Wow...somebody just sucked all the love out of the room! Of course I'm excited about Spike, Dutchie...he just destroyed a man that Andy Lee barely s****ed through against. Which indicates to me that SPIKE is the one we should be getting behind., but each to his own...
Blown out of the water? By your populist, taxi driver-esque economic ramblings?? Also there is no economics forum, that was the issue, your bar stool economics has no place in a boxing forum.(or in reality, a proper economics forum) Your silly and blatant attempts to wrangle a poor economic point into a debate about boxing was my issue. Want to chat on an economics forum, Ill meet you there. Until then, try to stick to boxing there chief.
What's the scoop on Fitzy's previous stoppage loss, to Janis Cernauskis of Latvia? It was on the Dunne vs. Cordoba undercard, so even if RTE didn't televise it a good many of the posters on here probably have recollection of seeing it live in the flesh as I'm sure I've seen plenty claim to have been there on the night. Can anyone dish on the circumstances? Decent stoppage? Cuts or injury to Fitzgerald? Just wondering if Spike is the first to ever knock him out clean, like. Given the losing record of Cernauskis, even though all his victories came by KO or TKO, just going by his complete lack of success other than Fitzgerald one can't help wondering if that was a bit flukey, seeing as how Fitzgerald went ten comfortably with Lee & HNN. :think
It's no skin off my nose. But he went to Spikes corner and threw it from there. Where Spike's people were... and security.
That was so long ago and Fitzy was a such a green and rank beginner at that stage that it hardly matters in terms of today's Fitz does it.
Knocked out flat on his back, clean KO after a big hook, don't recall if it was right or left. All the usual excuses, lack of focus, no serious training, distractions elsewhere, were wheeled out. Cernauskis did the same to another decent Irish fighter in Karl Brabazon.
Aye, we're 5 years on and obviously he isn't the same fighter as he was then with his inauspicious 1-1 start heading in against Cernauskis. I was just wondering, that's all. I've always considered him tough as boiled leather and somehow overlooked the early days stoppage loss on his record. Before looking I'd assumed Spike was first to stop him, period.
Fair play, and 6-0 Ben Wilkes as well. No great blight for the very inexperienced Fitz to have succumbed to him, then. Still, given what transpired in the next five years of his career we can still call what Spike did rather extraordinary.
It was so unexpected that the promoters were in the dressing room about to go out. First bell goes and not long after, they hear the thump off the canvas and hang around waiting for him to get backstage. "Good job Anto, didn't take you long to get him out of there!" "Waddya mean? I ****in lost." "Oh..."
The key thing now will be Spikes next 2-3 fights. Was this one an aberration, a fluke ...one of those 'perfect nights' where it all comes together, in a performance the likes of which we shall never see again? Or is it the new norm for Spike? "Spike version 2.0"? Honestly now irish posters.....if you could only see ONE of Lee-Korobov, or sPikes next fight, which would you choose? I know which one I'd want to see.....come on, level with me guys.....