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It's ridiculous. 2 failed tests now! Failed a test in July and thought it was a faulty test from VADA. The most stringent testing you can do. Carried on doing the same regime. Then failed another in September. That's a bit weird isn't it.

The amount of excuses coming out from Team Benn/Hearn is piss poor. It's only traces though, so it's alright. Must have been cross contamination with all the eggs he's eaten to bulk up. Eddie's looked in Conor's eyes and he's been a mate for 7 years. So he knows he hasn't been doping. Someone could have spiked his drinks in the gym. It's in the hands of the lawyers. We've got the best scientists on this. I'm never boxing in UK again under BBBoC, etc, etc.

Conor Benn has now given up his bbboc license. So he basically can't fight in the UK.

Eddie Hearn is whining saying Benn didn't get a fair hearing. When Dilian Whyte failed a drugs test. He had a hearing with UKAD and they were happy with the outcome and the fight went ahead. 

Supposedly Benn didn't have the same opportunity. Hearns saying the bbboc leaked the drug test results to the Daily Mail and when everyone found out about the failed drugs test, the bbboc had to stop the fight happening. 

If you failed a drugs test, you failed a drugs test. Sounds like Hearn is pissed off that he spunked millions promoting the fight and got nothing out of it.

Supposedly Benn is going to make a statement in 48 hours with all the facts...

The chief support, Dubois v Lerena is a bit poor as well. Lerena is a cruiserweight who's pumped himself up and had 2 fights at heavyweight. Last one was against Mariusz Wach.

I see Jack Catterall and Josh Taylor are finally going to have a rematch in February. After all that fucking about it's still at 140lbs. Taylor has been stripped of most of his belts. He's got one world title left now. He's also moved on from Ben Davison as his trainer. New trainer is Joe McNally. Never heard of him but he has supposedly trained Liam Smith and David Price in the past.

I think Shields will outbox Marshall and win by decision.

Wasn't interested in the first Haney v Kambosos fight and not fussed about the rematch. Haney looked like shit on the scales, weight drained very badly. Once this is over, he has to be moving up. Kind of crazy, he's only 23 and this will be his 29th fight.

Could be a lot worse. It's $75 in the US to watch it.

After the fight Ben Shalom said, the original fighter scheduled for Frazer Clarke pulled out. They got offered this undefeated Bulgarian guy and took it, so there was at least a fight happening.

14:15 on here.

Juan Francisco Estrada overcome compatriot Argi Cortez at the weekend. As soon as the win was announced.

The trilogy fight - Juan Francisco Estrada v Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez was announced for December. Both fighters have got a win each, so this is the decider.  Their last fight was runner-up for 2021's fight of the year. Punch count in the 1000s.

Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua is walking that tight-rope of announced/falling off a cliff. They've agreed the purse split and Matchroom have accepted the offer. Now trying to decide the date and venue.

Boxxer are starting to put on a few dodgy shows recently. We had the Jack Catterall/Josh Taylor fight back in February which seems to have derailed both of their careers.

Last month they put on a show in Albania where Florian Marku headlined against a game Mexican fighter, Miguel Parra Ramirez. Whole fight was rigged for Marku to win. Marku would have probably won anyway but the fight scoring was made to look a lot healthier by the abysmal Italian referee.

Marku pushed over Ramirez at the start of round 4. Referee scored it a knockdown

Ramirez knocked Marku down in round 8, referee stopped the round, 6 seconds early.

Ramirez & Marku got in a tangle, so Ramirez got a point taken off for pushing with no prior warnings.

Then last night there were two terrible fights. Frazer Clarke faced off against a 6'5" Bulgarian skeleton. Everytime he got touched he went down. Think the fight lasted 90 seconds. Clarke had to apologise to the crowd who had paid to see that rubbish. Not just a mismatch it was dangerous.

Then the main event, Liam Smith v Hassan Mwakinyo finished with a ridiculous ending. Mwakinyo supposedly rolled his ankle in round 3. Then in round 4 he kept going to the corner and kneeling down, without taking any shots. After the 2nd time he did it, the fight was called off. Cue Mwakinyo getting up, walking around the ring absolutely fine, protesting about the stoppage.

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Luis Ortiz v Andy Ruiz Jr tonight. Credit to Ruiz Jr, he's got himself into great shape for the fight,

Leigh Wood v Mauricio Lara has been booked in Nottingham for next month.

I would have Lara down to win that one. But I read Naoya Inoue sparred Leigh Wood and he said Wood was the hardest puncher he has faced.

Naoya Inoue is facing off with Paul Butler on December 13th in Japan. Winner becomes undisputed world bantamweight champion.

Biggest waste of time for a show. Surely the 02 will be nowhere filled for this. I saw the final face-off where they were holding onto each other and had to be "pulled apart by security." Just trying to drum up some attention for the fight. Chisora doing his I'm crazy me schtick, is old hat now.

The more exciting fight for me is over in Texas. Rey Vargas vs. Mark Magsayo for the featherweight world title. Both pretty big punchers and undefeated. Mexico v Philippines. Magsayo is seen as a Manny Pacquiao protege as he's trained by Freddie Roach. Rey Vargas is trained by the legendary Nacho Beristain. 

Magsayo beat Gary Russel Jr for the title at the beginning of the year. Russell hurt his shoulder early in the fight. He was fighting one handed and was getting beaten pillar to post. The judges relinquished and scored the fight to Magsayo by two rounds. One judge had it a draw. Gary Russel Jr is a great fighter but his once a year title defense again routine fighters was so frustrating seeing an excellent fighter squander his skills. 

We moved into our house in May 2021. When we viewed the house, it had a fairly grassy lawn. When we got the keys. This is what we saw

It's took a year and it's been in various stages of patchy, balding, weeding and feeding it. Using all different types of lawn seed, to try and get it to grow. But it's getting there.

So the Taylor/Zepeda fight has been called off. Josh Taylor has vacated his WBC title on the day of purse bids, because he can't defend the title so close to his wedding. So Jose Zepeda vs. Jose Ramirez has now been sanctioned for the WBC light welterweight title. This frees up Josh Taylor for an eventual rematch with Jack Catterall.

Only saw the highlights of that one. Eggington is never in a dull fight, but the Polish guy was so static and had no head movement, he was there for the taking at the start. He kept looking at his corner in the first round, trying to say, what the fuck have you signed me up for here. But he was tough as nails and wouldn't go down. It looked like he had some success from the highlights. But the scorecards were a shutout for Eggington.

Small card from this past Saturday in Texas, saw standout, super flyweight star, Jesse Rodriguez take on Srisaket Sor Rungvisai. New vs old in a way. Rungvisai is tough as nails, feet planted, ready to bang. Rodriguez who was defending his WBC super flyweight title was having none of it. His speed was causing Rungvisai all kinds of problems and the hardest punches are the ones you don't see coming. Rungvisai got dropped towards the end of the fight. And the ref stepped in the 8th after Rodriguez unleashed an unanswered, ten punch combo. Next for Rodriguez has to be Roman Gonzalez or Juan Estrada and then he's cleaned up the division.

Also on the show was Murodjon Akhmadaliev defending his two super bantamweight titles against the tough, Ronny Rios. Akhmadaliev has only had 10 fights but already has two world titles. Stephen Fulton has the other two world titles and there has to be a unification fight in the pipeline. Akhmadaliev had a tough time with Rios, he wouldn't go down from some massive liver shots. In the end the culmination of big shots from Akhmadaliev made the referee step in on the last round after Rios did go down. But he looked ok to continue. Akhmadaliev is only 5'5 but he has a good reach for his weight class and his shoulders are like breeze blocks 

Work for a small, family company and I help with shipping out parcels and helping customers get them returned if they are faulty or unsuitable 

We send the parcels for free, next day delivery. If you don't want the item and want to return it. You either take it to the post office and pay to return it or we will send our courier round to collect it and deduct £20 from your refund.

When I told a customer who wanted to return her 3rd unsuitable item this last week. She told me, that's expensive. I said mmmm, she repeated, I said that's expensive. I told her that's our company policy. Alternatively, you can take it to the post office and return it to us. She said, no that's ok. Please arrange the courier.

And usually, when you want to arrange a courier they say. I've got nothing to put it in. No boxes, no mailing bag, no brown paper, no old dustbin bag you can tape round it. You have to explain to them insistently. It needs to be in more than just the retail box to send it back. They think it's perfectly acceptable for the courier to turn up and slap a shipping label straight on the product and then expect a full refund when they've just wrecked the products box.

On 6/21/2022 at 11:08 AM, Gooner said:

For anybody who may not be aware, there is a new Documentary on Josh Taylor being shown tonight at 22:00pm on BBC Scotland. It follows him around before his fight against Catterall.

Saw the thumbnail for that documentary. He has quite the gut on him when he's not in camp. He said it was his dad bod. But he doesn't have any kids...

Maybe that's why he was struggling to get down to 140lbs. We will see if this Jose Zepeda fight comes to fruition. They keep postponing the purse bids for it, for some reason 

Not having many avenues for Derek Chisora to go down, so it's a rematch with Kubrat Pulev at the O2 in July for his next fight. Chisora's last fight against Joseph Parker had the retirement stakes. He got soundly beaten and nothing happened. Now Eddie's throwing the retirement angle out there again for this one. The first fight was a boring affair, having another fight is just a stop gap or make money opportunity for them both 

The little rowdy slaphead with the beard soon piped down once his mate got a little love tap. Don't really condone it but it is satisfying to see a bunch of aggressive idiots go from terrorisers, to errr why did you do that mate. 

What a monster, happy I got so see the whole fight in my lunch break.

Vergil Ortiz Jr. and David Avanesyan have signed up to fight each other in Texas, August 6th. That should be a good scrap. Avanesyan is a full on, pressure fighter and Ortiz is an undefeated, stopped every opponent, hard hitting puncher.

It didn't really get mentioned, but Zach Parker's interim world title fight at Pride Park against Demetrius Andrade. Got postponed because Andrade suffered a shoulder injury. The WBO have now withdrew sanctioning it as a world title fight altogether as Andrade will be out for 4 months. Parker is still the mandatory challenger, but Canelo holds the full title and will fight GGG next. So the whole fight for Parker has been scrapped and won't fight anyone else for the interim world title.

I guess the fight was sanctioned in the first place because Andrade was WBO middleweight champion but vacated and was going to moved up to super moddleweight. Without Andrade in the equation, the fight won't happen at all.

Seen a few bands at the Rescue Rooms. Dave Hause, Against Me, Marcus King. It's basically a big square room that holds about 500 people. There is a bar at the back of the room. There is a gantry on another level where you can stand for a raised view. The main room links to another bar as well.

Sound wise it always sounds pretty good. But that could just be down to the band's engineer.

Rescue Rooms is on a complex with Rock City and Stealth. There is a hotel and multi storey next door. And it's 5 minutes walk to the city centre. 

The only venue I'm not too keen on in Nottingham is the Bodega Social Club. It's above a bar and they have a bar on the left side of the main room. When you are standing and watching the band, people are always walking left and right like a space invader trying to get the drinks in.

Front page of the Sunday Mail today they are revelling in Boris Johnsons ability to bring back sticking a crown on the front of a pint glass.

Blue passports and all that.

They waited for lockdown rulings to ease in Paris, so Tony Yoka could fight Martin Bakole to a capacity crowd. Over 10,000 people saw their French hero get absolutely battered over 10 rounds.

Left bloodied and knocked down twice. The 277lb blunderbuss, Bakole didn't give Yoka any respect and just came out swinging all fight. Yoka was happy to stay out of harm's way, dancing around the ring.

When it came down to the judges. They tried so hard to give the fight to Yoka, who won 2 rounds at best. Bakole was slightly up on two cards. And one maniac judge somehow scored it 94-94. 

Kelly's trainer has now come forward and said they changed the weight limit 2 weeks before the fight. The promoter agreed to the weight change but the opponent didn't. 

To me, that's not an agreement then.

They all knew this was going to happen. But stuck to promoting the fight. And when it didn't happen went onto TV and said the opponent bottled it.

Kelly's opponent weighed in, probably because he knew, if you weigh in, you get paid. And had no intention to fight.

Was expecting an easy win for Josh Kelly on his debut at 154lbs. But it all went wrong for him. His opponent wouldn't leave the hotel to go to the fight venue.

There seems some confusion as to what went wrong. I checked Kelly's Instagram and he says the fight weight was supposed to be between 154lbs and 157lbs and that was decided 3 weeks ago. I guess he's saying that to make himself less culpable.

Bear in mind, he's been saying this has been the best training camp of his life and he's in the shape of his life. He should have been in able to make the 154lbs limit if he's going to fight at that category for the foreseeable future. Kelly was 156lbs on the scales.

Anyway, his opponent came in at 151lbs on the scales. Sauerland said in a channel 5 interview during last night's show, with Kelly standing next to him. Josh came in 1.2kg (2.6lbs) over the weight limit. No weight fines were discussed. They didn't ask him to lose the extra weight. Just said, see you tomorrow for the fight. So that contradicts Kelly's statement on Instagram saying the fight weight was between 154lbs and 157lbs

They also said the opponent was being paid £15k for the fight. They offered him £50k to come out of the hotel and take the fight. But he still wouldn't do it. 

Bizarre situation, Kelly was supposed to fight back in March but didn't for whatever reason. Sauerland said he will be on a Liverpool card in 5 weeks time.