Friday Fight Night Round by Round, SPOILERS, small, Brodie

[stujones]

Ian Darke is having a good go here!!!!

McDonagh is an underated spoiler. He does have a good chin and survival instinct. He has good skills, but has a spoiler attitude and not the greatest stamina. He lost to Webb and Alexander in his career - but neither fight was a convincing win against him.

However, I aint trying to defend Small.... that was novicy and terrible.

[MrBoxingUK2]

anthony small is not an attacking fighter. he is a counter-puncher as you saw in the hall fight. he is a decent fighter off the back foot. but front foot absolute terrible

[Rocky Balboa]

Small-McDonagh was a joke of a fight. It was for the British & Commonwealth title, but it was a bout that befitted Kellogs cornflakes title.

I'm a big fan of Small & for one know he can prodice much, much better. He needs to start producing the goods more often. He was lucky to win tonight imo, & it should be the kick up the arse he needs. His trainer, David Pereira, gave him sound advice in that he should work off the jab, throw combos, not just look for the KO!

Small could have taken McDonagh out, but it was like he could not even be bothered to try hard for the stoppage.

[whicker]

Brodie V Crolla up now- Brodie caught with some crisp jabs.

[whicker]

10-9 Crolla-

first round better than the whole Small fight.

[whicker]

Well matched round- probably 10-10

[sweetscience]

116-113
Small

im no judge but can someone give a possible explaination as to how they scored this when small only landed 10 shots in 6 rounds

[whicker]

Crolla dominant- won't go on much longer.

[whicker]

Brodie hit a lot, down very heavily, down for 9 and waved off.

Anyone watch this?

Crolla wins KO Brodie 3:00 Round 3

[vargas]

I hope thats the end for Brodie so sad to see a once great fighter taking such a beating.

[whicker]

A good looking fight on behind the commenataors now-- not showing it though.. they would rather do prizefighter previews, clearly.

Coming up..

Quigg V Yuri

[MrBoxingUK2]

brodie must retire!!!! real sad to see him like this. his battles with in jin chi were epic. brodie is a legend in manchester.

scott quigg on now against yuri voronin. real big step up for scott. im impressed with quigg tho so far in his career

[Srebmun]

Brodie hit a lot, down very heavily, down for 9 and waved off.

Anyone watch this?

Crolla wins KO Brodie 3:00 Round 3

sad to see Brodie like that and a easy win for Crolla who looked good and one to watch

What kind of wonga would Brodie get for that bout?

[Old bones Ian]

Boxing can be cruel, sad to see Brodie like that.

Hopefully he can retire and find something new to focus on in his life

[whicker]

Quigg from round 3...
Can't be bothered with highlights of this sort of fight.

[MrBoxingUK2]

quigg looks impressive.. voronin is decent

[steve689]

Voronin is a decent step-up for Quigg. Brodie's day has long passed, he should retire immediately.

[MrBoxingUK2]

very very impressive from quigg!!! hot prospect!! only 21!!

[whicker]

Joe Murray on now.

[whicker]

good second round stoppage.. Brown taking a beating on the ropes.

[15829]

whicker the fight in the backround was craig wtason he looked really impressive droped him in the 1st then scored a great ko in the 2 then do a done a dance

[stujones]

It was one of the most horrible FNF's I've seen. With a terrible main event, and terribly sad seeing Brodie like that.

Everything has "gone" from him. My old man shouted "he's f*cked" from the opening seconds. His footwork had gone, his snap was gone, his reflexes has gone, his punch resistance he gone.

He was not as "clueless" as when I saw Michael Ayers fighting Jon Honney a few years ago, but in a way this was kind of sadder cause Brodie looked like he had the moves, just in slow motion. I wouldn't be at all surprised if people watching him work out geniunally thought he might have still got "it" - working at the much slower intensity of a spar. With Ayers, I would be surprised if anyone genuinally gave him a chance in his comeback - he was so shot, it didn't look like he'd ever laced than up.

Sadly, Ian Darke was wrong when he said "the warning signs were there from the opening seconds" - NO... the warning signs were there from his first comeback fight.

please, please, please retire Brodie. Rumours are that he needs cash, I just hope he can find a safer way to earn a living.

[whicker]

whicker the fight in the backround was craig wtason he looked really impressive droped him in the 1st then scored a great ko in the 2 then do a done a dance

I wish they had shown it!

:-)

[15829]

was probably the fight of the night, have they showed matt askins he won in 49 looks a good addition to the cruiserweight division

[jBacca]

Crolla talking about going down to featherweight. How do you think he will do?

I think Swifty would beat him comfortably..