Hamzah Sheeraz vs. Liam Williams & Sam Noakes vs. Lewis Sylvester + Yarde vs. Nikolic RBR.

Very good point. Last 16 sounds about right. People say it’s easy to win a world title ( big 4 belts, not women’s ) these days but it’s actually very hard. How many world champs ( men’s ) do we have currently ? Is it 3 ? Not long ago we had a dozen or so. As long as a belts not vacant it hardly ever happens. There’s hardly ever Britons in world title fights these days and the ones that are end up getting battered abroad. Sheeraz will probably end up losing against a belt holder in Saudi along with all the other future British prospects. As Teddy Atlas said recently, British fighters aren’t that good.

 

Liam Williams is completely finished as a boxer. It was almost embarrassing and also a bit sad to see.

It can be difficult as a matchmaker to set up / put together a good fight, but Queensberry needs to set the bar a little higher and find some better opponents. It was not a boxing card that will go down in history

 

Me too. I have to admit that I was horribly wrong about Williams.

 

Sheeraz is very good and Atlas always hate British boxing

No **** Williams is finished as he was finished years ago and you needed last night to tell you that. He was never as good as Sheeraz and some people who dont know anything about boxing picked him to beat fresh Sheeraz lol

 

We have loads of paper world champions though, do we agree with that? Surely that shows that it is pretty easy to win a world title in present day boxing when you have a division with scattered belts.

 

Looked suspect to me

 

Yeah true i want to see him in with someone who can bang he always fights pillow fisted guys.

 

Could have happened bud.

It was ages ago but Im pretty sure that the first seven were easily took by Williams.

Maybe Williams would have got through on points but he got cut and it was stopped.

My point was never peaked like that again maybe the fox fight was close.

 

I've know knowledge of Scotland and their situation, but i know one thing the Tory party in the 2017 and 2019 elections were up to their ball sacks with russian donations

 

did you mind about the smith over ryder win corruption?

 

As were the trade unions (and thus Labour) many years ago. Money goes around and funds different aims over time. In Scotland it's a more subtle weaving-together of "civic society" - politics, civil service, quangos and charities - to be extensions of the SNP, all washing taxpayers money through to cronies and personal causes - again, like Labour did back in its day here. It's going to take years to unravel.

Anyway, back to the boxing.

 

The difference being one is highlighted by the media or even invented to be the truth, whilst one is brushed over or ignored completely. As you say back to the boxing

 

We do alright for the size of the country and considering how many sports we compete in..

What goes against us is the way fighters are hyped up and skip the queue to challenge for world titles. Always seem to end up in this situation where our fighters end up against elite opponents they have no business being in the ring with.

 

It was a shame seeing Williams lose like that. Tough, durable fighter, who has been in some battles. As for Sheeraz, razor-sharp jab and great finish. Onwards and upwards for him. Now is the time to step him up.

 

This is a very good post and in recent times the only British boxer who doesn’t fall into that category is Josh Taylor. The same could also be said for Carl Frampton and both had the same training team pre winning world titles. So many examples of British boxers getting battered in world title shots.