Late Notice Fights - Winners and Losers

paul mccloskey stepped in at 3 days notice to fight lynes

 

Recently Crolla won the British title coming in as a late replacement and in impressive fashion too

 

I suppose Vitali should have been grateful that Lennox didn't prepare himself properly then, he got busted up bad enough as it is...

 

Why you trying to discredit the DR IRONFIST -

Lewis was at his pomp.

He destroyed Tyson a year earlier.

And Vitali - was yet to hit his peak.

Lewis was lucky that night - he was on his way to losing that fight.

 

PAC was a last replacement when he fight Ledwaba.

 

Nicky Piper was an unbeaten (10-0-1) prospect due to have a fight on ITV's Seconds Out. His opponent pulled out the morning of the fight.

But no problem, a late sub was found, he was slightly above the Light Heavy limit, but that was not issue as this 9-3 fighter had lost three of his last four fights, including a bad two round stoppage defeat in his last bout. Smart boy that Piper, a MENSA member, he knows how to boost his record...

Two and a bit rounds later, Piper was an and 1 fighter, and found out that 9-3 records can be deceiving, especially when held by one Carl 'The Cat' Thompson!!!

 

Can't believe nobody (inc me....) has mentioned Thaxton vs Ryan.

Wasn't he called up on about three days?

 

I know he was given enough notice, that I was wise enough to stick the then proverbial mortgage on Thaxton after being given a little tip...:yep

Made up for all the losses I had made betting on boxing... Actually who I am kidding, it made for about 1% of them losses.

 

I've heard this story before..... was it doing the rounds that Ryan was a bit shaky and that Thaxton had half a chance, or were people just betting on Ryan to be chinned as a matter of routine?

 

I was lucky, I was hanging out a bit with a friend who was part of then Sports Network fighter Georgie Smith's training team. Any way long story short, the connection got me a bit inside info that there could only be one winner in that fight, and it was not the favourite...

 

Sergio Martinez against Richard Williams I, I believe.

 

Jason Cook came in at very late notice to fight for the European Title and won several years back.

 

mind you..if the world ends tomorrow, like i'm reading about all over the place...it'll be cleverly for sure

 

Jason Matthews came in at 5 days notice to fight Ryan Rhodes.

Rhodes was expected to blast him out of there.

The opposite happened.

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Big punching Wayne Alexander came in at 24 hours notice to fight Harry Simon for the WBO middleweight title. Got banged out in 5 rounds.