warrington against a nobody on the PPV Dec 12th card

Didn't expect much more to be honest, imagine the plan is to keep winning to set up a big fight with Selby next summer.

That WBC international belt does wonders for your ranking apparently!

 

At what point do they think these opponents are satisfactory?

 

Can't say I'm shocked

 

The only reason Hearn picked him up is through his fanbase, imagine what it would be like in Leeds if they had a Joshua!

 

Thats incorrect mate. Josh was the away fighter in hull against samir and picked up the commonwealth title. He then signed a 3 fight deal and The fan base came after the samir fight.

 

SkySports already have it labelled as a 'tough test'

Can already hear Nick Halling now..."This tough customer has never been stopped remember"

 

I imagine he must of sold a lot of tickets for Hearn to pick him up in the first place though?

Don't get me wrong I like Josh but its his ticket sales/fanbase that gets him the hype with Sky and potential shot against Selby - Lee wins that fight all day long in my opinion.

 

Hearn had a 3 fight option on the winner of the fight. I dont think hearn realised how much the footy club advertised josh on back of winning english title. I was told he did 500 wen he defended that b4 samir fight.

Regards to selby imo josh tests him but loses on points.

This fight was never gunna b a recognised name on short notice and with the possibility of the selby fight in the summer.

 

Learn something new everyday, full credit to him he's got himself a huge following.

I hate match ups where a foreign undefeated fighter comes over and Sky/Hearn pump it up - when in reality its a huge mismatch.

 

"we dont know how good he really is"

 

Typical hearn fodder

 

Lol spot on mate.

 

I understand that it can be annoying when they bring oversees undefeated fighters over and sky bull it up but the truth is we dont really know anything about this fighter hes undefeated and wants a ranking we know that though.

People need to ease up on josh they talk like hes this big protected fighter that isnt true up to winning the commonwealth he was never handed anything the 1st defence of the english was when he started getting a good size fanbase where he sold 500 tickets there was 800 sold that night as has been pointed out b4 but aitchison sold nearly 200 of those. In the commonwealth hearn wanted samir to win as he had his designs on the hull shows.
Last fight was brunker. No one was saying anything when selby fought him and a lot on here and selby said josh would be stopped in 5rds he went on to win every rd.
Most believe selby is this near on elite fighter and i just dont agree weve seen him struggle a few times his last fight was a joke to watch.
Josh will earn his right to fight the ibf 130 champion