Very True..

Maybe a nasal spray before the fight might have made these blokes go the distance not 29 seconds what a let down. I think Greene was ok but SUPER size the dose of the other loser. He took a hit but we've all seen people take bigger hits and continue. Some people paid $1000 a seat they'd be pissed! Nasal spray tecnology for boxers! In Gym stores now!

this stuff in boxing has been going on for years. the ali and sonny liston fight looked similar


i remember heaps of boxers lining up to dive for tyson

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Briggs should have never been put up against Green.

Green is fighting as good as I have ever seem him and to put a guy in that hasn't been in the ring since 2007, and couldn't make the weight was never going to end well. Wether it was a dive or a real KO a fighter with some conditioning and ring time would not have ended up in that situation.

There is always going to be speculation that a fix was on, one betting agencey suspended betting during the day of the fight after rumours of a fix, they then opened betting again later in the day. And Centrebet reported some large bets on a Briggs KO in the first round, some of the largest they have ever had on a specific round KO.

It just seems the way in this country, maybe due to fighter looking for a pay day, or due to a lack of talent wanting to come here to fight, but we do get a large number of mismatch bouts.

Of course the Clay/Ali V Liston "Phantom Punch" fight is the benchmark for dives. A lot of odd occurances around that fight, Clay/Ali was stripped of the title after winning the first fight in '64 on TKO, the fight itself set a record for the lowest live attendance at a world title fight due to some late change in venue, and at the end of the fight Clay announced we would be then know as Cassius X, changing his name to Ali a week later. Seems the whole thing ended up a media circus, but then Ali had that effect on fights. Liston did later come out and say he threw the fight out of fear of retaliation from the Black Muslims.

The famous shot...

I for one have never considered Green to be a hero. He's in the same camp as Mundine, taking on matches where the opponents are mismatched for an easy payday. Green should never have accepted to fight Briggs in the first place. What a crock

More Not SUP....
This one changes tact a little bit..... saw it via TheAge.com.au
Thought it was p!ss funny !
Enjoy

Title
"How to trick people into thinking you're good looking" !!

husq2100 said...

I dont think Green is to blame, he wants to do his job...he was pissed after the fight also.

Re Ali vs Liston. if you havent seen the slow motion pictures of that punch.....you should! he threw a low handed jab, perfectly placed with speed and timing AS WELL as Liston stepping into it.... Alis speed/timing was his greatest power

The reality is that these guys only get paid when they fight and there are only so many opponents that are willing to step into the ring against them. I don't think Green should have accepted Briggs on a first comeback bout, but then I doubt he expected that to be the outcome either.

On the Ali v Lister fight, the jab you see, while being perfectly executed was only the anchor punch. Angelo Dundee has reported that punch would have had only 50% of Ali's power behind it as he set up for the combination. It should not have had the power to KO a former World Champ the caliber of Liston.

aus301 said...

husq2100 said...

I dont think Green is to blame, he wants to do his job...he was pissed after the fight also.

Re Ali vs Liston. if you havent seen the slow motion pictures of that punch.....you should! he threw a low handed jab, perfectly placed with speed and timing AS WELL as Liston stepping into it.... Alis speed/timing was his greatest power

The reality is that these guys only get paid when they fight and there are only so many opponents that are willing to step into the ring against them. I don't think Green should have accepted Briggs on a first comeback bout, but then I doubt he expected that to be the outcome either.

On the Ali v Lister fight, the jab you see, while being perfectly executed was only the anchor punch. Angelo Dundee has reported that punch would have had only 50% of Ali's power behind it as he set up for the combination. It should not have had the power to KO a former World Champ the caliber of Liston.

my father is a life time boxing fan- watched them all. i dive in his opinion and he was liston fan. watch closely,he rolls to his knee easily, then rolls down. when they started the fight again, he didn't throw any punches, but sure covered up well.he has his hands up in a boxing stance when the ref goes to ali, then casually walks over to his corner as ali wins. not the sign of a man receiving a knockout punch