I hope Degale gets beat by the pole.... Groves must be pissed off, looks like we might see a rematch again....
I read your first couple of sentences, and the first thing that popped in my head was 'The walking world title eliminator' Youssef Al-Hamidi. And Mitchell v Murray won't happen, let alone Burns v one of them. Well Sprott had lost a few in a row before beating the jobberingist jobber that ever jobbed in a round on a Klitschko undercard to 'qualify' for the Harrison fight. That just about sums it up.
The pole called Groves out. So Hayemaker must want to stay at British level for the time being and try and win the lonsdale outright which in my opinion is the best thing to do. Groves is nowhere near the finished article, there are some good domestic scraps to be made at SMW that will improve him, then he will be ready to move onto European level, remember boxing isn't a race.
Here's what Groves had to say on his Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/stgeorgegroves and now apparently he's fighting for the European... he's had more links than a sweetie charm bracelet
I think Andreas Evensen deserves a rematch before Laryea. After all he took Burns 12 rds and since the Burns defeat he demolished the mighty Yordan Vasilev in 3 rounds, the Bulagarian Number 1, although ranked 433 in the world. Laryea has got a fight lined up against Mason Menard anyway.
I totally agree the best fight Groves had was the Anderson fight that taught him alot and one of the main reasons he beat Degale, that fight taught him he couldnt bomb people out, he needed to pick his punch's and mostly taught him composure and that is exactly what we saw against Degale, that was the best thing that has happened in british boxing for a long time and taught that hype job a lesson. just for the record the judges were a 100% right with the scorecards and the right man had his arm lifted anyone saying different needs to rewatch it.