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Macklin V Welborn 17th of Oct 2015

  • 17-10-2015 08:16PM
    #1
    coronaextra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭


    Hi, didnt see any thread on this, Macklin trying to get back on the horse.
    Hes looking a bit sluggish here in the first 3 rounds in Birmingham but not a bad fight so far.

    Any one watching?


Comments

  • #2
    coronaextra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭coronaextra


    Tough night at the office for Macklin, entertaining fight but he looked quite sluggish and got caught with too many. Dont know if he will ever step up to world level again.

    Going down in weight may not have suited him.


  • #3
    Johner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,625 ✭✭✭✭Johner


    coronaextra wrote: »
    Tough night at the office for Macklin, entertaining fight but he looked quite sluggish and got caught with too many. Dont know if he will ever step up to world level again.

    Going down in weight may not have suited him.

    Too many excuses for Macklin, he's just a bang average fighter.


  • #4
    magma69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭magma69


    Macklin is shot. He would have blasted him out in a couple of rounds a few years ago. The writing was on the wall since he went life and death with a journeyman in Germany a few fights back. Time to hang em up.


  • #5
    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    Agreed with people saying hes finished. Aside from Alcine, which didnt tell us a huge amount, when was the last time he actually put in a good performance? Its years surely. Seems like a nice enough guy but always has an excuse.

    What are the odds on Liam Smith jumping to matchroom to join his brothers, and Eddie Hearn making a "huge world title fight" between Smith and Macklin, on a PPV card with Bellew


  • #6
    magma69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭magma69


    Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »
    Agreed with people saying hes finished. Aside from Alcine, which didnt tell us a huge amount, when was the last time he actually put in a good performance? Its years surely. Seems like a nice enough guy but always has an excuse.

    What are the odds on Liam Smith jumping to matchroom to join his brothers, and Eddie Hearn making a "huge world title fight" between Smith and Macklin, on a PPV card with Bellew

    Sounds exactly like something Hearn would do. And if I'm perfectly honest, I get the feeling that is the reason Macklin moved down because he has no business at the weight. The reason he moved up all those years ago after Moore was because it was killing him to make weight.


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