The Gloves Are Off - Middleweights

I think Andy Lee is getting underrated, I wouldn't be shocked if he beat Macklin or Barker. I do feel that Martin Murray is the best, I feel that the other 3 are at their peak but I still feel Martin will get better.

 

Dont worry dude i had Murray winning 115 -113 against Sturm , thing is loads play it safe and go with the champ, but a draw was still fair. I had Murray winning the martinez fight , he deserves respect as hes willing to go into the other guys backyard. Prob for murray is hi past discrepancies which are causing him visa issues.

Murray would beat Quillin, i think Barker will beat Sturm by mixing it up , i think he`ll use his boxing skills 1st half then start getting a bit more gritty later on.

 

I thought they were all scared of Murray.barker came across as a right nob though

 

Dont worry dude i had Murray winning 115 -113 against Sturm

The rest of your post was fine...why did you have to ruin it with this nonsense?
Seriously, have you actually seen the fight?
Sturm CLEARLY won.
There is just no possible interpretation you can put on what took place that makes Murray the winner of that fight....none.
Sturm out-performed Murray in every department, throughout more or less the entire fight.
No matter what criteria you apply to judging boxing, Sturm was superior.
Please watch it again today, before propagating this myth than Murray was robbed of a win. It is simply not true.

That is in no way a cheap shot at Murray, he did very well. Just the facts.

 

The gloves are off 4 is our version of the original fab 4 middleweights!

Andy Lee = Tommy Hearns
Macklin = Hagler
Murray = Duran
Barker = Sugar Ray Leanord

 

good show..some more needle woulda been fun but all these guys seem decent..
well almost..id like to see macklin loose in any of the head to heads against the other three..nob (i do resect macklin,just dont really like him)

 

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0s3ZefAcuw[/url]

 

Fair dues Solaris - would'nt have seen it without you...Thank you.

 

Owe you one. :good

 

Anybody notice how badly and shamelessly edited the show was?
It was not a level playing field. A thinly-disguised PR spin job to boost up Lee and in particular Murray. Barker and more so Macklin was frozen out ( I think the sound was doctored so we couldnt hear half of what Matt said but every word from Murray was loud and clear).

Loved the way the camera would pan to Mack when Murray was guffing. Mack looked like a serial killer weighing up his next victim!

Macklin and Lee are far, far more intelligent and articulate than Murray and Barker, but you wouldnt think so from that load of rubbish.

A very unbalanced show - naked bias.

 

Don't see why a PR spin job would be put on it to "boost up" Lee & Murray, especially when Barker is an Eddie Hearn aka SKY fighter.

I thought all 4 of them came across well. Don't really think Murray "bossed" the table as some seem to think, Murray likes to talk.. which is exactly what he did. The other 3 are actually fairly quite quiet, that's how it comes across anyway... and I have met Macklin previously, and again that's how he came across. But when they were asked questions, they still all put there points across well.

I agreed with an earlier post though, I don't think we've seen everything from Murray yet. I think he will continue to improve, where's with the other 3.. I'm not so sure.

Macklin v Murray is the fight I most want to see.

 

Cracking stuff you very good poster. Will watch this tonight after the darts / boxing

 

Agreed.

Sky and News Corp have always had an anti-irish agenda going back to the way they covered the troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1990'S and their general anti-irish reporting especially towards irish gypsies and even included areas of England and Scotland that were heavily populated by Irish immigrants like Liverpool.

They had zero interest in pushing Carl Frampton either despite his drawing power in Belfast.