Cleverly/Karpency, Povetkin/Huck, McAllister/Shafikov, Maidana/Alexander Rbr!

My good mate Albert Adomah scored it slightly to Cleverly. I can't complain.

 

Heard you guys were very good mates. I'll trust his opinion for now. Clev is P4P number 1 after all.

 

:good

I was gonna back Huck by decision. Robbery? Or close?

 

My accy came in! Nice.

I see Enzo got the KO - no shock there!

 

It was close but personally I would have found it hard to have scored it for Povetkin, a draw would have been acceptable. 116-112 is a bad scorecard but there have been a lot worse.

 

Thought Povetkin clearly won it, had a few shaky middle rounds but did enough for a victory

 

BBC Report on the Cleverly/Karpency fight:

Tommy Karpency suffers shock title defeat to Welsh novice

Wales' Nathan Cleverly retained his WBO light-heavyweight title against difficult American opponent Tommy Karpency in Cardiff.

Cleverly recovered from a heavy first round knockdown to take Karpency the distance but the judges' decision was predictably unanimous in favour of the home fighter.

The experienced Karpency, who has had an entire fight more than his opponent, was unable to capitalise on a dream start and inexcusably allowed the young Nathan Cleverly back into the fight.

However the Welshman, Britain's only world champion, acknowledged the American's power in his post fight interview. "Out of every fighter I've fought, he's punched the hardest so far. And I've fought some big punchers."

Karpency, 26, from Adah, Pennsylvania, started the stronger of the two by flooring the belt holder in the opening few seconds of the fight. Karpency slipped the jab to land a huge left hand which belted Cleverly to the canvas, only for the referee to bizarrely rule it a slip.

Karpency controlled the opening rounds but appeared to have underestimated his opponent several rounds later as he tired mid-way through the fight. Karpency regained command of the contest late on with Ali-like, rope-a-dope tactics but they failed to impress the judges who all scored the bout 120-108 in favour of the world number one.

Nathan Cleverly spoke of future fights against the likes of Bernard Hopkins, Tavoris Cloud, Gabriel Campillo and Beibut Shumenov after the fight but all have already reportedly turned down career-high purses from promoter Frank ******.


More to follow.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/17169329

 

what times hbo boys

 

3am.

Take it we are getting Alexander & the G of all G's and Wilder knocking off the local tough guy.

 

Yeah I'm feeling it now. I'm trying to stay awake by shadowboxing

 

Really unsure wether to stay up or not, such a massive day at the pub tomorrow and I may have to go the gym before hand. Hmm...

 

What time does the American card start?

 

Can't sit around in the living room any more, in bed now going to have to Sky Go this and watch off my iPhone so sleepy, had to get up early today so suffering now.

 

*****

i stayed up all night yesterday.