NRL Rd 19 2025 - General Non-Warriors Thread

[Beavers Headgear]

77-74 Gallen
77-74 Williams
76-75 Gallen

And the winner, by a split-decision, Paul ex-Sharkie Great Gallen!

Was hoping it would be a knockout
Just saw vision of the post fight chat, Gallen looked like he wanted none of it lol

 

[Blair]

Was hoping it would be a knockout
Just saw vision of the post fight chat, Gallen looked like he wanted none of it lol

I liked the result too. I followed live round-by-round updates when I got home from work last night, as I had nothing else to do. The bell for round one started at about 10:30 pm my time.

It sounded like Gallen's main go was shots to the body and Williams held on too much.

Gallen's 43, that better be his last boxing match. The same with William's, who is 40 this year.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

LOL

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Vast majority of social media dribble has been that SBW was robbed. The handful of actual boxing fans I know who watched it mostly scored it for Gallen, but then they were biased towards him.

Ugh, if I can find it somewhere I might actually force myself to watch it to decide for myself.

 

[Blair]

Vast majority of social media dribble has been that SBW was robbed. The handful of actual boxing fans I know who watched it mostly scored it for Gallen, but then they were biased towards him.

Ugh, if I can find it somewhere I might actually force myself to watch it to decide for myself.

It would be easy to cry foul if someone thought boxing was scored only with shots to the head. Body punches - as you will know - are brutal, just not as spectacular. Judges can even fall for that.

I hope a rematch isn't going to happen. Both those guys are past it, maybe dangerously so.

 

[JJ]

Weird that boxing by non-boxers generates so much interest - not sure this is a step up or down from Jake Paul having sham matches against once good/great boxers who are middle aged and seem to have signed a contract saying they won't hit him

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Weird that boxing by non-boxers generates so much interest - not sure this is a step up or down from Jake Paul having sham matches against once good/great boxers who are middle aged and seem to have signed a contract saying they won't hit him

Can we call it an even race to the bottom?

I have to admit I don't like boxing, although I used to watch back in the day when heavyweight fights like Tyson v Holyfield, Lennox Lewis etc were genuinely box-office. I understand there's some very good heavyweights right now too, but it's just too hard to sort through the noise of BS one-sided fights and fake hype.

But I watch sport to watch the best of the best. Two has-been footballers past 40 is not the best of the best. I don't watch Golden Oldies league. I don't watch the Champions Tour golf. Give me the elite. And if they have contracts saying 'don't hit me' (which I am almost certain they do) then F that even more.

I will never forget the SBW v Francois Botha fight, when Botha was about to put Sonny Bill in the ground but the referee saved him. My interest died its final death that day. Mind you, it should have gone long before, when SBW fought Gary Gurr, a fat drunk who my mate's sister used to date. I couldn't believe a slob like him was getting a chance to even be in the same movie theatre as an athlete, let alone to actually box SBW.