Only In British Boxing..

would some fans encourange our best HW prospect to turn down a chance at the biggest prize.

The heavyweight championship of the world.

Plus we actively encourange good fighters not to face each other.

Something is seriously wrong here for me.

 

In this case, yes. He's fought one decent opponent. And that opponent was domestic level and he didn't exactly have it all his own way in both fights against Sexton. People love using Mitchell vs Katsidis as an analogy these days, well the step up for Chisora is even more extreme than it was for Mitchell.

He's had 14 fights, never went 12 rounds, fought one decent opponent and hasn't had a chance to fight someone of a similar style to Wlad in the past. He's going to get a serious beating - one that he may never recover from psychologically. Chisora isn't really in this for the money, and if he gets comprehensively beat at world level, then I could honestly see him retiring like Matthew Hall did.

Yes, it's all very well in saying that he shouldn't turn down the chance at the biggest prize in boxing. But would you, for example, want a 100/1 shot now, or wait a couple of years, get some experience, improve as a fighter and have a 10/1 shot at it?

 

Yes, I apologise for taking the thread off on a tangent :good

Hmm, how about this for only in British boxing:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Q0KqEZ4Ro[/ame]

 

Richie Woodhall admitting he'd lost to Glen Catley.

I was always a fan of Richie, but that took my respect for him to another level. No pretentiousness, always honest, down to earth and no ego massaging needed. He didn't make any excuses, he could've blamed it on the Nardiello fight falling through and said he was thrown off as he was preparing to fight a southpaw but no, he took his lumps like a man.

That's the type of attitude our beloved sweet science needs more of and that's the type of people we produce.

 

Spot on fellas. Poisoned chalice comes to mind.

 

Benn looks ****ing crazy watching himself fight.....

Mad *******

 

I'm a third of the way through his book, and he was ****ing mental as a kid, teenager and young man. Always fighting, even in the army outside of the ring.........

He said he sustained most of his scars, and damages before he even started boxing....

You should buy the Book..!!!!

 

What made it even better was the decision wasn't a complete robbery. It wasn't like Catley absolutely dominated, Glenn won but it wasn't the most outragious decision you'd ever seen and there was Richie being completely honest...immedietely after the fight not waiting years after to admit it, doing something he really didn't have to do.

Was it weight issues or a slight injury that he had? It's funny because Richie always had issues before fights, he was unlucky in that sense. He was a really hard worker in training and might've miss-judged and over done it before that fight, he'd just moved up to 168 after the Holmes fight though so it shouldn't have been a problem. I think he had issues with Catley coming in at short notice and changing his preparations for a different style ala Lennox with Vitali.

 

why the **** would he drink pure orange juice..? it's not really that much of a good diuretic..?

 

Didn't Barkley say something beforehand to the effect of 'he ain't gonna be able to just throw big right hands at me' and that's exactly what Benn did

I think if Barkley had been given the chance to continue, it would've been a 2 or 3 round war. He still couldve come back IMO, but emphatic, Warrior like stuff from Benn, very lucky not to have it stolen away from him, hitting Barkley when he was down was heat-of-the-moment but risky stuff.

Benn was fierce.