Ricky Burns vs Steve Foster Jr

Im delighted for Steve as ive said on here very good fighter,but if you look at steve and rickys last fights steve beat a man who looked every year his age in the ring ( thats not SF fault) and Burns beat the best ranked SFW in the world,no real comparison is there?

 

Kirkayosan (spelling) is not far off Martinez's level IMO. Styles make fights though, and I think Burns would outpoint Foster in a real competitive foght.

Burns' next opponent is really underwhelming.

 

Every fight for Burns should be tough, You shouldnt get any easy fights at World level thats why it will be hard for him to keep old of the title,, But i forgot he is a Frank Warren fighter atsch

 

nobody can put there body through war after war its just not possible.:good

 

you don't seem bothered about the fight billy, but surely if foster jr was a FW fighter, not a hatton fighter, then you all might be talking it up as an attractive fight and haling anew eubank-benn-watson era of domestic/world boxing.

burns and foster did great at their respective levels, with home advantage, and fiercely motivated for titles they wanted - for sure. you bring up kirakosyan's age, but martinez was apparently struggling badly to make 130, looking really drawn at the weight in...

foster jr also gave alex arthur a harder fight that your fighter, burns, did. pushed him much closer. i know, burns is above all that now, but it's interesting to see how both performed bs the same guy. foster has just won the EBU title, a title that burns was unable to win.

i would love to see this fight as a fan of super featherweight boxing in this country. burns, foster and crolla have really got my interest at this weight. there aren't many attractive fights on the world scene, so if foster can get there via mandatory route i would love to see this fight happen.

 

yeah, let's have burns v matt zegan instead.

like how you phrase foster jr's win. you could rephrase it as "scored a one punch KO of brit bashing EBU champion" just as easily.

an interesting twist: foster almost beat arthur, whom burns was clearly beaten by. and foster won the EBU title, a belt that burns challenged unsiccessfully for.

 

History proves you wrong. Ricky is quality and the division is ****. So why the joker he's fighting next?

 

it makes for a shoter career and tends not to happen unless a fighter is one the biggest money i.e. on an HBO date.

 

Again, history proves you wrong.

I'd like to know what 'wars' Ricky could consistently have in the division as it stands. And why every competitive fight has to be a war?

There are hardly any good fights there, this is a massive disappointment.

 

Very True :good

 

recent history in the context of british boxing might not prove me so wrong.

FW has worked hard to get ricky burns that title. they will want to keep him in the title and not all title defenses (especially first title defenses) are competitive ones.

also, with FW putting on a bumper bill only a week later, promising multiple world title/world level fights, maybe that made burns' first defense suffer in terms of quality. we might not like it but it's a business as well as a sport, and burns was in a ferocious battle last time out.

 

R4T, good fair post :good

 

Flea, in today's boxing climate Burns deserves a tune-up or easy fight. Come on he was in a war with Martinez in October and 2 months later he's making the first defence of his title. That is better than average going for most world champions around today. So do not begrudge him that at least.

If after this fight he then takes soft opposition, you can moan at him.

 

good point. defending 2 months after winning it is impressive in itself, regardless of the opponent.

billy nelson - have you studied a lot of matt zegan, what do you think of him? it seems burns will be going in vs a bigger man as zegas has been a lightweight.

are there a lot of polish immigrants in glasgow? will there be a decent polish crowd, perhaps?

EDIT - ppl are saying zegan isn't the opponent.

 

Nobody should get an easy road when there world champion, Every defence they make should be a tough fight, He should be fighting people in the top ten or the other world champions at super feather now that he owns one of the belts.