Banks has supposedly pulled out of Macca fight (supermerged)

[whicker]

Yes- its official.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7753584.stm

[Eraserhead]

Title Name Country
Champ VACANT GB
Interim
1 Johnathon Banks USA
2 Alexander Alekseev (Int-Cont) RUS
3 Enzo Maccarinelli GB
4 Herbie Hide GB
5 BJ Flores USA
6 Lawrence Tauasa (Oriental) SAM
7 Ola Afolabi (NABO) GB
8 Gregory Drozd RUS
9 Krzysztof Wlodarczyk POL
10 Firat Arslan GER
11 Ali Ismailov (Latino) SPN
12 Marco Huck GER
13 Pedro Otas (Latino Int) BRA
14 Powel Kolodziej POL
15 Troy Winston Roy GUY

Erm...Afolabi is the only possible guy I could see facing Enzo at that notice. He's a dangerous bastard, though. Especially given Enzo's possibly fragile mindset following the Haye blowout.

None of the others will happen. Alexeev would behead Enzo. Hide is too unpredictable and will never work with Wazza again. Flores won't do it at late notice. Wlodarcyk has got Fragomeni and his WBC belt. Arslan is still waking up from Guillermo's uppercuts. The Germans won't do Huck. Drozd won't travel.

You can throw a dart at the other names on that list.

[whicker]

Can't see it being anything other than a warm-up non title fight now.

[Coco]

If FW pays his normal $50k to one of the usual suspects, he will have no problem in finding an opponent, and it is quite likely this fighter will mysteriously slip into the rankings too

[Autobarn]

Title Name Country
Champ VACANT GB
Interim
1 Johnathon Banks USA
2 Alexander Alekseev (Int-Cont) RUS
3 Enzo Maccarinelli GB
4 Herbie Hide GB
5 BJ Flores USA
6 Lawrence Tauasa (Oriental) SAM
7 Ola Afolabi (NABO) GB
8 Gregory Drozd RUS
9 Krzysztof Wlodarczyk POL
10 Firat Arslan GER
11 Ali Ismailov (Latino) SPN
12 Marco Huck GER
13 Pedro Otas (Latino Int) BRA
14 Powel Kolodziej POL
15 Troy Winston Roy GUY

Erm...Afolabi is the only possible guy I could see facing Enzo at that notice. He's a dangerous bastard, though. Especially given Enzo's possibly fragile mindset following the Haye blowout.

None of the others will happen. Alexeev would behead Enzo. Hide is too unpredictable and will never work with Wazza again. Flores won't do it at late notice. Wlodarcyk has got Fragomeni and his WBC belt. Arslan is still waking up from Guillermo's uppercuts. The Germans won't do Huck. Drozd won't travel.

You can throw a dart at the other names on that list.

Alexeev must have something else lined up. (Or else some kind of deal to wait for the winner). My guess is he'll target the Cunningham-Adamek winner (IBF title, Ring mag title) or maybe his promoters have a piece of Guillermo Jones, who won the WBA trap on a Universum show.

[leforge]

It will be for the title, its obvious. Why did Banks pull out?

[forcefraser]

He pulled out cos he knew he was in for beasting. Typical bollocks. Smells of Inkin/ Froch.

15 notes to watch khan fight a journeyman and A-Force bore us to death again?? No way. Shithouse.

[whicker]

I can't see this even selling out the venue, let alone being a success on Pay Per View now.

[Poncey]

If it wasn't for the DLH card I'd agree.

[forcefraser]

Fair enough, with the De La Hoya fight it still holds some water.

Any decent fights on the DLH undercard?

[Poncey]

Fair enough, with the De La Hoya fight it still holds some water.

Any decent fights on the DLH undercard?

More your typcial GBP where they showcase the young stars, not decent fights. Victor Ortiz is always fun to watch. Juan Ma v Medina is a strong second fight.

Daniel Jacobs is supposed to be quite tasty (possible future opponent for Froch).

[leforge]

Still no reason on Banks? Boxing pr at times is so bad.

[chinny]

Still nothing about the banks pull out on Sky Sports website. I wonder why.

The UK side of this is now looking very thin with the original WBO fights not happening.

I have a dilemma. I'm going to the Froch fight and will want to 'listen' to the DLH-Pac fight the next day without finding out the result. Can this be done pretty easily? Or am I going to have to buy a seven hour PPV for one fight which interests me (that being a bit of a freakshow in itself)?

[leforge]

Enzo will still fight for WBO title.

[stujones]

I wonder if Banks has "pulled out" cause he is dangerous!

Harsh, maybe - but I am getting sick of promoter/s not delivering.

[DavidPayne]

Go on Terry Dunstan.

[Poncey]

If you suggest Terry Dunstan one more time....

[leforge]

Hide he would be perfect opponent.

[DavidPayne]

If you suggest Terry Dunstan one more time....

You're going to scream.....lets be honest....he's just as likely as HIDE who gets endless recommendations.

[Poncey]

If you suggest Terry Dunstan one more time....

You're going to scream.....lets be honest....he's just as likely as HIDE who gets endless recommendations.

I dunno. Herbie has fought more than once in almost a decade.

[EddieShredder]

If you suggest Terry Dunstan one more time....

What about just Dunston?

[jamesmcdonnell]

Fair enough, with the De La Hoya fight it still holds some water.

Any decent fights on the DLH undercard?

More your typcial GBP where they showcase the young stars, not decent fights. Victor Ortiz is always fun to watch. Juan Ma v Medina is a strong second fight.

Daniel Jacobs is supposed to be quite tasty (possible future opponent for Froch).

Medina, is he still plugging away. Some career that fecker's had.

[stujones]

wrong medina, james.

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer

but i think manuel is still going.

[Dioufy]

I think everyone knew that the original card Sports Network put out wouldn't be the same card come fight night - no Cook/Foster (not that I'm too gutted about that) and no Enzo/Banks (would've like to see it).

[Dioufy]

Yeah but that's nothing special - I expect Audley to break Rogan down quite easily. If David Dolan (now a cruiserweight) nearly stopped Rogan in the last round of PrizeFighter then how can anyone expect Rogan to win. Audley within five rounds for me.