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Post by mangekyoalleluia on Apr 29, 2017 20:46:17 GMT
Big fight, biggest boxing bout of the 21st century maybe? Huge challenge for Joshua, Klitschko is aged but experienced and wise, will certainly test teh young man. Should be good, I give it to AJ.
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Post by mangekyoalleluia on Apr 29, 2017 21:47:33 GMT
AJ wins it in the 11th, what a fight!
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Post by thorshairspray on Apr 30, 2017 0:06:45 GMT
Great fight. Really impressed with both men. My boy Joshua comes through.
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Post by Excellent Bulletproof Vest on Apr 30, 2017 0:08:59 GMT
I don't know shit about boxing but it looked a really good fight to me. If there's a rematch I'll watch it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 11:29:21 GMT
AJ wins it in the 11th, what a fight! Has Klitschko lost 2 out of his last 3 now? Fury now this? Think he's done? |
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Post by scabab on Apr 30, 2017 12:33:01 GMT
AJ wins it in the 11th, what a fight! Has Klitschko lost 2 out of his last 3 now? Fury now this? Think he's done? It's hard to say. Funnily enough even though he did lose his last two fights now he is still without a doubt one of the best in the division. Not including Fury because he's not active in the sport technically. Klitschko could very easily be the second best heavyweight around. Aside from Joshua, I don't think anyone else would have beaten him the way he was last night. They need to have Joshua vs Fury and Wilder Vs Parker. The winner of each fight each other for the true number one. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 16:33:59 GMT
Really pleased for Joshua, BUT...
I've just watched the fight again (I was a tiny bit intoxicated last night... there is a great copy of the fight on PirateBay incidentally), and I am absolutely amazed that only one judge scored the fight in favour of Klitschko, absolutely amazed. Klitschko was picking up most those rounds, was catching with most the clean shots, and I think Joshua even said he took some rounds off because he was tired after missing with so many punches.
I don't want to question the integrity of boxing but you do wonder about some of these judges.
But anyway, it doesn't matter now, you could be be wining all 12 rounds, but if you get knocked out you get knocked out.
The fans will probably be more pleased with that performance than the purists, Joshua says he is "coming to hurt people, not to win by points", that is a great to hear as a fan, but if you can't out box your opponent, and you can't find a KO, you are going to lose on points almost every time to a cunning boxer... like Tyson Fury (well, we'll see what shape he is in when he returns).
Actually, Tony Bellew called it spot on during the break at the end of the 10th round, he said Klitschko was starting to look really tired and Joshua needs to step it up now. And that is exactly what happened at the beginning of the 11th. A tired boxer is a boxer who is likely to get hurt.
On another night, a younger, fitter Klitschko knocks Joshua out when he had him really badly hurt in the 5th and 6th rounds. Perhaps he should have thrown the kitchen sink at it then, but you don't know how exhausting it is until you try it. And you have to think a younger, fitter Klitschko doesn't get so tired by the end of the fight. So it could have been a very different outcome in all kinds of ways.
But you have to give AJ credit, he got up when he was hurt, he hung on in there and he pulled off a sensational TKO. He is still learning his craft, but his rivals will have seen enough to give them hope. Gripping fight incidentally.
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Post by scabab on Apr 30, 2017 17:09:24 GMT
Well Joshua seemed to win Round 1-3 and Klitschko won Round 4.
I don't know how Round 5 would be scored because Joshua got the knockdown but then lost the last half of the round. I would have thought it'd have been a 10-9 round to Joshua but Showtime had it 10-9 to Klitschko so I didn't understand how that worked.
Round 6 would be a 10-8 round to Klitschko and he got Round 7, maybe 8.
Joshua I'd say got round 9 and 10. So I do think it was really close but I'd have said Joshua was probably just a head.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 17:43:41 GMT
I actually thought Klitschko won most the opening rounds, but most the time a judge will score it 10-8 automatically if a guy floors his opponent (but they aren't obliged to), a 10-9 would probably be fair to Joshua in round 5 in this instance, but I could quite see how Showtime would award that round to Wlad, although a boxer would feel pretty hard done by to lose a round in which they floored their opponent, I think you'd really have to pummel your opponent but get knocked down by a flash punch for this to happen.
Even if you give Joshua that round 10-8, I still think Klitschko was a couple of rounds ahead.
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Post by hamsterman11 on Apr 30, 2017 21:33:43 GMT
Well good on Joshua, was very hard to determine how good he was until yesterday, and he proved he's up to the task. I'd like to see him fight Wilder but I think Wilder is running scared now.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 21:58:18 GMT
Well good on Joshua, was very hard to determine how good he was until yesterday, and he proved he's up to the task. I'd like to see him fight Wilder but I think Wilder is running scared now. I don't know if he is running scared. I think the problem is he isn't a household name yet, so for a unification fight it might not be box office yet, or not as big a it could be until Wilder becomes better known to the public. That was probably the idea behind having Wilder on the commentary team working for Sky last night. And fans want to see unification fights more than promoters do. Promoters tend to want to wait till the time is right before cashing in on the big payday to maximise income. FWIW Wilder said he would love to fight AJ next summer when asked by the commentator, although he would have to say that. |
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