jimufctna24 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I've always had a soft spot for Del Boy. I'm hoping his reunion with Don Charles sparks him into life again. The smart money is indeed with Whyte, but if the Chisora who fought Vlad turns up, I could see a minor upset occurring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted December 7, 2016 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 7, 2016 Christ, it all kicked off again today, Del Boy threw a table at Whyte at the press conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Adam Smith acted as the voice of reason. He's always been a good egg.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz25 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Sounds like it was close to being completely cancelled. Belt is no longer on the line due to the table throwing incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted December 9, 2016 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2016 The fight is on, Delboy got a two year suspended sentence on his license and a £25,000 fine.  Been watching lots of Delboy stuff on ifl the last couple of days, he's a strange bloke, you dont wanna get on his bad side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 9, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2016 Listening to Adam Smith trying to calm him down after the fracas, you could hear Del-Boy sound pretty middle-class. Shattered my illusion of him being a badman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 All this kind of shit is really getting cringeworthy, fighters throwing tables and acting like total cunts. It's just a sign of the times I guess, where they feel the need to do such nonsense to "sell" the fight. Â I remember the good old days when all you needed to sell a fight was a solid rivalry, or an ear being bitten off in the first encounter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz25 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 I've written a small piece on all the drama over at Severe MMA. Complete plug but if anyone gets the chance to check it out I'd appreciate it http://severemma.com/2016/12/combat-sports-controversy-creates-cash/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted December 9, 2016 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2016 Listening to Adam Smith trying to calm him down after the fracas, you could hear Del-Boy sound pretty middle-class. Shattered my illusion of him being a badman.Chisora's accent changes about five times during every sentence. He's a proper un-hinged character. I think the build up has been great. Good for boxing? In ways it isn't but in others it is, people are talking about it and thats what really matters. I just really think the fight is gonna suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Yeah, I think the actual fight is going to be boring. Quite a few have said the same.  Btw: Joseph Parker is fighting Andy Ruiz Jnr for a version of the Heavyweight title tomorrow morning at 8am. It's on Boxnation. I'm going to set my alarm for that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted December 9, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2016 I remember the good old days when all you needed to sell a fight was a solid rivalry, or an ear being bitten off in the first encounter. Pedantic twat hat on... Â The ear biting was actually the rematch, not the first fight. Â ...Pedantic twat hat off. Â As for Whyte vs Chisora, the problem I have with it is that I find them both incredibly difficult to like. So I don't have a horse in that race at all. Ideally it ends in a double knockout. Can see the fight being pretty shit as well, after all this bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanz25 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016   I think the build up has been great. Good for boxing? In ways it isn't but in others it is, people are talking about it and thats what really matters. I just really think the fight is gonna suck  Yeah, as much as it pains me to say this GAD got it spot on in his IFL interview about this sort of thing "we don't want it, but when it does happen it doesn't do any damage to the interest of the event, it's what will take the PPV to half a million"  Can't bare Chisora. Whyte comes across well in his interviews with IFL. Seems like a genuinely funny bloke. Worth scoping out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted December 9, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2016 Did GAD really predict this PPV does half a million? I'm not really in touch with how the boxing PPVs do on Box Office over here but that sounds laughable even for GAD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 If I recall correctly, Hearn was predicting around 400k. Joshua is a massive draw on PPV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted December 9, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2016 I know Joshua is popular but I just didn't think you'd get 400/500K over here. We've never really been a particularly big PPV buying country, have we? And it's not like Molina is a big name fight either. If he was fighting someone like Klitschko as originally planned I could see it. Haye and Fury against Joshua are the two fights I can see really doing big over here if they ever happen. If AJ can do around half a mil with Eric Molina then that's pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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