Just a reminder about the big fights coming up .

Big Ears

This thread is to be used for information about upcoming fights . When posting about a fight please give the date the time and the tv channel the fight will be on . Feel free to give brief opinions and information about a fight but if the post will be long its best to start a new thread .


Sunday 17 July , from 1 am , Sky Sports 1 :
Brian Magee V Vitali Tsypko ( for European Super Middleweight title and IBF Super Middleweight title Eliminater , Magee 23-1-0 (16 Ko's)-Tsypko 15-0-0 (9 Ko's) )


Oscar Larios V Wayne McCullough (WBC Super Bantanweight title , Larios 55-3-1 (35 Ko's)-McCullough 27-5-0 (18 Ko's)


Bernard Hopkins V Jermain Taylor(for undisputed World Middleweight title , Hopkins 46-2-1 (32 Ko's)-Taylor 23-0-0 (17 Ko's) )

3 great fights there , I think it will be Magee , Larios and Hopkins with the wins although all could go either way . All fights are on Sky Sports 1 .

Geiger

For anyone with ITV1, on Saturday night you can see:

Amir Kahn (pro debut) vs David Bailey (3-4-0)

Danny Williams (33-4-0) vs Matt Skelton (16-0-0)

The show starts at 9:15pm. It's in the tv listings as 'Amir Kahn's first fight' or something. No pressure at all Amir

Geiger

Channel: Sky Sports 1
Time: 10pm
When: Friday 15th

IBF Light-Middleweight title
Kassim Ouma v Roman Karmazin

This fight is actually taking place in Vegas on Thursday night, so avoid boxing sites if you don't want to know the result before watching. Oh and if they are going to show some of the undercard we might get to see:

Marco A. Rubio vs David Toribio (154)

I've got a lot of time on my hands, hence the boldification...

Big Ears

Geiger wrote:

For anyone with ITV1, on Saturday night you can see:

Amir Kahn (pro debut) vs David Bailey (3-4-0)

Danny Williams (33-4-0) vs Matt Skelton (16-0-0)

The show starts at 9:15pm. It's in the tv listings as 'Amir Kahn's first fight' or something. No pressure at all Amir

I really wanted to see this event , but unfourtunatly .

This is a tuff test for Kahn in his first fight but I expect him to easily out point Bailey .

Im going to go for a night round TKO for Skelton in the heavweight fight . Skelton just keeps coming at ya and in the end I think Williams will take too many punches .

Geiger

I see Kahn winning a UD also. All of Bailey's seven fights have gone to points. Still though, should be interesting to see how Kahn reacts under the pressure. For some reason I don't think his pro career will be as successful as a lot of people seem to think.

Big Ears

Geiger wrote:

I see Kahn winning a UD also. All of Bailey's seven fights have gone to points. Still though, should be interesting to see how Kahn reacts under the pressure. For some reason I don't think his pro career will be as successful as a lot of people seem to think.

Ive looked back at Bailey's record and he's never faught a puncher , the biggest puncher he faught (beat him) has a record of 3 KO's in their 8 wins .
Of the 3 men Bailey has beat none of them have ever won a fight by KO .
Now im not exactly that big into amatuer boxing but if I remember right Kahn has a bit of pop in his punches and im going to change my prediction to a TKO in the 4th . The more I look at Bailey's record the more I think he is a fighter with a decent record for fighting a highly promising debutant but that he has been extremely carefully hand picked and that Kahn will become the first guy to stop him which of course will get lots of people even more interested in Kahn and he will be the new Hammed .

Geiger

Channel: Eurosport
Time: 7pm
When: Today (14th July)

Sinan Samil Sam vs Peter Okhello (heavyweight)

This fight took place on the 11th of June. You might wanna check it out because the WBC have ordered a fight between Sam and Samuel Peter (another heavyweight prospect). The winner of that fight would become their #1 contender to Vitali Klitschko (after he fights the winner of Barrett vs Rahman)

Big Ears

A late addition to the bill for the Hopkins V Taylor Sky event .

Howard Eastman ( 40-2-0 , 34 by KO) V Arthur Abraham (16-0-0 , 15 KO) for the WBA Intercontinental middleweight title . This is avery dangerous bout for Eastman to take as his comeback fight from his loss to Hopkins .

Danny Williams has pulled out of the British Heavyweight title fight between him and Matt Skelton . Williams position will be filled by Mark Krence (21-3-0 , 6 KO)
For such a late withdrawal from Williams this is a great replacement but I would favour Skelton to knock him out within the first 6 rounds .

Big Ears

23rd July

Super Featherweight Boris Sinitsin v Alex Arthur 12(rounds)
~ Referee: Giuseppe Quartarone | Judge: Axel Zielke | Judge: Freddy Rafn Christensen | Judge: Jean-Francois Toupin ~

European (EBU) Super Featherweight Title
Welterweight Colin McNeil v Taz Jones 10(rounds)
British Welterweight Title Eliminator

Light Middleweight Mehrdud Takaloo v Delroy Mellis 8(rounds)

Martin Gillick v ? 0(undecided rounds)
Gillick's pro debut.

a bit messy because its copied and pasted but does anyone know what channel this card is being shown on , ITV ?

Geiger

It's being shown live on ITV2, show starts at 9:20pm.

Big Ears

Geiger wrote:

It's being shown live on ITV2, show starts at 9:20pm.

any chance you could post up the results aswell as a description of the Sinitsin V Arthur fight ?

Geiger

Big Ears wrote:

any chance you could post up the results aswell as a description of the Sinitsin V Arthur fight ?

Sure, no problem. Should be a good fight, I'll be cheering for Arthur.

Big Ears

Geiger wrote:

Sure, no problem. Should be a good fight, I'll be cheering for Arthur.

Ya im a fan of Arthur the way he's changed everything around since his loss to Gomez is amazing , he's now got a great defence aswell as very good power and a brilliant ability to pick his shots .

I think he will knock out Sinitsin .

Amz

Moved and stickied.

snakeater

Is the Jeff lacy Robin Reid fight on anywhere?

Geiger

snakeater wrote:

Is the Jeff lacy Robin Reid fight on anywhere?

Yep, sure is. It's being shown live on Sky Sports 1 at 2am, on Sunday the 7th of August.

Sky are also showing Clinton Woods v Julio Gonzalez for the IBF light heavyweight title live on September 9th. Show starts at 10pm.

Enjoy

walshb

I think it is about time Wayne McCullough gave up for his own safety and if he doesn't want to quit, he should be banned from boxing

Big Ears

walshb wrote:

I think it is about time Wayne McCullough gave up for his own safety and if he doesn't want to quit, he should be banned from boxing

The thing is at the time of his stoppage he seemed fine and was talking fine and Larios physically looked worse (on the face) . You can't just ban a fighter because it seems he always takes way too many punches .
His skull is twice as thick as a normal person , but if he kept fighting like that he would have serious problems . I don't beleive he will have any other fights like that if he kept fighting at this weight .

I just think it wouldn't be right to stop the man fighting if he seems perfectly fine . (thats stopped in a career sense not in one fight , if a fighter takes too many punches in a fight and they aren't competitve the fight should be stopped)

walshb

Big ears, him seeming fine is not the point. How fine do you think he was 24hrs later. That's when the full extent of the beating begins to take effect. Look this is not the first time the guy has taken far too much unnecessary pounishment. His amateur career was also as tough as hell. That's the guys style, he takes a couple to land a couple. It's not as if he has a punchers chance either, he hasn't got a KO punch and he usually goes the full distance in his fights. My god the Harrison fight was an absolute disgrace, a criminal act in my opinion and I know for a fact that the last person to admit they are thru as a fighter, is the fighter himself. They have to be looked after and told enough is enough. Wayne's wife who was his manager for the Harrison fight refused to pull him during it, despite pleas from Frank Warren...now what hope has the poor guy got when his own wife allows it to continue....a little compassion, mercy and advice is what Wayne needs not more pointless beatings inside the ring...the man still has to live his life after fighting.....give hima chance for crying out loud....

Mossy Monk

watching that fight, who in their right mind thought he was doing well enough to carry on. the man took a pounding to his head. how he stayed up is beyond me but the right decision was taken

MBC

I know a lot of yous probably think its stupid but some off Irelands hottest prospects are on show this Saturday in the National Stadium at 3pm. Its the Irish Champions box-offs for 13 & 14 year olds. For further details go to www.iaba.ie

Big Ears

walshb wrote:

Big ears, him seeming fine is not the point. How fine do you think he was 24hrs later.

Im well aware of that but judging how bad someone is going to be is impossible , making it impossible to judge the right time to stop a fight such as that . It will always be considered too late by some and too early by others . It was the right decision to stop the fight (IMO) even though a part of me wished he could have finnished . But what im talking about is the long run , the docters are the ones who should decide if he's fit to fight and as of this moment I see no reason to have him banned should he wish to continue .

efb

Hi Guys new on boards.ie

McCullough, the doc was right McCollough was well out of his depth and just not defending himself. v It pains me to say that cos he's been our best pro boxer since McGuigan

PS can u get ITV2 in dublin?

Big Ears

efb wrote:

Hi Guys new on boards.ie

McCullough, the doc was right McCollough was well out of his depth and just not defending himself. v It pains me to say that cos he's been our best pro boxer since McGuigan

PS can u get ITV2 in dublin?

You have forgotten about Collins , he was a better fighter than Wayne , the thing thats freaky about wayne is that during that fight he was playing posom :eek: trying to draw Larios in by taking punches that would knock most guys out .

walshb

Forget all this doctor crap. Wayne already was told by British doctors he should retire, so he went to the States and got the all clear. If it was left up to doctors to decide, we'd have guys in their 60's fighting because there is always a certain amount of doctors that will conflict with other doctors. Big ears, do you personally believe he should retire for his own safety, because I think any half educated decent person can see he's been hurt seriously every time he gets in the ring.

MBC

As much as I would have loved to see him beat Larios I think now is the time to call it a day. I think he is a real true warrior & a great guy but I would not like to see him do serious damage to himself. Because he loves the sport so much - he should maybe get involved in coaching or managing or something.

I would love to see him get back involved with amateur boxing, he was a real ambassator to it as his relentless training was his thing. I have heard stories that when he was in training camps with the Irish teams that the coaches used to have to tell him to slow his training down as he was reaching his peak 2 weeks before anybody else would because of his training. Also when the coaches would tell him to take the morning run off - he would go out at 5am & do his run & be back in bed so nobody would know...... a total animal for the training.

walshb

MBC, He certainly was one of the fittest fighters of all time. I really admired that about him and loved watching him in the amateurs because he was very exciting. Wayne was only really getting warmed up in the 3rd round and that's why his style was suited to the pro's. His only great flaw, was his lack of punch power. This is so essential in the pro's. Even if you do not have one punck KO power, you still need to have a damaging punch. Wayne didn't and that's why most of his fights went the full distance and that's why he took so much more punishment. As for the myths about about his training, I would well believe because I was told by guys who were in the Irish camp with him, that he used to leave them trailing in the runs they went on. Apparently he thought their pace was too slow......amazing guy, it would be tragic if he was enticed back to the ring now.....

efb

Anyway the next big fight Lacey -v- Reid with the winner set to fight the talented but under untilised Calzaghe. Appt Warren is trying to get Magee to Fight him on his next cardiff card featuring Amir Khan

Big Ears

walshb wrote:

Big ears, do you personally believe he should retire for his own safety,

I beleive it would be in his nest interest to retire but I feel the only people that should be able to ban him is the doctors after all they are meant to be qualified to determine wheather he can or not .Yes there is conflicting arguments from docters but Wayne did get quite a lot doctors to approve him be allowed to fight . Im fine with a qualified doctors decision be it yes or no , after all its their job .

MikeTyson

Hey every1 theres a show on tonite on rte 2 called the fite its not a proper boxing fite but its about joe frazier and ali. trust me its gonna be good... the thrilla in manilla with the gorilla haha i luv that phrase

walshb

Yeh watched that on RTE2, class it was. God, that fight was so brutal...possibly the toughest fight in history....

Geiger

Any good boxing programmes on soonish? Or maybe classic fights? Summer is such a slow time for boxing Roll on September...

Geiger

Sky Sports 1 are showing:

WBC/IBF Super-Featherweight titles
Marco Antonio Barrera v Robbie Peden

September 18th at 2am.

Geiger

Checked sky text today and saw that sky have announced several more big fights to be shown over the next few months. Full details of these fights are here:

http://www.skysports.com/skysports/article/0,,0-1011462,00.html

All the really 'big' fights are being shown live in the early hours of Sunday morning. I pretty much expected this from sky after they lost the sports network fights. Here's a few of the big fights for those who can't be arsed with the link.

September 25th:
WBO Light-Welterweight title
Miguel Cotto v Gianluca Branco
12 Rounds Heavyweight
Wladimir Klitschko v Samuel Peter

October 9th:
WBC/WBO Lightweight titles
Diego Corrales v Jose Luis Castillo

Oh and Joe Calzaghe and Amir Kahn will be fighting on ITV1 this Saturday night.

efb

Woods fight shold be good on SS1

Big Ears

Joshua Okine V Kevin Anderson , for the Commonwealth Welterweight title .
(SKY Sports 1 , 10pm) , this should be a cracking fight between the unbeaten but inexperienced Anderson and the hard hitting Ghanian Okine .

prediction is a 9th round TKO win for Okine .

Today btw .

Geiger

Was hoping that some station would be covering Tarver vs Jones 3 but doesn't look likely

Big Ears

Sky are showing the fight now (why couldn't they have shown it live or the night it was on ) on Friday .

Too bad I know the result , but hopefully the undercard will be interesting .

Geiger

Thanks for mentioning that the fight was on. Pretty sad way for Jones to go out though better than being KO'd again. He *really* should retire now.

Big Ears

I asume anyone who wasn't out of the country for the past few months will know this but tonight : Bernard Dunne V Sean Hughes - vacant IBC Bantamweight title
Jim Rock v Alan Jones - IBC Middleweight Title

Brian Magee v Varuzhan Davtyan

Paul Griffin v John Bothwell

Oisin Fagan v Richard Scifo

Paul Hyland v Peter Feher

Stephen Haughian v Daniel Thorpe

coverage starts from 10:30 on RTÉ 2 .

Geiger

Not long to go now. Do you know which of those non title fights are being televised? Just wondering about Brian Magee v Varuzhan Davtyan. Thanks

Big Ears

The Magee fight is a certainty to be shown , the programme is on for about 2 and a half hours and the Magee fight is the third most important and with it being an 8 rounder there will definetly be time to show it all...................its only gonna last 5-6 minutes anyway .

Big Ears

A bit late notice with this one but in one hour , Junior Witter V Colin Lynes for the European , British and Commomwelth titles .

SKY Sports 1 : 22:00 .

Geiger

Junior Witter looked horrible tonight...

Big Ears

Geiger wrote:

Junior Witter looked horrible tonight...

Even Maussa would have bet him on that display .

I get the feeling it has a lot to do with him being fed up of non world title fights and that he's finding it hard to get hyped up fighting the likes of Lynes .
But it's his job and he should be able to do it .

efb

Arrived in London for the big fights this weekend.

Really looking forward to seeing Khan in action

Big Ears

On in 10 mins on SS1 , David Haye V Alexander Gurov for the European Cruiserweight title .

Also Roman (the overated) Greenberg V Kendrick Releford .

Geiger

Tuned in a minute late for the Haye fight, too bad it was already over by then. Any good fights coming up soon?

Big Ears

Geiger wrote:

Tuned in a minute late for the Haye fight, too bad it was already over by then. Any good fights coming up soon?

Not in December , it's usually a quiet time for boxing . However Valuev V Ruiz will probably be shown on Eurosport .

efb

Any word on a sky review of the Year?

Big Ears

efb wrote:

Any word on a sky review of the Year?

There's two of them , both are after Christmas day , I think the 27th and 28th they are on .

One is KO's of the year , and the other is fights of the year . Watch out for Jamie Moore V Michael Jones it was a cracker .