Green V Tarver - Call It

[GTAAAAAAH32]

Big fight on wednesday night fellas...

Who is going to watch it?

I am a massive Greeny fan but i think he has picked a bloke past his prime. There heaps of arguments for and against, as Hopkins is also dominating at that age so i reckon it should be a good one.

Still, it has to be better than the Mundine - Tolliver farce that i saw a while ago...

Green for KO within 6

[XKLABA]

please its another pub stunt, green by 6 easy

[Pauly33GTS-t]

Tarver by KO

[SLED]

Meh...I'm seriously over staged fights......which is what you get these days as far as match ups go.......gimme UFC anyday!

Plus I think I'm shampooing on that day

[HOSTILE]

LOL Pete!

Hey Matty, yeah I'm hoping Green wins this... reckon he is a pretty good bloke - not full of himself.

Would still love to see him knock bloody Mundine out too...

[GTAAAAAAH32]

Hey Martin,

As far as boxers go he seems like a striaght up sort of fella. Not so full of himself. Lets hope he gets the KO..

I would give my left testicle to watch a boxing match over a UFC boring homo wrestling drunk pub brawl anyday.

Just my opinion, i know i will cop some sort of flak for that comment

Each to thier own

[SLED]

Real men don't need gloves......or throw in the towel when they get a blood nose.........or have their opponents hand-picked for them

Boxing these days is all about money........different story back in the day when boxers weren't dictated to by their managers.....most only had a trainer, not a manager.......Ali was the greatest and always will be

......and who said Green hasn't gotten cocky in his old age???........I must be watching a different channel to you blokes........admittedly, he's not as bad as Mundine, but not as good as him either unfortunately.

The Green (with no Tattoos) that fought Mundine for the 1st time (and got absolutely flogged) was a humble bloke..........the new Green that's come out of retirement with all the new Tats has got a massive ego problem

[GTAAAAAAH32]

Agreed. Since he has come back out of retirement and DOMINATED he has got a little cocky..

It is unfortuantely most about money these days though. I get a lot of entertainment from watching friday night fights on Fox as it is still some quality fighters (Obviously not compared to the like of Pacman, Money man mayweather, JMM, Darchinyan, Klitschko etc) but it still is raw entertaining boxing not for money, but for glory.

Oh and by the way, it is very hard for a boxer to lose 9kg at his prime weight to fight someone in thier prime and expect to perform or even win as Greeny had to do fight Mouth - dine. There was no agreed catch weight. it was set by camp Mundine and they were the terms. Thats it. In the end i dont recall a "flogging" either. i beleive it was only 5 pints or so. Not bad over a 12 round fight...

Coming from experience (7+ years in boxing and coaching) to lose weight when your body fat percentage is extremely low and then asked to do 12 rounds is a MASSIVE task.

I lost 3 kg from my fighting weight of 89kg and then fought and it was like by the end of the second round i was going to die from exhaustion.

Hats off to any fighter, UFC or boxing who can do that and dominate

[SLED]

Don't get me wrong, I love my boxing...........wasn't too long ago that a bunch of us would go to the old Hilton pub (South Road) and watch Tyson fights (when he was the good guy )

But like I said, these days it's all about the purse and the reason Green has such a big head these days is from ONE fight a couple of years ago...Roy Jones jnr........I don't rate his recent wins as much as that fight which put him on the map.

Having said that, Green will take down this old fella from the States..........who's not sure what weight division he belongs in.......and should stick to acting in "B" grade movies

[GTAAAAAAH32]

hahahaha agreed

Was it 'Rocky Balboa' he was in? Funny as.

People should remember that Greeny also fought BJ Flores who was the no.1 light heavy contender 8 yrs Greenys junior and came over undefeated...

Still, I very much agree with you Pete, less money more glory should be the way to go!!

[SLED]

Anyone getting a group together to watch at a pub?

Is it being televised anywhere?

[scandyflick]

Is this another football thread..?

[SLED]

err yeah Scandy, Go The POWER !!

[SLED]

WOW, didn't see that coming!!

What did I say earlier about throwing in the towel?

[GTAAAAAAH32]

Absolutely gutted! Agreed Pete, i DID NOT expect that result!! I was very dissapointed in Greeny's effort last night.

Whenever he came foward and put pressure on Tarver it worked effectively and if he would have done that from the opening bell, the reult, in my opinion, would be very different.

I dont know about being weak throwing in the towel pete, he could hardly stand and thought the fight was over. If i was his coach, i would have done the same thing. You cannot expect fighters to continue under that sort of condition. Refs call fights in UFC as well when the opponent is in no condition to continue...

Maybe he will retire. I dont think he should, he probably has another year or two in him.

Well done for your effort Greeny

[On Edge]

who won?

[Damo_R34]

boxing won.

[On Edge]

so tarver won?

[alr33x]

green ate those last lot of punches hard, uppercut was masssive!

[SLED]

Matty, I actually feel for the guy........everyone (including me) expected him to set the pace from the 1st bell and be the aggressor very early......the little bit I saw, almost felt like he was pacing himself

Cost him the Cruiser Weight Title......and unusually, Tarver has offered the re-match.......normally a thing the loser of a fight would ask for