Boxing

[pcfan123]

Proper time with the lads. Large amounts of .....nuts and hopefully a good fight to cap it off.

Sounds like Gazza and Offcutters type of night.

 

[Leicester Fox]

Get in Pacman. I honestly thought he would lose, you look at all the guys he'd beaten recently and you can question them. Not Cotto, that is a massive win.

Now the Floyd fight has to happen. It will be huge.

 

[punterpupnroy]

Amazing stuff from Danny Green. Forced knocked out Roy Jones Jnr within the first couple of minutes of round one. Great right hook to the temple, Jones Jnr was dazed, and Green barraged him on the ropes with a series of punches. And the rest of was history. Amazing!

 

[King Pietersen]

I haven't seen the fight yet, but it's hardly surprising that Anderson Silva wants to take on Roy Jones now tbh, the guy's clearly past it at 40. Legend of modern boxing, but he's done. Sure he'll still cash in and make abit more cash with a possible fight against Hopkins (which may not go ahead now that he lost to Green) and then the money that'll surely be made by maybe taking on UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva in a boxing match.

 

[mattfb]

YouTube - Danny Green vs Roy Jones Jr from Sydney, Australia 02/12/09

Good work from Green. Just simply bombarded Jones after the knockdown.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Great stuff from Green. Thought Jones Jr would've smashed him but I and many others were proved wrong.

But Jones Jr has said that he thought the fight was called off too early and if anything it should have been called off after he was floored. He also said that he hopes he can get a rematch with Danny Green.

What I want is Green vs Mundine II. Would be great to see again. Mundine hasn't fought anyone big for ages. He fights no names that no one cares about. He's scared to lose. Danny Green fights the big names and isn't scared of losing.

 

[mattfb]

Of course it should of been ended. After he was dropped he was pinned to the corner and was getting smashed. The ref moved it to the middle, and Green charged at him and hit Roy Jones flush in his right eye. He had a gap of about 15cm between his gloves and he didnt even try to protect himself from that punch. It obv had to be called then.

 

[punterpupnroy]

He is a great guy is Danny Green. I was lucky enough to meet him before at an AFL match. Was kind enough to say 'hello' and shake my hand and ask me how I had been. Although people seem to emphasize the stereotype of people with tattoos. Danny Green is sure an exception to a quite frankly.... a shitty stereotype.

On ya Danny!

 

[Gilly Fan]

He is a great guy is Danny Green. I was lucky enough to meet him before at an AFL match. Was kind enough to say 'hello' and shake my hand and ask me how I had been. Although people seem to emphasize the stereotype of people with tattoos. Danny Green is sure an exception to a quite frankly.... a shitty stereotype.

On ya Danny!

Yep, looks like a great guy. When I first saw him years ago I thought, 'what a prick with all the tattoos etc." But he's great every time he's on camera and even made sure last night when he celebrated that he didn't swear in front of his daughter.

 

[Leicester Fox]

Jones is shot to ████. Fights like this shouldn't happen, so sad to see a legend like he was, and in his prime he was a total freak of nature, amazing, lose to someone like Green.

 

[Master Khan]

Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao on 2010-03-13.. Its on!

Most people think Pacquiao will beat him.
what do you think?

 

[-D-S-B-]

A bit of boxing action lately lads! Why did that guy fall over without being hit last night? Green was furious!
Green vs Cameron will be good, but right now you'd have to expect Green to win it. Maybe Shane Cameron hasn't learned his lesson after calling Tua out! :laugh

 

[IanG]

A bit of boxing action lately lads! Why did that guy fall over without being hit last night? Green was furious!
Green vs Cameron will be good, but right now you'd have to expect Green to win it. Maybe Shane Cameron hasn't learned his lesson after calling Tua out! :laugh

Aw that was a farce and a half that Green v Briggs fight. Then hearing the audio of Green afterward I thought it was from a WWE Show.

 

[King Pietersen]

Why did the guy fall over without being hit? He sure as hell didn't throw the fight. Read this:

SO SEVERE were Paul Briggs's neurological problems in the weeks leading up to his fight against Danny Green that he was forgetting at which gymnasium he was training and mistaking strangers' cars for his own. His conditioning was so poor that he took one body shot in sparring and vomited.

Briggs's woeful 29-second performance on Wednesday night was not of a man taking a dive, but one who was so desperate for his $200,000 purse he was willing to risk his life in the ring. Briggs, his people, and much of boxing's circle knew the reality of the situation. This was going to be a farce.

But nobody could talk Briggs out of the fight. He was so reliant on the money he went in with a plan of trying to knock out Green with one quick shot, and should he take a punch, give up.

He completely lost his bearings after Green landed a probing left jab to the top of his skull – a punch that would not have moved a half-fit boxer – and Briggs said later he was trying to get up, but his body could not respond.

In the dressing room after the fight, Briggs had a conversation with a close friend and later asked those around him who he had just been speaking to, such was his delirium.

This is why Briggs should never have returned to the ring, why the Western Australian Professional Combat Sports Commission should never have sanctioned it when their NSW counterparts refused to, and why the International Boxing Organisation should have rejected any notion of Briggs fighting for one of their titles. A source close to Briggs said yesterday he was "battling".

Green's reputation as a promoter has suffered enormous damage and respected trainer Johnny Lewis slammed the IBO cruiserweight champion for his verbal tirade towards Briggs after the fight.

"I just hope it doesn't get to Paul and he does something silly," said Lewis, who trained Briggs before the 34-year-old was forced to retire in 2007. "I hope he is able to move on. That is why I didn't think it was a good idea for him to be part of this fiasco.

"Everyone was aware of the problems Paul had, but they still went on with the promotion and when the inevitable happened they want to kick him in the guts.

"Paul needs to know we don't think he is a dog, he didn't deserve to be called that."

Lewis said Briggs had both "physical and mental" problems that forced him to retire, and believed his heart was not in it any more.

Green yesterday overturned his initial suspicion that Briggs intentionally went down by saying he had reviewed footage, which assured him he had landed a solid punch.

Briggs's trainer, Billy Hussein, highlighted the lures presented for his charge when questioned about the preparation camp by a Perth radio station yesterday.

"He's not gonna knock back a fight for an IBO world title ever," Hussein said. "The money was great, plus fighting Danny Green on home soil was everything he wanted to do in his life before he retired."

Hussein said Briggs did not take a dive. ‘‘I 100 per cent know for a fact Paul Briggs would never ever do that in his life,’’ Hussein said.

"And let me tell you, if I knew, I would never [have got involved with him]."

The IBO has requested an investigation from the West Australian authority. The IBO’s vice-president, Phil Austin, said the body had sanctioned the contest as a world-title bout due to "Briggs's reputation" and after being assured by Briggs’s camp via Green that he was in sound condition during training.

"There was plenty of conjecture over why he retired in the first place, but we’re never going to pay attention to rumours," Austin said.

"We worked closely with the promoters on this, who acted in good faith [from Briggs’s camp]."

But Briggs’s part-time trainer, Jeff Fenech, claimed Green knew of Briggs’s problems.

"Danny Green still said he was fit to fight and he still sold the fight. Then he had the audacity to call him a canine," Fenech said.

"Are they gonna be competitive if they haven’t fought for three-and-a-half years?

"Do you honestly believe that Danny Green thought Paul Briggs would be a threat to him at all?"

Paul Briggs' Neurological Problems: Should Not Have Fought Green

Crazy that the fight went ahead, and it's a sad state of affairs that a guy is willing to put his life at serious risk to make a bit of money. What's more incredible is that Green actually took the fight. Why would he want to put his own reputation on the line against a guy with obvious medical issues that is coming out of retirement. It's a crazy series of events, and a further nail in Boxing's coffin. I just don't see what's left for Boxing after Mayweather-Pacquiao finally fight, where are the big stars after those 2? It's sad to see. Boxing is a fantastic sport, but it's under serious pressure of just falling away and going into a decline.

Have to LOL at Green asking for a 'stand-up' fight against Brock Lesnar too. No money in the world could put that fight together. If Green was ever to fight Brock Lesnar it'd be under MMA rules, and Green would get dumped on his head and pounded out in under 2 minutes. There is no way on earth Brock Lesnar would even consider fighting Green under Boxing rules.

 

[-D-S-B-]

I knew all that, but thought he must've been fine to fight for it to go ahead. Rather than going there knowing he was going to go down in the first round and collect some cash. Doesn't deserve a cent. He should've pulled out earlier rather than wasting the crowds time and money.