The Official "Sam 'The Shame' Sexton I hope you get SMASHED" Thread

I'm going, Row K on the south tier

 

might hafta purchase a ticket for this one


alex arthur and cleverly better be in real fights, not pointless beating up on guys a gd 2 levels below their standard no thanks frank. if moore v sinclair comes off that could be a great fight

 

I thought I had posted this on every forum but missed out ESB so here goes.


Hardly a big loyalist mural now is it ? Its an AMA gym in East Belfast (granted 65% Protestant area) with the name Eastside ABC. The club has AMA boxer and Pro boxers that box all over Ireland and the club does not want to be involved in any secterian shite as they have worked very hard over the years to avoid this sort of BS and promote boxing as a national sport without divides.

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BTW Im all for Rogie winning this one as well. i thought he got should have had the first fight too. Im a big fan of Rogan, but got to spend time with Sexton due to the training arrangements. Both are genuinely nice guys.

As for the Rogan being angry? Remember what Rogans other professions are, taxi driver and actor lol.

hope the real pictures cleared this issue up.


Gareth, when was this photo taken?

that picture and the others on the Eastside ABC site were taken 2 or 3 days before the last fight, as far as I'm aware that was the only time Sexton was in the East of the city and near any possible loyalist murals.


I just watched the full UTV posted link there for the first time and it shows a fair bit more than they did on the TV.

To be completely honest with everyone on the boards, I think the pictures that where shown in the press might have started this BS. If they were the ones with Sexton with his fist through the poster for the fight. This poster and those taking the pictures were actually brought to the photo shoot (late might I add too) by the Irish News photographers. Now I did take the same shots, as they took their pictures, and they can be seen on the Eastside ABC site. I am now wondering how these pictures might have been tagged in the Irish News papers before the fight ? If the paper has turned this into an us and them PR stunt I will be very very upset as will Alan Wilton the owner of Eastside ABC. If anyone still has a copy of the the Irish News coverage from this fight build up I would be very greatful to get a look at it.

Now if Sexton asks to use our gym again for a PR photo shoot, what do we say ? Talk about a rock and a hard place.


Sligo, I am know for a fact Sexton was driven to East Belfast from his hotel and dropped back by one of our guys. As far as I know he never ventured back in the East of the city again after that open training session. I doubt Rogie will define what he menat by what he said (unless of course Alio hears about this when he returns from holidays and kicks off that his club is being slammed as secterian).

I think we can all agree though that if the pictures I have posted are the only ones of Sexton infront of any Belfast murals, then they were not loyalist murals and that he was not trying to stir anything up. Rogan has quite possibly been misinformed, (not his fault either, tensions run high before fights).

I just hope that Eastside ABC doesnt end up with a bad name out of all this. as a club they strive to combat secterianism in boxing, as any other AMA club in Ireland and they will tell you the same. As for Pro's speak to Maloney, Gary Hyde, Paddy Hyland, Brian Peters. Eastside ABC and Team ALio professional boxing are all about the sport of boxing and nothing else!



The full Q&A can be found on the Irish section at BoxRec.

I hope this doesnt have an effect on Eastside ABC as we freally dont want to be seen to have caused any problems we only did as Frank Warren asked and let Sexton use our facilites for a PR session.

All the photos can be found on www.EastsideBoxingClub.co.uk

 

Paddy Power have Rogan a 1/4 favourite to win this fight, as much as I like the guy I think I'll be sticking a lot of money on Sexton at that price.

 

cmon sexton!

 

your argument is sound...but why do u say that east belfast is 65% unionist when it is closer 2 95%...come on man east belfast is a loyalist stronghold and u no it...its clear sexton was posing 4 more than photos outside a boxing club r this **** would not be talked about at all:good

is belshaw fighting at the odyssey

 

Sexton by k.o

 

your argument is sound...but why do u say that east belfast is 65% unionist when it is closer 2 95%...come on man east belfast is a loyalist stronghold and u no it...its clear sexton was posing 4 more than photos outside a boxing club r this **** would not be talked about at all

is belshaw fighting at the odyssey

Fra, I can assure you that these are the only photos taken of Sexton in East Belfast. To be honest the majority of residents didnt even know he was in East Belfast until the papers the next day. There were 5-6 boxers in the gym with 4 photographers and 2 camera crews. I agree that East Belfast is seen as a Loyalist stronghold but I took the 65% figure from another website, I assumed that it was due to the recent housing boom and that fact that many areas of East belfast are now 50/50, BNallyhackamore, Belmont, Cheery valley etc, all middle to upper class areas. Remebr the Markets and Shortstrand are East Belfast aswell, and some stats don't count dundonald area as East Belfast, something to do with the postcodes of some areas.

Belshaw will not be fighting on the Rogan Sexton Card, but expect to see him out shortly after this show. We hope to get Luke Wilton and Micheal Harvey onto the Oddessy bill.

 

Now thats absolute rubbish. Its being drummed up to create interest in the fight and for that sole purpose. Its stupid actually as it was always gonna sell. Rogan has come across as a bit of a tit IMO through this build up

 

Now it seems Rogan was a little economical with the truth over the sectarian stuff I feel a lot less guilty about wanting Sexton to win than I did when it looked like it was him who was trying to use the issue to get support.

 

spot on Gaz

 

To be fair mate thats a little like saying that if enough people say 2+2 equals 5 then 2+2 must equal 5.

 

Obviously Rogan was as much in the dark as everyone else as to which murals Sexton was posing in front of, he had the same reaction as most other people when it was thought that Sexton was trying to stir things up. I doubt very much that Rogan would use that angle to sell a few tickets atsch It's funny how you're all getting on your high horses now calling Rogan a tit and getting behind Sexton, the Norwich man is still a low life cheat and Rogie has enough fans even without all you Sexton bandwagon jumpers.

 

Woah low life cheat ? (presumably the mouthpiece insident) He did what he had to do to survive. If the ref decides to punish him then fair enough. At the end of the day Roggie should have finished him pure and simple. Nothing more to it than that. Why do people go on about it so much yet still love Chico. He can blame Sexton all he wants but he should have kept punching, he didn't and it cost him. If Rogan was indeed in the dark about these Murials then he should have kept his mouth shut until he saw the pics himself instead of listening to 'hear say'.

 

i think i read somewhere that rogie was told 10 mins before going into the press conference about the murals...it appears someone was looking for sparks to fly at the conference, and they got it