deGale and Gavin and BJ Saunders sign prof terms with Warren!

As of today I hope they all do well.

 

Might be true but I suspect that the big mouth is partly about marketing and plenty of fighters have done that over the years.

Hopefully he and the others will develop a personna that isn't just bragging about how great 'James DeGale' is in the 3rd person.

How about bringing back brawling with an opponent on the street in the build-up to the fight? Always shifts a few tickets and with rolling sports news channels will get plenty of coverage?

 

:good

We haven't had a proper jackets off moment in ages

 

Will there ever be an Olympic boxer turned pro the British public won't end up hating?

 

Only if he's an Olympic boxer turned British turned Pro

 

I swear most of britains best sportsmen are criticised for something, in all sports, it's a shitty mentality!

 

:huh Did you see some of the Chinese gold medalists?
DeGale had a tough draw and did well to get gold.
The pros are completely different obviously.

I like DeGale anyway but know everyone else hates him :smoke

 

The Chinese gold medallist was awful - wouldn't have won if the event hadn't taken place in his home town.

It was a joke - Egan (if I remember correctly) was bashing him up in the semi, making him run like a *****.

 

That was the final against Egan.
He was even worse in the semi against the Kazakh (I think it was a Kazakh) and didn't even deserve to win that imo.

 

I recall about ten body shots that nearly had him bent double - get absolutely nothing.

The refereeing and judging was awful.

 

Agree, tbf to DeGale though he wasn't gifted anything by the judges at all from what I recall.
He wasn't gifted a medal because of an easy draw either like others.

 

Nah DeGale didn't receive any favours, but his style was suited to the scoring system.

Whoever it was, whether it be Terry Edwards or his amateur club coach, were very clever devising a method to score points without conceding.

Even though he was more boring than Johnny Nelson and Junior Witter put together.

 

I don't think he was that boring but I agree with everything else that you say.

 

well his most exciting fight was in the final and that was only because he was in against a cuban who had the munchies

 

Finally found someone more greedy than Oscar de la Hoya - but for flesh rather than $$$