Adam Booth and Josh Kelly - Bottled it!!!! confirmed

I said this at the time quoting Neil Marsh on Twitter. It was the most blatant bottle job we’ve seen for a while.

 

The story about Booth just picking up the first pair of gloves and throwing them in the bag without looking at the others, proves that he had already decided to pull Josh from the fight then.

Trying to move the fight from 12 to 10 rounds was probably meant as a stunt to justify the pull out, and back up the lie that he was ill.

A real clear case of a bottle job here.

This is a quote from Neil Marsh:-----

“They underestimated my experience with the WBA, who I have worked with as both a manager and promoter at all levels, so I got in contact with their European chief. I confirmed with them that it was a 12 round fight for a title, which was the contract submitted and the fight that they approved.

“I met with Adam Booth, I called him out and asked him why he wanted to cheat David out of two rounds? He replied it was always a 10 round fight, which again I called him out on and replied that he didn’t want the fight. He first threatened to lose the title to make it a 10 round non-title fight and then threatened to pull out of the fight there and then, unless it was changed to 10 rounds. In short, they bottled it!

“The next morning I saw Adam Booth leaving the hotel with some of his things and then later on in the rules meeting he barely inspected the gloves, basically picking the first ones he opened and throwing them in the box he didn’t open pair two and why would you not look at the options to give your fighter the best gloves to suit. I knew something was really off because this is strange behaviour. I knew even more that something was wrong."

“I wouldn’t advise one of my fighters to fight if they were legitimately ill, but the night before I saw Kelly in the hotel bar with all his mates laughing and joking. David was relaxed all week, in tremendous condition and ice cool at the weigh-in, so I don’t know whether that was when they finally decided.

“Booth treated me like I was stupid, probably because he doesn’t know me and I’ve never criticised people in public before. Business should be done behind closed doors, but you need to stand up for yourself and your fighter and your team

 

Damn this doesn't look good at all

 

I just remember Kelly looking drained like he’d struggled to make the weight at the weigh in

 

As I said before they probably felt Kelly could easily handle DA, and I agree. But then he had a real struggle to make weight and they didn’t want to risk it. Kelly has a lot of casual hype right now. Sky and Matchroom are branding him as an untouchable matrix style showboater. He takes an L to someone the casual market has never heard of and all that hype and money disappears. Booth knows this. He’s an astute and financially savvy man

 

Has Kelly ever had weight problems for any of his previous fights?
He always looks in top top shape to me.

 

This isn't proof that this happened as there two sides to a every story. Saying that thou it doesn't look good, and story seems real, it would be interesting to hear booth's side to the story

 

Not sure at all how this confirms it ? It’s just someone who is obviously biased expressing their opinion. Surely if they bottled it they wouldn’t wait until day of the fight.

 

Cool story, still none of this is proof or confirms they “bottled” it, the only evidence is that of someone who is biased in DA’s manager ? Hopefully JK and DA have the fight rearranged and we get to the bottom of it. I sincerely doubt that Adam Booth or Josh Kelly would get spooked by someone’s physique, especially after watching tapes of DA fights.

 

It doesn't prove it, your right.
But for a manager to go public with these accusations, you don't expect them to be making them up