General Boxing Chit Chat

Tetlee

As for the DeGale fight, anyone here watch it? Was pretty ugly and surprised how DeGale was content leaning against the ropes half the night. His opponent(Mohoumadi) looked slow and plodding right from the first bell, wide open and didn't have any snap in his punches, yet DeGale seemed to take so many of them unnecessarily and made what should have been a performance look challenging. Had that fight been in France I would have thought the final bell would have brought anxious times while the scores were tallied up.

I bet if Groves had been watching that performance he'd have been wishing he was in there for part 3, against a sloppy DeGale like that switching off half the time I think Groves would have had his first convincing win over his rival. As much as I dislike DeGale I think he's capable way better than last nights showing, really not sure what was going on there.

Apsilon

No point commenting on last nights Price/Harrison fight as it was utterly pointless and utterly predicatable.

Agree with Tetlee, Price needs to ditch the Skelton fight and move up. The lad is 29 now and has shown signs for some time that he has some serious tools in his repertoire and certainly enough to be challenging the top 5.

Price needs to fight someone who can put him in the shop window to attract the big hitters. Whilst it is too soon for Haye imho, Fury who is a complete blundering pudding and isn't anywhere near good enough to beat Price, would probably do that. His constant shouting from the rooftops after every stiff he beats seems to generate him attention in the boxing world and his PR team go into overdrive about how Tyson should be fighting the Klitshkos...

Price's team should be doing everything they can to make this happen because barring a catastrophic disaster or lapse in concentration, Price would annhilate Fury on ability. This is by far his easiest option and almost a gimme. Now is the time for him to strike and get in amongst the big money in the heavyweight division.

Only Wladimir and Haye would offer him any real threat as the rest of the division is dire.

Tetlee

Groves will take on Johnson December 15th. I think it will be a decent test for Groves, Johnson may not be getting any younger, but he's very experienced and certainly a handful.

George Groves will fight Glen Johnson at the ExCel Arena on December 15 | Sky Sports

DrWise

Garcia vs morales tonight on box nation
Can't wait hopefully a full out war

Tetlee

Waste of time IMO, the first one was hardly thrilling. Morales was controlling the fight until his years caught up with him and he ran out of steam in the later rounds.

I expect Garcia to do much better this time around being less star struck, but can't really see what more Morales can give than he did before. Have loved watching Morales over the years, but it's time for him to hang up his gloves I think.

Really this is the fight Khan should have been chasing, an aging slowing Morales that would have made for a comfortable nights work, but would have looked good on his record and given his career a much better boost than fighting a former lightweight that hardly anyone has heard of.

Tetlee

Great win for Brook that, only disappointment was I was expecting a bit more of a war, but he made a short night of it for himself and certainly looked way more powerful than he has until now. Good stuff!

wezzywebb

yes he looked very good didn’t he,onwards and upwards hopefully

BrynTeg

Tidy punch by Brook there, didnt even see it properly in real time..

Spligsey

Brook looked in good shape - no doubt about that
Not overly sure if we found out anything different though - be interesting to see what happens next...

DrWise

Morales should have retired 36 years showed
At first I thought it would be a war
After first round I knew Garcia would knock him out
Garcia slowly becoming one my favs