Irish Boxing

Both can punch but I think the Finns chin may not be as good as Macklins.But this is Macklins toughest test since Moore.

 

I know thats why i said it! :yep

I actually agree with that their fight was at bantam if memory serves

5'8 is freakish for a bantam

 

I take it Fury an co will be fighting bums on the dunne card. There are still no opponents announced.

 

i dont like it when theres less than a week to go to a fight and still no opponent announced.

 

Yeah, no decent opponent will fight at that kind of notice

 

Didnt expect a good opponent after the tough fight he had with Mcmuffin

 

Does anyone know what poonsawat's best fite is i wudnt mind watching it so it can try and get an idea of what Dunnes up against

 

What about Haughian?

 

i dont really care for fury to be honest at this stage, he has so much work to do physically and technically. i wanted to see haughian and murray in real fights. i know murrays opponent has a decent enough record but lets face it if his opponents should match his ambition he needed a harder fight than this and haughian seems like a forgotten man. john breen is always bigging him up but he seems to hardly ever fight and its rarely a 'live' opponent when he is and now less than one week before his fight they dont even have a man to box him?

he would be better going to america for 6 months and get some top, consistent and hard sparring in than smacking about tomato cans after 19 pro fights

 

Did someone say that haughian and frampton will be on the mccloskey card?
Tickets for it are £30, £60 and £90 for ringside

 

anyone think that, now sylvester hold a middleweight belt, that he would be the easiest way for matt macklin to win a title?

 

:good

 

Once I saw Sylvester and Lorenzo were fighting for the vacant IBF title Macklin came into my mind. I think he's potentially World Class and I feel he'll prove it against the very good Amin Asikainen this week.

Asikainen is possibly a little past his best, and although I wouldn't call him chinny I would say that you can 'get to him', particularly when you put combinations together. Gevor isn't a big puncher and didn't hurt him with one single shot, but when he put them together it seemed to stun the Finn.

This is a huge fight for Macklin and winning it would certainly put him up there on the World stage and probably into the World top 10.

 

yes...i always, still, have to stop and think for a second about whats european and whats european union

 

One of my Pet Peeves is when people confuse the European, and the European Union title.

Just to clarify this is for the full European title.
I don't put great value in the Ring magazine but they have Amin Asikainen ranked #6 in the World.

Actually here's their top 10:
Champion: Kelly Pavlik
1.Felix Sturm
2.Sebastien Sylvester
3.Paul Williams
4.Khoren Gevor
5.David Lopez
6.Amin Asikainen
7.Anthony Mundine
8.Daniel Geale
9.Sebastien Zbik
10.Winky Wright

This is Macklin's chance to gatecrash that top 10.