Irish Boxing

na is it anygood?

 

The ranking aint out til september.... If you click on the right hand side where it says changes... it actually has no changes and has not had any changes for a couple of months now, so i wouldnt go by them rankings

 

And i just had a look at their website now, Ricardo Cordoba is still down as WBA Champion and Bernard Dunne is not even ranked.....
Dunne won that title over 4 months ago and they still have not changed the ratings.....
So dont believe them ratings too much

 

As bigears said the Belts dont mean anything as regards rankings but its always nice to have a belt or two on your cv.

However the lads WILL get ranked by the IBF of that i have no doubt.

:deal

 

Well fair enough, hopefully for the two lads sake they'll get their place in the rankings. I have to say though if they really want to make genuine progress in the IBF rankings they should be geared towards fighting for the IBF Inter-Continental titles, rather than the International.

The Inter-Continental title is vacant at both weights aswell.

Edit: just checking now and they do have the changes for last month, it seems the changes are given after the rankings so the rankings there now may indeed be the current rankings as I assumed. We'll know in the next 2 weeks anyway.

 

That is a distant memory now that was over a year ago.
I suppose peters took his show on the road after that which is a good thing though

 

Well we will all find out in the next week or so what the plans are for the Hylands.....All 3 boys are only back from a holiday with their partners and children.....so they are all going to sit down with the management team and map out what is to be next and what the options and offers are.......
As soon as i hear anything ill post it up right away.
But i hear Paulie is the Mandatory Challenger for the EU Title @ Super-Bantamweight

 

I had a look at the EBU and EU rankings recently and I was wondering why the **** I couldn't find Paulie in the EU. Obviously I didn't look hard enough because he is indeed mandatory for the EU Super-Bantamweight title.

Bouaita seems to have vacated the title though, so it will be interesting who out of the rest he'll be matched with.

EU rankings:
1.Simeone Maludrottu
2.Kiko Martinez
3.Jason Booth
4.Jeremi Parodi
5.Matthew Marsh
6.Mark Moran
7.Eugen Tanasie
8.Jorge Perez
9.Rocky Dean
10.David Chianella

The top 3 there all have bigger fights lined up so wouldn't be taking part in it, Marsh has an English title fight lined up so he probably wouldn't be involved either. Parodi held the title only last year, and his team may not see the point in going back that direction.

Other than Perez and Chianella though anyone there would represent a very tough fight for Paulie and a real test of his capabilities.


I have to say though that Paulie seems the least impressive of the brothers at the moment, while the other two seem to be improving and progressing the same can't be said of Paulie and I thought he was pretty awful against Rob Nelson, a man he should have really stopped.

Hopefully it was just a case of Paulie becomming a little complacent due to low level opposition, because if that was really just the level he's at then we can forget beating the likes of Munroe our Bouziane, on Paulie's last performance he'd be lucky to go 12 with either man.


Hope he gets a shot at that EU title soon, there's no doubt he'll be motivated for that and then we'll really get to see whether he is good enough to move onto European level or not.

 

Well going by the EBU site in 'situation of eu title' Paulie is meant to be matched against David Chianella and its meant to be going to purse bids

 

This Shuler guy Andy Lee is due to fight is a joke!!! 20-6 doesn't look like too bad a record but if you look at the opponents he's faced it'll show you how bad he is. His only good win was against a 34-1-1 guy, all of his other 19 wins were against fighters with terrible records. He was knocked out in 1 round by Yori Boy Campas and lasted a combined 5 rounds against Andy Kolle and JCJR (who aren't great fighters by any stretch of the imagination). A decision win for Lee or anything not convincing will be dangerous as a W may well land him a fight with Macklin, and if he's still struggling with the likes of Shuler he hasn't a HOPE against Macklin.

 

Boxing: Katie's in for battle with hype merchants

By alan ruddock

Sunday August 16 2009

It is impossible not to feel sorry for Katie Taylor, the girl who has got what she wished for. Taylor (pictured) will, barring injury, fight for a medal at the 2012 London Olympics, but first she must negotiate three years of ludicrously heightened expectation.
From the moment the International Olympic Committee bowed last week to the cries of gender equality and sanctioned women's boxing (next up in 2016: male synchronised swimming), Taylor was installed as a medal certainty and odds-on gold medal favourite. And that's just the start of what will be a psychologically punishing preparation as Taylor's every move and every foible are followed in microscopic detail.
Taylor is no stranger to fame. Her remarkable success as a boxer has already made her a household name, but nothing she has experienced in her relatively short career can prepare her for what comes next. It is one thing to be a world or European champion in a sport few people notice, but quite another to carry the hopes of a nation for that elusive, untainted, Olympic gold medal.
It is a pressure that few Irish sports stars have to endure. Most travel as underdogs whose every triumph is celebrated, but for those few -- for Eamonn Coghlan, say, or Sonia O'Sullivan -- the expectation of triumph can be suffocating.
Taylor now steps into their shoes and the response of the Irish media last week would almost cause the British sporting press to blush. The British are masters at the art of building expectation to the point where it breaks an athlete or a team, yet the pattern inevitably repeats. Already, Fabio Capello's squad of footballers are being built up as likely winners of the 2010 World Cup, and nothing less than victory will satisfy.
For 2012, British expectation will be at its frenzied worst. Every British boxer, rower, cyclist, sailor and runner will enter the arena knowing that medals, not the joy of participation, are required.
Years of disappointment (except in the boxing ring in Spain and China) mean that we are told to hope for personal bests (few and far between in Beijing), top-eight finishes or, in some cases, simply completing a race. A medal is rarely expected and joyously acclaimed, but most Olympic post-mortems concentrate not on unexpected success but on the failure to match our already muted expectations.
Women's boxing has surged in popularity over the past few years after spending decades in the wilderness. Its emergence as an Olympic sport has been achieved on the back of numerous legal challenges in the US, where women boxers have had to fight as hard in the courts as in the ring to win equality and recognition for their sport.
Like male boxing, the women's version has to contend with frequent calls for an outright ban because of the damage the sport can inflict, but it also has to cope with a different prejudice. Some men just are not comfortable with the sight of women smacking each other into submission, while others (who clearly watch too much adult TV) crave 'foxy boxing' -- a fantasy combination of mud wrestling and beach volleyball, all skimpy clothes and sweaty bodies.
Women's boxing was rejected for Beijing on the grounds that it was not competitive enough but as the prospect of inclusion on gender, rather than sporting, grounds has grown, so the number of women boxing competitively has soared.
The sport now claims there are elite female boxers in 125 countries, while in Britain the number of licensed boxers has increased ten-fold in five years. Olympic recognition will cause a further surge of interest and it is certain that China and Russia will unearth plenty of talent for 2012. Taylor's sport has instantly become far more competitive, yet the level of national expectation on her shoulders will not relent.
It will be wonderful if she competes in London, and better still if she wins a medal, but we need to rein in expectations. In interviews, Taylor comes across as a well-grounded, calm, cool sportswoman. She is an impressive role model, an international footballer as well as boxer, and has handled all the attention her success has brought with outward serenity.
Now she will have to contend with pressures of a very different kind -- welcome to the world of the paparazzi and tabloid intrusion -- and she will need every ounce of her faith and belief to guide her through.

 

macklin v asikainen.... who wins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ev7tuiERmI



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsx4UULd1fo&feature=related

 

macklin all d way:good

 

Good fight. Going to go with Macklin on that one. However, if he gets sloppy Asikainen might just chin him. However, the new and improved Macklin UD's for me