Former UFC champ Frank Mir will face Antonio Tarver in a boxing match

Casual boxing fan here.

Didn't Tarvers career fall off a cliff starting in 2008 when he was having problems with Crack/Cocaine
 
This feels like a really slow play build to Murr-Brock 3 in a boxing match if Murr somehow wins
 
I mean it's dumb but you're entitled to your opinion.

UFC wishes it could do these types of shows and break the 1 mill PPV barrier with ease.

Instead it's back to 300-400k if conor isn't fighting.
My post was a joke about boxers saying mma guys have no hands. It is even funnier because the two representing mma have horrible boxing.

I don’t actually think this is a master plan to keep boxing afloat (i assume that is what you got defensive about).
 
I actually got a chance to Spar a little with Tarver. I wanna say it 97 or 98. Guy hits hard. Probably the only time in my life I was legit concussed. If he isn't completely gone I think he puts Mir to sleep.
 
My biggest fear here is that Murr somehow wins due to Tarver gassing and we have multiple threads with people posting detailed breakdowns outlining how "Prime Nog" would have beat Roy Jones Jr in a boxing match using MMA math
 
Mir is supposed to fight a guy who used to weigh 175? And not a Rumble kind of 170. Mir is huge. If he loses that would not look good.
But it's just boxing, not actual fighting like MMA. He will use 12oz gloves instead of 4oz gloves that will nullify most of his power. And his footwork needs to work behind a jab instead of in kicking range, and will have to block with the gloves using a lot of head movement because he can't clinch. Completely different game even when comparing only boxing. He is probably going to eat a punches left and right until the ref stops it or 52 year Tarver will get tired and they will start clinching to a decision that Tarver will win because he will have landed the "cleaner punches".

If Mur losses, nothing happens from my perspective. It's expected. But if he lands a KO on the 52 year old man I'm going to go to Boxingscene to make fun of boxing fans like I did after the Paulie-Artem fiasco though :p
 
My post was a joke about boxers saying mma guys have no hands. It is even funnier because the two representing mma have horrible boxing.

I don’t actually think this is a master plan to keep boxing afloat (i assume that is what you got defensive about).
Sorry I misread.

Haha yea, it's amazing in all the fights we've had of crossovers we can't get a diaz or something to fight.

Shocked Silva vs Jones hasn't been talked about again.
 
War Mur!

but boxing isn’t his forte


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Even a fat tarver can bring it. it's not like Frank has the best boxing ever. Still, everything can happen in a fight.
 
Dont underestimate Mir the guy got that sneaky punch
That’s what happened to Big Nog (well that and staph and a million assbeatings beforehand). But let’s be real tho Mir’s beat asset is being huge. Even when he was lighting Nog up it looked like some white bitch from the suburbs in cardio kickboxing class.
 
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