Sunday 23 August 2020
ALEXANDER POVETKIN VS DILLIAN WHYTE
Last night saw the long-awaited boxing match between Alexander Povetkin and Dillian Whyte, which had been delayed due to the Coronachan farce. Povetkin, a Slavic Pagan or Rodnover, is pushing 41, and although an Olympic gold medalist, is in decline with his movement slowing and stamina waning, as shown in the draw against Michael Hunter last year. Dillian Whyte is a Jamaican with a British passport whom Matchroom Boxing and its hangers-on on the Youtube boxing channels have attempted to build up into a British hero for a deracinated Britain. Whyte was very careful not to reveal his own opinions too much when interviewed about Anthony Joshua's speech to Black Lives Matter in which Joshua, wearing black leather gloves like the Black Panthers of the 1960s, talked of Blacks using Black-owned businesses in Britain, an ancestrally White European country. Both Whyte and his brother Dean, however, made Joshua's excuses for him and continued the anti-White narrative. Whyte had also previously played the race-baiting card against former opponent Lucas Browne.
Perhaps equally it was the fact that Povetkin came out surprisingly sharper than he had looked all fight, but either way, with a swift duck under Whyte's jab and around to his left, Povetkin produced a peach of a left uppercut that knocked Dillian Whyte clean out just 25 seconds into the round. Even so, the Matchroom officials bizarrely ruled the contest a win by "technical count out", robbing Povetkin of a straight knock-out victory. The dodgy Matchroom shenanigans continue.... A rematch is expected to go ahead in December, by which time Povetkin will be 41 years old. Will a declining Povetkin still have enough to win? Who knows, but what is clear is that neither would beat Tyson Fury or Joshua, and Whyte's pretentions towards a world title, after waiting so long for a shot, have just gone up in smoke. Amir Khan was apparently knocked out watching the highlights.
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