I'll be damned...William Warburton won a fight this year!

Usually these guys begin their careers trying to win and are willing to take risks, at which point they get stopped a couple times. They then give upon making money through winning, so instead they switch to a 100% defensive style and just try not to get hurt while getting a ton of fights.

When I have seen them in person, they can be quite skilled defensively and have just enough counterpunching ability to keep people honest. This guy is surprising because he doesn't fight defense first. He must truly have an epic ****ing chin.

 

There is no way you can fight 200 pro bouts and be as bad as Warburton´s record suggests that he is. 1000 rounds under his belt and he can´t beat someone making a pro debut?

 

A few years ago someone on here suggested that Peter Buckley (won something like 25 fights out of 300) was in the top ten earners in British boxing. That was probably an exaggeration, but I don't think it's unfair to say that a guy who fights every couple of weeks and is available to travel the length of the country at a couple of hours notice to help save a promotion will earn more over the course of a year fighting six rounders against novices than many four fights a year champions. They're not going to take risks, because if they get stopped and have a 28 day suspension they might miss a another couple of earners. Equally, they might not exactly be trying their best because if they do start beating the local ticket seller their work will dry up. Good luck to them - without them a lot of bills wouldn't take place and a lot more boxers would go without work.

 

my 12 followers won't be interested sadly

 

Hashtag it and you will be the darling of the twattersphere. Followers will jump to the 6 figures.

Just bear in mind that when the fight is done and the aftermath fades away, so will those fickle bandwagon followers and your short lived fame.

Take it for what it is. Keep perspective. Don't get caught up in the bright lights of the short lived popularity that you were the one that called it, the one that got it made.

....or maybe the fight will never get made and none of this will come to pass.

Meh, either way.

 

Kevin is Boxing his way through a University degree. If memory serves he was once a Midland Area Champion.

 

The Professor fought a lot of top line Fighters and his manager, the legendary N.bby N.bbs, knew his value. He paid off his mortgage and his Daughter went to a fee paying school.

 

They fight to lose is not correct.
Much better to see them as setting a bar and if you can't reach it, they (journeymen) will take the win. Dont forget the JM is out every or every other week, a lot of them have full time jobs too, plus wife n kids.
The opponent on the other hand, has usually done a 3 month camp, backed up by sponsors and having the luxury of not working, through his sponsorship deals etc. The scales are always tipped in the home fighters favour too.
I know a few journeyman over the years and non of them go to lose, it's just that nearly everything is in the favour of the home fighter.

 

Fair enough, but ive also heard stories where the opposition fighters trainer and manager were briefing the journeyman on how they wanted him to fight thier fighter. Probably a bit of both going on.