Boxing on TG4 tonight 20:30

well. what a great atmosphere there last night, really was. dunno if any of you are familiar with a.j. lieblings books, but on the balcony last night looking down on the ring during the moylette fight, which was an old school bit of slugging a lot of the time, the crowd atmosphere, being in a theatre, it almost felt like how liebling described the smaller hall shows he attended and would sit back in the crowd away from the rest of the press to get what he thought was a better view.......anyway....thats neither here or there...

the moylette fight i couldnt help but think as the rounds went on that he had the ability, if he had a different game plan, to just beat his opponent....not talking about changing things he hasnt got, but what he has....he has a good gas tank that seen him through ten hard rounds...and he has good footwork....my son commented to me that he was surprised that packy collins was urging him forward so much during the fight, when we were thinking slow the rounds down...keep a distance and dart in and out with jabs and use angles...and he appears to have the tools for that.......this man who beat him was good, but i think on another night with a less exciting and safer gameplan, he might, might, have had the beating of him on points.

i was talking with moylettes old amatuer trainer afterwards and one of the tv panel....and the feeling was, that all things considered, that moylette had reached his potential and he couldnt expect to go further.

where does that leave him ?.....try again for 2-3 years and maybe change the style to less attacking seeing as its obvious he hasnt got massive punching power ?......or maybe go on the sparring partner circuit ?....he has a good reputation in joe gallaghers gym now as that.

as for the top 15 rating to the winner of this fight....well, that was very confusing over the past few days.......this fight was billed as a wbc international title with winner getting into their top 15....then....2 days out reports said it was changed to a wbc SILVER international strap, which has no such top 15 rating, dont think it gives any automatic rating....and the weigh-in announced the fight as such........THEN last night at the fight they were announcing it as a WBC international title...and from the clips from tv i seen after i came home, the commentary seemed to be referring to it as an international title and they were making reference to the top 15 rating.

spike o sullivan....first time to meet him...what a gent....great crack too....walked into the venue with him from the car park so got some chatting time........his fight looked like he wanted to get them rounds in....from my vantage point he had his opponent open at times and just stood off him, spike also got tagged a few times, but he didnt look worried....it wasnt a great fight...an exhibition type fight....but to me it definitely looked like spike was using it to get rounds in and carried his opponent at times......but, spike did not look great at all doing it.....hard to know whats his road now at his age too.

great support, a big crowd travelled just to see him, for young arron gethins from sligo...looked like he wanted to finish he man quick for the show, but after 2 rounds he settled and looked like he knew it was better to concentrate on the points...he'll be one to watch, very tall for the weight, cut to the bone and all lean muscle, and trained by block reynolds who is good trainer.

anyway....the above is just my reactions / thinking aloud....from being there last night.....i have often been to fights that looked completely different when viewed back on tv....so i wont be surprised if people dont agree with my view on what i seen.

got some great time chatting with sean mannion into the wee hours....treat for me, as i followed that mans career and have read a lot on him...a real folk hero in my eyes.

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Thoroughly enjoyment night's entertainment from Castlebar. Of course it was a bit amateurish but all in all I thought it was pretty decent. Some enjoyable scraps.

Please please please have that announcer and Seán Bán Ballbag do more events like this around the country. Think his most incisive one of the night was "he'll want to win this, won't he?"

I laughed out loud when he suggested to Ryan Burnett that 34 year old Roy Sheahan was a big prospect for the future. Think RB felt too bad to contradict him.

nacho libre wrote: »

To be honest no amount of improvement is going to be enough for him to be even fringe world level.

Lets just hope he got a decent pay check last night, and on the back of this maybe bring more televised boxing to the west of Ireland at the same time.

Yeah, it's a shame really as he seems like a good lad who could easily build a cult following if he put a run of high profile wins together. Feather fists, casual defence and a questionable jaw are never really going to be a good combo at this level though.

Still, it shows the potential for boxing. A sub-standard card with some popular moderately talented boxers gets very big buzz with little promotion. Imagine if the fights were more competitive and had something on the line.