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I'm assume you're being sarcastic? My take on Bozza and @ElPresidente is that they're neither confrontational, arrogant or bullying. Plus @ElPresidente provides useful factual stuff on football finance, which crushes guessed bollox.

Looks like you'll be off NSC soon. I look forward to your views on sport under your 5th identity!

I read articles a few years ago that the rise of NBA and American Football, led to US sporting talent (who might had made heavyweight boxers in another era) being driven in that direction. Great financial rewards guaranteed, with arguably less impact on the brain.

I really like Joshua and want him to become a great WC. But I thought it a poor heavyweight world title fight, from both boxers and the ref! I get your good points about the positives from AJ, but was I left frustrated with a feeling that he has more to offer. A controversial, personal idea -...

Good post. His mythical stock rises with each week spent eating and boozing.

I really wanted to Joshua to be up to those heady heights, but I now know you're correct. Wilder too - I've watched his hardest fights, he is so open to punches, literally wild and is no where near a technical great. For those obsessed with Tyson Fury, he too is several levels below the true...

All preplanned, part of the hype, promoters $$$$ behind it.

I disgreed with you all thread long, but both boxers were unimpressive.

What a crap fight. Parker always keen to keep his not KO'd record. Both fighters grabbing and hugging all night, playing into the ref's hands.

Disappointing spectacle from both boxers and the ref. Definitely not a classic.

Joshua got 4 early rounds in the bag, which radio in the heated moment omits. Meddling ref spoiling things.

So one sided so far. I thought Parker would be his near match. Although with heavyweights, Parker's one punch from glory.

Money, with hanger-ons unsurprisingly spurring him on.

I liked Prince Naz. I watched one of his fights in Hove Place (pub), and was surprised that half the punters wanted him to lose against some foreign fighter they wouldn't have known of. The first time I came across the very British IMO wanting our sportsman to lose. Just before your time I...

He really shouldn't. He must have made a good living. But he will.

I must admit I didn't. A true great, but I didn't like him, probably because he destroyed Minter and Sibson.

Used to get up in the middle of the night to listen on BBC radio to the lot, then watch ITV show those mega fights soon after.

I used to buy imported Ring magazine in that era. I remember how Cus D'Amato saved him (temporarily as things later panned out). A great time to love boxing for me. Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Curry, Honeyghan, McGuigan, W.Benitez, etc.

Diane Abbott?

I didn't say he was. Otherwise every "beast" would be a boxing WC. All WC's have a great array of skills to get to that level. But he didn't have the classic boxing skill of say Ali, Holmes or Lewis. Tyson was unorthodox and brutal, added to the skill.