Sky fight night: Warrington title defence.

walshb

Sky Sports arena from 19:00

Support fight is Kiko Martinez v Zelfa Barrett at 130 lbs

Then Josh Warrington makes a defence of his 126 lbs belt vs Mauricio Lara

Actually, Warrington fight not for IBF belt. He vacated it last month

Fran has a bone

Why did Warrington vacate?

megadodge

Quite impressed with Dalton Smith there.

I've been hearing good things about him and I know he was a very good amateur. He looks very sharp and accurate. Lovely variety of punch and seems to have a very good sense of distance. I'll be keeping an eye on him.

walshb

Kiko only 34...been around years!!! Looks older..

Only a kid when he banjoed Dunne in 2007...

generalgerry

Sky were very much underplaying his work in the last round. Looks like he could take Barrett out here.

Morrison J

Kiko rolling back the years here. Great to see.

A Shaved Duck?

Morrison J wrote: »

Kiko rolling back the years here. Great to see.

Hope the judges are fair ..winning nearly every round for me.

generalgerry

Haven't been scoring it but surely Kiko well ahead? 7-3?

walshb

I have always admired Kiko

Always just comes to fight

generalgerry

The commentator has it level? I won't be asking him to put up any shelves for me, that's for sure.

Morrison J

A Shaved Duck? wrote: »

Hope the judges are fair ..winning nearly every round for me.

Yeah that's the worry for me. Could be another Ritson v Vasquez. Three British judges..

A Shaved Duck?

generalgerry wrote: »

The commentator has it level? I won't ask him to put up any shelves for me, that's for sure.

Adam Smith...can't be said he isn't a company man.

Talking up barret now so when the dodgy scores come in it won't look so bad....kiko is gonna get shafted here...

The White Feather

walshb wrote: »

Kiko only 34...been around years!!! Looks older..

Only a kid when he banjoed Dunne in 2007...

I put on the fight a while ago and was wondering was it the same guy, Cant believe he is still going but now realise how young he was then. That was a really disappointing night by the way. I still remember it !

I don't follow boxing closely so I didn't know.

generalgerry

A Shaved Duck? wrote: »

Adam Smith...can't be said he isn't a company man.

Naw, that's not Adam Smith. I'm not sure who it is.

Are the presenters preparing us for a draw result? Surely Kiko has this by a country mile.

Morrison J

Zero argument for Barrett winning that. Cards will be interesting. 

megadodge

Well Barrett is odds-on on the exchanges.

The White Feather

Didn't Kiko win that handily? no?

A Shaved Duck?

Those cards are an absolute disgrace

megadodge

Holy Sh!t !!!!

118-111 (x2) !!!!

walshb

I didn’t score it

But thought Kiko overall deserved it..

The White Feather

OK I was all wrong it seems

generalgerry

That is just disgusting. Absolute cheating.

Even Canelo would have got a split decision in that fight ffs.

generalgerry

It's almost like professional wrestling at this stage. The result is pre-determined.

carltonleon

Absolute joke, I have to say

A Shaved Duck?

Hearn now talking out of both sides of his mouth...

Morrison J

Absolute disgrace. The UK is by far the worst place to come as an away fighter and get a result.

sham69

Shocking , thought Kiko had it

generalgerry

And who paid them to give those scorecards Eddie? He really must think that we are all idiots.

squinn2912

Pathetic scoring at least Eddie is telling the truth about it. I thought Barrett won the last 4 convincingly but I’m struggling to see what else he won before that. Don King line there let’s do it again. Even Barrett is embarrassed by that

A Shaved Duck?

Morrison J wrote: »

Absolute disgrace. The UK is by far the worst place to come as an away fighter and get a result.

Yeah could do without hearns faux outrage....his fighter on his channel in his back yard...sure thing Eddie

Fran has a bone

Sad to see such blatant corruption as. Even Hearn lambasting the judges

squinn2912

Look at the marking on their faces alone! This is destroying the sport as a spectacle. Booth is insufferable

duffman13

Ridiculous, the irony of the commentators not calling it for what it is given some of the claims of robbery and how fighting Klitschko in Germany was always in an impossible task etc. Kiko robbed

Big Ears

squinn2912 wrote: »

Pathetic scoring at least Eddie is telling the truth about it. I thought Barrett won the last 4 convincingly but I’m struggling to see what else he won before that. Don King line there let’s do it again. Even Barrett is embarrassed by that

I thought Barrett won the 1st, and the 5th (I think I've the right round), and the 9th, and either the 10th or 11th, but Kiko won the rest.

There was quite a few close rounds and also a lot of rounds clearly for Kiko.
Eddie and the commentators speaking honestly, a round or two in it at most (if you scored for Barrett) or else for Kiko (and potentially wide if you give him the closer rounds ).

118-111 is ridiculous !

carltonleon

Bizarre interviews I thought , he didn’t really let any of the 3 finish their points

Fran has a bone

Hearn calling it out, probably to help sell 2nd fight. Eddie I'm sure knows all 3 judges very well for many years!

squinn2912

The interviews were a mess they didn’t know what to do. Why didn’t the idiot let Hearn bull**** away another minute than have dead noise. So amateur looking.

Fran has a bone

https://mobile.twitter.com/maravillabox/status/1360716636135829505

walshb

Hearn is a disgrace..

He should stick to promoting and quit slating professional judges that he uses for fights to pretend to the public that he gives a fook

Fran has a bone

I thought the peaky blinder himself, Mack the Knife, might have taken a back seat on Sky commentary with everything that is happening lately.

There's a man who knows where the bodies are buried, literally :eek:

generalgerry

So here is the MTK / DAZN boxing news for this week:

Daniel Kinahan is still not involved in crime and Zelpha Barrett has won his fight with Kiko Martinez.

And I've just won the lottery.

carltonleon

WOW!! Warrington looks fooked

generalgerry

I had the last round a 10-8 for Warrington (by tonight's judging).

normanoffside

Some comeback from Warrington in the 5th.
I think the ref should have stopped it in the 4th though.

squinn2912

He’s up against it. Lara needs to be careful though

duffman13

carltonleon wrote: »

WOW!! Warrington looks fooked

Some count he got, he was in an awful state

normanoffside

I don't like how Warrington is twitching his neck in this round. Something looks off.

The White Feather

Should the ref have stopped that earlier? It looked very close

normanoffside

The White Feather wrote: »

Should the ref have stopped that earlier? It looked very close

He would have stopped Lara. That's for sure

Big Ears

normanoffside wrote: »

I don't like how Warrington is twitching his neck in this round. Something looks off.

He's probably a bit concussed.
He was shook to his boots and has taken some heavy shots since.

He's coping impressively well considering.

squinn2912

IMAGINE! A co-commentator who is there to score the fight “I haven’t been scoring it”