Stortz Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 (edited) Doyle v Bellotti was fantastic and Ted Cheeseman was excellent. Okolie Watkins is about to start. Edited June 6, 2018 by Stortz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 I like weds night boxing reminds me of fights on sportsnight and midweek sports special back in the day! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 All over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Wow, fair play Okolie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1ackbird Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Bruno power? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 That was impressive even if watkins was pretty poor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohbasso Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Really enjoyed these Wednesday night next gen shows always have some cracking fights, it’s good to see young prospects not afraid to fight each other early on too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Cheeseman is one to keep an eye on. Absolute beast already and he's only 22. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 8 minutes ago, Northern Red said: Cheeseman is one to keep an eye on. Absolute beast already and he's only 22. Definitely. He looks like he's in his forties haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daored Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Whyte v Parker due to be announced later today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 43 minutes ago, daored said: Whyte v Parker due to be announced later today That's a turnaround, Parker was meant to be fighting Jennings. Whyte must not fancy that trip to Bulgaria v Pulev or fighting Ortiz. Could be a boxing clinic from Parker imo, he may make Dillian look very rudimentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 46 minutes ago, daored said: Whyte v Parker due to be announced later today That's a good fight. Quite liked the idea of Whyte vs Ortiz too which was being talked about yesterday. I like Whyte because he just wants to fight, doesn't really care about the politics. Both Parker and Ortiz are risky fights for him. Joe Joyce is another one who just wants fights, sadly he doesn't have much leverage to get them. He's a relative unknown so the bigger names like Miller don't really see the benefit of fighting him. Needs to move quickly as he's already 32 but fighting this month again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohbasso Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Yeah I never used to like Whyte but he’s really grown on me because he’s willing to fight anyone, his boxing skills seem to be improving all the time too. I was hoping that he’d fight Ortiz but I’m happy with the Parker fight that’ll be a good scrap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carey 6 Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 huge fight for Whyte that. Beat Parker and he’s knocking on Fury/Aj/Wilders doors for his next. Can’t believe it’s PPV though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 SKY Box Office seriously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carey 6 Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 49 minutes ago, Super said: SKY Box Office seriously? Got to be a great undercard or it won’t sell well at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 PPV?! **** off Eddie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohbasso Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Unless the big cheese is on the undercard I ain’t buying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglo-Welsh Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Never a PPV but a cracking match-up all the same. As much as Whyte has improved of late, I do wonder if Parker's slick style will be too awkward for him to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 5 hours ago, Carey 6 said: huge fight for Whyte that. Beat Parker and he’s knocking on Fury/Aj/Wilders doors for his next. Can’t believe it’s PPV though. If he wanted a more direct path to AJ or Wilder, he could have fought Pulev to become the IBF mandatory or Ortiz to become Wilder's WBC mandatory. Hearn must have something up his sleeve politically with this fight or it doesn't make much sense in that context. I can't say I've been impressed by Parker in his last few fights tbh, I don't think he did anything v AJ to justify being on box office again. He has a decent skill set but doesn't hit hard enough at elite level. Whyte is improving technically but still telegraphs most of his power shots and is much slower than Parker in most aspects. I am in the minority it seems but this fight doesn't really excite me much. I think their styles may well clash and produce a bit of a messy, boring fight. I would much rather have seen Whyte v Ortiz, Pulev or even Breazeale if the Alabama windmill decides the latter is too scary for him. I can only echo what others have said too, there must be an immense undercard incoming or this is Matchroom's worst PPV since Cleverly Bellew 2 imo. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 7 minutes ago, Stortz said: If he wanted a more direct path to AJ or Wilder, he could have fought Pulev to become the IBF mandatory or Ortiz to become Wilder's WBC mandatory. Hearn must have something up his sleeve politically with this fight or it doesn't make much sense in that context. I can't say I've been impressed by Parker in his last few fights tbh, I don't think he did anything v AJ to justify being on box office again. He has a decent skill set but doesn't hit hard enough at elite level. Whyte is improving technically but still telegraphs most of his power shots and is much slower than Parker in most aspects. I am in the minority it seems but this fight doesn't really excite me much. I think their styles may well clash and produce a bit of a messy, boring fight. I would much rather have seen Whyte v Ortiz, Pulev or even Breazeale if the Alabama windmill decides the latter is too scary for him. I can only echo what others have said too, there must be an immense undercard incoming or this is Matchroom's worst PPV since Cleverly Bellew 2 imo. I can't really see what he can do to make it a worthy PPV... I guess he'll get Okolie on there again, that Ukrainian chap he's signed, a couple more NXTGEN guys like Cheeseman? Can't really think of any others unless he pulls some bigger names from the US as part of that big money deal he's done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 35 minutes ago, Stortz said: If he wanted a more direct path to AJ or Wilder, he could have fought Pulev to become the IBF mandatory or Ortiz to become Wilder's WBC mandatory. Hearn must have something up his sleeve politically with this fight or it doesn't make much sense in that context. I can't say I've been impressed by Parker in his last few fights tbh, I don't think he did anything v AJ to justify being on box office again. He has a decent skill set but doesn't hit hard enough at elite level. Whyte is improving technically but still telegraphs most of his power shots and is much slower than Parker in most aspects. I am in the minority it seems but this fight doesn't really excite me much. I think their styles may well clash and produce a bit of a messy, boring fight. I would much rather have seen Whyte v Ortiz, Pulev or even Breazeale if the Alabama windmill decides the latter is too scary for him. I can only echo what others have said too, there must be an immense undercard incoming or this is Matchroom's worst PPV since Cleverly Bellew 2 imo. Have to agree on Parker, he was poor against Fury and AJ. Overrated IMO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Phileas Fogg said: I can't really see what he can do to make it a worthy PPV... I guess he'll get Okolie on there again, that Ukrainian chap he's signed, a couple more NXTGEN guys like Cheeseman? Can't really think of any others unless he pulls some bigger names from the US as part of that big money deal he's done. I'm going to guess one or both of Brook and/ or Khan. Crolla perhaps? Ricky Burns and Luke Campbell haven't been out for a little while. It's probably too soon for Quigg after the panelling he got from Valdez haha. Callum Johnson is possibly fighting Beterbiev, maybe Hearn will stick that on there too, if Artur will come over for it? Seems a bit soon for that though tbh. Eddie's going to have to do something spectacular to justify the PPV, because the reaction today has been outright outrage by and large. Had to laugh at him claiming Whyte Parker is the biggest fight to be made in the division other than AJ Wilder. Yeah, righto Edward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohbasso Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 2 hours ago, Stortz said: I'm going to guess one or both of Brook and/ or Khan. Crolla perhaps? Ricky Burn and Luke Campbell haven't been out for a little while. It's probably too soon for Quigg after the panelling he got from Valdez haha. Callum Johnson is possibly fighting Beterbiev, maybe Hearn will stick that on there too, if Artur will come over for it? Seems a bit soon for that though tbh. Eddie's going to have to do something spectacular to justify the PPV, because the reaction today has been outright outrage by and large. Had to laugh at him claiming Whyte Parker is the biggest fight to be made in the division other than AJ Wilder. Yeah, righto Edward. He’ll need to pull out all the stops on the undercard to make it a worthwhile ppv. I heard a while back that Brook would be fighting at the o2 on this date so presume he’ll be on the undercard if he can get a title fight with someone like Hurd that’ll be decent. khan being on would be good too. The Johnson v Beterbiev fight would be great but I think he wants it in Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 54 minutes ago, Ohbasso said: He’ll need to pull out all the stops on the undercard to make it a worthwhile ppv. I heard a while back that Brook would be fighting at the o2 on this date so presume he’ll be on the undercard if he can get a title fight with someone like Hurd that’ll be decent. khan being on would be good too. The Johnson v Beterbiev fight would be great but I think he wants it in Canada. Absolutely mate, it was more of a random speculation about how they might build the bill rather than any informed shouts. 7 weeks notice isn't enough to get many serious fights over the line, unless there has been a major amount of behind the scenes work going on. I wouldn't mind betting that Bellotti v Doyle 2 and the Cheese himself will be on the bill! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid in the Riot Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Possibly Khan and Brook on the undercard of a Dillian Whyte fight? How the mighty have fallen. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohbasso Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 57 minutes ago, Stortz said: I wouldn't mind betting that Bellotti v Doyle 2 and the Cheese himself will be on the bill! Fingers crossed for both of those. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Bet they'd still have stuck Whyte v Ortiz on PPV if it had gone ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 5 minutes ago, Northern Red said: Bet they'd still have stuck Whyte v Ortiz on PPV if it had gone ahead. Of course, but that would at least have the legitimacy of being a final eliminator for a mandatory challenger for Wilder's belt (bizarre as that patently is). Mind you, Bellew is at number 5 in the WBC HW rankings hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Looks like it's AJ v Povetkin then. Hard to get excited about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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