Skelton - Rogan: Fight Exceeds Expectation

no...he's from sligo...his grandfather was doug rogan..had his own taxi rank for years in the town.

 

talk about a european title fight in belfast next...wonder who the obvious opponent will be for that ?

 

So much for getting Lamon Brewster then?

 

having seen the way Rogan fights, I didn't think this fight promised little. He forces the action, even against a guy who holds and hits on the break as he backs away as Skelton does. This was a great fight. I was more suprised by the effort Skelton gave than Rogan. Skelton could have folded many times but stayed in and had a couple good rounds late. This was an absolute gem. I'm a little tired of people saying Rogan isn't skilled. He doesn't jab but in the heavyweight division he isn't built for that type of fight. boxrec lists him at 6'3', i think he's a shade over 6 feet. He pressures guys, works the body, and as demonstrated by the Skelton fight, adjusts to his opponnent. What a great fight to watch!

 

The way I see it he may be Irish but what he is is that he hails from one of the group of Islands just of the coast of France/Europe which is part of the same group of Islands that is Great Britain.That makes him British enough for me,Irish,Scottish,English,even Welsh I count them all as OUR fighters and support them all,well ok maybe not the Welsh.

 

jesus christ,even with the shitty added humour at the end,bring an end to the talk of what nationality he is, he feels he is irish,thats ****ing irish enough for me even if he is from belfast,if a fighter from the north wanted to call themselves british i have no problem with that so can people on this thread stop trying to decide what he is and live with the fact he is as irish as alcoholism.****ing great fight and at any level it provided more entertainment in one round than the past 5 wlad klit fights have, he may not be blessed with the skills of mayweather and may not have the physical advantages of someone like klit but he has the heart and determination to at least half of hw champs a real good fight!

one last thing ireland ain't part of the islands you call great britain you ****!

 

What a prize **** you are pal.Maybe you should try reading my post again you jumped up ignorant bog trotting wank stain.Geograhically speaking Ireland is part of the same ******* group of islands as the rest of the British islands,like it or ****ing not thats what it is.What the **** is wrong with you ya sad mick *******.I just pointed out that like most British.Well atleast most English that I know anyway we support the sportsmen of Scotland,Ireland,wales aswell as England and like them to do well.Ya just a bitter twisted sack of **** with mental issues Iam sure.**** off and crawl back under the stone you crawled from under.
Get a ****ing grip ya tiny taertered pea brained festering sack of ****.

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Ireland is part of the geographical description of the groups of islands known as the British isles and this term originated when Ireland was part of Britain which it no longer is. Hence nowdays you will often hear British and Irish isles instead.

 

Can we just agree that if a boxer drapes a tri colour over himself after a fight it is safe to say he is Irish! It's cool that everyone is supporting him but let's just be clear about his nationality and move on.

 

Speaking for meself here,Britain and Ireland have very close ties,allways has done.Most British folks like the Irish and support Ireland when their team or sportsmen are not compeating.I mearly ment that I'll choose to support an Irish fighter/sportsman/team over an American,Japanese,Russian and so forth.That was all I was getting at.





Oh and another thing,I am part Irish on my dads side.Not that I am claiming to be Irish you understand,Iam English.

 

Cool, I would also support an English boxer like when Hatton fought Mayweather, I wanted Hatton to win. A lot of English people have Irish blood and vice versa so why not support each other.
But you have to understand how that comment might **** people off.

 

quite simply ******ed you lil tool,you're completely wrong and for you to say that you ****s support our sportsmen is another ******ed sentiment that i totally disagree with,all you have to do is look at the commentary in any irish v british fight that occurs, lindsay v matthews, didnt give a **** about lindsay until he knocked the clean **** off derry!rogan v skelton,was that ****ing commentary biased or what towards skelton he'd dance about for two seconds and maybe throw out a jab or two and all you could hear was, "that's brilliant,it's the way he should have been fighting from the opening bell,i believe that he's going to go on to a comfortable points decision now" **** the fact that for those two jabs skelton threw the next one he tried to throw, our boy rogie was all over him like an irish man ****ing your wife!

there clearly is a huge gulf between supporting irish/welsh/scottish fighters and this is apparant from the offset when they as soon as they show some good form they suddenly become british rather than one of the other countries.i don't support english sportsmen,i appreciate that some of them are great boxers but it certainly ain't their nationality that gets me supporting him, take two examples in lockett and jennings,what the **** why would i support them to beat two fighters that are lightyears superior,and why the **** should i support a brit because they're in a title fight when they should barely be on the undercard.it's just wrong and something that justifies these bollox fights that don't even make sense on a financial level,corrupt to the bone!

nice touch there aswell mate,mick ******* (original might I add) yet you say your dad is irish,well ain't we all lucky he ****ed off to engerland and spawned such a ******ed **** in a foreign land!

 

well...i just think rogan did sligo proud..thats all i know.

 

wow, everybody just chill the hell out!!

It's great that we have Brits supporting our boxers, nothing wrong with that. I do the same with SOME Brit fighters, mainly because I get a better sense of the fighter because of the exposure they get. I also have a tendency to support some of our euro fighters When they go to fight in america etc...
But just to clear up, so we can all move on. Some fighters from Northern Ireland consider themselves Irish (which is their right), and others consider themselves British (also their right)..For me, I support any boxer that comes from this island no matter what race,religion,sex they are and I think everybody should do the same. All this political bollocks has no place in sport and instead of arguing about who's from wat country, we should be concentrating on how well our boxers are doing as sportmen.

Listen Barrington, I know where your coming from with what your trying to say. But I think you should understand that people in Ireland would not say Ireland is part of the 'British Isles'. That is just a name placed on the two Islands collectively years ago when Ireland was in the British Empire. To most people in Ireland we would just call Ireland Ireland, and Britain Britain. If for some reason you have to call the two islands by a collective term, its really not that difficult to call it the Brittish and Irish isles is it??

Anyway, I can't believe i've just talked politics on a boxing forum, but hey what can ya do!!

Martin Rogan = Legend

 

****,i feel like you need an encore,very well said sir!you sir are a scholar anda gentleman!