Hard-core boxing fans decried last month's Floyd Mayweather--Conor McGregor bout as a farce - an overhyped mockery of an event designed to generate a huge payday Ecco Sandals Outlet UK , boxing's reputation be damned. While these fans weren't 100 percent wrong, last weekend's draw between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin definitely stole some of their rhetorical thunder.
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But the fight itself wasn't the competitive sham many boxing fans thought it would be. The scrappy McGregor took the fight to Mayweather early and held his own into the 10th round, when his conditioning limits (MMA fights are shorter than boxing matches) allowed Mayweather to swoop in and score a technical knockout.
In the end, McGregor's performance embarrassed neither himself nor the sport of mixed martial arts. The same cannot be said about Saturday's controversial draw between Alvarez and Golovkin. Not only did the final outcome prove unsatisfying to fans, bettors Ecco Dress Shoes Outlet UK , and sportsbooks (boxing's holy trinity); judge Adelaide Byrd's confounding 118-110 scorecard in favor of Alvarez exposed one of boxing's long-held dirty little secrets: inept judging.
And although Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Bob Bennett has promised to give Byrd "a little break" before allowing her to judge future big-time bouts, the damage has already been done. The Alvarez-Golovkin match-up was the perfect chance for boxing to capitalize on the afterglow of Mayweather-McGregor and regain some of its past glory. Instead, boxing delivered a "same as it ever was" moment.
A sport that launched the careers of convicted criminals Don King (manslaughter) and Mike Tyson (rape) doesn't get to claim the high moral ground very often. Saturday's showcase in Las Vegas proved that the action inside the ring is still just as shady as the action outside of it.
KAMPALA, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Uganda has suspended the national boxing body over the disappearance of three players who had traveled to Germany for the world boxing championship.
Patrick Ogwel ecco boots outlet uk , assistant general secretary of the National Council of Sports told Xinhua in an interview late on Saturday that the executive of the Uganda Boxing Federation failed to explain the disappearance of the players.
"We are not going to accept this kind of management," he said.
The players had gone to attend the 2017 AIBA World Championship in Hamburg, Germany early this month.
"We have decided that the whole Federation executive members are suspended as investigations go on following the failure of the boxers to return," Ogwel said.
David Kavuma www.eccoshoesoutletuk.com , the Federation spokesman who traveled as manager confirmed that the three boxers stayed behind in Germany to try and get clubs to join.
The three boxers who represented Uganda at the World Championships include: David Ayiti, Geoffrey Kakeeto and African welterweight champion Muzamiru Kakande.
While the two other boxers all lost in the first round, super heavyweight boxer Ayiti was not included in the draws under un-clear reasons for which Federation has said they will lodge a formal complaint.
Charles Bakkabulindi, the minister in-charge of sports said they are going to start acting tough against sports associations whose players fail to return after international events.
"We shall not accept this kind of behaviour because it has been happening in the past. The boxing body will now have to answer or get punished Cheap Ecco Shoes UK Outlet ," he added.
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OSLO Ecco Shoes UK Outlet Sale , Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iceland's Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson said Saturday that the president has accepted his resignation and a new parliamentary election will possibly be held on Nov. 4, local media reported.
After a meeting with Icelandic President Gudni Johannesson, Benediktsson told reporters that an executive committee should be in office as a provisional government until the election.
According to Icelandic laws, the final decision on new parliamentary elections will be made by the president. Johannesson Ecco Shoes UK Outlet Clearance , who was meeting leaders of other parties, was expected to make an announcement later Saturday.
Benediktsson on Friday called for a new parliamentary election after a junior coalition party decided to quit due to a "breach of trust" within the center-right government.
Early Friday, leaders of Bright Future, one of the three partner parties in the government Ecco Shoes UK Outlet Online , said they had ended their coalition with the Independence Party and the prime minister.
The Reform Party, another junior partner, has called for new elections as soon as possible.
It was revealed on Thursday that Benediktsson's father signed a letter of recommendation so that a convicted pedophile would receive what in Iceland is called "restored honor," which effectively wipes the criminal record of a person who has served his or her sentence.
Letters of recommendation are required for this procedure.
Minister of Justice Sigridur Andersen Ecco Shoes UK Outlet , also from the Independence Party, said Thursday night that she had informed Benediktsson of his father's letter in July, Icelandic public broadcaster RUV reported.
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