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Yes a busy weekend with the Joyce vs Hrgovic fight being the highest profile fight of the weekend. Hrgovic has to beat the fading Joyce who seems to have had his chin cracked after years of walking through bombs. The winner will probably get a high profile fight on a Saudi card but the loser...

It's a German surname that is a bit of slur it means a man with coarse hair. I suspect the mispronouncing of the name is due to the fact that nobody but German speakers can pronounce the name properly. The surname is supposed to have a German character called a umlaut to help with uttering...

I was thinking non starter pay which would be probably below 100k. Yes the starter pay is decent and that would be an office manager of fairly profitable company. I think Johnny Idiot couldn't handle walking the streets of a major city and nobody caring who he was. Which most CFL players are...

If he bothers to sign with a CFL team the myth of Trey Lance will be exposed. I think he probably can play in this league but he won't dominate defenses and probably will be a weak back up type. With the guaranteed money he has collected he could ride off in the sunset. Collecting office...

Yes it's a slow weekend for meaningful bouts as Zepeda vs Farmer is the only world level male bout on North American television but Mayer vs Ryan should be a decent female fight and it has the intrigue from the first fight as somebody sprayed Ryan with paint a few hours before their first fight...

Yes we talked about this in a few boxing threads on the history of the sport. The heavyweight division was nearly devoid of any quality White fighters and seemed to have one perennial top ten fighter per sporting generation(one Olympic cycle) that for whatever reason could never get over the...

Does Shirvington have a world individual level medal? I think he has two bronze relay medals and a 4th place finish in the 60m dash. PS I was thinking this over and Shirvington does have a better resume to this point as he had multiple world level appearances and made two indoor finals.

He's already passed Matt Shirvington in terms of accomplishments and it looks like he has no fear of world level competition. Which might have been the reason why Shirvington never made the 100m breakthrough he was projected to do when he first burst on to the scene in the 100m final at the...

Yes among my first memories of Foreman was reading of his flag waving and the contrast of this with Carlos and Smith and their forced removal from the Olympic village. Foreman had two careers where he was the indestructible force who destroyed opponents with his brute force and the older boxer...

This is the most exposure I have seen of the Irish prospect. I will say the glass is half full until proven otherwise as his power looks world class off of that knockout. Yes this is probably the last stand of Kambosos as anything but a B side name opponent if he can't win this one. As far...

This week is a slow week for White fighters in North America but in a few hours the main card of the Nick Ball title defense against veteran former champion TJ. Doheny takes place with plenty of prospects fighting leading up to the main event which on paper looks like a mismatch as the veteran...

It's rumored that on Tuesday Rodgers will ink a 2 year deal with the Steelers. The Jets record aside Rodgers looked reasonable but far from his ATG abilities with the Packers. The Jets releasing Rodgers for essentially a gadget players who is full time qb is nothing about abilities and...

Yes it's a slow weekend with the all female card in GB being probably the weekend headliner. The DAZN card in Toronto only has one fighter I recognize and he was a B side foil who exposed a prospect on a PPV last year. I could watch the main event to see if this was a one off fluke or he was...

There are kinky haired White people(obviously less) but his name is Anglo-Saxon and his features are clearly not Anglo-Saxon and people with that look that have English surnames are light skinned Blacks or Jews from all of the cases I have seen.

I remember stories about Haugen fighting in open weight fights on the semi pro Toughman circuit in Alaska. He also was a decided underdog in many of his key bouts and received B side scoring treatment in the Paz trilogy and maybe the Camacho rematch even if he was the nominal champion as...

Yes it slipped my mind, I didn't even know he was sick. He was a very underrated boxer who beat a string of decent lightweight fighters and then beat Jimmy Paul for the IBF title. He got the short end of the stick in the Paz rivalry but his win over the undefeated Camacho in their first fight...

Point taken on the subjective nature of scoring in tight fights. Donovan vs Crocker is probably the most competitive of the headline bouts of the weekend. It certainly shouldn't be the Tank Davis fight as he once again is picking on a sub division fighter. The floaties or lane dividers...

I tend to agree with the 7 to 5 in rounds scoring as it seemed that Bivol won this fight in the last few rounds where he won them by out working Beterbiev. In the first fight the scenario was reversed. It seems like a third fight is inevitable and it looks to be another tight affair where a...

I figured he would be as he was 290 or so in shape. Parker weighed in the high 260's but not fat. It looks like he was ready for infighting with the large Dubois. So far Callum Smith saw off the game Buatsi with an obvious decision and Kabayel slew the Chinese giant after getting flash knock...

The card is in the argument of the deepest cards in history. Ortiz vs Madrimov is a mid card bout that's all you need to know about the depth of the card. The Bakole late replacement shouldn't really happen as I can't see him having the fitness to fight at any pace after 4 rounds. He could...

I stopped watching the show in the late 90's to early 2000's it was for a bunch of reasons but if the show was compelling enough I could have taped it on my VHS machine and I never bothered to. I think the show doesn't get the top flight talent that it could got from it's inception to about...

Yes it's one of the biggest problems in boxing and PED usage probably enables it as many illegal drugs that fighters have been popped for are fat shedder or water loss drugs. Rounding up the weekend results and Jack Catteral took a fairly big step backwards as he lost a tight split decision...

Many of the funnier acts of the 80's and 90's would be politically incorrect now. I don't know why this cartoon wasn't pulled and scrubbed. This is a spoof of Batman and Robin...

All the writer would have to do was look up rosters of teams from 1920 onward. I don't know if the early years had the position officially listed in the early years of the league but for about 15 years the NFL had no Black players and cornerback was an official position by at least the early...

You beat me to the main event as Davis was 20+pounds heavier than the champion when they entered the ring and the things with the unorthodox Ukrainian fighter that worked against the much smaller Naverette had no chance of being anything more than annoyance to the hulking Davis. Spomer is not...