The boxing

Dangerous Daniel Dubois - he’s got some power in his hands that boy.

 

His next fight is against a giant Romanian guy and is on BT Sport - will check him out.

 

Big hitter and he's young, but he's still very much learning his trade. Worth keeping an eye on, but it's early days.
His last fight was against Kevin Johnson, who Joshua stopped in 2 but not many people manage to put away quickly.
He took Dubois the distance, but lost every single round.

This isn't a bad summary of him:

Decent punch variation, good power and he's in good shape and condition.
His movement needs some work and his chin's untested, though.

 

Also worth noting he’s banged Joshua in sparring.

And before anybody says it I know sparring and boxing is not the same.

 

Apparently Joshua is a **** sparrer as almost every one of his sparing partners have said they smacked him around in their sessions - Fury has said in an interview that he easily pushed him around and then made him **** himself when he challenged him to a bare knuckled fight in the car park when Joshua started mouthing off.

Pity no one has done it when it matters...

 

I don’t think anybody genuinely thinks AJ is a poor boxer, I actually like him as a person and an athlete but I hate the hype, I don’t like the superlatives that are associated with him.

 

Will definately check him out - is managed by Frank Warren so will have a good chance of seeing him on other cards.

 

Superlatives are not by him to be fair - personally I think he has been really good for boxing as having someone who at least seems to be a nice guy on top has permeated downwards.

In another time the Wilder vs Fury fight would be full of nationalism and racism but now it is someone who is fighting for his disabled daughter fighting against someone campaigning for mental health.

One of them did come down to the ring dressed as a bird and the other did spend most of the fight making funny faces and sticking his tongue out but baby steps.

 

Cojanu in his last fight:

No shame in losing to Ortiz though, to be fair.

 

not sure if it'll work

 

Made me laugh but would have been even more perfect if he had won the fight.

 

Really good points in this video:

 

All - what are your thoughts on Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller? ... man can certainly bang ...

 

Can't say I'm overly impressed with that. He was just bashing puddings. He looks a bit of a one trick pony with that overhand right.

 

He's enormous and he can certainly punch, but he's building up a severely padded record.
That's fairly standard now and I wouldn't normally find it that concerning, apart from his promoter.
Dmitry Salita did something similar with his own career, until it came shuddering to a halt when he met Amir Khan.

He had 30 wins and was unbeaten at the time...

 

Remember that he is only 21 and has no real amateur pedigree so the fights are for experience as well - Mike Tyson's first two dozen odd fights were against nobodies.

Pretty much every boxer has a padded record as they fight people below their level when they are starting out - only guy I can think of that didn't was Vasyl Lomachenko who just dived in at the deep end when he turned professional.

 

Miller? He's 30. Are you talking about Dubois? If so, then you're right.

Lomachenko demonstrated why a lot of experienced amateurs don't jump straight in with his dubious loss to Salido.
Probably learned quite a bit from it, though.

 

Sos - thought you were talking about Dubois.

That Salido match was a mess though - Salido came in overweight and spent the fight punching Lomachenko in the dick. He was stripped of his title and Lomachenko won it in his next match.

 

That was the only way that Salido could win and he knew it.
Probably better than conceding between rounds like most of Lomachenko's subsequent victims, to be fair.

 

Interesting points but don't agree about it being three special guys. Put any of them in the 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s era and none of them get anywhere near a title imo.

They're at similar levels and are all undefeated so it's competitive and exciting.

With Dubios coming in the next 2-3 years, and let's not forget Parker was undefeated until he faced AJ too, it's good for a while yet.