James Moore v Neil Sinclair for the Irish title in Belfast in April

Vintagekits

Great match up!

digme

Vintagekits wrote: »

Great match up!

Why do you think that?

Vintagekits

digme wrote: »

Why do you think that?

I would have thought that that was pretty obvious. Both very talented amatuers but at different stages of their respective careers. Moore has been having a terrible time recently having being totally outclassed by Foreman but Sinclair, whos careered looked close to being over has had a couple of good wins on the bounce including a demolition job on Henry Coyle. Both appear evenly matched and Sinclair in ranked 87 by BoxRec with Moore at 93 - and in my Irish P4P list that was on Boxingscene.com I have Moore at number 14 and Sinclair at 16. Dont you think its a job match up? Wanna call it now?

digme

Hard to think of it as obvious; when we have 100's of fighters we watch.I only seen both fighters fighting once; I think it was on Friday fight night.What characterises each fighter do you think?Styles wise- can you see any obvious potential problems for either fighter?

joepenguin

Interesting match imo.

Big Ears

digme wrote: »

Hard to think of it as obvious; when we have 100's of fighters we watch.I only seen both fighters fighting once; I think it was on Friday fight night.What characterises each fighter do you think?Styles wise- can you see any obvious potential problems for either fighter?

It terms of domestic Irish match ups it is quite obvious, possibly the most obvious after Macklin-Lee.

Sinclair is the classier fighter, he's quicker, better skilled and has a big punch.
But he's got a very shaky chin and can fade as the rounds go by.

Moore on the otherhand is technically a very good fighter, but very slow(of both hand and foot), he's got a good chin though, and hits pretty hard.

If it goes the distance you'd have to favour Sinclair, but Moore may be able to stoppage, then again with Sinky's power he may be able to get to Moore himself. There's just so many possibilities in this fight, and it's very well matched.
I'd be delighted if this was to headline a pro box live, have it in Belfast and they should be able to get a decent crowd.

walshb

To think Sinky is still fighting. I thought he was well and truly finished after his KO
loss to Francis Jones in the Point.

Both are shopworn and I would probably lean towards Moore to win this

Big Ears

walshb wrote: »

To think Sinky is still fighting. I thought he was well and truly finished after his KO
loss to Francis Jones in the Point.

Both are shopworn and I would probably lean towards Moore to win this

I had totally written him off after the Jones loss aswell, and wondered why he was even still fighting. However his form since then has improved and over the last 8 months he has been spectacular.

He destroyed Henry Coyle, who okay isn't a world beater but Sinky did a real job on him. That's only going from what I've heard as I didn't see the fight but the amount of people raving about him after that fight was something else.

The fight against Petrovics I did see and while Petrovics is no real danger competitively, the job Sinclair did on him was extremely impressive and much...much better than what European champion Ryan Rhodes did.

The strangest thing for me is he seems to have regained some of his speed and reflexes, making me think ........but none the less he's looking quicker and slippier than he did 2/3 years ago.


Despite this I would edge with Moore myself, he's very tough and nowhere as easy to tee off on as Coyle or Petrovics. He can punch quite a bit too and I feel although Sinclair will win most of the early rounds that Moore will slowly wear him down and begin to take over around 6/7 and get a late stoppage.

I really think if Sinky is to do this he has to win early.

brianserious

Gotta be kidding , Jamie Moore will KO Sinky in no more than 5 rounds

I was at Sinclairs last fight in Odyessy , hes re ignited himself but it wont last against moore he was never at Jamies level,

Big Ears

brianserious wrote: »

Gotta be kidding , Jamie Moore will KO Sinky in no more than 5 rounds

I was at Sinclairs last fight in Odyessy , hes re ignited himself but it wont last against moore he was never at Jamies level,

How will Jamie Moore ko Sinky ?.......seriously tell me.

When James Moore is going to be the one fighting him, how will Jamie knock him out ?.....that'd have to be a no contest. This isn't wrestling, you can't just tag someone in you know.

walshb

Okay, now that I know who is actual fighting Sinky, I will still go with Moore by late stoppage. He takes a good shot, is fitter, younger and fresher. Sinky is getting on a bit more and I see James setting a hard pace that Sinky doesn't like