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I hope they've already sold a lot of tickets because without Brahmer they are really going to struggle. 

Eubank won't get any better because he doesn't listen to anyone. If he trained with a good trainer he has the foundations of a really good fighter. Him vs David Lemieux would be a hell of a scrap. I can't see him causing Saunders, Canelo, or GGG any problems though and that where the money and the titles are.  

5 hours ago, Egg Shen said:

cant see Smith having too much trouble with Braemer, hes 39, past his best and is cutting down to make the weight. German scorecards aintas bad as they once were but i see Smith stopping him convincingly.

I expect Smith to win. I had money on him to win the whole thing before it started. I did him and Gassiev individually and as a double. 

Also @wandshogun09 you missed May 11th Usyk v Gassiev off your list. That has the potential to be fight of the year. 

If Smith wins Egg. Beating Braehmer in Germany isn't a given. 

The next 3 months is ridiculous Wand. In my 30+ years as a boxing fan I can't remember a time where big fights just keep coming week after week. 

Someone had pissed on Naz's chips. He'd eaten them anyway he just wasn't happy about it. 

You say about getting lost in the 50/50 club there @WyattSheepMask but that might not be a bad thing in the end. Life President of the 50/50 Club Dolph Ziggler has just signed a ridiculous new contract.  If Black and Dream end up a dollar behind Dolph they will have done alright. 

5-1 to 4-1 is shortening up your Lordship not drifting out but your point is well made. Most of what I have read today seems to be Groves on points so that might get a little shorter yet. 

I don't think that it makes it look second rate. The way T20 and 50 over cricket are going they are nearly becoming a different sport from  multi day cricket. The way i'm starting to look at it is this. Cricket is becoming more like athletics. Usain Bolt was brilliant at 100 and 200 metres but Jamaica didn't expect him to do the 5 and 10 thousand metres just because he was an athlete. You will get players becoming more specialised as the game goes on. There will still be the odd player who can do all of the disciplines of the game (Decathlon) but there will not be lots of them.

There is only one thing that Yorkies hate more than people from outside Yorkshire, and that is people from other parts of Yorkshire. It will get a bit Judean Peoples Front/ Peoples Front Of Judea. 

They've pretty much gone with all Test grounds. It's going to be a bit T20 overload with the new competition and keeping the old one. 

Ideally Butch you would have dropped 1 of the London sides and put in Bristol I'd guess. 

He looks a lovely cat, but what I take from this pic is a massive degree of "Utensil Envy". Such orderly utensils are nothing but a dream in this house.

25 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

 

Does Christina Trevanion ever host?

Occasionally but not enough. 

I'm not sure it's fair to say no prior convictions Louch. Some of them have convictions for other things that would perhaps not make them ideal for training juniors. One of them was passed over by WWE because of his criminal record. 

They wouldn't because there hasn't been a CRB check for over 5 years. Its a DBS, it's similar but not the same. 

And in response to your original post. If there was a legal framework for wrestling and the promoter you are talking about complied with it then he would be able to show that evidence to the venue and there wouldn't be a problem. 

It's only if these whiter than white promoters you know do something about it that things will change, as like I said the chances of the law been enforced are slim. 

The thing is @theringmaster that training schools are not separate from the rest of the business. I have been to loads of shows in the last 20 years and at pretty much all of them trainees would be helping to set the ring up and then if there was a rumble they would be in it. Wrestling is a shit business. It needs cleaning up. Attitudes like yours are part of the problem and the only way it will change is by some some sort of legislation because wrestling will never change itself. Its unlikely to happen but it should. 

The attitude that's the problem is yours. You make out that having a DBS and proper accountability is some kind of "Suffering"  when all it is is common human decency which you don't seem to have any of. Paramedics have a DBS. Teachers have a DBS. Child minders have a DBS, but Johnny Kickpadz Wrestling trainer he's fine, he doesn't need a DBS because it's unfair to him. Its not his fault that other trainer turned out to be a kiddy fiddler.  Then him and the wrestler Frankie Flipbump are going to run a week long wrestling camp in the school holidays. They are going to spend all day teaching 14-18 year old kids how to wrestle. Its ok though it's not like there is any close physical contact in wrestling. 

If you can't get it through your thick skull that anyone who teaches needs to be properly DBS'd then there is actually something mentally wrong with you. 

44 minutes ago, theringmaster said:

 I agree CRB checks if you are a trainer or performer would be a wise idea if you were in the industry but the idea 'it should the law' is getting a bit silly. 

Really? You are wrong in just about every way. 

If a trainer is working with anyone under 18 they should be DBS'd, and the same goes for any wrestler who comes in to do some training. I don't think it's  case of "It should be law" I'd imagine it already is but it is ignored for the most part. 

11 minutes ago, Louch said:

Isn’t a DBS only going to work for anyone who has been convicted of something?

That is correct. An enhanced DBS will have a full criminal record on it and it will have if the person is on the POVA ( Protection Of Vulnerable Adults) list and if they are able to work with children. 

Anyone who works at any other sort of school will be DBS'd so why should wrestling be any different. I umpire cricket. Junior players are not supposed to get changed in the same room as adults and if you are playing an away game junior players have to go with a parent, they are not allowed to travel in a car with other players on their own. Sticking a couple of 15 Year Old trainees in the ring van and driving to a show to put the ring up should be a definite no-no but I know that it goes on. 

I am also a Bears fan @BigJag and normally I love me some defence, but a game that only had 1 punt. Where Nick Foles became the first QB to both pass and receive for a Super bowl touchdown, a game where Tom Brady passed for 505 yards and still lost, a game that had the most yards of any game in NFL history and yet still could have been decided with the last throw of the game. 

It was all the thing Vince wants the XFL to be, and he has no chance at all of matching last night's game. 

1 minute ago, Drfunke said:

In what sense..i dont like NFL so didnt watch...

Probably the greatest game of all time. 

Watched that fight today Egg, it was cracking. Gassiev's hand speed in the later rounds is remarkable. There's one combo that is just sensational. The punch for the 1st knockdown would have finished most matches. 

Again I'm still not loving Ronald Macintosh and his bizarre love of middle names, but I tell you who I am warming too. That is old Davey Diamante. Every announcer needs his gimmick and his is strong. Those dreads are magnificent and his "From the four corners of the world to the four corners of this ring" set up line is strong work. 

Good to see I kept up my 100% wrong prediction rate. 

I agree with you Egg, Bellew was rubbish on commentary tonight, the highlight of which was giving a round 10-9 To Carson Jones over Ted Cheeseman when Jones had been deducted a point in that round. 

Schofield may occasionally turn up on This Morning still pissed from the night before but the only glowing glowing orbs following him around are Holly Willoughby's norks, and I don't think it's spiritual what they are sending to him. 

Who do you fancy in that Egg? I think Okolie likes the fight too much and that Chamberlain might just catch him out. It's an exciting fight and probably 50/50 But I just fancy Chamberlain.