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16 pounds? That's cheap!
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khulkulkhan · 5 months
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The greatest Ukrainian Boxers ever
I try to make a list of the best (or most successful) boxer from the Ukraine pound for pound:
Vitaly Klitschko
Wassili Lomaschenko
Alexander Usyk
Wladimir Klitschko
Sergey Dzinziruk
Wladimir Sidorenko
Artem Dalakian
Viktor Postol
Oleksandr Gwozdyk
Andreas Kotelnik
Notable mentionings: Vyacheslav Senchenko, Serge Derevschenko, Yuri Nuzchenko, Alexander Gurov
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Pound for Pound by Septimius Ferdian H
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mansorus · 2 years
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armorcode · 5 days
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…smack me around first… and keep smacking me while you … and don’t be gentle…
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frontproofmedia · 3 months
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Artur Beterbiev is receiving his just-due
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Published: January 24, 2024
Entering the Ring Magazine pound-for-pound rankings at number five in the week following Artur Beterbiev's seven-round beatdown of Callum Smith, it appears the Russian is finally receiving the proper credit and respect he has always deserved. With a 100% knockout ratio, everybody always knew Beterbiev was a light-heavyweight destroyer and a real force to be reckoned with. The extent of how good he is, all of the brilliant, cerebral intricacies of just how he operates in the ring, with his feet, feints, and jab, is now being recognized. He has always been a talent worthy of being recognized as a modern-day great and a top-five pound-for-pound star, and this is now becoming clearer with time.
Each worthy number-one contender who gets brushed aside, regardless of how much readiness and determination they bring into the ring, further highlights how great a champion Beterbiev is.
Against Callum Smith, two top-class pugilists with fight-ending power entered the ring in an interesting clash of styles, with potential jeopardy for both men.
In the end, it was an exhibition of differences in levels. Smith is world-class. Beterbiev is the elite of the elite. Possibly a light heavyweight all-time great in the making.
Great champions dispatch number 1 contenders and other world champions emphatically; the more you doubt them in their most significant fights, the bigger statement they make to show you how great they really are. That is what Beterbiev has done, again and again, during his destructively trail-blazing professional career. Oleksandr Gvozdzyk, Marcus Browne, Joe Smith Jr, Callum Smith. All were seen as legitimate dangers and fell to the same fate. They were simply out-willed and overpowered in a manner never previously experienced.
The fight against Smith was initially scheduled to take place over the summer, but Beterbiev's jaw infection postponed the fight.
How would the subsequent surgery affect Beterbiev's ability to take a punch? Alongside Beterbiev's incoming 39th birthday and all of the miles on the clock across his amateur and professional career, the ingredients were seemingly there for an upset.
Far from the truth, Smith stood at 6ft 3in with a 78inch reach, with real power, yet he was no match for Beterbiev. Usually a slow starter, the Russian backed Smith up to the ropes and unleashed hard combinations in the opening 20 seconds of the fight and, showed this was going to be a long night for the Scouser. Smith had never touched the canvas in his amateur or professional career, but when Beterbiev was letting his heavy leather go in the seventh round, Smith hit the canvas twice in that fateful seventh.
The Russian has scary power, and when you combine that with excellent ring IQ, discipline, relaxation in the ring, high work rate, control of distance, solid fundamentals, and educated, relentless pressure, Beterbiev is a formidable force at 175 lbs.
Heading into the Beterbiev vs Smith fight, Smith had only fought six rounds in three years, but in those six rounds, he had displayed his brutal two-fisted power at his new weight to produce vicious back-to-back knockouts. At a more comfortable weight, one in which the Liverpudlian can allow his big frame to fill out more naturally, Smith was deemed a legit threat. Many genuinely believed that with a potential Dmitry Bivol undisputed showdown on the horizon, this was a dangerous fight for Beterbiev. Ultimately, it turned out to be a very handy warm-up for the Russian.
Beterbiev is just special. He made a very legitimate, threatening contender look ordinary, and that is what great fighters do.
If Smith had beaten Beterbiev, it would have qualified as one of the greatest victories by a British fighter in history. In itself, that highlights the challenge of beating Beterbiev.
There appear to be only two foes with a legitimate chance of defeating Beterbiev right now… Father Time or Bivol.
Beterbiev vs Bivol is the one the world wants to see now. It's one of the best pure match-ups boxing has to offer. Both men are long-reigning champions with multiple title defenses against nearly all of the legit contenders of their era. The fight will be a great clash of styles between the crafty, disciplined pressure fighter in Beterbiev, and a gifted technical boxer in Bivol. The winner will put himself in the pantheon of light-heavyweight all-time greats alongside the likes of Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, and Bob Foster.
This undisputed showdown fits the profile of what Turki Alal Shaikh is looking for in his quest to turn Saudi Arabia into the world's premier fight capital.
Beterbiev is not perfect, of course. Muhammad Ali has been dropped, hurt, and beaten before. Roberto Duran surrendered mid-fight once and was also knocked out clean, landing face-down on the canvas. Yet, Ali and Duran are two of the greatest fighters to ever grace boxing. They have some of the best wins in the entire history of the sport, and their great moments far outnumbered and over-took those moments of shortcomings and vulnerabilities.
Beterbiev is a fearsome champion, about as scary and formidable a champion as you will find in boxing today, but he is by no means infallible. In 2014, Beterbiev was dropped in a flash knockdown by Jeff Page Jr. In 2018, Beterbiev was floored heavily by Callum Johnson in a four-round firefight, and against Anthony Yarde last year, the veteran went through periods of slight discomfort to pull through against his younger, determined foe.
Beterbiev has his vulnerabilities, but he knows how to win. Whenever he meets adversity, he usually responds almost immediately by going through the gears and aggressively re-gaining the upper hand in the fight, and when you have a fighter who is extremely powerful and strong, with the smarts, toughness, and all of the desirable intangibles in abundance, you have a champion that is incredibly hard to beat. It will take a special fighter to defeat Beterbiev.
As well as combating what Beterbiev presents in the ring, there is now the aura and composure of Beterbiev that presents just as much of an issue for his opponents. To share a ring with Beterbiev perceptively makes you the next highlight knockout reel on a perfect knockout record, and there is an uneasy inevitability to Beterbiev fights, which is bound to add to the anxiety of opponents. Against Smith, an already small ring would have felt so much smaller with Beterbiev's ability to cut off the ring and Smith's own fears. The man to beat Beterbiev will not only have to nullify Beterbiev's in-ring capabilities but must carry a fearless mindset that cannot be tamed under immense pressure.
"It's because of luck. It's my coach. Our team works hard with me, maybe that's why, too. But I think it's because of luck," said Beterbiev after the Smith fight.
If we are to believe him, and it would take a very brave man to openly not do so, Beterbiev is the luckiest man in the world.
(Featured Photo: Mikey Williams/Top Rank)
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realbabesreblogs · 7 days
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Boxing and sumo: The authenticity of martial arts
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井上尚弥 (Naoya Inoue)
Rei Morishita
I like martial arts, and I used to watch sumo until about two years ago, but Hakuho, who took a break from several tournaments and participated in it, "won undefeated." I felt that "this is nothing but match-fixing," and thought that the Sumo Association would be complicit in the crime, so I stopped watching grand sumo. Then, boxing remains, but Naoya Inoue, who is considered to be the so-called "pound for pound" (the world's strongest in all boxing classes), can no longer be seen on TV. Since the last title match, it has become an exclusive broadcast on Amazon, and you can barely watch it on YouTube the next day, and you can't enjoy the "realism". The recent 4-group unification match ended without seeing it. I can't see an interesting boxing match...I'm a little dissatisfied.
A0153
I don't see boxing as a barbaric sport. But I love sumo. Even though there is a tensioner. Both are battles to beat the other. why. When I was in college, there were people in the dormitory who were into "Tomorrow's Joe." I was indifferent.
SPYBOY
I don't watch boxing either. It's scary to watch a fistfight. For A0153's generation, "Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe) " must have been popular. That picture scared me too.
 
Here is my reply and the reactions of two idiots on the Japanese "Hatena Blog". A0153 is an old man with a peculiar peace blur among Japanese people. He is a stupid old man who says, "If Japan declares its military neutrality, both the USA and China will provide weapons." He is no longer a man who can have a decent discussion. SPYBOYs are cowardly bastards who shy away from anything that they should put their hearts into dealing with because they're "scary", and they're idiots who can't justify the orthodox boxing manga "Tomorrow's Joe" in Japan. Boxing is "war itself", and those who cannot face it are not men. By the way, Japan's "national sport" sumo is a pseudo-sport where match-fixing is rampant, and I don't watch it.
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vampiiiyr · 4 months
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my hips r shaped like this for a girl to hold me in place
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khulkulkhan · 5 months
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Best British boxer of 2001 to 2010
Joe Calzaghe
Johnny Nelson
Lennox Lewis
Ricky Hatton
David Haye
Clinton Woods
Junior Witter
Carl Froch
Amir Khan
Alex Arthur
I locked out Nicky Cook and Enzo Maccarinelli.
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tired-biscuit · 9 months
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i want slow kisses and slow thrusting until it gets so wet and sticky and messy between us that he’s smiling between each kiss because he can hear it
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p4nishers · 7 months
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i cant get over the ball being so CLEARLY all for crowley i can't get over aziraphale trying to woo him with a WHOLE FUCKING BALL because that's what he knows that's what romance IS for him because he's been wanting to dance with crowley ever since dancing was invented and he's so stuck in time with the way he dresses and talks and he still thinks a dance is the high of romance AND HE MADE A WHOLE ENTIRE FUCKING BALL FOR CROWLEY JUST SO HE COULD DANCE WITH HIM like now it's so fucking obvious he gave away his BOOKS without a second thought and it was all for crowley he organised a whole JANE AUSTEN THEME BALL just so he could have an excuse to finally dance with the love of his life and i can't get over this i'm shaking my fists and pacing up and down he did not give a single fuck about anything other than dancing with crowley and HE BARELY TOUCHED OTHER PEOPLE'S HANDS WHILE HIS WHOLE FUCKING PALM WAS PRESSED TO CROWLEY'S AND i need to lie down
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dantesinfernoh3ll · 6 days
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You will never ever hear Canelo mention the name of Artur Beterbiev ☠️💀
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