Degale v Eubank Jnr

[Alpha]

I'm surprised DeGale didn't look for a DQ or try to fake an injury after that slam. Not a very entertaining fight. Good win for Eubank tho. DeGale should retire.

[Master]

Eubank is delusional when he says he is top of the food chain and wants all the other titles. Smith would crush him.

[Alpha]

Eubank is delusional when he says he is top of the food chain and wants all the other titles. Smith would crush him.

I agree.

[X]

DeGale was a much better amateur than a pro. Slippery and awkward southpaw with good technical skills, but never had the power to keep guys off him .... so he got drawn into war after war, and those are career shortening.

Good career though, but time to call it a day James.

Eubank only gets these shots because of his surname. He crassly plays the media game and is taking us all for a bit of a ride. Tough kid, and durable, but achingly slow feet and can (and will) always be outboxed and outworked by elite level boxers.

There is no way that a mediocre domestic level fight, that was never going to be entertaining, should have been pay per view

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

He's a spiteful cunt though.

So I like him.

[Master]

Former two-time world champion James DeGale announces his retirement

Following his points defeat to Chris Eubank Jr. last weekend, James DeGale (25-3-1, 15 KOs) has decided to hang up his gloves at 33, with his legacy including becoming the first British boxer to win both an Olympic Gold medal and a professional world title.

DeGale won his first world championship when he defeated Andre Dirrell in May 2015, before going on to defend it three times, including a majority draw against Badou Jack. The super middleweight southpaw lost and then won back his title against Caleb Truax over his next two fights.



The former British, European and two-time world champion released a lengthy statement Thursday, announcing his retirement via Twitter.

"Today marks 10 years since my professional debut fight on February 28, 2009 and today is the day I am announcing my retirement from boxing. It’s been an unbelievable journey and I’ve had an amazing decade – if I’m honest, the best years of my life – and having started boxing at the age of nine then being selected as part of the England Amateurs squad, I’ve collected many memories along the way. It is hard to admit that I’m not the fighter I once was, but I’m human and along the way, my injuries have taken a toll – both on mind and body and these things have contributed to impact my performance in the ring."

He added: "I lost the fight on Saturday at The O2, but I’m touched to have a good send off from the fans in my home city. The day after the fight, someone said to me that one fight does not determine a legacy. Looking back, if someone had told me at the start of my boxing career, when I was in the England squad, that I would become an Olympic Gold medallist, British and European champion and two-time world champion, I would never have believed them, but I did it and I’d like to think I did it the clean, honest and hard way with discipline and respect to the sport I love. I’m proud to say that I’ve made history as the first ever British Olympian boxer to turn professional and to win a world title and I am also proud to have been a road warrior – to travel wherever I needed to be to fight and to win. There's nothing left to prove."

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/for...132601306.html