Shitty Australian Boxing

@Chris-B. said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@mariner4life said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

Tonight, at the Adelaide Oval, there will be some shitty Australian boxing.

The best part of evening will be Quade's fight. He's fighting a guy who looks like won a beer promotion

Quade's handler (I presume it's Nasser) has an iron grip understanding of the fight game.

You won't get a world title shot with many losses on your record, so you can't take too many risks in your build-up.

I find it odd that more feral NZ rugby fans aren't up in arms about SBW being so matey with QC.

Well, maybe if I joined Twitter and instagram and all those cool apps then I'd hear more about it.

@MN5 Probably run out of legs after his already being mates with Nasser and Mundine.

Though I was shocked to hear that those two had fallen out.

Is that Mehrts that quade is fighting?
Hard to take it seriously with that shit.
I hope mundine gets knocked out. Would be nice to see him not running his mouth for once. Although i do feel sorry for him sometimes when watching him speak. Obviously not many braincells still operational up there.

Having said that im not going to watch it.
Got better things to do like constantly reloading TSF to see if it makes the rugby season start sooner.

Here's a bit of fun viewing of Mundine in the meantime!

Apparently the bloke is a plasterer. He took the fight 2 weeks ago, then chucked it in when it was clear he couldn't drop the required 13kg in 2 weeks. The promoters then allowed him to come in at 99kg, and he weighed in at 96-odd.

His trainer reckons the two weeks of training is more than he has had for his previous two fights. He's only taken it on to give Quade someone to fight.

Oh, Betoota Advocate, you never fail to amuse...

@mariner4life said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

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That is one of the best things I've ever read on here

TKO to Quadey. Haven't seen details but I guess the chubby kid walked into the ring, tucked a cheque in his waistband and walked off?

Apparently the kid took a smacking, lasted into the second round until Cooper put him away then tried to catch him before he hit the deck.

What a farce.

My facebook feed has been full of people live streaming the fight. Seems like Foxtel is watching too, taking note of the names on the profiles and looking down their list of people who paid for the channel and bang they cut it off. Pretty stupid to do something like that with your name right next to it.

@pukunui said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

My facebook feed has been full of people live streaming the fight. Seems like Foxtel is watching too, taking note of the names on the profiles and looking down their list of people who paid for the channel and bang they cut it off. Pretty stupid to do something like that with your name right next to it.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Quade's opponent looked like the school wimp. You coukd take him one handed. What a gutless fucker cooper is

@SammyC and is the school wimp, cos he is still at school....

@SammyC said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

Quade's opponent looked like the school wimp. You coukd take him one handed. What a gutless fucker cooper is

He can only fight the bloke in the opposite corner. Boxing has no depth in Australia, so for your third fight, you're really only going to get some donkey. Cooper had a reach advantage and has spent a decade training as a professional athlete. What is he supposed to do?

The ref should have ended it earlier. It was clear McInnes wasn't boxing.

@taniwharugby said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@SammyC and is the school wimp, cos he is still at school....

At 22?

@antipodean said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@SammyC said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

Quade's opponent looked like the school wimp. You coukd take him one handed. What a gutless fucker cooper is

He can only fight the bloke in the opposite corner. Boxing has no depth in Australia, so for your third fight, you're really only going to get some donkey. Cooper had a reach advantage and has spent a decade training as a professional athlete. What is he supposed to do?

The ref should have ended it earlier. It was clear McInnes wasn't boxing.

@taniwharugby said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@SammyC and is the school wimp, cos he is still at school....

At 22?

looking at the picture he looks like he is still at school, I had no idea how old he is.

@antipodean said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@SammyC said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

Quade's opponent looked like the school wimp. You coukd take him one handed. What a gutless fucker cooper is

He can only fight the bloke in the opposite corner. Boxing has no depth in Australia, so for your third fight, you're really only going to get some donkey. Cooper had a reach advantage and has spent a decade training as a professional athlete. What is he supposed to do?

The ref should have ended it earlier. It was clear McInnes wasn't boxing.

@taniwharugby said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@SammyC and is the school wimp, cos he is still at school....

At 22?

Exactly what is the point of these kind of fights? Is it the money or is there a genuine interest in having some kind of boxing career?

This would be like getting the world's best boxers (all of whom have some prior involvement with rugby) giving them a couple of months of intensive, elite training, then sending them onto the field to play against a team of Filipino cleaners.

In Kwades case he didn't even fight a donkey, but some kind of stillborn wombat.

They reckon Green and mundine pocketed 10 mill each ,

That is unbelievable given their standing in world boxing right now ,

they milked the Australian public beautifully with their supposed grudge ,

I know people who have seen them joking and laughing together .

@kiwiinmelb said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

They reckon Green and mundine pocketed 10 mill each ,

That is unbelievable given their standing in world boxing right now ,

they milked the Australian public beautifully with their supposed grudge ,

I know people who have seen them joking and laughing together .

10 million each? Did the fight really pull in that much?

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@antipodean said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@SammyC said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

Quade's opponent looked like the school wimp. You coukd take him one handed. What a gutless fucker cooper is

He can only fight the bloke in the opposite corner. Boxing has no depth in Australia, so for your third fight, you're really only going to get some donkey. Cooper had a reach advantage and has spent a decade training as a professional athlete. What is he supposed to do?

The ref should have ended it earlier. It was clear McInnes wasn't boxing.

@taniwharugby said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@SammyC and is the school wimp, cos he is still at school....

At 22?

Exactly what is the point of these kind of fights? Is it the money or is there a genuine interest in having some kind of boxing career?

This would be like getting the world's best boxers (all of whom have some prior involvement with rugby) giving them a couple of months of intensive, elite training, then sending them onto the field to play against a team of Filipino cleaners.

In Kwades case he didn't even fight a donkey, but some kind of stillborn wombat.

You can tar SBW with that brush too to some extent. Joseph Parker would fuck his shit up, no two ways about it. It's genuinely like Parker deciding to have a season of Rugby, if he had a crack I could picture him being a more than useful blindside/No8/2nd five but his absolute limit would be Auckland club rugby at whatever level.

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@kiwiinmelb said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

They reckon Green and mundine pocketed 10 mill each ,

That is unbelievable given their standing in world boxing right now ,

they milked the Australian public beautifully with their supposed grudge ,

I know people who have seen them joking and laughing together .

10 million each? Did the fight really pull in that much?

That's what they were aiming for , but have since heard it will not be that much, 6-8 ,

Second highest pay per view figures in Australia , second to Mundine green 1 .

Pretty sure Mundine geale , and Mundine soliman were 3 and 4 ,

Says everything about the marketing value of a villain doesn't it ?

@kiwiinmelb said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@kiwiinmelb said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

They reckon Green and mundine pocketed 10 mill each ,

That is unbelievable given their standing in world boxing right now ,

they milked the Australian public beautifully with their supposed grudge ,

I know people who have seen them joking and laughing together .

10 million each? Did the fight really pull in that much?

That's what they were aiming for , but have since heard it will not be that much, 6-8 ,

Second highest pay per view figures in Australia , second to Mundine green 1 .

Pretty sure Mundine geale , and Mundine soliman were 3 and 4 ,

Says everything about the marketing value of a villain doesn't it ?

Yep, Ali knew that better than anyone.

Still seems incredible that 2 40 year olds could bring in that kind of cash. Impressive.

What were the results from the weekend? Did Mundine win? Quade as well?

@Hooroo said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

What were the results from the weekend? Did Mundine win? Quade as well?

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There is no way they came even close to getting 10 mlll each. Lets do some basic maths.

28,000 watched live .. .average of what ... 100 a ticket maybe? Thats 2.8mm. Which leaves 17.2mm. It was 60 AUD a throw for the ppv ... so you'd need 290,000 orders of that, just to hit the purse for the main fight.

And this would mean no payment for Buffer, the venue, the undercard, security etc etc .
If they took 3mm each, I'd be surprised. Nobody gave a shit about this fight outside of Australia.

Mundine v Green 1 was 115K pay per views. That was the biggest ever PPV in Australia but this was the 2nd biggest.

So maybe 100K?

Pubs and clubs obviously pay a lot more for the right to broadcast.

Plus sponsorship.

Must have been close.

How much would the guy who fought Quade have been paid do you think?

@pukunui said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

How much would the guy who fought Quade have been paid do you think?

A packet of durries and a case of XXXX

@Crucial said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@Hooroo said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

What were the results from the weekend? Did Mundine win? Quade as well?

Scroll not working on your mouse again?

I still can't see the Muindine result on thread (If it is via a tweet/instagram) it won't show up on my feed. I just get a blank post.

Quade Cooper is undoubtedly an athlete, so I'm sure if he really fancied a proper shot at boxing, he may be able to make a decent fist of it.

But fighting that guy damages his boxing career in a big way. A fat kid who looks totally out of shape as a boxing opponent? Seriously?

Hooroo - Green won by decison, but the decison went against most pundits view. One actually scored it 98-90 ... which is beyond a joke.

@MajorRage you think he really fancies a shot at boxing? I think it's a sideshow to break up the monotony of footy.

And this fight is only outrageous if you still consider boxing, and especially boxing in Australia, as having any credibility at all.

@mariner4life Probably not ... but he should be above getting in the ring with such an absolute joke of an opponent. By all means, throw a donkey in there to get the win, but at least try and disguise that the donkey is a donkey.

@MajorRage McInnes did have 'fighting' experience. Even more than Cooper. There's generally a sideshow in the undercard. I personally don't think it does anything to diminish the sport or main event.

@MajorRage said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

Quade Cooper is undoubtedly an athlete, so I'm sure if he really fancied a proper shot at boxing, he may be able to make a decent fist of it.

But fighting that guy damages his boxing career in a big way. A fat kid who looks totally out of shape as a boxing opponent? Seriously?

Hooroo - Green won by decison, but the decison went against most pundits view. One actually scored it 98-90 ... which is beyond a joke.

Outstanding pun in the first paragraph.

@ACT-Crusader said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@MajorRage McInnes did have 'fighting' experience. Even more than Cooper. There's generally a sideshow in the undercard. I personally don't think it does anything to diminish the sport or main event.

Obviously not on the latter point ... but it does make a joke of QC boxing in my opinion.

Your comments on the undercard are yet another reason as to why I firmly believe UFC is a far better option than boxing. But that's another discussion.

@MajorRage said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

Your comments on the undercard are yet another reason as to why I firmly believe UFC is a far better option than boxing.

UFC World champion kicking skills...

@antipodean said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

@MajorRage said in Shitty Australian Boxing:

Your comments on the undercard are yet another reason as to why I firmly believe UFC is a far better option than boxing.

UFC World champion kicking skills...

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oh ho when did ultimate fired up on rum pub fighting become a thing?! and how have i missed it?