draw interest. Roy knows that $$$
     
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  6. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Tyson for good reasons (charity). Roy is just piggy-backing for money, he's not good enough today to be a genuine contender and make money honestly
     
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  7. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Eh, I doubt any serious boxing fan would think something so asinine. But the dummies might, but that is what it is. Dummies have a tendency to screw most things up. But thankfully most sanctioning bodies don't listen to dummies, even though many of them are dummies themselves, they aren't that dumb.:lol:
     
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  8. Richmondpete

    Richmondpete Real fighters do road work Full Member

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    Why do there reasons concern you?
     
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  9. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's making a mockery of boxing when Jones can earn more than the top-10 contenders without being in the top-50
     
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  10. Richmondpete

    Richmondpete Real fighters do road work Full Member

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    It's not a professional boxing match
     
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  11. blackfella96

    blackfella96 Active Member Full Member

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    I seen that its going to be a $50 PPV
     
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  12. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Exactly.
     
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  13. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's a freakshow, a clown show
     
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  14. iii

    iii Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If you want to make it entertaining why dot you get in there with either one , what a laugh that would be!
    If it raises money for charity & makes these two past greats happy then more power to them.
     
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  15. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jones isn't giving any money to charity. He's making millions for himself off Tyson's name.
     
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