Evander Holyfield is on BBC1 now, on Strictly Come Dancing.

Right at the bottom! ttt

No boxing on terrestrial tv tonight.

I'll pop over soon and 'ave a butchers, Tommy.

It's about all he's truly capable of imo, Tommy

There's a chap at 13:22 who seems to be having a breakdown now on the Audrey thread.
He's had enough.
It is funny!

Poor chap.And MB was not fishing btw,FACT.

ttt

:-)

Boxing in less than ten minutes:

Ch4 - KOTV - 02:45 - Boxing Magazine.

As I'm still up I'll wander downstairs and have a look.

I'll get a glass of milk and hope I can stay awake.

Goodnight all.

Goodnight AITL. This programme is usually pretty good.

I stayed awake for this mornings KO-TV.

Some people watch fights and see different things to others.

These are my views on the entertainment.

From what we saw of the first fight, (part of round 1, part of round 2, then straight to round 9) I thought the fighter in the white shorts was the worst boxer of the two, until the bloke in the black shorts got decked in round 10. He was clearly worried about his right eye as he 'mopped' it with his glove, then the pillock got off the floor and waded straight back in with no right side guard up, and paid for it when a left and a further short barrage left the referee with no other choice than to stop the fight.

The loser looked fitter to me, and I thought he was the better boxer, perhaps he will learn from that error. If he doesn't, his career, as well as the right side of his face, haven't got much of a future.

I left the room for what seemed like 15 seconds and missed the second fight completely. Caught the replay of the punch that ended it.

Lovely left hook, smack on the jawline.

Fight 3 featured one of the braindeads who shouldn't be in a ring. These are the unlucky type, and also unlikely to amount to much. So slow that a hard puncher cannot help but hurt them, they couldn't dodge a bus if they had a phone call to say it was coming. I couldn't believe it when the dimwit threw a punch at least a second and a half after the bell had sounded to end the round. The referee quite rightly stopped him a point, not that it mattered, he got hammered soon afterwards. He should take up advertising on the soles of his boots as there's no other way he's going to make money from boxing.

These slow dim-witted types are cannon fodder for heavy hitters, and the sport doesn't need another death in the ring. How they get fights is beyond me.

They even make Audrey Harrison look agile.

Old black and white footage for a middleweight fight featuring Rocky Graziano. I've not seen much of him before, and I think he forgot to to bring his left jab out of the dressing room...lol. An orthodox boxer who led with a right cross, and even when he had his opponent hurt, he still only used a right hand. He never threw more than 6 lefts throughout the fight, but he was effective, and you can't argue with that.

I checked his ring record and he had 83 fights, won 67 (10 by KO) and drew 6. He was world champion for only a a short while, losing it on his second defence.

Here's a short but interesting read, along with his ring record in full.

http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/grazianor.shtml



The last fight was a cracker.

I'd never seen Ricky Hatton fight before. A fairly good boxer, tough as they come and game to the end. He ignored the early cuts, which, like Henry Cooper, have apparently dogged his career. I really enjoyed this fight, he knows how to box, that's for sure. He cut Maussas eye and kept on going for that, interspersed with text book stuff against a taller fighter with a long reach, he battered his rib cage. Eventually the pain made Maussa drop his guard to protect his ribs, if he can't breathe he can't fight. Ricky slammed in a left hook to Maussas head and it was over before he hit the canvas.

If all his fights are like this I may take an interest even though hes only 10 stones, a class I generally miss.


Well worth staying up for.

Blimey AITL,that goes down as one of the best posts i've seen! Well done.

AITL, I'm very sorry indeed that you switched on, only to find that tripe.
The programme makers/planners should be 'shot in the face'.

BRING BACK BOXING.

Yes, that figures, 200 a side, handbags at 10 paces.

aitl, all of rickys fights are all action affairs and he is an underarted bioxer who will spank a few yanks and mexicans b4 he is finished. also comes across as a very down to earth, humble nice lad

He could try leading with a fist and not his face, not that it appears to bother him much.

No boxing on terrestrial tv later.

Sounds great, AITL.

I still haven't read the first one yet!

It's krap Tommy, I was up early this morning, and switched on the telly while I went to make a cuppa, forgetting that I could'nt see thre american comedy I get up for.

When I came back to the lounge I suffered 3 minutes of BB before I turned it off.

It was a recording of the ' highlights' of last week.

Some black bird, sounded american, woke Barrymore up to tell him it was snowing.

She said 'Oh my gosh, it's snowing' SEVEN TIMES to herself, then 3 more to Barrymore.

If they were the 'highlights' what in the name of god do these morons watch the rest of the time????