Wasnt a big pay day? :rofl:rofl Barker got the biggest pay day by far in his career and this enabled him to pay his house off you mug. While the challenger’s fee represents just a quarter of what Martinez will earn, it is more than six times Barker’s previous best pay day – £40,000 for defeating Italian Domenico Spada to win the European title last April. He was paid $400k or £260k. :good
Agreed! Barker is a smarter boxer than Macklin and employed a game plan against Martinez which involved him not being drawn into a war, unfortunatley Martinez figured him out and dashed dazzling darren's plans, Macklin is likely to have gained a lot of courage from the way he fought Sturm and employ similar tactics, which will play right into Martinez's hands, this ain't going past 4 or 5 rounds imo.
Well I'm going to be rooting for the plucky Brit! Fighters that want to test them selves against the very best always get my respect! :arran British underdogs haven't faired to well lately, and this one looks more challenging than most. How would Mackin go about winning this one??? :think
I just see this as another pay day for a british fighter, their's no way macklin walks away from this a champ tko or ko early rds!
Average british fighters are getting way too many pay days latley. European champion should not be enough for boxers to get a shot at a world title they should at least face sombody in the top 3 of the division who aint got a 'title'.