Haye Undercard

[leeharding]

what a discticly average underacrd. They really should've moved Groves to the bill

y is that like people make me laugh watching groves go through some one very easy or a barn stormer between hall and davies coz theres no way that fights gonna go 12 but people r fixcated on big names when to be fair it dont interest me 1 bit watching a d,gale or a groves tony jaffa getting in there and polaxing some one.

[leeharding]

Two ok fights but when I've splashed out £150 on a ticket (other will have spent up to £800) I'd expect a bit more than this, especially given that the main event is unlikely to last very long. Surely Groves should have been put on this card rather than one at York Hall two weeks earlier. If they added Dodson and John Watson (who I think is still with Hayemeker) that would make it marginally better. That said, I do think that every live PPV bill should have at least 2 intriguing fights with high profile names.

Buying tickets BEFORE the undercard is announced and then complaining about it's quality and you're expected more for your money

All you had to do was look at the haye Vs Ruiz undercard to know what sort of stuff would be served up.

OK smart arse, but if I'd waited until the under card had been announced I would have had to pay 600 pounds plus for a ticket as none of the others are left. The point I was trying to make was that the under card should be of better quality when fans are paying large amounts of money for tickets. Shame morons like you have to spend their time patronising others.

well dont buy the tickets and moan about it better still get on ebay and sell them then u can stop moaning then carnt u

[MacTavish]

Calm down mate - was only joking!

[oliverfennell]

theyre 2 good fights, maybe they will announce some more soon eh, give them chance.

Sure, they're good fights in terms of the matchmaking, but we really should have some bigger names also in good fights. This is, after all, a world heavyweight championship promotion. Take a look at pretty much any world HW title fight (bar recent Klitschko ones) and compare the undercards. World HW title shows should be prestige events.'

Look at Lewis-Botha, for an obvious example. The quality of the main event was probably about the same in terms of matchmaking, it was PPV, and tickets sold well (not a sell-out, but it did decent numbers). Much like Haye-Harrison, 99.9% of the tickets and PPVs will have been bought for the main event alone and a poor undercard would not have harmed it all that much, yet even so the whole promotion was treated with the gravitas it deserved. Just look at the amount of fights and some names on that bill: http://boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=17203

[ourkid1984]

According to Box rec schedule Tony Dobson vs Dustin Dirks is on the bill which looks like a good fight on paper, Dobson needing to prove himself against a knock out artist from Germany. Does this addition mean that there will be more Germains?

I wouldn't be suprised if more Moloney fighters got on the bill as well considering he likes his heavyweights. Maybe someone like McDonnell, Fury and Jefferies?

[bennie]

Chris Edwards makes the first defence of his Commonwealth flyweight title against Ashley Sexton in the chief support to the David Haye-Audley Harrison no-brainer in Manchester on November 13.
The squat, rugged, vastly experienced Edwards won the title with a close, bruising decision over Namibia’s useful Abmerk Shindjuu earlier this year in his home city of Stoke, having dropped a tight 12-round decision to Shinny Bayaar just a fight earlier. I say this because the talented but inexperienced Sexton then took on Bayaar for the British flyweight title and put up a decent show on the way to a 12-round draw, which meant that Bayaar hung on to the Lonsdale Belt.
Does it makes Sexton better than Edwards? No, in a word, because both men busted up southpaw Bayaar but were ultimately outsmarted, and Sexton looked lucky to salvage a draw. Edwards has bounced back; Sexton has to show he can do the same, although the 22-year-old from Cheshunt was looking sharp prior to Bayaar and there is every reason to believe that those 12 hard rounds will have brought him 'on' as a fighter. The unbeaten Sexton is still a relative newcomer to the game at 9-0-1 (5), a pro since 2008. Edwards turned pro in 1998. He is all of 34.
This separates the two, in my opinion. Sexton is the fresher man and knows how to box, and while the tough, aggressive champion will inevitably rumble forward and make it interesting, I can see Sexton landing enough smart counters to take a close decision.