Dillian Whyte answered a question, but perhaps not others as he wobbled Alexander Povetkin from the opening bell and finished him off in the fourth round- the same round that he dropped Povetkin twice in their first fight before being stopped himself in the following inning.
Povetkin's legs were not going to be compared to the Rock of Gibraltar (site of the fight) and seemed to be sapped from the start as Whyte's punches showed their effects from the start and several times was sent wobbling into the ropes or stumbling around the ring.
One could question if Povetkin's problems absorbing Whyte's punches was due to his short-term recovery from Covid-19 or if it's as simple as the forty-one-year-old Russian is only world-class in punching power at this stage of his career.
Even in this one that Whyte controlled, Povetkin landed a few big shots that didn't floor Whyte but made me look back and consider that perhaps with Povetkin's legs under him could that have made a difference?
Still, Dillian Whyte is the type of heavyweight that is going to make fun and entertaining brawls and he's had them with top heavyweights win or lose against Anthony Joshua, Povetkin, Dereck Chisora, and even Joseph Parker, who doesn't have entertaining bouts with anyone else!
Whyte has the capability of taking anyone out and can be hurt himself, so all of his fights are going to be worth watching, but seeing Povetkin land the occasional counterpunch and even though Whyte didn't find himself severely hurt, I'm still not convinced that Whyte has completely recovered.
While I'd love to see Whyte-Deontay Wilder happen, I have my doubts about that for several reasons (all of them Wilder and PBC) and the same problems occur with an Andy Ruiz matchup.
If the upcoming arbitration between Tyson Fury and Wilder forces a third fight between them, the WBO could (and maybe should) force Anthony Joshua to defend against their top contender in Oleksandr Usyk, which would free up Joe Joyce from his upcoming fight with Usyk and could leave an opening for Whyte vs Joyce in what could make the winner the top contender when the music stops.
For Povetkin, unless his showing can be conclusively shown to have been hampered by his Covid-19 illness, I'd be fine to see him retire from the game.
The former champion would leave now with only three losses and his chin, which was once one of the best in the division, has visibly weakened in recent outings, so it might be time to see him exit stage left before he becomes damaged goods.
Eddie Hearn stated that he'd like to see Whyte fight in the summer and that's a good idea to keep him busy with exposure in the United State not hurting any either.
The heavyweight division is one with many moving parts, the problem is that with so many (Fury, Joshua, Wilder, Ruiz, and Usyk) the moving parts are outside the ring rather than inside it...
Two surprises on a big boxing Saturday, one surprise was the winner and how it happened and the other occurred with the dominance of the victory during a bout that was expected to be even entering the fight.
We start outside London at the palatial home of Mr.Eddie Hearn with a minor heavyweight title on the line, but more importantly, the top heavyweight in the world, not named Fury or Joshua, facing a top-level opponent and his chance to face Fury at risk.
Dillian Whyte had been admired for his willingness to face any top opponent during his rise to the near-top of the division and for four rounds against former WBA champion and long-time contender Alexander Povetkin, Whyte looked every bit the part of a dangerous threat to either WBC champion Tyson Fury or the holder of all three of the other titles and the last person to defeat Whyte in Anthony Joshua.
Whyte knocked Povetkin down twice in the fourth round and looked to have Povetkin stung in the fifth round before he dropped his hands slightly as they exchanged punches at close quarters and Povetkin uncorked a short left uppercut that dropped Whyte onto his back along the ropes with the referee immediately signaling an end to the fight.
Whyte exercised his rematch clause after the fight, so the two will square off in the fall or winter 2021 and I'd suspect that Whyte will be favored after dominating all but one second in the first fight, but Povetkin has the puncher's chance to repeat.
Povetkin's career has shown that he has been unable to defeat the "super heavyweights" losing to Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko but defeating everyone else that is closer to his size.
And while this win at 40 years old won't help him against the much larger Joshua and Tyson Fury, it will enable him to continue to get fights for quite some time and Povetkin will always have a chance to pull a win from the flames.
Top Rank and ESPN+ took over in the evening with a card from their Las Vegas "bubble" with the main event that looked very even with former WBO light heavyweight champion Eleider Alvarez matched against Joe Smith in a semi-final to crown a new WBO champion after Canelo Alvarez vacated that championship.
It looked to be a very tight fight with Alvarez expected to box against the rock-fisted Smith, who hasn't always thrown enough punches in his defeats to Sullivan Barrera and Dmitry Bivol.
Instead, Smith threw lots of punches, won every round on my card by refusing to allow Alvarez to keep away from his attack, and then ended the fight with an impressive right and left that sent Alvarez to the apron and despite a nice effort to reach his feet, Alvarez was counted out.
For Smith, the win showed a new dimension for the second-hardest puncher in the light heavyweight division (after Artur Beterbiev) and he'll be a strong favorite in the finals against the winner of the Maxim Vlasov-Umar Salamov semi in the finals.
As for Alvarez, "The Storm" may have found his level as a top ten fighter, but below the top five and after two losses in a row, Alvarez might be a fighter in decline.
Rob Brant dominated Vitaly Kopylenko, imposed an impressive mouse under the left eye of Kopylenko, and forced Kopylenko to inform referee Jay Nady that his vision was handicapped and that he would not be able to continue after the end of the fifth round.
For Brant, it was an impressive win, but considering Kopylenko's limited skills and style, Brant's speed overwhelmed him in the victory but did little to prove that anything would be different in the contracted third fight against Japan's Ryota Murata.
Brant upset Murata by decision in their first fight in October 2018 but lost the rematch by second-round knockout in July 2019.
And then there's PBC- I always imagine Bea Arthur opening the door with "Then there's Maude" when I write that phrase as it seems I do often when writing about PBC, with another weak card, this one from Los Angeles as former welterweight champion Shawn Porter won every round over Germany's Sebastian Formella on every card in winning a unanimous decision and winning a minor title as well as the mandatory spot for Errol Spence's WBC title.
One couldn't quibble with Porter's performance other than maybe not scoring a knockout over an opponent that was easily below his level, but Porter never became lazy or clownish as he continued to move forward all night.
Give some credit to Formella, who was trying all evening and didn't fight merely to survive, but he was out of his league and should not have been in a title eliminator, against a fighter of the caliber of Shawn Porter, and in the main event on national network television.
Just think both Fox cards coming up have similar main events as well.
Ugh.
The co-feature saw the world's tallest junior middleweight in 6'6 Sebastian Fundora, who stopped veteran Nathaniel Gallimore in six rounds.
Gallimore, who owns a victory over WBA and IBF champion Jeison Rosario, has basically been a gatekeeper type for the PBC-dominated division and usually shows a good chin along with making a decent fight, but against the lanky Fundora, he was unable to get any offense going at all.
Fundora, who can look heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in the eye, is going to give junior middleweights a unique look that no other fighter can prepare for, but he isn't a typical jab and dance man from the outside.
Fundora might be best served to do that from the outside against the best of the division, but against fighters such as Gallimore, Fundora has been able to stand on the inside and attack effectively.
I had Fundora ahead after five rounds, 49-45, and I would be interested to see Fundora's next step up in competition.
In the boxing challenge, Ramon Malpica gained some ground on me with five points to my three with Ramon scoring an extra point for Rob Brant and Sebastian Fundora's stoppage wins.
The total is currently 94-86.
In a calculated and disciplined performance that many doubted that he could give, Anthony Joshua dominated from the outside and refused to give Andy Ruiz the toe to toe exchanges that he needed to be successful and regained the three heavyweight titles (WBA, IBF, and WBO) that he lost to Ruiz by knockout in June.
The bout held in a temporary stadium built in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia didn't have a lot of fireworks as their first fight did with both fighters hitting the mat, but showed the type of skill that would serve Joshua well in future fights against Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury.
Joshua established the jab early, cutting Ruiz above the left eye in the first round and when Ruiz returned the favor in the following round, Joshua avoided panic and stuck to the gameplan throughout.
I had Joshua a 119-109 winner and I don't see the need for a rematch until Ruiz can re-establish himself with a victory or two. Joshua has two mandatories coming up and most assumed that no matter the winner of Joshua-Ruiz that either the IBF or WBO titles would be vacated.
Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn says that Joshua plans on fighting both mandatories if the organizations can work together to allow it.
Kubrat Pulev is the IBF top contender with Oleksandr Usyk atop the WBO rankings.
On the undercard, Alexander Povetkin and Michael Hunter drew over twelve rounds in a WBA heavyweight eliminator that was a far better action battle than expected with both fighters being hurt throughout the fight and several high-powered exchanges.
I had the fight as one judge at 114-114 with the other two judges scoring 115-113 for each fighter.
My issue came in round five when the ropes held a stunned Hunter up, which should have been called a technical knockdown.
Had that been scored properly, Povetkin would have won a split decision.
The other challenge heavyweight battle was also better than expected as Dillian Whyte returned to the ring and defeated Marius Wach of Poland via a unanimous decision.
Whyte weighed his highest ever after taking the fight on late notice and it showed as he was a bit sluggish in allowing Wach to land plenty of punches and keep the fight close and entertaining.
I scored Whyte a 96-94 winner, which was a little closer than the official judges did.
On Showtime, PBC's two fights saw Jermall Charlo knock out Dennis Hogan in seven rounds to retain his WBC middleweight title in Brooklyn.
The much larger Charlo knocked Hogan down in the fourth round before finishing him in the seventh with a knockdown that Hogan got up from, but was in no condition to continue.
Similar to WBO champion Demetrius Andrade, Charlo doesn't have opponents willing to fight him, so he's rarely tested (I would really love to see Charlo-Andrade) and therefore has a weak resume', especially at middleweight.
Charlo doesn't have many fights to make, but PBC has tried to bring him in an opponent in Chris Eubank Jr, who made his American debut against Matt Korobov in the co-main event.
Korobov lost a close decision to Charlo in the only middleweight fight that Charlo has had where the opponent has fought back and would have been an excellent measuring stick for Eubank.
I say would have been because Korobov suffered a shoulder injury in the second round while throwing a punch and was unable to continue, giving Eubank an unsatisfying second round TKO.
Eubank will likely be next for Jermall Charlo.
On ESPN plus from Mexico, Emanuel Navarette ran through another opponent in defending his WBO junior featherweight title, this time it was Francisco Horta that Navarrette crushed in four rounds.
Navarette defended his title for the fourth time this year and had won the first three rounds on my scorecard.
Hopefully, we will see him against one of the other champions (Daniel Roman or Rey Vargas) in 2020.
The other ESPN fight saw the often-forgotten man in the junior bantamweight division as IBF champion Jerwin Ancajas stopped a game Miguel Gonzalez in six rounds to keep his title for the eighth time.
Ancajas also has unification thoughts, but all three champions in his division fight for other promoters (Juan Francisco Estrada, Kal Yafai, and Kazuto Ioka) and might be difficult to make.
Gonzalez was never knocked down but took a beating in the sixth before the fight was ended.
I had Ancajas ahead 49-46 when the fight was stopped.
From Montreal, David Lemieux won his super middleweight debut with a split decision win over Max Bursak.
Lemieux was knocked down in the first and fifth and knocked Bursak down in the sixth.
I haven't seen this fight, so no scoring from this fight.
The Boxing Challenge zipped forward with fights from England, Australia, and the United States before taking next weekend off.
The main fight of the weekend was held across the pond as Vasyl Lomachenko kept his WBA and WBO lightweight titles and added the vacant WBC championship with a unanimous decision over Luke Campbell.
I scored the fight closer than the official judges at 116-111 for Lomachenko, which seems to be more in line with the majority of scorecards.
Lomachenko did have some issues with the jab and the length of Campbell, who boxed very well and I thought he was in the fight after ten rounds (6-4 in favor of Lomachenko), which wasn't the case on the official cards, but Lomachenko began drilling Campbell in the eleventh and a right to the body sent Campbell to one knee.
Campbell battled through the round and survived to the final bell without being knocked down again.
Lomachenko needs one other belt, that of the IBF which currently held by Richard Commey.
Commey will face the meteoric prospect Teofimo Lopez in December and the winner is expected to face Lomachenko in the spring of 2020.
On the undercard, Alexander Povetkin slogged his way to a unanimous decision over Hughie Fury in a boring bout.
Povetkin scored enough with his right to gain the clear decision (I agreed with all three judges that saw Povetkin a 117-111 winner) and will eventually have another chance against a heavyweight that is a top ten type in an eliminator.
As for Hughie Fury, who falls to 0-3 against world-class competition and it looks to me like Fury is a clear cut below that level and I'm not sure I'm interested in seeing him face those opponents in the future.
Controversy reigned in the other London bout as Charlie Edwards retained his WBC flyweight title when his fight vs Julio Cesar Martinez ended in a no-contest in the third round.
Martinez seemed to be on the way to taking the championship with an attack that was breaking Edwards down rapidly.
In the third, Martinez dropped Edwards to a knee with a big left hook, but then followed up with a shot to the body while Edwards was on the floor.
The referee didn't see the foul and counted Edwards out and Martinez was announced as the new champion.
The WBC did see the foul and ruled the bout a no contest, Edwards was returned his title and an immediate rematch was ordered.
It certainly was a foul and the correct call, but there was next to no question in my mind that Martinez was on his way to winning and I'm very doubtful that Edwards can do anything differently to turn the tide in his direction in a rematch.
The PBC card on Fox from Minneapolis looked weak on paper and it wasn't much better in the ring with the main event being a downright joke as Erislandy Lara knocked out Ramon Alvarez in two rounds win one of those WBA minor titles.
The main joke part was Alvarez, a totally undeserving "contender", who had never beaten a top contender (the biggest names on his record in Ben Tackie and Vivian Harris were well past their prime and well over their top fighting weight) weighed four pounds over the limit for the fight and essentially was a rated contender as part of the various sanctioning bodies never-ending need to kiss the ring of Ramon's brother, who happens to be named Canelo Alvarez.
Lara called out Canelo after the fight for a rematch of their July 2014 fight in which Alvarez won a controversial split decision that many believe Lara won.
Next to no chance of that happening with the promotional divide in the sport, but it kills me when PBC fighters call out fighters from other platforms, yet none of them show interest in making such fights when the time to negotiate begins.
I know all fighters call the other groups fighters out, but only PBC lacks a track record in making the biggest inter-promotional fights.
In a decent fight, junior middleweights Sebastian Fundora and Jamontay Clark fought to a draw.
The freakishly tall for the division Fundora at 6'6 was hit by Clark far more than he should have over his jab, but it made for a good fight as far as action goes.
I scored Clark a winner by a speck at 96-94, but I have no problem with the draw or even a similar score for Fundora, but the judge that saw Fundora winning scored a silly 98-92 card.
From Australia, Michael Zerafa knocked out former WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn in the ninth round in an upset.
I haven't seen the fight yet, but I have seen the final minute and the referee that allowed a badly hurt Horn to continue for well past the time that the fight should have been stopped, should never work a fight again.
Jeff Horn is very fortunate to escape this loss with his health and might want to consider retirement after this loss to Zerafa, who has never won at this level previously,
In the boxing challenge, I outscored Ramon Malpica five points to four.
Both of us earned two points from Alexander Povetkin and one from Vasyl Lomachenko, with the difference being my two points from Erislandy Lara to Ramon's one.
I lead the overall standings 219-188.
It was a two fight weekend in the boxing challenge from London and the fights were both entertaining.
In the main event, Anthony Joshua rallied from behind on my scorecard to knockout Alexander Povetkin in the seventh round and retain his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight championships.
Joshua looked tentative and Povetkin landed often early as he bloodied the nose of the champion in round one.
Povetkin was far more aggressive in this fight than he was in his only previous career defeat, a decision loss to Wladimir Klitschko and that aggressiveness allowed him to build a lead on my card of 4-2 at the midway point of the bout, with it arguably being 5-1 as Joshua narrowly won one round on my card that I "asterisked" as a round that could have been given to either fighter.
However, in the sixth round, you began to feel that Povetkin had fired his best shot as Joshua put together his best round of the fight as things began to swing towards the champion's corner.
Joshua took advantage in the seventh by dropping a badly hurt Povetkin, who almost tumbled out of the ring as he hit the floor and barely beat the count.
Povetkin attempted to survive, but Joshua leaped on the Russian and finished him off with a combination that sent Povetkin's cornerman onto the apron to stop the bout just as the referee waved off the ending.
Give credit to Povetkin, who has been criticized throughout his career for his two failed drug tests and his anemic effort vs Wladimir Klitschko, he fought hard and with bravery when he could have packed it in after the first knockdown and a little to Joshua for taking the best shots of a more than solid puncher and rallying to win.
Why only a little to the victor and still champion?
Well, to start with and this isn't his fault, all three judges had Joshua ahead, so had things continued along the lines of the first six, Joshua was on his way to winning a questionable decision.
However, the main problem and this is a marginal complaint considering he decisively knocked out a guy that had never been knocked before, is that the Klitschko fight that we all love so much has changed Anthony Joshua as a fighter.
Joshua's exciting win and resulting knockdowns at the hands of Klitschko has led to change in style, much like the last great heavyweight from Britain- Lennox Lewis, who transitioned from an exciting fighter (check his fight vs Ray Mercer out) to a more conservative, but arguably more effective boxer after beginning to work with trainer Emanuel Steward.
The change in style turned Lewis into a far less interesting fighter to watch, but it protected a vulnerable chin far better and Lewis became a Hall of Fame level fighter and I see the same in Anthony Joshua.
Joshua and his team are discovering that almost any top ten lever fighter has the ability to take you out, so why test that theory?
Joshua will be arguably (he sure wasn't in this one, in my opinion) more effective and take fewer punches, but he won't be nearly as much fun to watch.
Fans are hoping to see the final title unified with Joshua facing the winner of the WBC title match between champion Deontay Wilder and the lineal champion Tyson Fury next year.
Should that not happen, a rematch with top contender Dillian Whyte is the likely next title contender to try Joshua.
Whyte badly hurt Joshua in their first bout before Joshua knocked out Whyte in the seventh.
In the co-feature, Luke Campbell avenged a loss to Yvon Mendy via unanimous decision to become the mandatory to WBC lightweight champ Mikey Garcia.
Campbell had lost their first bout via a split decision but controlled this bout (118-110 on my card) via the jab and staying outside against the perpetually charging Mendy.
Campbell is unlikely to fight Garcia, mainly because he won't bring Garcia "I'm only looking for big fights" sizable dollars and there would be promotional issues involved (Campbell is with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom, while Garcia is loosely affiliated with PBC and Showtime) in making the fight.
Campbell would be likely to fight for the title after Garcia would likely vacate it rather than defend that title against Campbell, who lost a split decision to then WBA champion Jorge Linares in 2017.
In the boxing challenge, Ramon Malpica continued to gain ground with a four-point weekend (two points for each fight) to my three-pointer (Two for Campbell and one for Joshua).
The tally now stands at 144-123.
This card was also my first as a DAZN subscriber and I have a few words to write about the broadcast.
The stream looked just as strong as an HD broadcast (Which has always been a streaming concern of mine) and although there was an occasional buffering issue, that could have been my having a few windows open as I followed the Ohio State game etc.
The graphics were large and easy to read, yet they weren't obnoxious or bothersome.
Amazing how easy that can be and just as amazing is how so many screw it up.
The bigger issue was the broadcast crew.
Brian Kenny is very good on blow by blow and his knowledge of the game as a historian comes through very well.
I would wager that if DAZN is able to keep Kenny busy enough with enough work that he could challenge Jim Lampley for the best in the game in that role.
I would already slot Kenny ahead of both Mauro Ranallo of Showtime and Joe Tessitore of ESPN, so Lampley might have to step his game up to stay in the top slot.
The color commentators are where DAZN shows a need to improve.
Sugar Ray Leonard was an all-time great in the ring, but he hasn't been regularly at ringside since he left HBO in 1990 and it shows.
Leonard offers the same cliches' that he used in the 80's and for all the charisma Leonard had in the ring, he has never seemed to possess the same zip behind the mic.
Sergio Mora is another semi-active fighter giving commentating a try while he still occasionally fights.
Sadly, Mora has fallen into the trap that so many have fallen into- being critical while commentating of things that you did or didn't do in the ring.
An example came in a prelim fight when Mora was critical of one of the fighters for holding so much and the referee for not deducting points.
I found this laughable because Mora is a fighter that holds constantly in his bouts and frankly is a perennial Zabbie Award contender.
At a time where the color commentary position is very weak other than Showtime's excellent pair of Al Bernstein and Paulie Malignaggi, DAZN could have leaped over HBO's increasingly shrill (and partial) Max Kellerman/Roy (Let me tell what Roy would have done here in 1991) Jones and ESPN's pairing of Mark Kriegel (Love his writing, below average at ringside) and Timothy Bradley and freelancer Andre (challenger to the Roy Jones- it's all about me award) Ward to make themselves a top-notch unit.
Perhaps over time, they can tinker with personnel at those positions.
I really liked Chris Mannix as part of the hosting pairing.
Mannix is unafraid to offer opinions and came across well on TV.
I hope to see more of him.
I really don't know much about Kay Adams, who works for NFL Network, but I'm usually skeptical about new media folks involved in boxing.
Adams stumbled a bit on a few occasions, which makes me wonder if this is another television person shoved into a boxing role rather than a boxing person doing television.
I was critical of the various PBC hosts a few years back when they were buying half of the cable networks for their shows for lack of knowledge (Most notably ESPN's Marysol Castro) or someone dating a fighter with the company, so although I don't know enough about Adams to say for sure yet, but if I had to guess, she could be along those lines.
In a sport with Brian Custer (Showtime) Crystina Poncher (ESPN/Top Rank) and Jessica Rosales (ESPN/Golden Boy) that are solid boxing people with excellent hosting capabilities, I would like to see DAZN use a boxing person in the role rather than just another sports anchor.
After all, they will be surviving on a subscriber base, it's not too much to ask that the people paying for their product have someone that is as passionate about the product that they pay for hosting the event.
All in all, there are some things that I'd change, I found that I liked DAZN's presentation and would recommend it to the huge boxing fan.
I passed last night on the HBO replay of the Golovkin-Alvarez fight due to watching college football and some things I needed to do at work.
I will be watching on demand tonight, mainly because I want to re-score the fight again, but also because I have heard some many bad things about the commentary of Max Kellerman and Roy Jones ( my fight broadcast was in Russian) and I want to hear just how fair they actually were.
No Browns today, so looks like some features coming your way over the next few days!!
There were 80,000 fans in Cardiff, Wales that left happy as Anthony Joshua added the WBO heavyweight title to his previously owned WBA and IBF championships as Joshua won a unanimous decision over Joseph Parker.
Happy is different than entertained, however, as the action was stunted at best and glacial at worst as Joshua swept the later rounds to pull away on most cards, although the judges predictably had Joshua ahead more than most observers, although to be fair, most of the first six rounds were close (also known as boring and dull with little to choose from) enough to not argue with which fighter that you saw winning.
I watched it one and a half times (I watched the first six rounds over) and I scored Joshua 116-112 live and 118-110 on a second watching.
It was just plain dull and there is plenty to be said for winning this one and look good the next one, but still, this slow bout combined with Deontay Wilder's victory over Luis Ortiz suddenly has some people thinking Wilder has a chance against Joshua that would not have thought so before this fight.
I still think Wilder's chin isn't great and I think he'll fight Joshua off his back foot more than as an attacker, but off this performance by Joshua, I can at least understand that belief, if not agree with it.
I suppose the part of the match that surprised me was Deontay Wilder's reaction and screaming after the fight that Parker was robbed.
Delusion is not always able to be understood...
I'm not sure if Joshua-Wilder happens next unless some things are worked out with their respective management and the sanctioning bodies, but one idea that would allow Joshua to debut in America, Wilder to perhaps draw a crowd, knock out some mandatories and even regain some excitement lost from today's fight would be a doubleheader in the summer with Joshua defending against Povetkin and Wilder against Dillian Whyte.
It seems to check all the boxes and makes a lot of sense, which likely why I'm doubtful it would be a finished deal.
In boxing, no sense makes sense.
In the semi-main, a predictable result occurred when Alexander Povetkin delivered a spectacular knockout of David Price in the fifth round.
Povetkin dropped Price in the third, but Price rallied back to drive Povetkin back into the corner in what was ruled a knockdown as the corner held Povetkin up.
Povetkin is the number one contender for both the WBA and WBO, so Eddie Hearn (promoter of Anthony Joshua) is going to have to either deal with Povetkin physically in a title defense or financially to pay step-aside dollars for Joshua to face Wilder (or anyone else) next time out.
Povetkin can crack with the best of the division and is a dangerous fight, but also one with danger for any promoter with his PED history that makes you nervous about the status of the fight all the way until the fighters enter the ring.
As for David Price, it's too bad that his chin is made of melted cheese because he otherwise looks the part of a contender.
Tall, rangy, punches pretty well, Price reminds you of what a British heavyweight used to be (Frank Bruno, Richard Dunn, Brian London etc) with his lack of punch resistance.
David Price either needs to step aside or be matched as a special attraction against fighters that aren't a big threat (think of how Butterbean Esch was scheduled or for you wrestling historians- Giant Baba of All Japan in his later years) to his health, because continuing to place David Price against any of type of contender is going to wind up hurting Price badly.
I didn't see the other two fights on the card and in the boxing challenge
Ryan Burnett retained his WBA bantamweight belt with a unanimous decision over Yonfrez Parejao and Anthony Crolla won a unanimous decision over Edson Ramirez in a lightweight fight.
In the boxing challenge, I scored eight points to Ramon Malpica's six on the day to boost my lead to 56-43.
I scored two points each in all four fights with Ramon scoring two points each for wins by Ryan Burnett and Anthony Crolla with one each for the heavyweight wins of Anthony Joshua and Alexander Povetkin.
