https://x.com/owen02_/status/1793039943738024280
That’s my headline…
It seems like everything in boxing revolves around Saudi Arabia these days.
Don King was all set to bring boxing back to the fans last month with The Quest for the Best. And all for the low, low price of 28 euro, or 35 euro if you purchased through the Triller TV app.
But now it’s been pushed back to June 7th and merged into Fists of Fury.
Imagine what craic this is going to be…if Broner shows up that is.
Tris Dixon on what it’s like to cover a major Naoya Inoue fight in Japan:
https://www.boxingscene.com/tokyo-diary-what-its-like-cover-naoya-inoue-fight-japan–183374
One reflection from the Ryan Garcia drug testing scandal is that it seems that VADA no longer conduct CIR testing for synthetic testosterone on all samples, instead using it just as a confirmatory test.
The purported Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz exhibition in Mexico in August is a rematch 13 years in the making.
Hopefully Brandon Rios is on standby as a replacement in case anything goes awry. How much to get Larry Merchant on commentary?
With Jake Paul-Mike Tyson being sanctioned as a pro bout (albeit with two minute rounds and larger gloves), I am reminded not only of the ill-fated Evander Holyfield-Vitor Belfort Triller exhibition, but also the fact that the Indiana Gaming Commission allowed Albert Hughes Jr. to ‘fight’ and win at 70 years old in 2019.
The bout itself was roughly as legitimate as a Mickey Rourke contest: https://tinyurl.com/alberthughes
Taylor-Serrano II, Floyd Schofield-Ashton Sylve and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Darren Till on the Paul-Tyson undercard makes this a must see event for both boxing fans and freakshow lovers alike.
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Heh heh heh–he’s no good, then. End of!
A richly deserved end for Tyson, a slumlord of his own talent. And a brilliant gritted-out performance by Usyk, once again covered in glory.
That ninth round will go down as an all-time highlight. To my mind and many others, it was the moment Usyk was robbed of a KO. It was also, as you’ve suggested here, the very proof that Fury most dreaded.
“How much to get Larry Merchant on commentary?”
Top stuff as ever, Jeremy.
It was hard to watch Fury finally lose and not feel some schadenfreude. That said, I actually think he performed damn well, better than I’d expected to see him box post Ngannou. As you say, round nine was an all timer.
I’m looking forward to the rematch already.
Thanks as always, Richard.