Board pull the plug on Witter-Down

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 16 Apr 2004, 12:00

The British Boxing Board of Control have deemed Gavin Down to be an unacceptable opponent. The fight's off.

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 16 Apr 2004, 12:01

REAL_DEAL wrote:The British Boxing Board of Control have deemed Gavin Down to be an unacceptable opponent. The fight's off.

My faith in the Board is rekindled.

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 16 Apr 2004, 12:07

it could still be a 10 rounder

knockout artist · Post by **knockout artist** » 16 Apr 2004, 12:11

Bloody right.

How can you have a G fight for the European Title?

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 16 Apr 2004, 12:13

knockout artist wrote:Bloody right.

How can you have a G fight for the European Title?

You got it. Just a glorified exhibition was in store for a title that deserved better. Christ, this is a title Clinton McKenzie sweated blood and tears for!

knockout · Post by **knockout** » 16 Apr 2004, 12:48

bennie wrote:
knockout artist wrote:Bloody right.

How can you have a G fight for the European Title?
You got it. Just a glorified exhibition was in store for a title that deserved better. Christ, this is a title Clinton McKenzie sweated blood and tears for!

and spencer oliver nearly died defending

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 16 Apr 2004, 12:51

knockout wrote:
bennie wrote:
knockout artist wrote:Bloody right.

How can you have a G fight for the European Title?
You got it. Just a glorified exhibition was in store for a title that deserved better. Christ, this is a title Clinton McKenzie sweated blood and tears for!

and spencer oliver nearly died defending

Oh my God, Spencer even climbed up from that final knockdown before collapsing. What guts.

knockout artist · Post by **knockout artist** » 16 Apr 2004, 13:00

knockout wrote:
bennie wrote:
knockout artist wrote:Bloody right.

How can you have a G fight for the European Title?
You got it. Just a glorified exhibition was in store for a title that deserved better. Christ, this is a title Clinton McKenzie sweated blood and tears for!

and spencer oliver nearly died defending

Yes, the Board have to be applauded for this one.

Witter needs to have a meaningful fight and soon.

THEBUTCH · Post by **THEBUTCH** » 16 Apr 2004, 13:01

Very true words guys. Besides which I've never really liked the idea of two gym mates who've spared hundreds of rounds boxing each other for real, at least not when they are still in the same stable at the time of the fight, and worse still having one Ingle do Witter's corner and another Ingle do Downs!

Is the whole show off, does anyone know?

adamiw · Post by **adamiw** » 16 Apr 2004, 13:08

apparently Oscar Hall has been brought in...who i think is also an ingle fighter?!?!?

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 16 Apr 2004, 13:14

adamiw wrote:apparently Oscar Hall has been brought in...who i think is also an ingle fighter?!?!?

doesnt make sense

THEBUTCH · Post by **THEBUTCH** » 16 Apr 2004, 13:15

Oh dear.

I think you could be right. Oscar is a good boxer, but very much a non-puncher. Surely his only chance is if all this chaos has completely distracted Witter.

If Michael piles on the pressure from the 1st bell he may have a remote chance of making a contest of it.

mrbassie · Post by **mrbassie** » 16 Apr 2004, 13:48

so whoever's fighting, is it going to be on telly?

steve689 · Post by **steve689** » 16 Apr 2004, 13:56

Well done to the board, i have checked the Beeb's schedules and there is no sign of a Boxing card tonight on 1 or 2?

mrbassie · Post by **mrbassie** » 16 Apr 2004, 14:30

Same here, but it's often the case that they don't list boxing when it's on anyway.

stujones · Post by **stujones** » 16 Apr 2004, 14:39

Very strange situation, I applaud the BBBoC decision (although it should have been the EBU to have done this). I can't understand the latest opponent change, its not as if there the fight with Hall is now a title fight.

Was Hall scheduled to fight?

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 16 Apr 2004, 14:55

stujones wrote:Very strange situation, I applaud the BBBoC decision (although it should have been the EBU to have done this). I can't understand the latest opponent change, its not as if there the fight with Hall is now a title fight.

Was Hall scheduled to fight?

Yes, Hall was due to fight in Darlington.

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 17 Apr 2004, 04:46

Hall was due to fight in Hartlepool. He got told on Thursday that this was off because he'd been lined up to fight Bosworth in a couple of months. He got the call yesterday lunchtime. There will be more on BBN in a couple of hours.

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 17 Apr 2004, 09:15

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Hall was due to fight in Hartlepool. He got told on Thursday that this was off because he'd been lined up to fight Bosworth in a couple of months. He got the call yesterday lunchtime. There will be more on BBN in a couple of hours.

Cheers, Ian. I've been searching everywhere for a Darlington show after, guess who?, the BBC said he was due to fight in Darlington. Do you know who he was scheduled to fight in Hartlepool?

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 17 Apr 2004, 10:00

The only place I saw it listed was local paper the Northern Echo. It was someone who I thought 'not again'. Someone who leads with his face. Might have been Craig Lynch.

BoxRec have Oscar low down in the 20s in Britain but this isn't a fair representation in my view. OK, he got done by Gary Reid but he will readily admit he was stale and lacked focus after meeting similar standard opponents.

He gave a good account of himself against Patrick Barrett, as far as I know.

Board pull the plug on Witter-Down

Board pull the plug on Witter-Down

Re: Witter fight is off