According to Eddie Hearn on Twitter, Matthew Macklin is pencilled in for the April 9th. I wish Macklin would retire for his sake but at least he should be a competitive undercard fight.
I know, I noticed exactly the same thing amongst the social circles I mix in too. I have never seen this much hype about a British fighter. Ricky Hatton & Bruno had much hype about them but not as much as this.
Even inside the O2 there was a slightly different crowd to most boxing events I have been to. I can't ever remember seeing so many women at a boxing event as well - which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Also there didn't seem to be much interest in the undercard until maybe the Kevin Mitchell fight. I don't want to sound disrespectful but I'm not sure how many people in the arena had heard of Ismael Barroso or just presumed Mitchell was in a relatively straight forward fight against a glorified bum.
Briggs sounds a goid shout. ..hearn knows briggs is a+ when it comes to selling a fight. ..can you imagine him bursting in joshua training camp screaming 'LET'S GO CHAMP'...press conference would b 5star....sells well I.m.o
What to fook atsch The Dillan Whyte fight nor this is anywhere near Pay per Poo fights Wake up mugs FFS
Pre fight hype is shown free and the actual fight is Pay per Poo and a non event. Why on earth do people get excited about all these Matchroom badly mismatched events billed as 50/50 fights FFS
Quick question. What did you make of the Bad Intentions card in terms of mismatches...were all the fights one sided mismatches?