Dennis Hogan vs. James Kilrain Kelly & Damien Hooper vs. Renold Quinlan RBR

I knew I recognized him.

 

Hogan promises his fans the best is yet to come, he is still hungry for another opportonity to become world champ. He thanks Jimmy and his team for coming into hostile territory and for putting up a good fight, and then offers to share his mic with him.

Jimmy encircles Hogan's neck in his arms fraternally and, still huffing and puffing, goes on a monologue about the difficult road toward making this fight, thanks Dennis and says he continues to have massive respect for him, doesn't make any excuses and knows he lost fair & square, but says he feels he got a moral victory in showing a large cross section of fans internationally what he is made of, that he's a warrior and made it close, and he says behind the scenes he and Dennis had a gentleman's agreement to have a rematch if this had been close and he feels he earned that, and Dennis agrees it'll definitely happen at some point although he's currently set to become a mandatory for a world title, so he doesn't commit to it being next for him.

 

Hogan's promoter saying he is sick of Aussie fighters having to go abroad jumping through hoops for world titles. He says Mundine and others paved the way and now Horn is the standard-bearer and Hogan might be there beside him soon. He says Hogan should be sliding into the #1 ranking now (he was #2 and Kelly #3 heading in) and has the clout and is enough of a draw to bring a title fight home to Brisbane.

 

Just seeing the Hooper vs. Quinlan highlights, shame I slept through it.

 

You know they're going to hang & get absolutely sauced tonight.. and I can see them developing a Gatti & Ward type of "forged in battle" friendship - which in no way should diminish them replicating how fiercely & hard they fought today if & when they rematch.

 

Agreed. I think Hogan better keep his fingers crossed that Beefy retains, because that's a far more favorable match-up for him.

I think Sadam would school Dennis.

 

I could see Choc jumping at the chance - a) feeling confident in thinking Renold is damaged goods/weakened prey after the Hooper war & getting stopped, and b) the gloating he could throw Geale's way, can you imagine??? "Hey, so remember the guy that KO2ed you into retirement? Well I beat him. So I guess that counts as the official tiebreaker in our rivalry, previously knotted at 1-1. "

Guy's that petty.

 

...the pipes, the pipes they were a-calling? You missed a decent little quick-paced, hard-scrabble feather-fist dust-up.

 

How did Thunder From Down Under 2.0 look?