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Chubberson said:
WBO is Top Rank. Every WBO belt is held by a Top Rank fighter nearly.......I thought it was a good fight but had Pac winning handily.
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C'mon mate, that's just propaganda.

We had the WBO hand-pick 5 anonymous judges and they all agreed Horn won.

If that's not evidence enough for you, I don't know what is.
 
Did you even watch it? Nearly every Pro boxer that has been interviewed had Pac winning. That is EVERY exchange in the fight chopped and edited. Propaghanda is lies and false media, that is the ACTUAL fight footage. Glasses off??
 

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Wladimir Klitschko retires and will not fight Anthony Joshua in rematch

Former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko has retired from boxing - ruling out a rematch with Britain's Anthony Joshua.

The Ukrainian, 41, was knocked out in the 11th round by current champion Joshua at Wembley Stadium in April.

Joshua, 27, had hoped Klitschko would sign his rematch clause for a proposed fight in Las Vegas on 11 November.

"I have achieved everything I dreamed of, and now I want to start my second career after sports," said Klitschko.

The two-time former champion, who held the unified title from 2006-2015 before losing to Joshua's fellow Briton Tyson Fury, ends his career with a record of 64 wins and five defeats.

"I would have never imagined that I would have such a long and incredibly successful boxing career," he added.

Joshua must now face mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev before 2 December or risk being stripped of his IBF belt. Bulgarian Pulev, 36, has a record of 25 wins and one defeat, which came to Klitschko in 2014.

Klitschko won Olympic super-heavyweight gold at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, before turning professional later that year.

He built an unbeaten 24-0 record before losing to American Ross Puritty in 1998 in his only fight to take place in his native Ukraine.

After claiming the WBO belt with victory over American Chris Byrd in 2000, Klitschko was upset by South Africa's Corrie Sanders and American Lamon Brewster in 2003 and 2004 respectively.

He then went 11 years unbeaten, until losing the WBA, IBF and WBO titles to Fury in November 2015.

The Germany-based fighter announced his retirement on a video posted on his website, with so many people trying to access it that the server crashed.

In his video statement, Klitschko said: "Twenty-seven years ago I started my journey in sport. It was the best choice of a profession I could have made. Because of this choice I have travelled the world, learned new languages, created business, built intellectual properties, helped people in need.

"At some point in our lives we need to switch our careers and get ourselves ready for the next chapter - obviously I am not an exception to this.

"I am expecting and hoping my next career, which I have already been planning and working on for some years, will be at least as successful as the previous one, if not more successful."

Klitschko's bout with 2012 Olympic gold medallist Joshua was the most lucrative fight in British boxing history - the fighters were reported to have shared prize money of £30m - and was only the third time a fight had been televised by two American networks.

It turned out to be a memorable occasion in front of a post-war record 90,000 fans, as Joshua knocked down Klitschko in the fifth round before he was then dropped himself in the sixth - the first time in the Briton's career.

Promoter Eddie Hearn had said the rematch could take place in Cardiff's Principality Stadium, but Las Vegas became a frontrunner in recent weeks until Klitschko's retirement.

Hearn said he was informed of Klitschko's decision by the Ukrainian's manager Bernd Boente on Thursday morning.

"We wish him all the success," Hearn said on social media.

'One of the most successful heavyweight careers' - Analysis
BBC boxing correspondent Mike Costello

There had been speculation he would face Joshua in a rematch in Las Vegas in November, but Klitschko has now decided to call time on one of the most successful careers in the history of the heavyweight division.

In two reigns as champion he won 25 world title fights, and only the American Joe Louis made more successful defences of the title.

Klitschko suffered a series of knock-downs in the first half of his career, which led to him adopting a cautious style that was criticised by many fans.

But the great trainer Emanuel Steward said Klitschko had one of the best right-hand punches in history, and his contest against Joshua ranks among the best ever heavyweight fights.
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deklares said:
Easily the biggest boxing fight in the next month.
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Could have easily been the biggest boxing fight of the year if it wasn't set so close to the Mayweather/McGregor freakshow. The promotion of GGG/Canelo suffers quite a bit b/c of it
 
Chubberson said:
Did you even watch it? Nearly every Pro boxer that has been interviewed had Pac winning. That is EVERY exchange in the fight chopped and edited. Propaghanda is lies and false media, that is the ACTUAL fight footage. Glasses off??
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pigs ass he won. Horn was out of sight by round 8. Done and dusted. won by 2 points in the end. In any case Pac got the nod at least once vs Marquez when he shouldn't have.

Bow to Horn ya pansy.
 
Sept 9: Chocolatito vs Srisaket, Estrada vs Cuadras, Nieves v Inoue
Sept 16: Alvarez vs Golovkin

What a fortnight coming up in a few weeks

When was the last time we got to see a card like that super featherweight madness? Essentially six of the top super 115 lbs guys going at it in one night
 
Now the curtain raiser is out of the way we have Alvarev and Golovkin to pay attention to.
Good.

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This will be ****ing great.

I'm going with Canelo actually KOing GGG by round 8-9.

He's much stronger now and from what I've seen in training he looks brutal.
The last I saw Golovkin was vs Lemieux and he just looked bored

Much speculation GGG will retire either way regardless of the result.

Thoughts..?
 
chefmeister said:
Now the curtain raiser is out of the way we have Alvarev and Golovkin to pay attention to.
Good.

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This will be ******* great.

I'm going with Canelo actually KOing GGG by round 8-9.

He's much stronger now and from what I've seen in training he looks brutal.
The last I saw Golovkin was vs Lemieux and he just looked bored

Much speculation GGG will retire either way regardless of the result.

Thoughts..?
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I doubt whether we'll ever see Golovkin get stopped. Canelo wont be as willing to trade like he normally is IMO.

50/50 fight that has the potential to be a classic.
 
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Rungvisai did awesome last time vs Chocolatito, think he surprised him quite a bit. But I think Chocolatito will make the necessary adjustments this time around. I'd love to see Rungvisai win again though

I'm a big fan of Inoue, hoping to see him win this one convincingly.
 
Gigantic said:
Rungvisai did awesome last time vs Chocolatito, think he surprised him quite a bit. But I think Chocolatito will make the necessary adjustments this time around. I'd love to see Rungvisai win again though

I'm a big fan of Inoue, hoping to see him win this one convincingly.
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Estrada or Cuadras?
 

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