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I gotta confess that when I first heard about The Contender: Australia I almost sh*t a brick.
I knocked it straight away to be truthful.
Out of protest I didn't watch the first episode.
I mean, earlier in the year The Contender 3 was released on Fox 8 right?
This one was based in either Malaysia or Singapore yer?
I watched 2 episodes of it then stopped watching it.
It was uninteresting and that clown from "Who's the Boss" replaced Sugar Ray.
Plus they were only fighting for 500 thousand.
It was uninteresting and had unknown fighters you didn't care about.
I just lost interest and didn't care. It was cheap with no meaning.
Even though I stopped watching it I'd still flick through the channels of a Monday night to see if it was still on.
I believe Fox 8 canned it? It got the ass!
It wasn't listed anymore in the 9:30pm timeslot.
I don't know why but for some reason I plopped down and watched The Contender: Australia, Episode 2 and found myself warming to it.
It's actually quality viewing.
As menial as they are the "challenges" are back, and refreshing to watch, but in saying that the whole yellow versus blue sh*t...........umm, Boxing is not a team sport alright?
There's no team work in boxing whatsoever!
So it's pointless really.
There are no prizes for guessing who'll win this Australian Contender when it's done and dusted.
You can quote me as saying this that the winner in the end will be PRADEEP SINGH.
Isn't he a cricketer though?
There are a lot of boxers there who shouldn't be.
Sonni. Ben. Josh. Garth. Adrian. Daniel. Nader. Luke. Kariz and Les.
I'll let you in on a little secret with this Contender stuff.
What you see on TV isn't how they normally handle them self in the ring.
A real boxer is conditioned to ten or 12 rounds so to come back to a 5 rounder it's not a true reflection of how they really fight.
Most boxers are showoffs and for this Contender series they want fast paced viewing so they're all looking to knock each other out with their best right hook in the early rounds.
They just want their star to shine knowing that they're on national TV.
Gives 'em more emphasis to try harder.
The're not boxing they're slugging. It's not boxing.
They burn too much energy in the first few rounds trying to look good on TV anyway.
It's classical Rocky Movie Syndrome stuff.
Every Rocky movie fight starts out the same. Bell rings, he'll jab, jab then the right hook bombs start.
That's not boxing.
All these Contender blokes are looking for the KO early.
Now a smart fighter would truly box, yet he'll bore you at the same time and Fox 8 don't want that, either does the crowd.
See, real boxing is boring.
I can see either Pradeep or Hamden winning this thing because they're natural boxers and not showoffs, ok?
I know, I know, I said Hamden doesn't deserve to be here but he knows all the tricks of the trade and he's a natural boxer.
A clever boxer would pick his punches, stick and move, scoring points along the way if he wanted to win this Contender thingy.
It's a very boring style to watch and Nader Hamden is the master of this style so I won't be surprised if he's there at the end.
Problem with Hamden though is he's tired and no power left.
It's all right there, Les Piper, the bald guy in episode 2 said it himself....he said it in a nutshell, "this 5 round crap is rubbish, put him in a real 12 round fight and I'll beat him."
Honestly I thought Piper did enough to win that fight against Hamden.
I had it a draw.
And last nights decision to award Victor Oganov was atrocious.
Junior Talapou won the first 4 rounds.
Pradeep Signh was right when he stated that there's politics involved last night.
I assume from last nights preview for next week that Sonni "Jungle Boy" Michael Angelo will be up next fighting.
Don't be fooled by this clowns muscle and intimidation. His record speaks for itself. For such a large imposing figure he's only got 3 knock downs next to his name and is rather lame.
He squandered his talent and is reckless.
I laughed my ass off last night When Sonni turned on Briggs and Briggs started to square up in return not backing down.
See him loosening up?
Can you imagine in the original series of The Contender one of the fighters turning on Stallone and Stallone started to loosen up as well?
And the commercial for next weeks episode has Briggs changing teams and joining the blue team so you know that Jungle Boy is fighting next week and Briggs turns corners.
If I remember correctly Briggs once had a go at Sonni on Friday night fights for the way he was conducting himself.
Was it the Bulli Blaster fight head clash stoppage? Briggs said he shouldn't be in the sport and to be banned from future telecasts.
Think Briggs also got mad commentating on the Mundine/Green card for the Keg guy saying they were ripped off.
The last I saw Briggs got knocked out by some old guy a while back.
YAWN!!!!
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