Video of Briggs taking dive
by tylerrcurtis on Jul 21, 2010 6:58 PM EDT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EdbKsVIAk4
no effort on the part of briggs. i hate to use the word dive because you never know why a fighter goes down and stays down but this is a dive. no if, ands, or buts about it. it was clear that briggs was there to get a check, fall down, look hurt and go home. maybe this will wake green up and he will start taking better fights
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This is looking bad
http://www.watoday.com.au/sport/boxing/hes-a-dog-and-hes-not-getting-paid-20100722-10li4.html
Centrebet spokesman Neil Evans this morning said hundreds of bets began pouring in from yesterday morning, shortening the odds for a first-round knockout from $5 to odds-on by the time the fight got under way.
“The outcome of the fight was highly, highly dubious,” he said.
“We’ve never ever in the history of boxing seen so much money go on a specific decision outcome, as in a first- or second-round knockout.
“There was a massive go on first or second-round knockout starting from very early yesterday morning, right through the day, certainly up until early afternoon,” he said.
“There were hundreds and hundreds of bets of all different shapes and sizes, and a lot of them from Western Australia. There was one bet of $50,000, which is extraordinary on an option of a first-round knock-out, even on a hot favourite.
“They were both into even money, paying $2 each at around lunch-time almost, such was the amount of money just poured in the gate.”
Probably worth reading the full article, but it almost certainly looks like the fix was in. This type of betting pattern though makes me think that Green didn’t necessarily know about it, that it came from outside.
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Green looked seroously unhappy
After that fight, I doubt he was in on anything.
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jul 22, 2010 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I agree.... but:
What the hell was up with his wraps after the fight?
Is it just me, or do they look fucking HUGE??!!
Now, Tweek, boxing is a Man sport. There is nothing in the world more Man than boxing. It is Man at his most Man. So when you spar with Ned here, just dig deep into that most Man part of you. (Uncle Jimbo, South Park: Tweek vs Craig)
re wraps
Look weird to me too. Didn’t RJJr question the wraps? Everyone figured he was looking for excuses, me too; I don’t think he would have won a fair fight, but that doesn’t make him wrong about the wraps. Looks way plausible now. I believe Green remarked in an interview somewhere words to the effect that people who have been hit by his punches felt they’d been hit by a brick. huh. Don’t like to be overtrashing someone, innocent till proven guilty, etc., but the whole thing looks so dirty—and they do look huge.
Wraps
They look huge partly because of the wide angle lens when he’s pointing his fist right into the camera—that part of it is just wide-angle distortion, but they also look huge hanging at his side, and even pointing away from the camera, and do so in footage of a previous fight in Brickhaus’s link above. Green may simply have abnormally huge knuckles, but I’d like to see JUST HIS HANDS naked, next to, say, the hands of a few equal-sized landscapers or auto body guys.
Agreed on pretty much all counts.
It looks like he has a bloody great sweat band around the front of his knuckles or something.
Funny shaped wraps, at best, definitely.
Now, Tweek, boxing is a Man sport. There is nothing in the world more Man than boxing. It is Man at his most Man. So when you spar with Ned here, just dig deep into that most Man part of you. (Uncle Jimbo, South Park: Tweek vs Craig)
The only other thing that funny involving an "Aussie"
Was Kostya making Zab do the crazy dance. LMFAO!! still piss myself watching it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7A3rMN6Co Classic!
by Phill on Jul 22, 2010 1:51 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I remember seeing that for the 1st time
I didn’t know it was coming. I watched it in the month of January, I don’t think I stopped laughing untill gone spring!!
by Sweet science on Jul 22, 2010 6:32 PM EDT up reply actions
left to the body
It looked like he wanted to go down after the left to the body, and started to then thought better of it. Wow that is tough to watch as a boxing fan.
OliGold did a fanpost asking why we love boxing..
This fight has to be the complete opposite end of that discussion.
by Phill on Jul 22, 2010 2:46 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
It’s amazing, I put that post up the day before this to cheer myself up after the Mayweather-Pacquaio fiasco, and then this shit happens!
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic"
by Oli Goldstein on Jul 22, 2010 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions
At least this fight isn't relevant
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jul 22, 2010 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, absolutely. To be honest, I’m coming out of it looking at Danny Green as just an egotistical knob, and I firmly believe he – rather than Paul Briggs – is the person to be attacked. Whether Paul Briggs took a dive or not, the fact persists that he should never have been in the ring with anyone, and Danny Green – as a person, let alone a promoter – should never have let the fight go ahead. I’ve spent quite a lot of time thinking about this, and at the end of the day, if Briggs’ mental and physical condition is really as serious as certain figures have made it sound, I’d rather the guy took a dive and saved himself than stayed on his feet and took a pummelling. Danny Green’s the guy to be looked at here, not Paul Briggs. (Sorry for the rant, this has – in the words of Green – really got me ‘jacked’)
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic"
by Oli Goldstein on Jul 23, 2010 5:57 AM EDT up reply actions
That seems to be the view here in Oz Oli
Green has been copping a savaging in the press here . Even in his home state of Western Australia.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. " Hunter S Thompson.
Good.
I was completely appalled at first by Paul Briggs’ actions, and I didn’t mince my words or anything, but then I remembered his fights against Adamek, read up on his medical condition since then and heard about his financial situation, and just thought JESUS CHRIST Danny Green is a knob. I’m glad he’s taking the flak, I guess he’s not a ‘legend’ any more (man that remains the funniest thing I’ve ever heard an announcer say!)
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic"
by Oli Goldstein on Jul 23, 2010 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions
@Oligold re Green
Yes. Moreover, his post-fight rant looked very WWE to me, very—performed. I completely distrust everything about Green now, including the wraps.
This is a different take on what happened in todays Sydney Morning Herald . Its like everyone that had anything to do with the fight knew Briggs was damaged and that they all put money on him to go down in one or two because of the wretched condition , both mentally and physically he was in . The word is that his sparring partners werent allowed to hit Paul in the head . http://www.smh.com.au/sport/boxing/staggering-truth-cashstrapped-briggs-was-not-fit-to-fight-20100722-10n2e.html?autostart=1 A Green KO in the first round was backed in from 7 to one to even money .
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. " Hunter S Thompson.
Wow.. JC, that's BAD..
Sounds to me like someone wants fuckin’ for allowing that fight to go ahead…
by Phill on Jul 23, 2010 1:55 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Exactly Phil
The WA authorities , Briggs corner ( Billy Hussein) , Green himself as promoter , all need to have a good look at themselves mate . Johnny Lewis put it well, he basically said that fighters shouldnt be allowed to promote their own fights due to the fact that they will invariably ring the undertakers and or the old folks home to find opponents . Looking at Green and Mundine hes pretty spot on .
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. " Hunter S Thompson.
Conflict of interest I agree mate
Briggs looked like he was coming down from a three day rave during pre-fight interviews. Vacant dilated pupils – looked medicated. A nothing shot but Briggs looked hurt to me. His hands were still up when he walked into the canvas like knockout victims can do from a high head shot. Sad, sad ending for a fighter of Paul’s calibre – probably cost him his commentary gig.
Green’s a wanker. Sets him up then calls him a dog in front of his Perth fans. Cameron called him out and he didn’t say shit – Lesnar would squash him like a bug wtf’s he on about? If ego boy wants to be taken seriously then call out Cunningham or Huck, defend against Flores, Lebedev or Wlodarcyzk and cut the weight limit crap. And if he wants to race that ugly Falcon of his I’ll take his money any day.
"Anytime you go thirty rounds with a guy, try to kill each other, and have the utmost respect for each other, no one understands that, but guys who have been to war understand it." - Micky Ward on Arturo Gatti.
what was green doing fighting this guy to begin with?
We have a saying back home that if your coming on, COME ON!!!!
Trying to make a big money fight
One of these days, maybe he’ll get more realistic about his financial demands and actually be able to land the fight with Tarver or Hopkins or Holyfield that he’s been angling for (not that they’re not all old and shot as well).
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Finally just saw this. I'm never ready to say a fighter like Briggs
took a dive
but he took a dive or did a very good imitation.
That's true, Frank.
Acting is tougher than it looks, or so I’ve heard.
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