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Boxing: Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin + UFC: Rockhold Vs. Branch, Live Thread
9-16-17

Posted on 09/16/2017 5:48:37 PM PDT by Impy

This is hell of a matchup, so rare nowadays to see 2 top guys actually fight each other.

It's on HBO Pay-Per-View (and your friendly pirate sites which we won't mention here), Main Event should start after 11:PM Eastern. GGG is a -155 favorite over Canelo at +125.

The UFC Fight Event is on Fox Sports One and Fox Sports GO, prelims in progress, main card at 10PM eastern. The former middleweight champ takes on David Branch in the main event.


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: boxing; mma; ufc
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To: morphing libertarian

Why in this day of age boxing has human judges is ridiculous. The x box one can track 6 people each with 25 joints it cost$80. professional boxing is a fraud. That was a great fight atrocious decision


41 posted on 09/16/2017 10:19:43 PM PDT by datricker (The wall will protect the border and be a symbol the voters do have a say in their government.)
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To: Impy

[[Rockhold calls out GSP.]]

Rockhold will tear him apart if he can avoid GSP’s takedowns- which are among the best in the business really- if it’s a striking match (which it prolly won’t be- as GSP will try to go canvas as soon as he can) then I predict rockhold wins fairly easily


42 posted on 09/16/2017 11:43:17 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Impy

why was he stripped? Drugs?


43 posted on 09/16/2017 11:43:36 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Impy

LOL!

I also saw that The Black Beast Lewis is on the next card. Apparently he has not retired.


44 posted on 09/16/2017 11:47:08 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: Impy

I see now it was drugs- that’s too bad- jones had such a great future if he only just kept his nose clean- He’s gonna claim in an appeal that a nutritional supplement caused the test fail- not sure if that will fly- but apparently it has in the past for other fighters-


45 posted on 09/16/2017 11:48:27 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Impy

All that said, it was a heckuva fight, ruined by one incompetent (or corrupt) official.


46 posted on 09/17/2017 3:13:00 AM PDT by Hootowl
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To: datricker

baseball has the same issue on balls and strikes and plays on the bases.


47 posted on 09/17/2017 8:33:44 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: morphing libertarian
baseball has the same issue on balls and strikes and plays on the bases.

Thats true but there are so many games - and it seems that most of the times these guys get it right.

The consequence of a blown call is much less on average.

And now they do have instant replay. But baseball is already slow enough the technology would have to speed it up, rather than add more time.

48 posted on 09/17/2017 9:00:11 AM PDT by datricker (The wall will protect the border and be a symbol the voters do have a say in their government.)
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To: datricker

I umpired professional baseball in the minor leagues. They told us we’d make 150-200 calls a night behind the plate and miss maybe 1-3% The issues the players have is consistency. you may have heard some umps have a high strike zone, some call the plate too wide and so forth. When you see umps being yelled out it’s not just the missed call at the wrong time, it’s consistency. pro batters will adjust to an umpire if they know what the umpire will call and the pitchers adjust also.

Lasers and robots would make the game consistent from ump to ump.

All that being said, i favor the human element. LOL


49 posted on 09/17/2017 9:08:59 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: Hootowl

Yes it was a good fight. Like a good movie with a WTF ending. ;d


50 posted on 09/17/2017 11:28:19 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Bob434

They say he’ll probably get a 2 year suspension. This isn’t his first violation.

Sad, like Barry Bonds, he didn’t need to cheat to win.


51 posted on 09/17/2017 11:29:52 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Bob434

First up is Bisping v. GSP. Then the winner has to face interim champ Whitaker.

I wonder if GSP has anything left. Not a lot of unretirments have been very successful. I think he might beat Bisping, he’ll be the betting favorite. But against really good younger guys like Rockhold and Whitaker....


52 posted on 09/17/2017 11:33:04 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: chris37

I hadn’t heard he decided not to retire. Good. Right after you get KTFOed it’s only natural to think about it.


53 posted on 09/17/2017 11:34:28 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Impy

[[I wonder if GSP has anything left]]

IF He’s lost too much I think he will lose against bisping- I doubt he’s stayed in shape as well as he did when he was competing- maybe I’m wrong- it was odd to me that he quit when he did- seemed like maybe he got sick of getting hit and the recovery times- lost the zeal for the game so to speak-

I haven’t really followed bisping- never really cared for him-so i don’t know how much he’s lost if anything in regards to stamina/strength/speed etc

It’ll be an interesting matchup-


54 posted on 09/18/2017 12:47:11 AM PDT by Bob434
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