The Official Boxing Thread

retired_kellykw · 09-22-2005, 11:44 PM

I applaud the thread. MOre of an old skool boxing fan tbh. Mebbe this thread will rekindle the juices :thup:

NYCchick · 09-23-2005, 09:13 AM

Awww man., I just heard that Leavander Johnson died after his fight on Saturday night

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US fighter Johnson dies, aged 35

American Leavander Johnson died on Thursday five days after he collapsed following his defeat to Jesus Chavez.
The 35-year-old complained of headaches after losing his IBF world lightweight title to the Mexican in Las Vegas on a technical knock-out in the 11th round.

He collapsed in his dressing room and was taken to hospital and remained on life support following surgery to stop bleeding on the left side of his brain.

Dr William Smith told reporters: "He passed away peacefully."

Dr Smith said Johnson had suffered "very severe injury to the brain" and that the boxer's family "very correctly took the decision to remove care (after) we had no further mode to improve his prognosis."

Johnson's promoter Lou DiBella led tributes to the fighter.

"What a wonderful guy this was," she said. "I've never met anybody so proud or so grateful to achieve his dream.

"If there's any solace to be taken in this, it's that he died doing what he loved. He died a champion."

Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Johnson spent 16 years as a professional boxer and finally won the 135-pound division title in June.

But in his first defence on Saturday, Chavez had the champion in trouble from the start and referee Tony Weeks stopped the fight 38 seconds into the 11th round.

Johnson managed to walk from the ring on his own but began to struggle as he got closer to the dressing room.

Johnson's father was his trainer and his brother was his manager and both were among those family members at his bedside when he died.

He got some serious punishment, the ref seemed to take an age to stop it as well

retired_macca1875 · 09-23-2005, 10:41 PM

Jamie Moore vs David Walker for the British light-middleweight title is on SS2 at 10pm.

retired_pallavi_i2 · 09-23-2005, 11:08 PM

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Originally posted by gregory_isaacs:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Local Rival:
1) Audley Harrison has not done enough to start running his mouth like I saw the other day. He doesn't deserve a top 10 fighter until at least 2 more fights.

2) Wladimir Klitschko will win on Saturday against Peter, Samuel's chin has never been tested, he will not be able to walk through Klitschko and will find out that some people can actually bang in there. Expect to see Peter on his back a few times on his way to a middle round stoppage.

have you seen Wladimir fight in the past 2 years? - he has been truly awful and its amazing to think that about 5 years back he was the one that was destined for major belts when compared to his brother Vitali by top Boxing pundits and fans. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes mate I'm a huge boxing fan, second only to football in my interests. I watch boxing all the time. And yes I have seen the demise of Wladimir in recent years but people have hyped up Peter too much.

In a way, Peter has stepped up and become the new 'heavyweight hope'. 2 or 3 years ago, everyone including Vitali, his brother, thought that Wlad would become the man in the division, undisputed champion. The Sanders loss was pretty bad, but the Brewster defeat was shocking in the way it happened. Wlad absolutely creamed him for 4 rounds then BANG, his legs have just gone and he's out on his feet. Unbelievable fight that one.

He's followed it up with two disappointing fights, a technical decision over the very average DaVarryl Williamson and a win over the Cuban Eliseo Castillo.

But if you take away the bad defeats (including to the awful Ross Purity) that Klistchko has, and watch a lot of his fights, you see he has more than enough to dispatch Peter onto his back.

Samuel Peter has fought some VERY ordinary fighters, yes he is about 24-0 or whatever, but his last opponent was Taurus Sykes who is pretty abysmal in there, it's like fighting a plodding punch bag. Peter has great power, he excites me and is one of the biggest up and comers in world boxing now if not the biggest, but this is a fight he should not have taken. He will simply not be able to walk through Klitschko like he has with his previous opponents.

That is Peter's problem, he is a pure slugger, and does not have a good jab at all. His only way in is to get in Klitschko's face and attempt to walk through Wlad's jab and he's never ever seen what Klitschko has when people do that to him. It's a huge step up in class and Klitschko will do him in the middle rounds.

However if Peter does win, I will be very pleased and it would probably be the best result. I'd love to see him in a title fight, he does bring some excitement back to heavyweight boxing. And a win here smashes him into the world top 6 at least.

The heavyweight picture will become a lot clearer over the next few months. Lamon Brewster defends the WBO title on Wednesday in a very tough fight in Germany against Luan Krasniqi, where if it goes to the judges Brewster is screwed. Vitali Klitschko defends the WBC in November against Hasim Rahman who is on a good run, James Toney returns to the picture after a drug ban against the massively under achieving Dominick Guinn early October and Chris Byrd defends his title in early October as well I think. John Ruiz vs Kevin McBride is being talked about, although I hope this doesn't happen, it would be awful.

Then you have the newcomers who are hanging around who potentially can form great fights together. Nicolay Valuev, Calvin Brock, Audley Harrison and obviously Samuel Peter to name a few. I think the heavyweight is finally going to come out of the disaster it has become, with hopefully some unifications early next year.