Suspicious fight to be investigated

[Neish]

Just saw this in the news, Did anyone actually watch the fight. Looks like a fix. And I was just watching a program last night about boxing and the mob mayb they moved to Ireland.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/2006/0129/gomezmcdonagh.html

[Neish]

Ps. Lookedfor this elsewhere but couldn't see it. If it was posted on another section of the forum could the mods please merge it.

Cheers

[Dodge]

He turned his back. It was fixed I'm sure he would've made it less obvious. In the immediate post match interviews mcDonagh was talking about how big a prioce he was but I reckon it wasn't fixed

[Lim till i die]

Looked very dodgy to me, your man McDonagh was an absolute bum, wet paper bags spring to mind. In the fifth it looked to me that gomez simply got disgusted at waiting for McDonagh to throw a punch he could dive from. Even when Gomez dropped his guard and then turned his back it still took McDonagh about a dozen punches to knock him down after which he got up dusted himself down and strolled to the dressing room Gomez had walked the first four rounds so it would have been inexplicable for him to just quit. I think the fact that the whole thing looked so obvious was down to disgust and indiscipline as much as anything.

Then it emerges this morning that Paddy Powers had suspended betting earlier on the day of the fight after a flurry of big money bets on Gomez to go down in the fifth

[Dodge]

Gomez hadn't walked the first four rounds. I had McDonagh winning 3 and 4. Gomez was knackered already

[joeSoap]

This was a well orchestrated scam...Gomez is a far superior fighter to McDonagh, plain and simple, and McDonagh wouldn't beat him in a month of sundays. McDoangh was 125/1 on Friday to win in the fifth or sixth, and suddenly at 4pm Saturday gets backed in to 18/1.......please !!

[Dodge]

Not on pp it wasn't. He was still 100/1 to win in 5th on Saturday night (I was going back Gomez but odds too short)

[Clifford]

Did the Irish fella win, Dunne I think ?

[Dodge]

Yeah, impressively. Moved into the worlds top 20 with that win

[joeSoap]

Not on pp it wasn't. He was still 100/1 to win in 5th on Saturday night (I was going back Gomez but odds too short)

Gomez under a cloud as officials examine sixth-round stoppage
By Ron Lewis

THE career of Michael Gomez, the former British and WBU super-featherweight champion, may have ended in dubious circumstances when his purse was withheld after he lost an Irish lightweight title bout against Peter McDonagh in Dublin on Saturday. The Boxing Union of Ireland (BUI) withheld the purse for “lack of trying” and began an investigation after bookmakers reported unusual betting.
Gomez dominated the early stages of the bout before turning his back on his opponent in the sixth round and walking away. McDonagh pursued him and knocked him down with an innocuous-looking punch and the contest was waved off. Gomez insisted afterwards that he had been caught on the temple by a punch and had become disorientated.

One bookmaker, Boyle Sports, had suspended betting on the contest when it noticed an unusual pattern of betting on McDonagh — who had lost six of his previous seven bouts — winning in the fifth, sixth or seventh rounds. McDonagh had been 125-1 to win in the fifth on Saturday morning, but the odds were down to 18-1 by mid-afternoon. Mel Christle, the BUI president, said: “The manner of the stoppage gave me great concern. It’s a serious matter which we must investigate.”

Arturo Gatti, the former WBC light-welterweight champion who was expected to be the next opponent of Ricky Hatton, the WBA and IBF champion, suffered a suspected broken right hand in beating Thomas Damgaard, of Denmark, in Atlantic City.

[Clifford]

Yeah, impressively. Moved into the worlds top 20 with that win

Thanks.

[Dodge]

I know joesoap, its just that the poster above said paddypower. I was on paddypower and the odds weren't slashed...

[ollie]

it looked very bad though.if it was a fix they did it in the most obvious way.Kinda ironic the programme on beforehand included boxing and how the mob controlled it and regularly fixed the fights.

[Lim till i die]

I know joesoap, its just that the poster above said paddypower. I was on paddypower and the odds weren't slashed...

My apologies, it was Boylesports And I exaggerated a bit as maybe the fourth round was a draw, maybe McDonagh shaded it but Gomez was a far, far superior fighter, the fact that McDonagh took what felt like several hours to knock him with his guard down says it all.

Typical scammers, took the shine off Bernard Dunne's victory. BTW do people think he's been over-hyped or he's genuinely that good. I've been pretty impressed but I'd be lying if I said I was familiar with other boxers in his division.

[Dodge]

Some great fighters in his division but he's done very little wrong so he's moving up slowly. Good to see that he's not talking about dominating the world scene so far and saying that this year should be the year he winds euro belt.

I have to say i'm very impressed with the way RTE are handling him. For their first real effort at boxing, they have it down. Boxing needs hype and there's no doubt without RTE Dunne wouldn't be half as well known as he is.

Oh and I known Gomez was the far better fighter but he was on the radio yesterday saying that in the middle of the 4th he decided to retire from boxing and thats why he gave up

[Lim till i die]

Some great fighters in his division but he's done very little wrong so he's moving up slowly. Good to see that he's not talking about dominating the world scene so far and saying that this year should be the year he winds euro belt.

I like the variety in his punching and that body shot of his is a real winder. Do you think sometimes he gets a bit carried away and leaves his chin hanging out there which some better quality opponent down the line could take advantage of??

[Block G Raptor]

Im a mate of Bernards trainer Harry Hawkins he reckon's he can go all the way but they are worried that he gets a bit cocky if the fights a bit one sided so there working on that afaik
He could be a great champion but he's not the finished article by a long way