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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Well he alienated half of Belfast so a few defeats and it was always going to drop off.

    Plus, he is not as good as he thinks he is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Gill is barely euro level and he’s bossing Conlan



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Hopefully that’s end a Conlan. He’ll end up badly hurt otherwise



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    That's that. Career over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Conlan should pack it in now. Gill nowhere near World class and he was repeatedly hurting Mick. Just doesn't have the punch resistance or power for the pro game. Still had an amateur career to remember.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Man against boy. Three glaring issues. Zero power, very little physical strength and poor punch resistance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Ireland really needs a top fighter to come through. Maybe Donovan or Crocker can do it but there's no top male fighter atm.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Relax, Eddie. A washed up Kiko hammered Gill last year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Donovan gets banjoed as soon as he faces anyone half decent

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Morrison J


    Mad how quick Conlan's punch resistance has declined. Rocked in practically every round there. Definitely time to hang them up before he gets seriously hurt.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    He never had real punch resistance. Fought a heap a nobodies and got knocked out every time he faced decent punchers. Gill not a big hitter, but just landed clean and often. MC was still standing at the end.

    MC definitely needs to hang ‘em up. I said that after his last KO loss



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Morrison J


    Not sure what that's based on. Dropped a couple of times in the amateurs alright but generally took a shot well from what I could see. He stud in the pocket for large periods against Wood and took the shots well (obviously until the end). Tonight was different. Every shot Gill landed was wobbling him. Conlan looked an old fighter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭OmegaGene


    I think the Leigh wood defeat really messed with conlan, he went off the radar for a while and wasn’t even sure if he was going to come back, clearly he shouldn’t have

    The internet isn’t for everyone



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    He rode a lot a lot a Woods’ shots.

    Even tonight, when he stayed cute and slick he was having success, albeit not hurting Gill, but again he was over-cooking on offense trying to beat up Gill toe-2-toe. And getting tired, getting hit and getting hurt



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,158 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    Conlan is done, not the career he would have wanted but could have been worse and hopefully has made some good money.

    Their is no place for him to go now sadly



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  • Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭Robert Nairac


    Padraig McCrory fighting Berlanga in Q1 of next year. I thought he might get a fight with David Morrell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    He always had very poor stamina on top of all that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Yes. Stamina ok in a fight he was pacing, but always suffered when pace got heavy



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    I feel for Conlan. He was brave to keep going after two stoppages, unfortunately he should have retired a bit earlier. A really skillful fighter who didn't quite have the punch resistance to win a world title.

    He did get further than almost everyone, but it is a bit sad that he didn't win one. I hope that he does retire, even if he feels his pro career was ultimately a little disappointing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Further than almost everyone? Who? Fellow Irish boxers of this era?

    I wouldn’t even see it as any point to make. 5 years fed very weak opposition. Given a shot at a B- level champion in Wood. Got knocked out. Then very quickly given another shot at a better WC, and knocked out.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    Almost every professional boxer.

    Few are going to get a world title shot. Unfortunately he wasn't quite good enough to become a world champion, there's no disgrace in that, and it is pretty tough mentally to come close and be denied. You seem to be unusually happy he was beaten, there's a real glee apparent when you point out Conlan's shortcomings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Like I said, not sure why you made the point.....could say same about many boxers who face weak opposition and who then get exposed when they meet quality

    Not happy at all, just sure that I would get it right about Conlan as regards bein a good to very good pro. His own thread has plenty commentary pointing out similar. I guess we're all happy so.....not everyone's Sunny, like you!



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    C’mon, you’re clearly delighted he came up short, it gave you a chance to tell strangers in the web how you saw through the hype and were proved right.. A great moment for you.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Yes. Saw the hype, and was proved right.. one a my better moments.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,758 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭megadodge


    You do realise you're getting into what will be a neverending 'discussion' with the forum's attenion-seeking champ?

    This is what he loves to do. Don't waste your time. All he wants is someone naive enough to interact with him. He will say whatever it is he thinks will trigger you in order to keep the thread going. It's pathetic, but what can you do.

    If you notice a few of his posts back, he not-too-subtely passed the baton onto Paddy Donovan. He's the next one for the copy and paste treatement.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Owl megadodge, the forum’s crank. Still popping at walshb. Rent free, lad

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I think Haney does a number on Regis this weekend

    Garcia had a decent win over Duarte last week. Still a flash/athletic boxer. Very little real fighter instincts. Garcia will again be found out when he steps up



  • Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭Robert Nairac


    Haney had another hard time making the weight. Might be one and one at 140, then move to 147.

    Ceremonial weigh-ins are daft.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    He was quite a big LW. He’s bigger than Regis. Longer and taller.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Andy Cruz on the Haney card tonight..

    Full card (subject to change)

    Regis Prograis (C) vs Devin Haney (WBC super-lightweight title)

    Liam Paro vs Montana Love (super-lightweight)

    Andy Cruz vs Jovanni Straffon (lightweight)

    Ebanie Bridges (C) vs Miyo Yoshida (IBF women’s bantamweight title)

    Amari Jones vs Quilisto Madera (middleweight)

    Beatriz Ferreira vs Destiny Jones (super-featherweight)



  • Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭Robert Nairac


    Andy Cruz bludgeoned Straffon

    Paro stopped Love



  • Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭Robert Nairac


    Superb boxing from Devin Haney. Won every round, dropped Regis and hurt him at least twice. Beautiful balance, footwork, movement, counters. Different class of fighter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Had a feeling he’d shine. Will catch that later. Folks a while back telling me Shakur beats him handy. I laughed

    9 rds in.....seriously, same old Haney really......Prograis is desperate. I never thought him great, but very basic and devoid of ideas and devoid of actual effort last night

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Robeisy Ramirez lost his WBO FW title to Rafael Espinosa. Very good fight. Espinosa a big FW. Looked two weights bigger

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Anyone tuning in to see Billam Smith tonight?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb




  • Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    I love the idea of the Riakaphore rematch.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Not a bad oul scrap there for WW. I’d think 97-93 for Cutler something like that.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Ben Whitaker now. Awful prick with that ridiculous showboating. Hopefully referee fooks him out if he carries on



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Plenty of that hes an awful asshole. I dont think anyone likes that but I suppose it’s a bit memorable. Nice enough knockout



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Very clean KO. Commentators should be calling this clown-like/disrespectful behaviour out.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Really good fight so far with Masternak slightly ahead. I think CBS will have more in the tank.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Masternak all over CBS in that round. CBS far too stiff and reactive. Looking a bit shocked and confused. Needs something big to turn this in his favour



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    I suspected that this was CBS' level. he went to the depths against Tommy McCarthy. Masternak has been hanging around gatekeeper level for years but is still a level above CBS so far.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    I agree to an extent. First fight he didn’t seem very well prepared for McCarthy second fight he was convincing. He looks very slow and ponderous here. Best chance is if Masternak runs out of steam but that’s unlikely looking at the moment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    A man who can simply hit him with ones and twos has massive success. I still have no idea what happened to Okolie that night tbh.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,696 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    CBS one the weakest WCs ever!!!!



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,912 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Wow that was an odd ending to the fight. Masterak didn’t look especially distressed going back to the corner. I wonder if it was a training injury. CBS was much better than Okolie credit where credit due. It’s a good stoppage win at the end of the day. He’s slow and cumbersome but very strong and loadsa heart. It’s a shallow enough division. I think Bredis or Opetia hammer him, Dorticus is a good fight for him their styles (or lack of) suit well



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    I missed the end as I turned over to see a former masternak conqueror in the old jungle final. He is not as big of a 'bell end' as I once thought.

    Dorticus is very inactive and now old but I feel he would easily KO CBS if he is still in any kind of form, he is a level above IMO



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