Paul briggs vs professional combat sports commission

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No worrys mate, yeah it doesnt look good on greens behalf its good insight into what goes on behind the scenes

 

41 Mr Briggs said that Mr Manolikos contacted him some time later, and said that a date was available in approximately one month's time. Mr Briggs responded that that was insufficient time to prepare. Mr Manolikos then again contacted Mr Briggs, and suggested a date three months hence. Mr Briggs said that he responded that that would be an adequate time to enable him to have a warm*up bout before meeting Mr Green. He said that Mr Manolikos responded that if there were to be a warm*up bout, the fight with Mr Green was 'off'. Mr Briggs also said that he had also had a conversation with Mr Green in which he urged Mr Green to give him time to fully prepare, and to have a couple of warm*up fights, but Mr Green simply shook his head. He said that he responded to Mr Green that it was a joke and that they were not serious.


Mr Briggs said that he was subsequently contacted by the Green camp and told that the initial date for the fight, which had been about three months after he agreed to it, was to be brought forward. He expressed disbelief at that, but still considered that he was capable of adequate preparation and, based on his experience, knocking out his opponent early in the bout. As a result, Mr Briggs was ultimately left with six weeks to prepare for the fight. That resulted, he said, in the necessity to not overdo the training. He said that the strategy which he adopted was to endeavour to knock Mr Green out, and that fashioned the manner in which he went about his preparation

46 Mr Briggs explained that the fight was to be at cruiserweight, the cut off weight for which is 90 kilograms. The contract signed by Mr Green and Mr Briggs specified, however, that they would weigh in at no more than 84 kilograms. It was clear that Mr Briggs would have considerable difficulty in meeting that weight, and he ultimately failed to do so.


49 Mr Manolikos did not give evidence before the Tribunal, and does not appear to have been interviewed by the Verifact investigators. Mr Green was. His version of the arrangements for the fight differed in some respects from that of Mr Briggs. In particular, he differed as to the situation in relation to warm*up fights for Mr Briggs. Mr Green's version was that he thought warm*up fights by Mr Briggs would be good for his preparation, but Mr Briggs declined the fights on the basis that 'he can only get up to a big occasion'. That conflict was never put to Mr Briggs in cross-examination, and Mr Green's evidence suggests that most of the arrangements were made by Mr Manolikos with Mr Briggs, rather then by Mr Green personally. In those circumstances, we have no basis to disbelieve Mr Briggs' version of events.

50 Interestingly, in response to a proposition put to him by the investigators that Mr Briggs wanted a longer time to prepare, Mr Green said 'even if you'd been out of the sport for 10 years, you wouldn't need more than three months to prepare for a fight'. Mr Green said that he does a six week preparation for 12 round world title fights. Who to believe

 

Ok answer this if you was green why would you wanna fight briggs knowing fully well his problems with his health his lucky Paul never got killed in there

 

This will go down as the worst match up in Australian boxing history just a sad event and i wish Paul never accepted this fight because his ****in heaps stronger then that but now that's how people see him as its ****ed

 

Wise words mate respect