Kyle Redfearn vs. Norbert Szekéres

Headlining a small-hall MTK Global card in Gateshead, to air live on BT Sport this Friday.

The luckless-in-valor Hungarian (is that redundant?) carries in an 18-70-4 record, which is poor enough until you scratch beneath the surface of those eighteen victories and discern that not one had a winning record. Literally not one in eighteen had so much as even a 4-3 type of record. Hell, none of them were broken even. All losing records. Their aggregate record, as of when Szekéres defeated them, was 72-304-19, and the most recent of these dubious triumphs came almost three full years ago. Needless to say, any prospect worth their salt ought to be favored heavily over him.

Fortunately, at least if you're backing the visitor, the Dunelmensis fighter is nobody to write home about. Having crossed over from MMA in 2015 after there compiling an 8-8 pro record, he signed up with MTK Newcastle and padded himself to a 7-0 (5) mark against mostly local novices and Euro circuit professional losers (of Szekéres' ilk, but worse and/or decrepit and old - the likes of Remy Ziausys and Jindrich Velecky) before running afoul German prospect Nick Hannig in Wolfsburg this past October and getting KTFO down to earth. The split draw that Szekéres forced of Zürich native Aris Sijaric a month ago is truthfully more impressive than any feat to date of Redfearn's in the ring. In other words, this might at last be a winnable fight over somebody with a positive (numerically, anyhow) record, despite as usual being the B-side in enemy territory for Norbert.

 

Hannig vs. Redfearn, goodness me:

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Nobody want to hop on the WARBERT bandwagon with me?

C'mon, where's your sense of romanticism?

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I'm curious to know if Hannig is the real deal too. His one shot kayo left hook on Redfearn was a peach but...Redfearn blows.

So much so that I actually have myself convinced that Norbert can produce himself an early Christmas miracle.

 

“The lad I stopped last time I out – Norbert Szekeres – was as hard as nails. Some of the body shots I hit him with hurt my hands, let alone his ribs!”

- David Brophy


I don't think "Brophs" is a world beater himself but he's light years ahead of Redfearn...

 

Fuck me running, this is actually happening tomorrow, not Friday.

 

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Kill Shot is a curious nickname for somebody whose largest impression left so far in their career has been a Grassy Knoll reenactment in the role of JFK...

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So what?

Some people like to watch boxing at every level and welcome random weekday televised events rather than scoffing at them haughtily. Are you beneath supporting your local scene by attending club shows as well? Because those (and not quadruple-digit tickets for large venue PPV shows) are the real backbone of the sport...

 

I honestly wouldn't have given this a second glance either myself but for the fact that we have a truly dire enough recently exposed "prospect" (who crossed over late from MMA, right off the bat a recipe for disaster, as you pick up all manner of bad striking habits in that sport...at which he didn't even particularly excel!) as to leave the door ajar to a feel-good Cinderella man story here. I'm not under the impression that Norbert is any good. But can he possibly be good enough to upset a chinny failed mixed-martial-artist? I don't see why not! For me anyway, it lends this a little more intrigue than it might at first blush rate.