In fairness to Haye, while he faced limited competition at heavyweight, he beat some serious fighters as a cruiserweight. Still, total cry baby on Saturday night.
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In fairness to Haye, while he faced limited competition at heavyweight, he beat some serious fighters as a cruiserweight. Still, total cry baby on Saturday night.
Undercard updates from The Big Brawl/Huddersfield & Bury bills tonight on our Twitter
we get to Wembley arena for 5pm and will tweet the results of the undercard we will also have people at the Huddersfield and Bury bills as well
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Big Day today for the Irish boxing team in Baku, at the world boxing xhampionships. 7 boxers fighting with 6 fighting for a place at the London olympics.
A mixed start - Heavyweight Joe Ward was beaten on countback after a 15-15 draw against Iranian Ehsan Rouzbahani, but better news for Middleweight Darren O'Neill who has secured olympic qualification after a 19-12 win against Mladen Manev of Bulgaria - he will now fight a Japanese fighter in the quarter finals.
Bantamweight John Joe Nevin in the ring now against a Mongolian opponent, its 4-4 after round 1 but John Joe took a standing count.
- Edit, despite 2 x standing counts Nevin has beaten his opponent on countback after a 18-18 draw. He is Irelands 2nd boxer to qualify for the olymipcs and will now face Shaymov of Uzbekistan in the quarters.
Nevin is through, 19-19 at the end. Nevin was very fortunate in my uninformed opinion.
On the remaining bouts for the Irish hopefuls,
Michael Conlon, Roy Sheehan David Oliver Joyce and Con Sheehan will be in action in the evening session, which begins at 3pm (Irish time)
David Joyce loses out 32 -30, scrappy 3rd round where Joyce made up a lot of ground but a warning with 4 seconds to go probably cost him dear.
Conlon gets through after a magnificent performance.
Sheehan didn't have a prayer in the heifer weight class against the current champ, Rocky Bilbao.
I thought he was Italian not Spanish! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Just to wrap up, Roy Sheehan is out also Beaten by a Lithuanian opponent. Not the end of the line regarding olympic qualification with the European Championships in April offering various spots depending on how many europeans qualify from these games.
3 Irish go for medals tomorrow, John Joe Nevin and Darren O' Neill in the afternoon session, Michael Conlon in the evening session. Good luck to them.
And some of those beaten may qualify for the olympics if their conquerers reach the final (Ward, Roy Sheehan, Joyce)
Out of that bunch of conquerers, I was impressed with the Lithuanian who beat Roy Sheehan, but I haven't a clue how good Roy is.
Conlon atm looks superb talented boxer, a young buck but with an old head and boundless stamina.
John Joe Nevin has Beaten Orzubek Shaymov of Uzbekistan 19-17 to win at least a bronze medal at the World championships.
However Darren O'Neill has lost 18-9 to Ryota Murata of Japan.
I see Nevin got through to the semis, I missed that one but I saw O'Neill getting pummeled to jelly in his content, not battered just well beaten.
Yeah, looks a good boxer
Nevin was 3 down after the first, 2 fdown after the second, and won by 2 with a brilliant last round
First everirishman to win 2 World medals (only 5 others have medalled - all bronze)
Wales v Ireland - ready to roll right now
Conlon lost a belter 25-24 - must have been some fight.
Rocky Conlon just losing out by a point. That was some contest, both boxed right to end, to a standstill in the last 3 seconds. The Welsh guy, Selby did all his boxing on the retreat while Conlon attacked him all around the ring.
Nevin lost his semi on countback. Finished 12-12 after 3 rounds. i think he can feel a little aggrieved tbh
John Joe Nevin edged out on a count back after a 12-12
Is the scoring a bit different now in these amateur bouts? Here in this competition, each judge gives his score and the average score is taken from the 5 at the end of each round. It use to be something else? where points were scored when judges hit the button simultaneously and the score would show instantaneously on the screen. A mad affair to try and watch a contest with one eye on the score card.
And they have got rid
Yeah, it used to be scored that way - three judges had to click the blue or red button within some fraction of a second of each other for the punch to score.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Now there are five judges, and the highest and lowest scores are dropped at the end of each round, then an average is calculated from the remaining three judges' scores. The BBC had some silly article suggesting that the change in the scoring system means the level of transparency has dropped, despite the fact that the new system is designed to weed out potentially biased judges and that instantaneous display of scoring is impossible with the new system.
Anyone notice the LoI jersey at the Tyson Fury fight?
Skip to 14.25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQK8T...&feature=feedu
Third eye my friend.
Pajkic-Pikey and well, Pikey :-)
Awful boxing weekend, the joke that was the Pacman decision, saving Fury. Nonsensical all of it.
Big loss for Amir Khan this morning, thoroughly deserved as his cheating ways finally caught up with him. I hope he'll emerge a better fighter for it and stop this nasty crap like leading with the head and leaning on opponents necks. He's gotten away with it in the UK even as an amateur. Very good fight and the undercard was good, Timur Ibragimov looks washed up and (have to check) Roy Jones fought again and beat some punch bag for a title of sorts.
Cant stand that khan, delighted he lost and cant believe that he is a contender - jeez is there any quality any more in boxing
Anyone watch the Egan-Ward fight tonight? Ward battered Egan, 29-10,
You'd have to imagine Haye will win handy if he boxes clever.
Is there anyone in pro boxing that doesn't come across as a despicable human being?
That's one thing I enjoy about it. If you think about it in the right way, it's two horrible people being punched, and it doesn't really matter who gets punched more!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
Andre Ward, Marquez, Wlad, Vitali & Pacquiao.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
Not all boxers are like Broner and Mayweather.
I don't mind Tyson Fury, he sells tickets and can be funny at times. David Haye on the other hand is a **** and I hope he gets sparked out in September.
Andy Lee! What a man! Fully deserved his win against a really good fighter. Great boxing night, Amir Khan did a good job, Tim Bradley was gifted a draw, and an Irish american lad continued to climb the rankings (Sean Monaghan).
andy lee had some fight last nite, what a comeback to that russians punch that had hurt him
hes wants the next title defense in ireland if i heard him correctly after the match
Was a real fight, like his last one. His opponent was (on paper) better, but Andy went for it. Disgraceful lack of coverage from the Irish meeja, not a surprise, but shameful.
I wouldn't say Korobov was better on paper. I'd have had Lee as slight favourite, whatever the bookies thought.
Charlie, I'd have been more impressed by the Russian's punch power and ability to take a dig than Andy's, plus he was fresher. But I agree it was closer than the predictions. I watched on Russian TV and they were backing their boy, but said it would be a late round stoppage. They kept quoting the loss against Chavez Jr, which they also broadcast at the time. I would have discounted that as the allegations made by Andy stacked up and the energy levels of Chavez were unreal. He's 6 in the world and a winnable defence against Martinez would be great, or...if Murray beats Golovkin!!!
Very strange the lack of coverage of this. If was it Bernard bleeding Dunne it would have been wall to wall.
Spud - you might know this but has an Irishman ever won a world title in Vegas before ? I think I heard before the fight that the last 11 irish world title bids were defeated on US soil- this was 12th time lucky.
Think Billy Joe Saunders is the No. 1 contender for the WBO - hope Lee milks it for every penny he can get! - the 3 arena or maybe even Thomond or Gaelic Pk in the summer.
I think it is more to do with broadcast and the chance of winning, but overall I think being based in the UK/US goes against him, plus his background and Limerick. Sad thing is he will be lauded when he's gone.
I know that in my life I don't remember an Irish fighter winning a world title fight in Laz Vegas, going back to Barry McGuigan, last I remember was Wayne McCullough a few years back. Amazing statistic!
Neither McGuigan nor McCullough ever won a title fight there. They both lost fights there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
That's incredible actually - how far back do we have to go to find one?