Tony Bellew does not understand boxing?

I'd buy this with Mitchell vs Antillon, Murray vs Derry Matthews or Gavin Rees, DeGale vs Magee. Or anything of a similar level with Bellow and Clev as the Main Event. Make it happen Frank Salmon.

 

He got the 'W' with consimate ease, yeah thats a sign of somebody who doesn't know the game.

 

Cleverly vs Bellew will headline September 17th PPV UK leg along with DeGale euro title and a few other fighters. Then they will go to the US for Mayweather

 

He got the 'w', but put the fans to sleep, you needs the fans to be on side if you going to be successful in boxing.

 

Sounds good, I would pay for Mayweather fight just on its own anyway.

 

He did what he had to do to get the world title shot.

If he'd gone gung ho and got cleaned up he would have regretted it forever.

As soon as him and Clev get their aggro going in the pressers this fight will be a distant memory for the fans.

 

I'm guessing he'd being told the Cleverly fight is next so didn't want to take any risks :think

 

Clear as day.

 

SPOT ON :good

 

Seems about right to me :deal

 

Cleverley will smash bellew to bits,bellew is so over rated as a boxer he fought a guy who had nothing but a right hand and could of made it a easy nite if he was half decent and excited fans doing it by finishing it with a knockout.

 

Cleverly was dispatching this level of fighter. Bellew is getting knocked down and having to run around for pts victory's.

 

No, he is overrated as a puncher.
He did win two ABA ttiles you know...he must be a right mug atsch

 

your right but your wrong.

bellew knows boxing from the inside out. it doesnt matter that last night was a bore fest. its precisely that tony bellew knows boxing that it was just that. mckenzie was a dangerous fighter and tony couldnt risk being knocked out by someone who punches that hard because the cleverley fight has practically already been made.

if frank ****** has any sense he will put off the bellew/cleverley fight for a while and get clev some recognition worldwide as a champion. the bigger clev gets the more bellews name will spread and FW will have two big names fighting for big money in the LHW division... but I think the fight will happen sooner rather than later.

 

I thought it was a dreadful performance.

I understood his mentality, he didn't want to get in a shootout with him and would let him burn himself out until the later rounds where he could take him out, at least I thought that was the plan. McKenzie wasn't throwing much and I thought "he's not gonna tire himself out" but he did, and in that time Tony should've been using body punches to tire him out even further, but he was "boxing" and it was way too much respect to a, lets be fair, a journeyman with a punch, and not even a punch over 12 rounds. By the 5th/6th he should've been stepping it up but he just wasn't and it wasn't a masterclass nor was he dominating him, it was just utter boredom throwing zero punches, and two things stopped something happening; the crowd and the corner. The crowd were pro-Bellew (terrible crowd that night too, I wish Mitchell/Murray had been in Manchester, that would've been immense) and didn't boo him at all so he didn't get the feeling he was putting us to sleep, and the corner were just telling him to keep it up and making him box like this and give way too much respect against an opponent he had to look good at.

I mean, I get boxing an opponent with a killer punch, I get that. But if you've got a killer punch too and the guy's not even punching but rather trying to counter punch (he was in the first few rounds at least, he seemed to shut down later on but then restart for a round or two) and he's got 10 losses and really, quite obviously not that good, you should pick up the pace in the other half of the fight. It was embarassing when Bellew was cheering and roaring after the fight, like he'd just beaten Cleverly or something.

Tony's a nice bloke, and what do I know, I'm just calling it how I see it, and if he reads this he'll probably put it down to an armchair critic, but if that was showing people he could box, he's not going to light up the world scene. For one, he wasn't shutting out McKenzie in impressive fashion. He threw nothing that made you sit up and I remember McKenzie having him against the ropes a few times.