Who is going to the Woods - Hoye fight

Foggy · Post by **Foggy** » 23 Feb 2005, 08:51

Just got my tickets booked today (going ringside baby, £65 an absolute bargin i think) and was just wondering how many of you guys are gunna travel up to The fight next week ???

stujones · Post by **stujones** » 23 Feb 2005, 09:24

Well done, £65 sounds cheap for ringside tickets. Just way too far for me to even contimplate going - I've thought about Hatton vs Tszyu but here most of the ringside seats have gone there - so it will probably be a PPV job.

Chris W 1982 · Post by **Chris W 1982** » 23 Feb 2005, 09:25

£65 to see Woods get knocked out, unless your a Hoye fan, this ain't no bargain. Hope i'm wrong but Hoye can bang.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 23 Feb 2005, 09:31

If it had been anywhere but fornicating Rotheram I may have gone, but that's just such a shit for me to get to. I've got a mate in Leeds I could have stayed with, but it being in Rotherham makes it all the more of a pain in the arse.

I wish we could actually have world title fights in London. I can't wait until that Stratford development gets built we could have some world class arenas for boxing shows. The York Hall is great, but it's not big enough for world title bouts.

I'd love to see an international fight at the dome, which is hopefully being turned into a sports arena and casino complex, if the fornicating daily mail brigade stop bleating on to the government about the dangers of gambling.

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 23 Feb 2005, 09:32

stujones wrote:Well done, £65 sounds cheap for ringside tickets. Just way too far for me to even contimplate going - I've thought about Hatton vs Tszyu but here most of the ringside seats have gone there - so it will probably be a PPV job.

low tier seats are better than ringside seats at the M.E.N arena.

mickeybeard · Post by **mickeybeard** » 23 Feb 2005, 09:44

Too far away. Shame, because I'm a fan of Woods and, after seeing his fight with Montell Griffin on tape, I think it could be 4th time lucky for him. Hoye can bang, but I thought he looked very ordinary in the Griffin fight.

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 23 Feb 2005, 09:50

I'll have to make do with the TV coverage, at least it's live I hear. Quality fight, even if it's hard to work out how Clinton gets another shot.

If Hoye hits as hard as they say, it might be an early exit for our man. But Clinton's tactics, you'd think, will be to mess Hoye around in the early rounds, and take his less experienced opponent into the later rounds, and see how he likes it there. The Sheffield man does have a good chin.....

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 23 Feb 2005, 11:24

This IBF title fight is hard to stomach, given Glen Johnson was forced to give up the IBF belt because the governing body refused to let him fight Antonio Tarver in a big-money unification match (likewise, Tarver was forced to relinquish his WBC title).
Woods should have pressed for a third fight with 'people's champ' Johnson (relations between Dennis Hobson and Johnson's camp are good) rather than pick up these tainted left behinds...

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 23 Feb 2005, 11:38

Well, why not Woods, I know it's unfair really, but since when is boxing fair, how many title shots has Tyson had? Holyfield etc. It's all about the filthy lucre.