Josh Warrington's career is in tatters. Matchroom have a history of terrible match making!

Blimey mate

Thats like a politicians answer lol

Either he did or he didn't

Ill tell you he didnt

Last night was to keep his stable ticking over, fulfil a SKY date and progress to the next PPV

Worked out great for us that he messed it up as i throughly enjoyed 3 of the 5 fights

 

You're clearly too stupid to get the point here. I will explain it a last time for you.

1. Of course that Mexican guy fought cab drivers and pizza delivery guys in the past. I said that before and it doesn't change. Nevertheless he still looked heavy handed as **** and dangerous. A guy like that fought **** opposition but still has the tools to trouble anyone with his aggressiveness and power. Remember this Soto guy who fought Acosta. This guy barely beat guys with a winning record. On paper it was a mismatch but you clearly saw on tape that Soto is a dangerous customer with a pressure heavy style.

2. Ward is a featherfisted guy who has beaten NOBODY at 126, didn't even fight a lot in that weight class before. How you think that fight would have been looked like? Warrington working his ass off, throwing 3:1 output and winning a decision in the end even if it was close or competitive in some rounds.

9 out of 10 boxing fans outside the UK would rather pick the dangerous Mexican to fight Warrington.

 

Hearn isn't making these cards. He's the CEO of Matchroom. He has guys who are watching tape all day long and looking for interesting matchups. Hearn just gives his "OK" and has nothing to do with the selection of opponents. At least not in the first place.

 

He has final say and a lot of input

Cmon now

 

I don't know what we're talking about anyway. Hearn put together a great card last night and i'm happy. Two of these three fights were great matchups after watching some tape of Mould and Lara. The third fight turned out to be a cracker too because Kiko brought it like a crazy work horse and Barrett is a fraud. So can not complain here. Eddie did a good job. I was complaining about the Kiko fight before the card but i was 100% wrong. He looked great and it was a well matched boxing fight.

 

100 per cent, you're right

Good card

But it was slightly unintentionally

 

And i'm telling you Gilbert Burns and Kamaru Usman sparred over 200 rounds and it was always very competitive. Nevertheless Usman crushed Burns after a rough start and dropped him with jabs and beat the living **** ouf of him for like 10 minutes.

If you boxed on your own you know that "lower level" guys while sparring the top guys are always a bit more motivated, bringing the heat and looking to impress people around. You can not take anything from sparring sessions other than the fact that these guys sparred each other. I once sparred a very good amateur in West Germany (he fought internationally) and i went all out in that sparring and looked much better than i actually was or like i usually look like in the gym. So what? He would kill me in a regular boxing match.

 

Will Warrington come back and get to the top again? Who knows but we need to get away from this mindset that losing in such a way was down to bad matchmaking.

This wasn't a young kid on the way up being fed to the dogs. This was the #1 ranked fighter in the division. To argue he was matched badly is ridiculous.

As fans all we should care about is good fights and someone losing shouldnt be seen as 'career over'. We really need to stop thinking like that as it does nothing good for the sport.

If Warrington doesn't reach the heights again that's on him. Nobody else is to blame.

 

He didn't drop him heavily. He wasn't even fully down. He dropped him for a second with a temple shot but Usman was back to his feet immediately and recovered quickly. It wasn't even remotely competitive in R2+3. It was competitive in R1. So basically 1/3 of the fight was competitive. If Ward/Warrington would look the same Warrington would win 9-3 (117-111) i guess. Yeah, great fight. Can't wait for that....

 

The difference with boxing and UFC is if this happens in UFC they would be celebrating the fact they had a great fight and a new star while looking forward to the two fighters doing it again in a bigger fight.

In boxing people question why the fight happened and would rather have seen Warrington win a one sided fight. That's madness!!!

 

Warrington just isn't that good. I'm not shocked.

 

You're really killing it with your postings in this topic mate. 100% agree with all you wrote in here and especially with this one. Great ****ing post!

 

I’m not sure I understand why the argument is being made that a former world champ should have taken an easier fight than an unknown 21 year old with zero world class experience.

Most everyone thought Warrington would breeze thru this fight with a wide decision win.

JW lost because he fought poorly against the guy and got clipped. I don’t think the right answer for boxing is to make the fights as easy as possble for our favorite fighters.