Anthony Joshua, Terence Crawford, Dillian Whyte: A Retrospective

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(BOXING) Mr. Terence Crawford is now 30-0 after he dismantled, picked apart, put on a clinic against -- to retain his WBC and WBO Lightweight crowns -- one John Molina, Jr. now 29-7. I know what the boxing world is thinking: will this place Crawford in the Kaplowitz Boxing and Horse Racing Rankings for the month of December??? Tune in, gentlepersons. Tune in! It was an impressive display, no doubt, culminating in an 8th round TKO, but Molina loses whenstever he doth as much as half step-up to face better competition, and overall the gap in talent was wide as the one twixt Mark Strahan’s teeth. What's the allure of that fella, again?

Retrospective: Mr. Molina stalked Mr. Crawford around the ring looking for his puncher's chance in a nigh and comparitive lumbering manner as he found his own torso tenderized like a chicken breast getting ready to be parmigiana'd. That one lucky hay-maker simply proving and proved to not be there. BE LUCKY. LuckyLeafCigars.com.

Now, gentlepersons, we'll scoot across the BLOODY POND GOVNAH FOR A COUPLE BRILL ROWS, WE WILL-- A BIT OF YE OLDE FISTICUFFS, NO? CHIP CHIP CHEERIO AND ALL THAT SORT OF RUBBISH.

The under-card at the Manchester Arena spotlighted Mr. Dereck Chisora now 26-7 taking on Mr. Dillian Whyte now 20-1 in a bout I wrote about in the latest Shemp's Last Day entry HERE. Well, I wrote about the presser to be exactingly precise -- but boy-o did these pugilist genlepersons deliver in-ring! Not a skillful top-leveler of a sweet science endeavor, but more fun than a barrel of moneys. If that's yer sorta fare. My pick of Whyte held-out but only after 12 solid rounds of heavyweight action, which is rare to say the least. Rematch? Yes, please. Hold the table-throwing.

THEN

The most beautiful part of the Whyte/Chisora affair is that it gave thems in attendance ample time to get good and liquor'd for a destined to be short main event. That main event being Mr. Anthony Joshua vs Mr. Eric Molina now 25-4. To no one's surprise, Joshua retained his IBF crown via a third round KO. Hopefully and seemingly, this is the last of the tomato cans and we can now see at long-ish last what sir’s got at 17-0-17 -- April 29th against Wladimir Klitschko. Lack of conditioning as much as Joshua's short sturdy left, spellt doom for Molina. Rough week-end to be a Molina, indeed and all told.

Mike Tyson was at one side of the ring, Frank Bruno at the other, for stated main event. So sad, really. But it brung back up to mind a question that was asked a few days ago: is Joshua the next Tyson? So much wrong… First: is being the next Tyson a good thing??? A bully whom crumbles at boo? A man with zero cerebral fortitude? A large component of boxing chatter is comprised of speculation regarding whom defeats whom across eras. "Iron" Mike Tyson beats scant few, if any, in my mind -- he'd lose to nigh every great and many excellent before even stepping foot in the ring. The squared circle is then not a site of combat, but wherest the train wrecks.

Humsoever, I will link them, Mr. Tyson and Mr. Joshua thusly and twice-so: 1. They are both perfect for the 'new' form of boxing journalism -- my oft mentioned and lamented three minute KO compilation reel replete with DMX track. (Depressingly, that statement makes me aware boxing journalism -- once proud, has now officially and in fact, long been horrid.) 2. Tomato cans.

In-ring, to be clear, they are nothing. Nothing. Alike.

Alas, back to boxing current: and then Wladimir Klitschko climbed twixt Joshua/Molina ropes and into post-fight ring. April 29th, is it? In the UK, again. Mr. Klitschko/Mr. Anthony Joshua was announced.

I’d have loved to first see Anthony Joshua fight one Mr. Deontay Wilder. Forty years-plus old or not… young Joshua has fought no one and has an odd hiccup in his jab -- an up/down motion that needs to set before fired. How about his tendency to be a home run hitter whom watches the ball fly before taking a slow trip 'round the bags... he fires hard, looks... waits? Stiff. The mature and good Dr. Klitschko gets in, holds. Do we need to experience that again?

This prizefight looming nigh is far from a coronation, gentlepersons. Though many wrongly see it as such. The crown may very well slumber longer in Eastern European fashion. To make matters worse, a popular American pugilist in Mr. Wilder is left out in the cold. Doth he challenge at next year's end, Mr. Klitschko in Germany? Ya can't like them odds -- especially with Wilder's loop de loop punches.

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This content is essentially a series of fleshed-out bullet points I was prepared to discuss on the latest Cigars City Podcast, but time ran long.

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