blue moon last night!
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blue moon last night!
Also this might finally make sturm leave germany once again, and well he was bound to have a close one not go his was, but I really thought he edged it on the cleaner work but was to lazy in some of the rounds. Hopefully tonights matchups are good ones to, congrats to geale he certainly came to fight
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Ironic that Dave Parris was the deciding factor in giving it to the Aussie. Good luck Danny, I think it was Sturms but close and for once he did not get the help he usually does.
Got to agree with ya can't feel to bad for sturm he's had many a close one go his way, as I said before none of them outright robberies, but close fights that could have gone either way that went to him due to being the hometown guy. Sturm makes for usually exciting and entertaining fights I'm sure he'd be much more liked and well known outside of germany if the odlh fight didn't turn him into a hometown fighter.
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Sturm, Abraham, the Klitschkos and others all get the benefit of the doubt in Germany. Tonight was different.
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Geale should never be underestimated, he is a tough nut alright. Beating Sturm on home turf is not easy, Geale deserves a big US fight soon. He won't be easy pickings for anybody.
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I followed geale's last few fights and thought he was a fighter coming into his own so expected this win!
Let's give geale credit man i mean the guy has the WBA and IBF belts! He has beaten sturm and Sylvester in germany (So those whining about bad german decisions should STFU!).
He's also beaten Roman Karmazin which is an excellent win and put on an impressive display to beat the tough ghanaian Adama too.
Daniel Geale won 2 world titles the hardest way you can in boxing. He hides from no one. Will any middleweight travel to Australia and challenge him? I dont think so. I think geale will be a tough ask for anyone right now.
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Geale definitely deserves to make some money and easier defences more so than Froch
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
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Maybe I should have made myself clearer. When I said the benefit of the doubt I was not referring merely to decisions. I have not been in a cave for the last 10 years and am well aware of Wlad and Vitali's immpressive KO total.I also have not forgot Sturm being screwed in Vegas, give me some credit guys, but then at that stage of his career he was hardly going to turn down such a huge opportunity. The fact remains the home town advantage is pretty blatant In Deutschland with reffs and promoters clearly shafting visiting fighters again and again. The grappling ,spoiling, leaning and fouling tactics employed by both Klits, the reff turns a blind eye, then the hometown desicions, Cately - Haussler, Ottke-Reid, Lebdev-Huck,Abraham-Steiglitz,Sylvester-Karmazin the list goes on. Not only do they fight nobodies at home they then have everything skewed in their favour. The undercard is non-exisitent which not only screws over the fans but betrays the paper thin understanding and attatchment the promoters and boxing authorities have for the sport. It is not an indictment of Germany but it's peculiar relationship with boxing. Only there would fighters taking 2:40 of a round off be awarded that round for 20 seconds work.
And for the record last night I had Sturm winning that one.
Otke gave the germans a bad name in regards to bad decisions in boxing, he is the most 'beaten' unbeaten fighter ever! Shame really because german's have produced some legitimate and truly great fighters over recent years, The tall southpaw henry maske who won olympic gold and beat
iran barkley as a pro,The great michalzewski, abraham, otkay urkal, schmelling etc. I don't think we should tarnish all germany with the otke brush!
I don't think the klitschkos do anything outside of the rules either TBH either. In fact they are 2 of the most proffessional fighters i have ever seen, they conduct themselves with absolute class in and out of the ring! I mean they fight worldwide and have hardly ever been deducted a point.
If someone like hopkins had fought with such integrity throughout his career he would have lost more fights IMO! Imagine the klitschko's employing the tactics hopkins has over his career they would be ridiculed.
Last edited by THE PHILOSOPHER; 09-03-2012 at 04:38 PM.
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