Benn fails drug test

'CONOR BENN SITUATION IS FISHY!' - British champ HARRY SCARFF also on IBF eliminator (youtube.com)

 

Dunno, I would have agreed until the last day or two. Matchroom and Top Rank are doing a great job whipping this up to a frenzy, a lower-rent version of Froch-Groves. I assume it'll die down a wee bit before April which is a shame but I've seen a lot more people mention it than expected. One of my friends even went to the Edinburgh press conference.

Getting the TalkSport audience interested is the right thing to do, especially with clips going viral after.

 

Whether they show fake beef, genuine beef or corned beef, at the end of the day Jack Catterall is fighting and it is 99% likely to be a stinker.

The first fight was shyte, the 2nd will be shyte and the rest of Catterall's career will be shyte.

 

That's the thing though. Most casuals watching this fight probably barely know who Catterall is, let alone seeing him fight the first time. They'll know of the "robbery" and the beef because it's been whipped up ever since.

You're absolutely right btw, it'll likely put people off watching another fight. Still think it'll do OK though.

 

Good point. The hardcore boxing fans know Catterall is a tough watch but the hardcore are in the minority in what is a niche sport.

One of my mates has never even watched the fight but still mentions how Catterall was ‘robbed’.

 

You aren’t a huge JC fan then?

 

Good defensive skills but could make a glass eye sleep when in the ring.

 

They're defo in 2 + 2 = 5 territory now. Hearn will of course know the whole thing is a farce, but it's hard to say with the rest of them. Benn does come across as very deluded so maybe he actually believes some of it.

 

Yeah I agree.

I think Eddie is just "the games the game"

 

Gervonta Davis has put the offer Eddie offered him on Twitter.

Benn said he'd turned down 25 mil but the offer was $10 mil plus extra from PPV which wouldn't have been massive numbers

 

It was always likely to be this. You could see the verbal offer being something like "$10m plus upside to a maximum of $25m".

 

I'm no Davis fan but a win over Benn would mean nothing to Davis or his standing. So it would only ever have been about money. When Hearn was sprouting $25 million he had Davis' attention but when Hearn put pen to paper it read $10 million plus, not $25 million, Davis' interest ceased.

 

I see Hearn is now telling the youtube parrots it was "8 figures" without an amount involved...

 

It's amazing how his followers lap up everything he says. The Matchroom fans would definitely be the first to drink the poisoned kool aid if they joined a cult. The rest of us can see straight through his used car salesman approach.

 

This is the thing bothering me about the Taylor-Catterall rematch. He's done a great job, along with the Top Rank PR people, whipping up a fight into a sellout. People have completely forgotten how the first fight was rotten and it'll never be mentioned again.