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Pinched from Facebook and bloody funny. ?

Something like..... All locked outside, there's no kind of atmosphere, I'm in row M, of a tent. All our team, run away from here, Poor, poor, poor, no cash anymore . I want a stand, with a roof not canvas sides, Drinking fake, fanta pop Chairman's watch, worth more than the team, Gas, gas, gas, short on class, class, class Gas, gas gas, short on class, class, class

Where to start. Horrible, horrible performance from Joshua. He didn't look right from the ringwalk on, really nervous and tight. The comparison with Bruno is obvious, he can't keep himself organised under pressure and sticks his chin in the air swinging for the rafters when buzzed a bit like Khan. Unless he avenges this defeat handily and learns serious lessons I'm afraid I vastly overestimated his skill and mentality. You have to say Wilder or Fury would destroy him on that evidence All of that takes absolutely nothing away from Ruiz Jnr who was as game as **** and fought the perfect fight. He has taken his chance brilliantly, fair play to him. I watched with a mate who would have won over 5k on Ruiz Jnr if round 3 had been a bit longer, it was bedlam haha. Sorry neighbours.

I think the cctv only covers areas where people go. So the turnstiles probably aren’t covered..! ??

OBVIOUSLY, whoever did this should not have done it. HOWEVER, I find it highly audacious that sags continue to mention the idiot that graffitied the gates, when their club were happy to destroy them for a bit of money.

Good theory, problem is its all spelt right.

Bloody Banksy. Not his best work.

Almost as embarrassing as that penalty from last night. Comgrats by the way.

I know, all you have to do is hit AJ fron his chin to the top of his head and he does the dance of a thousand bastards...

Eddie Hearns bottom lip is going

Watch Wilder suddenly change his plans now!

Unbelievable, thoroughly deserved for Ruiz, was just too quick. AJ just didn't have a clue what to do with him, a horrible performance.

Superb, fair play Ruiz....

Correctly. Have you got paint on your hands?

Hearn's face after it got stopped was a truly beautiful sight. Joshua went to pieces and wanted out, no question. Maybe it was the change of fighter but he looked in crap shape (outside of the muscle) and the wrong frame of mind from the ring walk onwards, something was definitely up. Rematch will be interesting, because the pressure for him to win will be immense and that can do funny things to someone. Unless Ruiz does a Fury between fights he has to start as favourite, even over here. Quick hands and busy, a nightmare for Joshua.

Hahaha fantatstic.

Godsiff used to cover us but got promoted to sports editor so Latham to over our coverage. This might be a little hazy but, I think there was a falling out between Godsiff and BCFC, over what I cannot say, possibly our negative coverage by the post. Anyway, Godsiff took great delight a little while after, making comparisons between "ragbag Rovers" and the wealthier Bristol City. Please note, we're usually referred by local media as Bristol City, they as the more friendly "Gas", or "The Rovers". He pointed out that we'd paid £275,00 for Bob Taylor and Rovers were managing on free transfers and cast offs. Obviously they went up as champions (Spit) and we were second, even with our massive financial backing. He forgot to mention that their squad was valued at about £4m that season, if I remember correctly. They had a few players that moved on for quite big sums, none other than Nigel Martin (£2m). This was about the same time as the EP did another comparison between the two clubs, this time using attendances to point out the narrowing of the gap but, using all attendances not just home attendances. This meant that although our average home attendance was 11,500, theirs was 6,200, when the average for the whole season inc away games, where the attendances were much larger than theirs, it appeared that they were closing the gap. And people say there's no bias in the local press.

I'm a huge AJ fan, i deliberated about spending the 20 quid to watch this thinking it could be over before it even got started. Within 2 rounds I found myself cheering Ruiz on. Delighted I spent the money now.

He looked like he didn’t wanna be there

Jimmy Bullard in the corner

Matchroom scorecard deluxe.

If the Belgian doesn't get this you've gotta wonder whats the effing point..

Not sure what his plan was for the last four rounds, stand in the corner and get beaten up isn't much of a master plan by Booth...

I think by this point Godsiff was sports editor, or some loftier position, with Perry covering them and Latham us. As I remember it. Could be wrong. All so very long ago now (although some things still come to mind easily, clearly....) I'll get down the central library over the summer and check....

Think it goes back further than this to when AJ and Whyte fought. Whyte caught AJ in one of the rounds and really rattled him but just was good enough to finish the job off back then. You do wonder why more people haven’t taken it to AJ before knowing there is a weakness there.

Warren taking the piss

Should of put my money on it

He needed this tbh.

That was fantastic! Wilder must be pissing himself over that! Guess AJ would have a rematch clause in there

My feed must be a long way behind

FM that was worse than Bruno v Jumbo Cummings..

You can’t toughen a dodgey chin,I bet wilder is wishing he would of took the fight now

Im actually finding myself cheering Ruiz on ??

What's the point? Same outcome...

That is a joke tbf. I had Persoon winning at least 7 of those rounds. After Connor Benn getting a win first time round against Peynaud, I’m always a bit sceptical of the judges on a matchroom scorecard!

Absolute robbery.

Quality fight

Think she needs this last round to get a draw

Morning all, some scrap this!

This looking a good fight so far. Good to see Taylor being tested.

They look like a speedway team those Belgians

Kelly 2 ahead I would guess but far from impressive

Bit to much showing off for me from Kelly

Christ - Gabrielle has let herself go in recent years ? "dreams can come true, not if you support the Blue Few"

would be nice if a clever person could post this on assshat.

'large contingent' is how he always described it

I seem to recall Radio Bristol adding fuel to the 'massive support' BS the best part of 30 years ago - Colin Howlett would report live from whichever ground they were at that weekend and tell everyone there were thousands of Rovers fans on the away terrace, yet when you watched the highlights on HTV News on the Monday evening there were about three people in it.

To be fair to them, I don't think they actually started all this "tremendous support" fairytale Jackanory silliness. As I remember it now, the E. Post initiated this when they left Eastville - because of not owning their own ground, which was a result of insufficient dosh, which was a result of having shite support (which was a result of having a shite team, which was a result of having shite support. Which was .... etc etc) - and trudged over to Bath - a journey of about 9 miles instead of about 4 from the Few "heartlands" to home games so a massive show of faith there (not exactly Brighton playing in Gillingham). Because everything about Bristol Rovers in 1986 was shite and piss-poor, mundane and about as interesting as Bob Crampton's sex life, the Post felt sorry for them and with nothing good to say about them they came up with the idea that their supporters were in some way "special." "There's always been something special about Bristol Rovers" I seem to remember Peter Godsiff writing at the time*. The sort of thing you might say about one of your always overlooked, very ordinary children just to try and encourage them. But Godsiff failed to specify what it was, unsurprisingly, beyond the "homely" and friendly club it was (ie not successful, and not likely to be), and eventually he and the Post settled upon the support being "special," something they absorbed and came to believe themselves. It's no use pointing out that their crowd was only just over 4k in the last year at Eastville, fewer than what we were getting in the 4th division when we were 92nd for a while. Or anything about their support that is at odds with the "special" narrative. The belief is firmly embedded, over decades now, and the confirmatory evidence is there to be cherry-picked, and the inconvenient facts, the mundane reality, to be firmly dismissed and ignored. You are wasting your time arguing with believers over stuff like this. That going from Eastville to Trumpton was an upgrade - no joking here; Rovers 3k at cavernous Eastville or 3k in tight Trumpton? They could, almost, fill (well, one side) the latter, never the former - certainly no great humbling of once glamorous high-achievers accustomed to more grandiose surroundings, no great step-down, and was barely any different to go from East Bristol to this side of Bath, and they started showing up again when they had a winning team (like any crowd, so therefore: not special), didn't come in to it. Rovers were shite and leaving their shite ground that they didn't own and couldn't fill and it was sad, and they were pathetic, and they needed cheering up/encouraging, and the Post had papers to sell, so let's make something up: their fans are "special" (and please keep buying the Evening Post). The "special" genie was out of the bottle. And the infatuated Few were not of a mind to attempt putting it back in. From this you get all the "thousands locked out" and "39000" at Wembley (when it was 27k tickets sold, according to Vanarama twitter) and "we'd take more than Arsenal and Chelsea combined" magical thinking. But don't blame them: pity is more appropriate. Blame the Post, and Peter Godsiff. He did this out of pity; pity and keen journalistic business sense. So pity - and not pointing out facts - is the correct response to Fewers claiming "special" status. "Yes, yes mate: you are so special. So, so very special." "More than Chelsea and Arsenal, yes mate. You would." "Thousands locked out, I know. I remember." "3 thousand for the last game at Eastville....sorry! What am I saying? 44 thousand to Wembley, yes, pretty 'special' that" etc etc. *at this point, mid 80s, Rovers had, I think, been promoted twice and relegated twice, in their league history. All between the 2nd and 3rd division. No top flight football, no 4th division football. No Cup semi final appearances. One England player, earning one cap. Poor crowds in a dismal ground, with dogs running around it. In other words: the epitome of nothing special. Dull, dull, dull. Probably explains the decision to go with the unusual/comedy kit: the only way anyone outside of Bristol would ever notice or remember them. Nothing they do on the pitch has or will achieve this. Clearly, this is not a "special" football club, if we are to be adults about this and not children, and so the folly shifts to the idea that the tragic 3k with nothing better to do that now trudge to Bath instead of Eastville - any City fans travelling in from Weston travel twice as far - are themselves "special." And this is still with us today, and there's nothing we can do about it now. We'll just have to live with being the better club and team. With more people turning up for games. We'll never be "special" like them.

******* disgusting. Just shows what a tin hearted cowardly piece of shit Wilder is. He's terrified of Whyte let alone AJ. Fighting a geriatric with a heart condition who he's already beaten rather than someone with a pulse haha. It'll be Kownacki next too, guaranteed. The WBC are just shills for a criminal racket.