Frank Warren serves us up a brilliant night at the O2 this Saturday

There's nothing more you could ask for a boxing show, surprised it's not on ppv, we the fans are lucky here. Yarde has ducked the easy challenges of callum johnson and burton to take on the fierce sek in 'yarde's first southpaw' the guy has a dangerous knockout ratio of 30%!
then we have the dangerous duboius against the phenomenal tom little, a frightening 30% KO ratio and he has won 66% of his fights losing 5 and winning 10!
We then have martin murray who hasnt been in an exciting fight since getting beaten up by GGG headlining the card in a different country to where he is from against a 38 year old,
this is cracking from frank, cant wait.

 

It’s not a great card, but it appears to be down to a combination of bad luck and poor promoting but with good intentions. I’m sure Frank didn’t book the O2 which doesn’t come cheaply with the intention of serving up dross.

Dubious v Little should be a decent fight and a worthwhile test at this stag for Daniel before he as expected blasts him out. Frank even made a good effort to go a slight step higher with Dave Allen, who despite confirming that he received a good offer has chosen to get bashed up by Yoka in France instead on a card not even being shown in the UK.

Murray v Garcia obviously frank was let down by Saunders, but in the circumstances this is actually a very decent, durable opponent. It might not be pretty, we will have to see, but at least it will not be blow out and it will probably go the distance.

Davies v Kamanga - Again, it’s seems poor luck Leather has failed a brainscan which was obviously the intended fight. I haven’t seen much of Kamanga, but he seems solid so hope fully this will be a decent fight.

Yarde - Sek - is obviously a big disappointment. I’ve not got a lot to say about it, but at least Sek is tall, a southpaw and seems durable as he has never been dropped let alone stopped. The next opponent must be better.

Williams v Clarke - another cancelled fight due to injury. This had the makings of another great scrap as Williams always serves up- again it’s bad luck.

Hamza - Pettitt - I’m not sure if this is being shown, but it has the makings of a nice little dust up.

Again, it’s not great card, but it’s not the worst and as often the case, I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up turning out to be better then expected.

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Garton is being wasted a bit, I think. He's good fun. The Davies fight is alright and I'm still interested in watching Dubois even at this stage. The Yarde fight blows. Murray's fight will probably be boring but competitive - I think he's way on the slide so this might be a harder fight than it ought to be.

Taylor-Postol is obviously the fight to be watching though

 

The problem with Fish inc these days is that we know his cards are going to fall apart.

Then again we never know when the Tough Teak Polish Window Cleaners will break glass.

 

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Hmm.

 

Wtf???

So why do they keep talking about his position as "WBO #2" as a reason to avoid fights vs guys like Callum Johnson when they have no intention of even using the ranking?

Yarde is THE most protected and coddled fighter in boxing today, it's embarrassing the amount of fights he has now turned down. The dude and Warren both need to stay quiet and say NOTHING if they are not going to fight anyone besides Hungarian Uber drivers.

What a joke Yarde and Warren are.

 

Ill watch but lets be honest its not very good.

All im really hoping for is Dubois gets rounds and we can see if he has loosened u a bit because he looks very stiff and robotic.

 

As a previous poster pointed, it's not the fact the fights are garbage on paper, it's the almost inevitable falling apart of his card. I've lost count the number of times fighters have pulled out with injury etc within the last 12 months.

Davies has gone from one of the most promotable fighters in the country to disappearing into the aether. At least try and sell the fights to generate some interest!

I'll boycott the Yarde fight out of principle.

Dubois vs little is the only one I have slight interest in.

 

Polish cabbies have to be on the lookout for Deontay Wilder too so their sense of positional awareness is always top notch.

 

It's pathetic. He shouldnt even be ranked so high in the first place but the fact they actually have no problem revealing this world title opportunities while instead fighting weak opposition amazes me.

 

Anyone wants to see the difference between Hearn and a Warren just look at how both promoted Davies.

 

Now if you would apply some logic for just one second, if you where the one responsible for guiding Yarde and trying to build him so he can have an actual career would you seriously agree to put him in at this stage with killers like Beterbeiv or Kovalev?

Look the WBO no 2 thing is BS we all know that, but there's a difference between not fighting a Johnson, then to be put in a suicide mission against those guys.

He 's simply not ready - let them have this fight on Saturday, then the heat is on for them to start fighting better guys.

And Before want anybody mentions Johnson, Hearn doesn't give a ******'s about him- hes not really rated, doesn't sell tickets and sky couldn't care less about him, so Hearn wouldn't have an issue with sending him to get bashed by Artur.

 

I don't blame them for not taking the Kovalev or Beterbiev fights. What I have a problem with is them using the WBO #2 ranking as an excuse not to fight people, which they have been.

 

You make valid points. The problem I have is not turning down the world title fights its the opposition instead. They are not stepping him up, its the same level of opponent every time. Don't want to fight world champions fine but how about some fighters actually ranked in decent positions?