This content is protected Not a terrible first defence at all even though Masternak is 36 and has no notable wins since losing to Bellew. If Riakporhe Opetaia gets made as reported around the same time, it would be great to see a unification between Riakporhe and Billam-Smith in 2024. Guess that means Okolie is moving up to Heavyweight. Will be interesting to see how Shalom matchmakes Okolie. After an initial debut heavyweight fight, I’m sure they’d be calling for Whyte and put it on PPV. Bakole is also signed to Boxxer. I wouldn’t be surprised if Okolie moves up to Bridgerweight and fights Rozanski for the World Title.
Matchroom have started to put the squeeze onto Boxxer in the recent months, and it's showing. They're looking at taking Azeez to fight Bivol, potentially taking away a big Boxxer show in Buatsi/Azeez. They want to take Eubank Jr to fight Benn, taking way the Smith rematch and there's also talk of Smith himself going back to Matchroom. They went all in to the Wardley/Clarke potential fight and left Boxxer and Clarke looking a bit daft. Now there's talk of Beatriz Ferreira/Caroline Dubois, which to be honest having seem very little of both, I'm not sure who's the favourite or likely to win but a Dubois loss would damage another of Boxxer's top hopes. Obviously there's a lot in all that which hasn't happened yet and if Boxxer come out with Buatsi/Azeez and Smith/Eubank JR 2 then fair play to them but the pressure is being applied.
We were told that Boxxer and Sky would take Matchroom's top UK fighters. When Dalton Smith fought Kaisee Benjamin last summer on Sky, the British Forum was full of excitement at the prospect of a top Matchroom fighter fighting on the Sky platform. Boxxer signed Buatsi, Okolie, Mckinson, Marshall etc from Matchroom and the British Forum couldn't hide their excitement. They have been left looking daft which is why they have gone into hiding and stop posting about the subject or even at all on here. Ferreira is too small for Dubois, Dubois would probably win. If Azeez is offered good money to fight Bivol he should definitely take the fight. The Buatsi fight will be there once he loses to Bivol. Even the top Olympians like Fraser Clarke and Ben Whittaker who signed to Boxxer for £1 million, 10-fight deals have gone through half their contracts without any serious tests. Expect them (definitely Whittaker) to move to Matchroom at the end of their contracts. @Trafford @Puroresu_Fan @Brixton Bomber @smoking mirrors
Hope you used protection when typing that sexual post The @teammatchroom touch is well cute at the end It's like your trying to put together the avengers but nobody's really joining you
Thing is, those of us who don't really care eitherway about promoters and just want to see good fights, can't really disagree with any of the above (ignoring the stuff about "going into hiding" that doesn't apply to most of us anyway). Boxxer's cards are not looking great anytime soon; Sky will continue to make a meal out of Marshall and the Olympian ladies but that aside, they must be wondering what they've got themselves into. The upside for them is they can always do a deal with someone else and the other channels need them to carry out PPV sales.
I wouldn't mind but he is full of crap Marshall was with Boxxer from the beginning of the sky deal Nobody was excited about Okolie and some thought Mckinson might be a good addition to undercards Buatsi was quite a big deal I guess and that's hardly been a flop so far considering it's only months in to the deal
Matchroom had matching rights on Dalton Smith and activated them. The new contract they signed with him doesn’t have matching rights this time around. There’s only one person who looks daft and it’s the one tagging people in his pro-Matchroom posts hoping for a seal of approval. Actually daft isn’t the word, more obsessed. There’s more than one promoter in boxing. Stop getting so attached to one and you’ll enjoy it a lot more.
The complaint people have is the good fights are not being made resulting in crap fights across all broadcasting platforms. The sad thing is that Matchroom has a huge budget yet the cards on at a time to suit the UK viewers on DAZN UK are consistently very underwhelming. We fans are being poked on all channels with substandard garbage.
wheres geordie drago these days they should put him out hes a bloody good boxer that lad and got the look to