Boxing and MMA Forum Random Comments 2015

[Guest The Beltster]

Poor Dominick Cruz.

[Guest bigmatt]

Mikkel Kessler has retired.

[The Fury 65]

Being reported anderson silva and nick Diaz have both tested positive for banned substances

 

Edit silva failed on anabolic steroids while Diaz failed on marijuana

Edited February 4, 2015 by The Fury

[Guest John Hancock]

And they dare say Scotland's behind the times.

[Guest Magic]

Sigh.

[dsrchris 190]

:lol

 

It's been a while...

 

#DamnitDean

[Guest John Hancock]

Old, has-been, steroid using, unlikeable drug addict that he is, Wanderlei Silva is considering the obvious career path of becoming a pro-wrestler. The rumour, per Meltzer, is Silva vs. Phil Baroni for the IGF in Japan.

[The Fury 65]

:lol

 

It's been a while...

 

#DamnitDean

 

Look at the date and time. I was first to report it as Silva Diaz thread didn't pop up on my phone :lol

[Guest bigmatt]

Ronda Rousey is featured in Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue:

 

http://www.si.com/mma/2015/02/09/ronda-rousey-si-swimsuit-issue-2015

[Guest bigmatt]

Daniel Cormier vs. Ryan Bader has been confirmed as the main event for a UFC Fight Night in June.

 

http://www.ufc.com/news/Cormier-Gets-Louisiana-Homecoming-Against-Bader

[Guest John Hancock]

Who did Ryan Bader piss off?

[Guest The Beltster]

Everybody who likes exciting fights.

[King 277]

Another huge fight for this PPV :)

 

A huge addition has been made to the UFC 189 card in Las Vegas. That’s the night Conor McGregor will face off against Jose Aldo for the UFC Featherweight title.

 

At a press conference this evening, where a new, stricter drug testing regime was announced by the organisation for main event and championship bouts, Dana White named the co-main event for July 11th.

 

Rory MacDonald will get his title shot as he takes on Robbie Lawler for the UFC Welterweight crown.

 

It will be Lawler’s first defence since taking the belt from Johny Hendricks at UFC 181 in December. MacDonald is on a three fight winning streak with his last loss actually coming against Lawler in March of last year.

 

It was already set to be a hugely interesting card but this addition is certainly a major bonus for anyone who has already book their tickets for Vegas.

[Guest bigmatt]

The top four fights on UFC 187 in May:

 

Jon Jones © vs. Anthony Johnson

Chris Weidman © vs. Vitor Belfort

Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Donald Cerrone

Travis Browne vs. Andrei Arlovski

 

Yikes. That could be great if it doesn't fall apart.

[Evil Gringo 279]

I smell a Jones injury and a Belfort drug test fail in the future.

[Guest John Hancock]

Look at UFC giving a shit about card depth now they've got new drug tests. Sneaky UFC.

 

If this all works though, I'm loving this new "two titles a show" deal. This means there'll be two title fights at UFC 185, UFC 186 AND UFC 187.

[Guest bigmatt]

189 too apparently, Aldo/McGregor and Lawler/MacDonald.

[Evil Gringo 279]

I really hope that it all goes fine though and that is the card we get. I've wanted to see Weidman v Belfort for sometime now and if he fights like he did against Lyoto then he is going to battered. However if he fights like Chris Weidman can and should fight then I can see him getting the win inside three.

 

As for Jones v Johnson, Jones wins the fight using better wrestling and his reach as usual, he'll get the win via a choke inside four I reckon. However I more looking forward to Jones being the heel he should be and now sort of is in the lead up to the fight.

[Guest John Hancock]

189 too apparently, Aldo/McGregor and Lawler/MacDonald.

 

Well there you go! Four out of five, and I assume 188 gets the heavyweight title, which counts as two titles.

[Guest bigmatt]

I just watched the Golovkin/Murray fight from last night. If you're in the U.K it's on Channel 5's catch-up service Demand 5, I don't know if they block it for other countries. I enjoyed it and was impressed with Murray. I know he barely won a round but he had skills and guts. If he had more power or a way of pushing GGG back it would have been really interesting. He had the size to go at him but the power GGG had wouldn't allow it and he couldn't hurt him. Well worth a watch. Some of the 168 pounders will be buoyed by some of that, I think.

 

I'll seek out David Price's fight next and I think my man Tony Thompson's rematch with Odlanier Solis was Friday or Saturday night. I'll look for that.

[King 277]

David Price had a good win but is just a journey heavyweight, shame really as he's a Liverpool fan :lol

[Guest bigmatt]

That's harsh. He's better than that. He's only lost to Tony Thompson who is a shrewd, troublesome southpaw. And at the time was probably a top 5 heavyweight in ability. It's difficult to know how good he is at the minute though. He needed to take a step back and rebuild but I'd love to see him test himself in a different style. His first opponent on the comeback trail was a can, the next three were all solid journeymen fighters but they were all very similar. Around the 6ft 2-3" mark, heavy, slow, tough, durable fighters with good power but not much speed or skill (especially when you consider Price's physical advantages). He's back to talking about Joshua and Tyson Fury and Wilder now, I'd like to see him fight someone a bit different that will make him fight differently and test himself. I'd love to see him go against someone good with the same size or bigger like a Ustinov or a fast, skilful boxer like a Chambers or Cunningham or somebody.

[King 277]

I don't think it's harsh to be honest, I mean if he fought Joshua or Fury now, Price would be the underdog, Wladimir Klitschko would destroy him so would Wilder, and if even if Haye came back he would beat Price.

 

I like him don't get me wrong but he will never ever be at the really top level.

[Guest bigmatt]

Not being a top level fighter and being a journeyman are different things though. All you've said is that the two current world heavyweight champions (and one of them an all-time great) beat him and a former world heavyweight champion beats him. That doesn't make him a journeyman. Price would be the betting underdog against Joshua and Fury but he's a live dog in both fights. Wlad is the best in the world. I can't agree that Wilder destroys him though. Wilder has just as many limitations as Price and Price has top level power.

[King 277]

To be called an under dog to Tyson Fury is my point though, Fury is just very average, and to be honest so is price, the whole division is fairly rubbish.