Yarde ducked Hosea Burton, it was a straight up "I don't want to fight him for 5x my biggest ever purse" duck. It seems now Buglioni has also ducked him, in similar fashion.
Buglioni is gonna duck Burton he got totally outboxed and beat up until Burton walked into that punch buglioni is trash and wants to win the British title outright with out fighting anyone decent lol he never rematched Markem or the guy that stopped him his basic and will get stopped again I wouldn't be surprised if Richards beat him
It’s not eddies fault if Buglioni won’t accept the Burton fight. It’s also not his fault Johnson got injured.
Hearn was complicate in this whole mess and it's now coming home to bite him. CJ should never have been made mandatory in the first place/ the geezer hasn't had a fight in ages and is always pulling out. What is this mystery illness this time? This is a dog ate my homework excuse. But as I've been saying from the stary and I have now been proven right the whole senario made no sense to anybody other then Hearn and Gallagher. I don't blame Buglioni for refusing Burton really- even he sensed he was being taken for a ride as Warren told him would be the case. What I do blame him for is giving it large about being able to beat Yarde then running and hiding when Frank puts it on him with a big offer.
Dave was saying on IFL a few days ago that he thinks it's because Kenny Porter doesn't want to be inconvenienced and has just asked Eddie to shift the fight onto the Bellew-Haye II card. They should just ask Tom Little or the Liverpool plumber to step in. Would be just as intriguing fights for me. Whole card is a shambles from head to toe, not Eddie's fault but it's the worst PPV since Clev-Bellew. Best fight is now Yafai's.
Clev v bellew was actually a lot better than this one...had Jamie mcdonnell, Scott quigg, George groves, James degale, Joshua, Callum smith bellew and cleverly all on it. Eddies trying a fly one with his ppvs recently...for all the complaining people did...it wasn't actually that bad. Fast forward a couple of years...its a much inferior product now. Getting away with murder with this card.
ahaha! this is quite funny how the whole card is falling apart wont matter though, hearn will still try to justify how the public are getting more than there moneys worth with aj vs takam and whyte vs helenius and Katie taylor to be fair I do remember watching the likes of haye or klitshko in world title fights and the undercards being dreadful!
Whyte/Helenius and Kal/Ishida are good, but in no way makes this a PPV. I would rather Eddie shift some of these bouts to Bellew/Haye and remove the PPV status of this card, I don't care for the main event, Buglioni vs some can and now fan favourite Dave Allen isn't even getting his title shot? Sigh.
Dave Allen. Katie Taylor. The three prospects hes got on shouldn't be anywhere near ppv. Same for buglioni. Even whyte v helenius...are either of them really that good. Yai kafai...outside of boxing anoraks few people will know who he is or the opponent. Same goes for takam...a late replacement. Say what you want about him being on the back up list...the reality of it is I d be amazed if he was training 3 times a day as a backup...probably about the time Joshua spends training each day. He's 12 to 1. Hate to see what Joshua's odds to win is. Cards been a mess from the start. Just getting worse by the day. For the first time in a long time hearns actually starting to struggle putting decent ones on with the roster he's got. Genuinely can see frank warren getting back into it if hearn doesn't get it sorted. Trying to do too many different things atm. Taking his eye off the ball.
takam and Richards are last minute replacements hearn didn't have a backup for Thomas??? yeah this is pretty poor for ppv, i'll still watch the aj and whyte fights down my local though