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[Greb147 6,809]

Bob Arum, still got his sense of humour: "Dillian Whyte was so busy fighting for his WBC mandatory position that he didn’t see Povetkin’s uppercut, which knocked him cold on his ass." 

[MickC 1,825]

8 minutes ago, antg said:

politics of boxing aside that was a sweet shot. would of done the buisness on anyone.

Povetkin is old and clearly not the fighter he was but still a dangerous fighter as Whyte found out in devastating fashion tonight ! 

[ryaldinhio 4,550]

5 minutes ago, Greb147 said:

You don't have to be on the negotiating team to see it was a duck, the same has ducking Ortiz and Pulev. 

Whyte has got too big for his boots, tonight is a painful reminder that he doesn't call the shots. 

Getting sparked flat out by a past it Povetkin is devastating. 

I agree it's a massive hit to whytes career. One he may never recover from.

I wouldn't say past it Povetkin though. He is a dangerous man. Bet there's not one 41yr olds that can match him, or many 32yr olds (whytes age) in the world that could. So past it is a bit strong. He is still up there in the current crop of poor heavyweights we have.

Regards 'ducking' it's all about money now, same as most sports and to be fair most walks of life.

So I go back to, if the days graft didn't pay what u wanted did you do it? If ur a boxer, footballer, gardener, spark, tiler.....If you arent happy with the day rate you don't go to work??????

[ryaldinhio 4,550]

7 minutes ago, MickC said:

Its well documented about Whyte refusing eliminators with Ortiz and Pulev, had he took those fights hed have had his Title shots a long time ago. Are you on the WBC committee or Whytes negotiating team to say he had been WBC mandatory for 1000 days ? Who told you that then ? Whyte only became WBC mandatory after Wilder beat Brezeale in May 2019 !

I read it somewhere

 

So you read it too about your version?

 

[ryaldinhio 4,550]

14 minutes ago, antg said:

politics of boxing aside that was a sweet shot. would of done the buisness on anyone.

That would be put all of em on their arse......but the question is would he have landed it on Fury, Wilder, AJ?

[antg 1,767]

1 minute ago, ryaldinhio said:

That would be put all of em on their arse......but the question is would he have landed it on Fury, Wilder, AJ?

know one knows

[kanny 20,542]

34 minutes ago, MickC said:

Ive never ever seen the biased Sky commentary ever shut up like that . lol

It was golden lol

[Greb147 6,809]

8 minutes ago, ryaldinhio said:

I agree it's a massive hit to whytes career. One he may never recover from.

I wouldn't say past it Povetkin though. He is a dangerous man. Bet there's not one 41yr olds that can match him, or many 32yr olds (whytes age) in the world that could. So past it is a bit strong. He is still up there in the current crop of poor heavyweights we have.

Regards 'ducking' it's all about money now, same as most sports and to be fair most walks of life.

So I go back to, if the days graft didn't pay what u wanted did you do it? If ur a boxer, footballer, gardener, spark, tiler.....If you arent happy with the day rate you don't go to work??????

He's clearly past at it as in not the same fighter he once was, obviously he's still dangerous as you've just seen what he did but the man hasn't really stopped anybody in the last 5 year apart from a chinny Price. 

I just don't see the hype in Whyte, yes he is more polished and patient  than he was but he can still get wild and has terrible balance. Yes he has shown to be a fighter but he's clearly not what he claims to be or else he wouldn't have turned down those fights. 

He tuned down £4million ffs, what more does a challenger want? 

Edited August 23, 2020 by Greb147

[Greb147 6,809]

f***ing can't stand Adam Smith, don't think those at Sky no what impartial means. 

[ryaldinhio 4,550]

1 minute ago, Greb147 said:

He's clearly past at as in not the same fighter he once was, obviously he's still dangerous as you've just seen what he did but the man hasn't really stopped anybody in the last 5 year apart from a chinny Price. 

I just don't see the hype in Whyte, yes he is more polished and patient  than he was but he can still get wild and has terrible balance. Yes he has shown to be a fighter but he's clearly not what he claims to be or else he wouldn't have turned down those fights. 

He tuned down £4million ffs, what more does a challenger want? 

£4.5m?

[ryaldinhio 4,550]

Just now, Greb147 said:

f***ing can't stand Adam Smith, don't think those at Sky no what impartial means. 

Sky Hearn Sports?

[MickC 1,825]

3 minutes ago, ryaldinhio said:

I read it somewhere

 

So you read it too about your version?

 

No I watched an interview with Whyte on youtube on one of the Boxing podcasts giving his reasons for turning the fights down. He didnt want the Ortiz fight in America and Hearn lost the purse bid for the Pulev fight so the fight went to Bulgaria and he refused it with Hughie Fury stepping in iirc. 

[Greb147 6,809]

Just now, ryaldinhio said:

£4.5m?

He could have said £50m, the facts are though he isn't the champ or the main draw. 

We have Lomachenko taking a pay cut to fight Lopez FFS. 

[ryaldinhio 4,550]

1 minute ago, MickC said:

No I watched an interview with Whyte on youtube on one of the Boxing podcasts giving his reasons for turning the fights down. He didnt want the Ortiz fight in America and Hearn lost the purse bid for the Pulev fight so the fight went to Bulgaria and he refused it with Hughie Fury stepping in iirc. 

All sounded like money not ducking 

[kanny 20,542]

Povetkin said that he'd been studying whyte and working on that very shot,  I guess that's what made the difference old man or not