agreed. i used to quite like Clev as well. Fights like these while claiming to be a ''World Champion'' really Grind my Gears
Yeah agreed mate, I look at this kid he's fighting and feel for him cos everytime i see a interview or hear his name i imagine him being a bloody and battered mess. He'll be game but he'll be stopped if he isn't then Clev deserves to be stripped of title.
Also the kids sparring local guys from his gym as his main sparring partners by sounds, This fight's like Enzo vs Bobby Gunn...
The sad part is if Cleverly lost his standard of opposition to 'build him up' would not change from what it is now.
Cleverly by stoppage. They've selected this guy on the basis that he went 12 rounds with a man that Cleverly absolutely hammered into submission..... that's the biggest selling point of this one :-( Like Happydrinks said, it's a pretty ridiculous matchup, the sort you'd typically choose if you were coming off a bad KO loss or something - it's not a title defence in your home town. I'm not actually that bothered who wins - if a defeat made Cleverly sack his dad, then great. Short term sacrifice for long term gain and all that.
I would love to see Cleverly get knocked out and one day Im 99% sure I will do, It won't happen in this fight though, brutal mismatch and a complete disgrace that Fwank has made it. It just reaffirms why I hate the man so much, takes £10 a month off me and then try's to sell this bollocks as a ''world title fight'' it makes me sick. That bald headed, perma brown, alien looking arsehole Dean Powell needs to have a word with himself as well.