Scotland's Craig McEwan in LA sparring with Peter Quillen for Lee fight

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  1. ChipChair

    ChipChair Boxing Addict Full Member

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    the question was currently, I answered currently :huh your comment about Lee not beating him is embarrassing, Lee won no dispute, whether it was McEwans fault or not is quite frankly irrelevant
     
  2. lencoreastside

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    I agree completely with Billy on the Amdy Lee fight ....and I'm Irish.
    What's your problem?
     
  3. ChipChair

    ChipChair Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Double standards Len, Andy Lee trained for that fight and won it, what Craig McEwan did or didn't do is irrelevant. Say for talkin sakes Ricky Burns won a big fight 50/50 like this in the same circumstances back when Billy trained him, do you think he would have been on here saying Burns didn't win the guy ****ed himself ? Not a chance he would have been on here creaming his y fronts something silly.
     
  4. billy nelson

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    Chipchair there were circumstances behind Craig's training camp for the Lee fight, if true folk should hang there head in shame because if 100% fit Craig would have beat Andy that night of that i'm sure.
     
  5. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    The efforts McEwan put into his last few actual pro bouts wouldn't earn his keep as sparring partner.
     
  6. billy nelson

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    I think Peter's work rate will grind Andy down and being the naturally bigger guy will eventually have its affect , mid to late stoppage win for Peter but I hope i'm wrong
     
  7. BodyBlaster

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    Craig McEwan was the most talented of the Scotland amateur squad by some distance.
    However he used to gas even as an amateur and occasionally when he didn't feel like he would win easily, just went through the motions just accepting defeat.
    The guys accuracy and ability with both hands should have seen him a world champion.
    I actually feel he regressed in the pro's.
    I never saw him put on performances anywhere near the quality I saw him put on at times v the top amateurs.
    A waste imo.
     
  8. billy nelson

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    I thought he signed wit Dave Coldwell a few months back? What happened there
     
  9. lencoreastside

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    Cheers Billy, thanks.
     
  10. veritas

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    I agree with this. I think going to LA and training with Freddie Roach, instead of developing him, actually did the opposite in many respects. He spent so much time sparring with top fighters, big names, it seems to me he developed a sparring partner mentality that placed limits on his own ambition.

    Craig loves LA - the life out there - and maybe this too was another factor in the way his career progressed. Just being able to live in LA and train at Wildcard was the dream for him, I think.

    I heard he's got a fight in Vegas lined up. He's a good guy and personally I'd like to see him retire and look after his health now.
     
  11. ChipChair

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    regardless, if that was Ricky in Andys shoes and you were in his corner you would not have been taking anything away from Ricky in the slightest, there is not a chance in hell you would have said after it I but the other guys better and he lost Ricky didn't win so don't sit and claim it with others.
     
  12. punk

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    What caused him to mess it up? Also why refuse a BJS fight then fight in prizefighter? He then travels to the states and takes a stupid fight? It doesn't add up. You were also proven. It is madness.
     
  13. billy nelson

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    to be fair you need to know the circumstances and you don't mate
     
  14. billy nelson

    billy nelson the fighting scots gym Full Member

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    i managed Craig for a short spell, Eddie kindly put him in Prizefighter against novices, he really should have walked to tournament, however!
    I also was approached to fight someone for an interim world title, after Prizefighter Craig was offered BJS for Billy's titles,even though Craig was saying he wanted to fight the best out there he knocked the fight back, why? I really don't know,after this we split up has he showed to me he never had the ambition I feel you need to show to be a top fighter, if David Brophy was offered these fights or the likes he'd bite your hand off,therein lies the diffrence
     
  15. ChipChair

    ChipChair Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's irrelevant. You know it, I know it, we all know it. In the same circumstances you would not have been taking the result away from your own fighter so it's hypocritical so be taking it away from another.