I strongly agree...he's top class when he's fully focused! U might be able to answer a question for me...there was an English fella beat Nevin very handy last year (in the Euros i think). It finished about 8-1. I think he is a brother of Yafai who's in conlon's weight (and apparently the one in conlons weight is the better of the two). If Luke Campbell is the GB boxer in Nevin's weight for these championships do you know what happened to that Yafai fella? Was he just beaten in the aba's by campbell or did he go pro or what?
Nevin turned the tables in the Felix Stamm tourney, winning by one point. Nevin seemed unlucky to lose by so much the first time, he just went for broke in the last round. JJ beat Campbell easily in the EU in 2009 but it's a 50/50 right now with Campbell the world form man at 56. Still i think Nevin beats him if they meet. Dont know if Yafai or Campbell ever met, make a great fight. And by the way I'm scouring the web for a live, legal feed.
Khalid is the lad in Conlons weight and is the better of the 2 imo. Gamal, I think is the other lad. I dunno did him and Campbell just have a box off or is he injured but hes still amateur anyways. I dont think team GB had any of their high performance lads in the ABAs this year which is bit silly imo. Competitions surely always good. They did pick Joshua at 91+ on the strength of his ABA win though. Dont think he had been in their high performance, not sure if Martin Ward is either actually but think he went at 60 did he?
Thanks for the info lads. Hadn't realised that Nevin turned the tables on Yafai. Campbell will be the tough one so if he's in such good for atm. Nevin can pull anything outta the bag in my opinion though. People might forget that when he lost the semis of the worlds that time it was only by a point. He really is a class act
Nevin on his way. 19-13 one down after the first but then no problem against a top class opponent. R1 5 : 6 R2 8 : 3 R3 6 : 4
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Earlier I was wrong, Nevin has Nikolo Izoria from Georgia in his next fight, then hopefully the Russian for bronze and then probably Campbell for the silver. the fella JJ beat to-day was a former European junior champ, 2008 and the current Ukrainian champ. McLoughlin and Sheehan I expect to win later and maybe McMonagle too.
mcmnagle is fairly crap on the international stage hell be doing well to win a fight or two absolutely no hope for bronze in my opinion
Andy Lee going to support Macklin, but wants to fight him if he wins-also Vera fight nearly made http://www.irish-boxing.com/2011/06/andy-lee-to-support-macklin-before-trying-to-beat-him/
McMonagle won after finishing level on points 15 :15, well done. He was in blue, 6-3 down after the first, Irish conditioning looking good. Notice the higher scores under the new scoring system. R1 6 : 3 R2 5 : 7 R3 4 : 5
I like that there are more points being scored anyways. In the old european one boxers rarely scored more than ten points. How did they change it from the old one though?
Wel done mcmonagle didnt expect that . scoring is much better . not too low or not too high like they were a few years ago .