Should do, me, Safc and Teessider are going :good When there are a dozen threads about wanting Jim Watt gone, I really wouldn't complain
It was late last night when I did that interview. I'd just done two hours on stage in Leeds at my one-man show. I messed up with the Nairobi mention - I meant Lagos, my mistake. As for my scores at fights - live on Primetime five minutes before the Froch result I gave my score and two judges agreed with me. Live on BBC Five Live on Saturday I gave my score five minutes before the result and two judges agreed with me. I didn't tweak my score after the event - the recordings are out there to verify my honesty, m'lud! "Taxi for Dawson..." Adios.
Beeston your just a Calzaghe hater...:yep Hope you had a good night in town...:good Steve, that was a quality show last night...thanks for your support of the Amateurs...they were thrilled to bits...:happy
The most interesting part of that interview to me is: "When the Klitschkos first did a deal they wanted to fight at Chelsea, because they thought they’d get all the promotion and they were going to sell 50,000 tickets. They were told - you’ll love this - they were told by people inside the British boxing industry, some of the more famous promoters, that, quotes, unquotes - David Haye doesn’t sell. So they thought, we’ll have the fight overseas." Wonder who those insiders could possibly be.
i will say that i had direll beating froch, but within 15-20 minutes after the fight i got 7 text / mobile facebook messages from people who were there live and they all said froch won.. and i have been at fights before where when you watch them back on tv look completely different to seeing it live.
James Slater: I really appreciate you sitting and talking with me, Steve. I can see you're busy signing things and doing photos, etc. Can I ask you first about David Haye. It's all about Haye right now, due to his win over Valuev. A lot of people don't seem to like Haye still. In America especially it seems, they don't rate him and they're slagging him off. Let me ask you, did Haye, a bright guy, purposely get a year's free publicity by claiming he wanted to fight the Klitschkos, only to be scared all along and fake a back injury to get out of the fight with Wladimir in June? Steve Bunce: The back injury was genuine. Why would David Haye pull out of a fight against Wladimir in front of what would have been 70,000, when if he'd have hit Wladimir with anything above the shoulders he'd have knocked him out, like he will do in the future. That was a genuine injury. Now here's the thing, was it an injury that stopped David Haye walking from A to B? No. Was it an injury that stopped David Haye from driving a car? No. Was it an injury that stopped him sitting on a plane for six hours? No. But was it an injury that stopped David Haye from throwing punches in a crisis? The answer is yes. That's David's reasoning [for pulling out of the June fight]. There are medical reports out there that back that up.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anybody see the interview with David Price in Boxing News a few weeks back? He seemed, to me, to confirm that Haye pulled out because of Setanta going thru.
Hmm...what major British promoter with a history of bitter near-obsessional badmouthing of stars not on his books could possibly be one of them? I'm drawing a total blank here, guys.