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Brock Lesnar suspended for 1 year and fined $250,000 after testing positive on two occasions for clomephine (commonly used after steroid cycles) during the run up to Mark Hunt at UFC 200. Hunt is now considering legal action against Lesnar whom walked away with a Winning purse of upwards of $2 million despite the result now being overturned to a NC via DQ

WWE and their 'Fantastic' Wellness Policy have yet to comment.

Third drugs cheat Mark Hunt faced in as many fights. As for Brock, he's done a great job at convincing me that he's never not been a cheat now.

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Badou Jack vs James DeGale - Middleweight title fight

Fight due between 9-10pm ET (2-3am GMT)

Sky Sports 1 will be broadcasting the fight night from 1.30am. For any night owls, mediocre fight but the first major bout of the year.

Quick predictions, DeGale over 12 maybe? It's a mediocre fight to be honest, not expecting fireworks but there's always a chance in these fights, Jack has a suspect chin, DeGale has looked awful on occasions too. Could be anyones.

Back to the Mark Hunt case, Hunt booked himself with Overeem at UFC 209 and has now confirmed he has filed a lawsuit against UFC and Brock Lesnar over compensation (Lesnar was given a winners purse) because Brock Lesnar has since been disqualified, banned from the sport for a year and fined $250,000 for testing positive for clomids (Used in athletes after a steroid cycle)

This leaves the UFC in a no win scenario, Lesnar is unlikely to show up to any case so faces an instant loss taking the UFC along with him in regards to the $2 million purse and will very likely settle with Hunt out of court. All because they ignored him for months then went and booked him in a major PPV later. He literally now has UFC by the testicles. This also once again shines WWE firmly in the spotlight, something they don't want in regards to their wellness policy and how it has no effect on performers on part time contracts.

Mark Hunt has also managed to secure all of his future fight contracts with a no doping clause, meaning any opponent that signs to face him automatically forfeits the entire purse to him if found to be doping. I'm 99% sure UFC accepted this as a cushion to stop Hunt vs Lesnar/UFC court action happening, that's now backfired and he now holds all those cards.

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Thrilling undercard by Mayweather promotions. Check out Davis in the lightweight bout. Shades of Prince Naseem. Two amazing fights.

Main event coming then, be hard to top those two undercard fights to be honest.

Jack's suspect chin showing instantly.

Majority draw. I think Jack deserved the win. I'll take the draw as fair but I cant believe DeGale has managed to get those combos turned into round wins. He was truly awful boxing wise tonight but great as a warrior. His timing was horrendous, failed to utilise any speed or movement because he couldn't time punches and caught leather pretty much every single time. It's the fact that judges scores those combos that got him right out of the deep end and surprised me.and rightfully a few of the fans too. Jack landed the far cleaner and better shots and completely controlled the fight from the third till the tenth and got himself a 10-8 round late on. He did enough to win.

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Chris Eubank Jr v Renold Quinlan live on ITV Box Office

Tonight: Undercard has the likes of David Price on it :erm:

Who is Renold Quinlan? A 12-1 (I wish 12-1 wasn't true) boxer holding an IBO title he fluked when he knocked out the awful Geale in 2016.

This is a straight forward win for Eubank Jr whom has done a lot of talking but is yet to actually fight anyone on the next level, notably losing to fellow brit Billy Joe Saunders. This is an awful advert for launching a PPV channel.

Prime examples of why this is truly awful for PPV standards. The Sky box office bubble nearly exploded thanks to fights like Khan vs Salita and Haye vs Harrison. This is up there with one of those.

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Absolutely horrific display from David Price. Absolute pub fighter, knackered after 4 rounds and we're still going :erm: Guy gets rocked with every shot he takes. Embarrassing display from a once gobby 'unbeatable'

You'd have to see this just to see how horrible he is, flopping all over the ropes, bending over for breaks.

Edit: Stopped, absolutely embarrassing.

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I love the way Eubank and Co were banging on about bringing Boxing back to the masses via terrestrial TV blah, blah, blah, then went PPV at the first opportunity. Who'd have thought... :rolleyes:

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He actually wanted it on Sky Box office, they knocked it back and offered a Sky sports 1 slot, he turned it down and negotiated with ITV whom offered the fight on a new channel at £13 a pop.

So to have looked at Sky first and then in a desperate attempt for money signing with ITV on a PPV basis, it just shows it was never on the agenda. It was a move to stir up a few fans for a British fighter that's really lacking a fanbase. He's a gobby one that continuously calls out big names then disappears and fights a mandatory or as we have tonight, a 12-1 fighter on PPV. We're in the 7th now and it's hardly being anything worth paying for.

Eubank has this, but this should have been done ages ago, if he takes this guy all the way then it really shows what level Eubank Jr is still at. There's no way in hell this guy lasts 6 rounds with Golovkin, his defense isn't brilliant and you can't measure his skills that well when he's fighting stationary nobodies and showboating every other round. He throws incredibly wild punches that the likes of GGG will counter and batter him on. This is still the Eubank that avoided a Billy Joe Saunders rematch.

The highlight of a drab PPV thus far is David Price taking a mid round nap on the ropes.

Howard foster spares Eubank Jr's blushes and ends the fight amid Eubank pressure

Took him 10 rounds to get him out, without a knockdown either. Pretty drab fight and as expected given the embarrassing Price fight, a poor advert for PPV boxing by ITV. Now onto the part where he calls out everyone miles better than him then runs off for 5 months before taking on his mandatory.

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I wasn't referring to this fight. It was some time ago they were saying how important it was to have a mass audience but then they saw the £ signs as always.

Didn't see the fight so can't comment on that.

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Summed up perfectly.

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:rofl:

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Kell Brook has seemingly agreed to fight Errol Spence... please for the love of god be in Vegas and not Sheffield. After Golovkin, Brook needs some exposure on a pretty average career.

Spence is heavy handed and a great up and coming talent. Hands like the Pacman. Brook has a solid chin though as proven against one of the best in the world. Brook would be the strongest that Spence has fought too so I'd lean slightly for Brook in this fight but to be honest it's an unknown entity. Brook has spent far too long messing around that I struggle to measure his actual ability. I might have been premature in saying there's very few people at 147 that could put Brook on the deck and even fewer that will be able to stand 12 rounds. I think that'll become a reality if he navigates Spence though.

As for where Khan goes, I simply don't know. I rarely find myself agreeing with Brook but he nailed it the other night at the Eubank fight. It's becoming impossible to make a fight with Amir because he's Amir Kardashian.. He spends so much time fannying around outside the ring all over the world getting his picture taken that Boxing is almost a distant last. Brook's completely right too.
The pundit nailed it too, Amir doesn't want to fight Brook in England. He wants the fight in the US, MGM style. A 70/30 winners split means nothing to Khan with the money he can make in the US. As he put, Amir is a prizefighter, he's a typical US Welterweight now, people think he's afraid to lose but fighting Canelo burned that quickly. He'll do anything for money.

Joshua - Still excited but still annoyed he's with Eddie Hearn, I want to see him move to a better camp and get himself really established because I still feel someone like Haye or Wilder is gonna have his number and before you know it, he's sharing a rope with David Price.

You have GGG coming up, Haye vs Bellew which in 'wrestling terms' is a squash match.

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Yep, it's all I could do too. Astonished that this lad managed to come in the ring at 19st and rant about reviving his career against a talent booster like Christian, only to gas in the fourth round and start bending over the ropes for breaks, it was incredible to see. I never grasped at it when I first saw him do it, I thought he was pulling shenanigans to force a ref step in and sending them back to the center, a tactic to get yourself off the ropes. The second time I realized he was deliberately putting himself on the ropes to take a breather, something you see a lot in boxing in different classes... in round 10 and 11, not round 4. I've never seen someone lean over the ropes for a good 5 second breather before though, he struggled to get off them and I was sure it was over there and then. It was so close to that amazing Kimbo Slice vs Dada 5000 MMA Attempt, in which both hilariously rubbish overweight fighters gassed in round one and forced the ref to call a TKO exhaustion decision.

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Amir Khan vs Manny Pacquiao talks underway

Expect confirmation in a few days to a week with a date set shortly.

Interesting fight, If Manny can't knock Khan out I think he loses over 12 rounds. Manny Pacquiao just doesn't seem to have it in him anymore.

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Amir Khan vs Manny Pacquiao

Confirmed. April 23rd, as above, a pretty weird fight. Sparring partners and friends. Location TBC but was expected to be in the UAE.

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Michael Bisping signs agreement to fight Georges St Pierre upon his return for the UFC MW title.

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This is an absolute scheduling mess but I'll try to get as much of it watched as possible live. Beyond annoyed at this scheduling.

That's the Sky Box Office card live from 18:30 live from the O2 London


Live from 2am (March 5th) on BoxNation


Live 5th March 3am BT Sports 2



Live from 1am March 19th UK, Live coverage TBC

Joshua vs Klitschko will be done nearer.

All in all an absolute epic weekend of Combat sports in what's an epic month that'll end with Joshua fighting Wlad. Thurman vs Garcia is the clash of WW titans.