but from a money point of view...would he make as much dosh from challenging for another title as he would defending his own ?
Paul McCloskey has been ordered to defend his British title against the world rated and Commonwealth champion Ajose Olusegun. Purse bids are requested by the 8th April, and the contest must take place by the end of July. Olusegun manager is a regular poster on the British Forum, and he has stated on a number of occasions that his boxer wants the fight with McCloskey, so there should be no obstacles in the way of preventing the contest occuring. Another interesting aspect to this match-up, is that it will pit bitter rival promoters Frank Maloney[Olusegun's promoter] and Brian Peters[ McCloskey's promoter] in a bidding war for home advantage. This is a fight that could be destined for Belfast around June, and a fight that could also act as an eliminater for a world title. So thats get it on. Ajose Olusegun record http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=46606&cat=boxer
dunno bout that but theres definitely not as many big money fights at featherweight.and if he did step up would he be made WBA mandatory?that would mean fighting chris john who i thought was very good against juarez and imo won the fight
No I think Maloney is his promoter only. I can't recall the guys name who posts on the Brit forum, but he has been talking up a McCloskey contest for his man for some time now, certainly after Paul's win over Lynes.
That's a hard one to answer doug. It would sell in Belfast or Dublin, make both lads plenty of money. It makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways. But on a personnel level I'm not entirely in favour of it. I have supported both these lads the whole way through their professional careers. And it would be difficult to watch them "go at it".I have been watching Wayne box for the best part of 25 years amateur and professional,so if they are to fight, I will be be supporting my fellow Belfast man[ thats not to say I would expect him to win], but I hope it won't come to that. BRIAN PETERS COOLS TALK OF McCULLOUGH BUT I DONT BELIEVE HIM http://boxingwriter.co.uk/2009/03/25/brian-peters-cools-talk-of-mccullough-but-i-dont-believe-him/ MURRAY HEADING FOR BIGGER THINGS SAYS COACH http://www.anglocelt.ie/articles/2/37585 HOOPS HAIL HYLAND http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/news/35-news/580-hoops-hail-hyland PETERS THRILLED BY DUNNE BOUT http://www.meathchronicle.ie/articles/2/37622/
So it seems. A Vegas trip could be for called here:yep http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=19202&more=1
can someone clear something up for me please. im an irish boxing fan and follow irish boxing/boxers but i never understand why irish fans get excited about macklin and mcloskey are they not english? and if there of irish descent do they consider themselves irish? also why do lads on here **** themselves when theres talk about the cuban lads. if someone could clear this up for me it would be well appreciated. cheers
mackins parents are irish and considers himself irish.mccloskey is from the 6 counties which means hes irish and the cubans lived in cork and trained in the local clubs we no there not irish but its the same as the germans claiming the klitchenco sisters
thanks for clearng that up. i work for brian peters and always wondered how he would have got involved with mccloskey and macklin if they were born and bread english. didnt know mccloskey was a northy lad either.atsch Read comments on youtube after the rogan skelton fight where a load of english lads were giving it loads that the 'english government' in the north had paid money (social welfare etc) to rogan growing up and he may as well spit in their face by wearing tricolour shorts and boots, funny ****.
McCloskey is Irish, Matthew Macklin considers himself Irish, has Irish parents, fought for the Irish title, etc I see what you mean about the Cubans though, I personally wouldn't go out of my way to see them fight, nothing against them, but I would prefer to support my fellow Irish men instead of 3 Cubans who will probably end up in the US anyway.
bracken...i'm guessing here...but i'd say brian is a top man to work for?...what do you do fella ? {'bracken'...i remember that program, before glenroe...} and healy put the english/irish question directly to macklin on saturday night...i thought it was a bit advanced of young healy , but he got away with it...tell them healy..