The "Witton Lane" Boxing Chat Thread

[Witton_Lane]

No chance :-)

Fraudly is hopeless and you know it

I get the feeling our Gabby is on the ESB "Audley Harrison Express" and is bringing his posting habits over here for our amusement

I hope to Christ this fight doesn't happen as I like Haye and don't want to see the ridicule he'll deservedly get if it does. Having said that if it does happen it'll be over inside 2 minutes, and Harrison will still be counting stars on the canvas when the cleaners arrive.

One star on the canvas will be counted.

That star will be David Haye once the A-bomb lands on his fragile British mandible

Yep, been reading Rico's posts too much.

Haye will absolutely **** destroy Harrison, he's already done it several times in sparring for **** sake, this fight will be a joke and I'm pissed off with Haye for taking it (although I do understand the reasoning, big money zero risk)

I'm taking great amusement at the moment....as the Klitschkos slate Haye for taking Harrison, VITLAY is ducking Valuev of all people, who Haye already beat. Oh **** dear.....what a pussy. Confirms what I always said, VITLAY is just a bully. Give him an opponent that hits back or is bigger, and those pants get filled with shit.

[Gabby15]

No chance :-)

Fraudly is hopeless and you know it

I get the feeling our Gabby is on the ESB "Audley Harrison Express" and is bringing his posting habits over here for our amusement

I hope to Christ this fight doesn't happen as I like Haye and don't want to see the ridicule he'll deservedly get if it does. Having said that if it does happen it'll be over inside 2 minutes, and Harrison will still be counting stars on the canvas when the cleaners arrive.

One star on the canvas will be counted.

That star will be David Haye once the A-bomb lands on his fragile British mandible

Yep, been reading Rico's posts too much.

Haye will absolutely **** destroy Harrison, he's already done it several times in sparring for **** sake, this fight will be a joke and I'm pissed off with Haye for taking it (although I do understand the reasoning, big money zero risk)

I'm taking great amusement at the moment....as the Klitschkos slate Haye for taking Harrison, VITLAY is ducking Valuev of all people, who Haye already beat. Oh **** dear.....what a pussy. Confirms what I always said, VITLAY is just a bully. Give him an opponent that hits back or is bigger, and those pants get filled with shit.

Now now Witton, surely even you don't believe he'd duck that Russian retard?

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer thinks a heavyweight showdown between WBA champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KOs), and Olympic gold medal winner Audley Harrison (27-4, 20KOs), would be a "big, all-British showdown."

As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Harrison accepted an offer worth £1million to fight Haye on November 13, with Sky pay-per-view carrying the fight. Harrison's side told UK publication, Daily Mail, they were waiting on Haye's team to finalize the deal.

Schaefer has received a lot of positive feedback on Haye-Harrison from the British press. Golden Boy promote Haye in the United States. Schaefer says the final word on a fight with Harrison will come from Haye and his manager/trainer Adam Booth.

"The British media was telling me that the English fans were pretty excited about Audley Harrison, and they think that it could become, in England, one of the great showdowns between two British fighters," said Schaefer to BoxingScene.com.

"They're both very outspoken and very charismatic, and so we will see. But ultimately, of course, it will be David and Adam Booth of Hayemaker Promotions dictating which way that it's going to go."

Fail. Read something other than biased press, it's a complete joke.

A few weeks ago, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer had tried to create a rematch between Bernard Hopkins and the recently retired Joe Calzaghe of Wales. After a have few positive conversations, Calzaghe made a decision to stay retired. With a Calzaghe rematch out of the way, Schaefer is exploring the possibility of matching Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KOs) against undefeated IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (26-0, 21 KOs).

If Schaefer is able to reach an agreement with Interbox, who promote Bute, he would like to stage the fight in the fall. Bothe fighters saw action in the month of April. Hopkins won a twelve round unanimous decision in a rematch with Roy Jones Jr. Bute stopped Edison Miranda in three rounds. The Hopkins-Bute fight would likley take place at a catch-weight between 168 and 175-pounds. In several past interviews, Hopkins said he was able to make 170-pounds for a fight with Bute.

"I actually talked with our friend at Interbox Promotions, Jean Bedard, who is the CEO of Interbox, which promotes Lucian Bute. We spoke about the possibility of putting together a fight with Bernard Hopkins. And they would be open to doing a fight between Bute and Hopkins," Schaefer told BoxingScene.com.

"And so we're currently discussing that. The fight would be sometime between September and November -- somewhere between that window. That's what we would like to do. And I'm waiting for Jean Bedard to get back to me."

Am I the only one not sold on Bute?

[Witton_Lane]

Well it sure looks like he's ducking him to me....offering derisory money to him is one way of doing it isn't it :winkold:

Klitschko fans make me laugh....their guys never duck anyone and every time they lose it doesn't count

The "Wlad was poisoned against Brewster" one is my favourite....I'd love to meet the genius chemist that invented a poison that only kicks in 0.00001 seconds after this happened:-

I swear to God, if I tried to make up that kind of shit about any other fighter I'd get laughed off the internet....but Klitschko fans really think he was poisoned, not chinned

Same goes for Vitali too.....he never really lost to Byrd because he was up on the cards when he quit....and he never really lost to Lewis because he was 4-2 up on the cards....

"I've got you right where I want you Lennox, I'm up on ze cards"

[Gabby15]

Breaking News

by James Slater - It's been just over six months since heavyweight contender Kevin "King Pin" Johnson's disappointing challenge of WBC champion Vitali Klitschko. That December 2009 day in Switzerland, when the then undefeated 30-year-old appeared to have no real ambition other than to go the full 12-rounds (which he did), gave us one of the most boring heavyweight title bouts in years, and it was especially disappointing given the great talk Johnson, now 22-1-1(9) was coming out with beforehand..

To be fair to Johnson, he did announce how he'd been carrying an arm injury throughout the fight, and this may have been a big reason for his negative-looking tactics. Certainly, this is what "King Pin" claimed via his official website a few months after the unanimous decision loss. Since the fight, though, we've heard practically nothing else from the man with the superb left jab. Until now.

According to a number of boxing web sites, Boxrec.com among them, the 30-year-old will actually be back in action, in a very low-key affair, tonight, June 18th. Set to face the limited and virtually unknown heavyweight that is 39-year-old David Saulsberry of Kentucky, Johnson is down as fighting him in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The bout is scheduled for eight-rounds, and it seems Johnson is happy enough to slip back into action without any fanfare or hype to accompany him.

Saulsberry, 6-2(6) turned pro in 2005 and he won his initial five bouts. Boxing in either North Carolina or Kentucky, the 39-year-old who weighs approx 300-pounds then ran into Wes Taylor and, a heavyweight you may be familiar with, Devin Vargas. Both men stopped him, in three and two rounds respectively. Since then, Saulsberry has had one bout, a 2nd-round KO win over an unbeaten guy named Roberto White - back in March of 2008!

It's clear to see, then, that Johnson is taking no chances at all in his first fight back after Klitschko. Unless he wants to get some rounds in so as to restore some of his old confidence, Johnson should be able to take his man out as and when he pleases. The comeback really presents the fast-talking Johnson with no test at all, but it will be interesting to hear what he has to say after he wins. What are Johnson's plans? How soon does he plan on fighting again? Will he up the level as far as his competition goes? Has "King Pin" actually retained his old self-assured attitude?

Of added interest to fans may be the fact that 1990's heavyweight title challenger "Smokin'" Bert Cooper is scheduled to be in action on tonight's bill. Inactive since 2002, the 44-year-old who once fought Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight title is set to face another unknown, in 26-year-old Cory Winfield. The North Carolina man is 3-6(2) and unless Cooper has absolutely nothing left, he should get himself his first win in almost a decade tonight.

Cooper, by the way, is down on Boxrec as fighting again in August, once again in North Carolina.

Kingpin is back :notworthy:

Oh, and Holt vs Feliciano is off, claimed it's due to weight issues, more likely because Holt was apparently in prison again last weekend

[Gabby15]

Team Ali Chebah, represented by Don Majeski, put in the winning purse bid for the WBC light welterweight final eliminator between Ali Chebah (33-1, 26 KOs) of France and Alose Olsegun (28-0, 14 KO) of Nigeria.

Team Chebah came first with a bid of $112,000 thousand dollars. There will be a 50-50 split on the money and the fight will most probably take place in late September or early October - in France or in Algeria. The winner of the elimination bout will face the unified champion of the WBC and IBF, Devon Alexander.

War Ajose!!

[TheWalletInspector]

"LEGENDARY US fight scribe Ed Schyuler was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame last weekend.

One of his best one-liners came after covering the Rumble in the Jungle: "Zaire? I wouldn't even fly over that country now because I might crash and live."

[Gabby15]

Vaulev takes a knee for the first time in his career :shock:

Shame he's never shown footwork like that in the ring

[Witton_Lane]

"LEGENDARY US fight scribe Ed Schyuler was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame last weekend.

One of his best one-liners came after covering the Rumble in the Jungle: "Zaire? I wouldn't even fly over that country now because I might crash and live."

The fight won't happen I'm afraid. Vitaly has a bullys mentality. I reckon he'd shit himself during the staredown if he had to look up

[TheWalletInspector]

Vaulev takes a knee for the first time in his career :shock:

Shame he's never shown footwork like that in the ring

He's been luring Vitali into a false sense of security and then BAM! Valuev's sweet footwork gives Vitali a pizza face.

[Gabby15]

Lots of people are very, VERY pissed off at Anthony Small :shock:

[TheWalletInspector]

And rightly so. **** idiot.

"I'm not a member of any particular group.I'm just a Muslim who believes all Muslims stand as one body and I stand for the honour of my Muslim brothers and sisters who have been killed around the world.

"When i see people committing atrocities then coming back and parading medals they've won by killing those brothers and sisters I'm going to stand up and speak out.

Here he is going on about the alleged spitting at the soldiers.

"The spitting is a lie.We didn't get close enough to the soldiers to spit at them.And if anyone finds a placard Saying 'return home murderers' inflammatory then how about the ones who have been murdered in Afghanistan-innocent men and children-as the definition of murder is to unlawfully kill someone?

People say soldiers are only doing their job-but you can say the same thing about hitler.

"The soldiers are young boy's-the one's who come back having to wear nappies and needing sleeping pill's and the mothers and wives who see them come back in body bags are all victim's of war too"

[Witton_Lane]

Vaulev takes a knee for the first time in his career :shock:

Shame he's never shown footwork like that in the ring

He's been luring Vitali into a false sense of security and then BAM! Valuev's sweet footwork gives Vitali a pizza face.

Valuevs face is his best weapon.....Haye broke his hand on it in the 2nd round of their fight, and Haye isn't made of glass like Vitaly. I suspect Vitaly would be forced to bravely quit again if he had to hit that block of wood for 12 rounds.

[TheWalletInspector]

Maybe throw in some Evander Holyfield style head movement as well then.

[Witton_Lane]

Yep, open up those old cuts....I can see Lennox sniggering at ringside as I type. Maybe if Valuev grew dreadlocks and a beard he could use them to 'improve' the cuts, like Lewis did (according to several people on ESB)

[rjw63]

And rightly so. **** idiot.

"I'm not a member of any particular group.I'm just a Muslim who believes all Muslims stand as one body and I stand for the honour of my Muslim brothers and sisters who have been killed around the world.

"When i see people committing atrocities then coming back and parading medals they've won by killing those brothers and sisters I'm going to stand up and speak out.

Here he is going on about the alleged spitting at the soldiers.

"The spitting is a lie.We didn't get close enough to the soldiers to spit at them.And if anyone finds a placard Saying 'return home murderers' inflammatory then how about the ones who have been murdered in Afghanistan-innocent men and children-as the definition of murder is to unlawfully kill someone?

People say soldiers are only doing their job-but you can say the same thing about hitler.

"The soldiers are young boy's-the one's who come back having to wear nappies and needing sleeping pill's and the mothers and wives who see them come back in body bags are all victim's of war too"

Who exactly is this **** cretin???

[Gabby15]

Some nice back-acne there, we all know Victor Conte got the best enhancement drugs

[Gabby15]

[TheWalletInspector]

Oh what a prick.

/career.

Ward UD.

[Gabby15]

Oh what a prick.

/career.

Ward UD.

Warren dropped him for it, although I say fair play for putting your belief before boxing even if the belief is very questionable.

[TheWalletInspector]

Oh what a prick.

/career.

Warren dropped him for it, although I say fair play for putting your belief before boxing even if the belief is very questionable.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Like Foreman apparently asking his Rabbi whether he should quit Boxing. When it's shit like that though he can go **** himself.