Geale Title Defence

[razor7]

I notice that the December title defence for Daniel Geale v tba which has been listed for quite a while in boxrec is now a 10 round non title fight against kiwi Daniel McKinnon.Does anyone know what happened? When does Geale have to defend by?

[Hounddawg]

I'm pretty disappointed with this, i expected a higher calibre of oppenant, even though this mckinnon can bang.

[AntonS]

Where's frigging Monty when we need him?

[Brute]

With all the titles out there, there may be a shortage of middleweight contenders. The IBO is not rated very highly.

As well as that, if a serious contender took on Geale and lost it would hurt his bargaining power, and Daniel has a bad habit of knocking people out.

[razor7]

True Brute but in the IBO you can defend against anyone in the top 35 if I'm not mistaken. Boxrec currently rates Geale at no.4 ( a bit high I think but there you go). Wouldn't anyone from 5-35 be keen to fight him? If you rated say 20-35 you would jump at the chance as Geale is a relative unknown internationally. I would think those in the centre of the universe ( eg USA) would think geale was beatable & they could pick up a title from one alphabet organisation which actually seems to be gaining credibility.Any thoughts? That makes the McKinnon fight a bit disappointing.

[Hounddawg]

I think outside of the WBC,WBA,IBF and WBO it(IBO) would be the next belt i rate.

Some current and former champs that defend the IBO belt, Wlad,Hatton,Tarver,Hlatswayo.

better than the other sanctions in IMO.

[Monty]

McKinnon was supposed to be a non-title warm-up fight before defending the title against a bigger foe, that fight was scrapped so they put back their defence as well. He has a big name lined up in his next fight

[Marlin]

Any of these blokes?

1 Kelly Pavlik 1251 34 (30) - 1 (0) - 0
2000 26 orthodox Youngstown, Ohio, United States
2 Arthur Abraham 1058 28 (23) - 0 (0) - 0
2003 28 orthodox Berlin, Germany
3 Felix Sturm 731 31 (13) - 2 (1) - 1
2001 29 orthodox Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
4 Daniel Geale 613 19 (12) - 0 (0) - 0
2004 27 orthodox Mt Annan, New South Wales, Australia
5 Sebastian Sylvester 542 29 (14) - 3 (2) - 0
2002 28 orthodox Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
6 Javier Castillejo 526 62 (43) - 8 (2) - 0
1988 40 orthodox Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
7 Wayne Elcock 523 19 (9) - 3 (2) - 0
1999 34 orthodox Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
8 Marco Antonio Rubio 522 43 (37) - 4 (2) - 1
2000 28 orthodox Georgetown, Texas, United States
9 John Duddy 465 25 (17) - 0 (0) - 0
2003 29 orthodox New York, New York, United States