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Listed below are comments made by coxy0001 between Thursday, 16th July 2009 and Monday, 2nd November 2009.

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Holyfield shows Haye the way 11:06am on 02 Nov 2009 Coverage starts at 8pm, i don't know if they're planning on showing an undercard etc but i suspect the fight will start around 10pm or so... but don't quote me on it!
Holyfield shows Haye the way 09:20am on 02 Nov 2009 The only danger of Haye losing is if he goes for the jugular (like he did in the Thomson fight), Valuev absorbs his best shots and then KO's Haye as he's punched himself out for the night. On the other hand i'll be desperately worried for him if it goes the full 12, the scoring in some German fights has been utterly horrendously biased towards the home fighter (Sven Ottke got more gifts than a 5 year old kid at Christmas).

Valuev isn't very good at all, a 30% version of the old Holyfield beat him (and got robbed) and i fully expect Haye to beat him by late KO or by a UD, by something like a 117-110. Then he could maybe fight someone like Arreola? Would get his profile up in America...
Boxing needs a Bolt 12:27pm on 18 Sep 2009 Oh, and for the record (as i forgot to mention) the card for the fight on Saturday night (American time) is:

1st: Orlando Cruz v Cornelius Lock
2nd: Vicente Escobedo v Michael Katsidis
3rd: Chris John v Rocky Juarez
4th: Mayweather Jr v Marquez

The first bout is between 2 guys who have thrown the promoters "careful careful book" approach out of the window and should be a decent fight. 2nd fight involves Katsidis, who's never one to shy away from having a huge scrap. 3rd fight involves a guy who's already beaten Marquez against an American hope in Juarez, their first fight was quality and should be a repeat. Main event may have to push some to live up to what could happen on the undercard... Golden Boy p'mts are now going to be making all the major PPV cards resemble the one listed.
Boxing needs a Bolt 10:00am on 18 Sep 2009 magnificentcatcher, i agree that UFC is still in its "infancy" and may well evolve.. Will be interesting to see what happens when the fighters start asking questions as to why they're not earning $10m+ for fights like boxers do...

As for your last paragraph:

"IF you do go and pay to watch Mayweather vs. Marquez it is for one fight and it could be boring, you pay to watch an MMA event and there will be lots of entertaining fights. ESPN showed just past midnight a UFC Fight Night live event and that was only four matches but those were all entertaining, with just one not going the distance. UFC beats Boxing and WWE PPV’s now, which says a lot for such a young sport."

Have you ever been to York Hall to watch a domestic card? Or have you watched Friday Night Fights at the Nokia Club in L.A? Cards packed with evenly matched fighters engaging in some great tear-ups.

As for the UFC fights being "entertaining, with just one not going the distance"... Dear dear me, how about you go and watch any of the Marquez (Rafael) v Vasquez fights, Gatti v Ward, Barrera v Morales etc etc They're fights with 12 rounds of absolutely amazing action, just because they don't end in 5 minutes and actually require the attention span of someone above the mental age of 15, doesn't mean they're any less exciting.
Boxing needs a Bolt 12:22pm on 17 Sep 2009 Ben, seeing as though you work for the BBC can you pretty please, with ice cream on top if you want, answer me this:

Why, when neither ESPN/Sky/ITV have gone for Froch's upcoming fight against Dirrell (part of the super6 series as well) is the BBC not putting in a bit of money to show it?
Boxing needs a Bolt 11:24am on 17 Sep 2009 :ironDirkDiggler

Agree completely with Americans issue with the "white heavyweights". If any of 'their boys' could fight like either klitschko, and happened to be African American, then you can guarantee the hoopla surrounding them would be huge.

I don't quite agree with your comment on the 147lb division. You could chuck Berto in with Mosely and lose, but chuck him in with Williams and win etc. Overall i think the top 10 147lb'rs could, as you point out detrementally, beat one another on any given night. For me it's Cotto who's the #1 at 147lbs and Mayweather will resume #1 when he beats Marquez (which WILL happen). How many other weight classes are there with 10 genuine world class fighters who have spent/will spend years beating each other up?
Boxing needs a Bolt 10:24am on 16 Sep 2009 Boxing doesn't need the heavyweight division to survive. It needs boxers, their promoters and their trainers to fight the other marquee names in and around their weight class. Freddie Roach has openly stated he wants Khan to have no piece of Valero, instead opting for Dmitry Salita instead. Who?! I'm pretty hardcore and even i've gotta go onto boxrec to check that guy out. Frank Warren should have his license revoked with the way he's robbed paying fans with the way he's 'guided' Calzaghe, to an extent Hatton (who left him to get the big fights and stop getting swindled) and now Khan.

A fighter won't 'save' anything, the best fighters fighting the best will. Mayweather v Pacquiao is probably 'the' fight to do that. It just happends that they're around the 140lb mark and not heavyweights, in 10 years time we could have 10 genuine heavyweight contenders again... and don't be surprised if every single one of them is from the Eastern bloc!
Cricket misses the point again 10:27am on 02 Sep 2009 The ground was wet, squidgy and muddy. It's all well and good going on about the bowlers being asked to run in off a shortertened run, but what about the fielders? What if a guy had slid, got his knee caught in a soft patch, and then ripped his knee apart much like Simon Jones did in 05 which has arguably ruined his career?

It is frustrating and costly as it is to turn up and then go home again without seeing a ball bowled, but unfortunately that's what bad weather and sporting events entails from time to time.

Can you blame the players for not risking their livelihoods running and diving around on a sodden outfield? Jim Cumbes is clearly more worried about how much £££££££ the ground makes, or in this case didn't. When rugby gets called off how about they play a game of tag instead? Asking Brett Lee to bowl off 4 paces isn't a spectacle for me.

Sorry guys, just my opinion.
Cast-iron uncertainties 09:45am on 01 Sep 2009 "Capello's called up Lennon as he looks like the best very fast headless chicken we have available at right-wing although Shaun Wright-Phillips is an identical footballer."

Golden.
Khan fighting a losing battle? 4:14pm on 16 Jul 2009 "coxy - I agree, there are some choppy waters at 140lb, and sooner or later Khan's going to come face to face with a world-class performer at the top of his name. What I don't understand is, there will be those wanting Khan to lose those fights, almost because they want to have their views of him vinidicated, which is a little bit sad. Not sure about Hatton beating Khan - has Hatton got what it takes any more to draw him into war Khan might not want?"

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We'll see Ben, once he has the WBA belt (which i shall be willing him to win) i'd like to see him taking on a big name, someone in their prime - someone like Juan Diaz should he get past Malignaggi. The problem i have with Khan is that i don't know if his "talent" is a smokescreen due to clever management, or if in fact he's going to be the real seriously hot deal. Will someone with the skills simple expose his chin again? Or is he learning so much under Roach that this may not be a factor again due to being technically good enough not to get hit? Even if he gets that good i can't see it being particularly exciting, almost in the realm of what Wladimir Klitshko does now to avoid getting hit but still score at the same time.

He talks about emulating Pacquaio alot and should probably take his lead in the way he took on the best there was around when moving up in weight, he can't keep ducking fighters. What i'd hate for him to do is do a "Calzaghe" and have people poke holes in his record by saying he ducked X, then X etc etc.

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