Interesting pro-Groves piece

[dondada]

By self-confessed Groves fan, David Simpson:

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2011/dont-b ... 0-50-fight

[mickey1975]

In this months Fighting Fit, the guy who wrote the Groves piece, Elliot Worsell, works for Hayemaker too i think.

[Glyn Leach]

He does indeed, all the Hayemaker press releases come from Elliot. Good lad though, BM used him before he 'went official' with Hayemaker (he's had links with them for years).

[Glyn Leach]

By self-confessed Groves fan, David Simpson:

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2011/dont-b ... 0-50-fight

Good piece, nice analysis. I should point out though that the 31 people we polled were all British trainers, it wasn't a staff poll, which the term 'Boxing Monthly's experts' might suggest.

[Asterix]

I just read the article and wanted to come here to say that I thought it was really good. Perhaps the majority of us are being a bit blind, or perhaps not? I can't wait to find out.

[Happy Slapper]

Brilliant article. Come on Groves!

[johnswan1]

I still think this will be easy for DeGale but I hope I'm proved wrong. Groves is by far the more likeable of the two.

[MightyWarrior]

Nice article, he's obviously a big Groves fan ( as I am too ) but in doing a very good job of talking up Groves' chances, he tellingly doesn't mention George getting knocked down by Anderson. Now if DeGale had shown any weakness like that, you can be sure we'd have had a few paragraphs on it.

[MightyWarrior]

By self-confessed Groves fan, David Simpson:

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2011/dont-b ... 0-50-fight

Good piece, nice analysis. I should point out though that the 31 people we polled were all British trainers, it wasn't a staff poll, which the term 'Boxing Monthly's experts' might suggest.

Yes I noticed that Glyn, thought you should have polled the BM staff too, why not. I imagine you tried to get hold of Paul Smith to ask him too ? Be interesting to hear his take on it.

Looking forward to seeing more of the same for the Haye/Wlad fight - a poll like that will come down about 75-25 for Wlad I reckon. Will it be you or GH doing the preview ?

[JC]

By self-confessed Groves fan, David Simpson:

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2011/dont-b ... 0-50-fight

Good piece, nice analysis. I should point out though that the 31 people we polled were all British trainers, it wasn't a staff poll, which the term 'Boxing Monthly's experts' might suggest.

Yes I noticed that Glyn, thought you should have polled the BM staff too, why not. I imagine you tried to get hold of Paul Smith to ask him too ? Be interesting to hear his take on it.

Smith is going for a DeGale KO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMZ4RYseSnE

[dondada]

By self-confessed Groves fan, David Simpson:

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2011/dont-b ... 0-50-fight

Good piece, nice analysis. I should point out though that the 31 people we polled were all British trainers, it wasn't a staff poll, which the term 'Boxing Monthly's experts' might suggest.

Fixed

[dondada]

By self-confessed Groves fan, David Simpson:

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2011/dont-b ... 0-50-fight

Good piece, nice analysis. I should point out though that the 31 people we polled were all British trainers, it wasn't a staff poll, which the term 'Boxing Monthly's experts' might suggest.

Yes I noticed that Glyn, thought you should have polled the BM staff too, why not. I imagine you tried to get hold of Paul Smith to ask him too ? Be interesting to hear his take on it.

Looking forward to seeing more of the same for the Haye/Wlad fight - a poll like that will come down about 75-25 for Wlad I reckon. Will it be you or GH doing the preview ?

I think the angle for this one was that it was exclusively a poll of trainers, MW.

I look forward to being embarrassed in any future staff polls as I'm a terrible picker.

[MightyWarrior]

Smith is going for a DeGale KO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMZ4RYseSnE

Ah thanks for that, interesting to see. That's pretty much how I see it too, Booth looks like he's making a massive mistake with this fight.

[MightyWarrior]

I think the angle for this one was that it was exclusively a poll of trainers, MW.

I look forward to being embarrassed in any future staff polls as I'm a terrible picker.

Oh yeah, I should have noticed that. Good read though, really enjoyed the whole mag.

[Asterix]

I think the angle for this one was that it was exclusively a poll of trainers, MW.

I look forward to being embarrassed in any future staff polls as I'm a terrible picker.

Sorry, I have to ask. Who do you think will win this one?

[Glyn Leach]

Yes I noticed that Glyn, thought you should have polled the BM staff too, why not. I imagine you tried to get hold of Paul Smith to ask him too ? Be interesting to hear his take on it.

Looking forward to seeing more of the same for the Haye/Wlad fight - a poll like that will come down about 75-25 for Wlad I reckon. Will it be you or GH doing the preview ?

We could have done a staff poll Warrior, you're right — not done that for a while, might be good to start them up again. But no, we didn't ask Smigga, we stuck to trainers exclusively — figured their take on the respective styles and developments would be interesting. The difficulty with polling fighters is that they can very rarely talk without a bias — either they are are linked to one of the fighters promotionally, they're a gymmate, etc. It becomes who they want to win rather than who they think will win. Hence for the Haye fight we've taken a different approach to the poll — when we ran a British trade one first time round though, before David's, ahem, 'bad back', it was vastly in his favour from what I remember, unrealistically so (everyone loves Dave, don't they!). I think we've got round that problem this time. And the Houst has done the preview — and very good it is, too, might I say!

[dondada]

I think the angle for this one was that it was exclusively a poll of trainers, MW.

I look forward to being embarrassed in any future staff polls as I'm a terrible picker.

Sorry, I have to ask. Who do you think will win this one?

DeGale by stoppage, I think.

[Asterix]

I think the angle for this one was that it was exclusively a poll of trainers, MW.

I look forward to being embarrassed in any future staff polls as I'm a terrible picker.

Sorry, I have to ask. Who do you think will win this one?

DeGale by stoppage, I think.

The result of this fight might impact what I think Haye's chances are like, as it'll help me to see what Hayemaker's judgement is like.

[MightyWarrior]

We could have done a staff poll Warrior, you're right — not done that for a while, might be good to start them up again. But no, we didn't ask Smigga, we stuck to trainers exclusively — figured their take on the respective styles and developments would be interesting. The difficulty with polling fighters is that they can very rarely talk without a bias — either they are are linked to one of the fighters promotionally, they're a gymmate, etc. It becomes who they want to win rather than who they think will win. Hence for the Haye fight we've taken a different approach to the poll — when we ran a British trade one first time round though, before David's, ahem, 'bad back', it was vastly in his favour from what I remember, unrealistically so (everyone loves Dave, don't they!). I think we've got round that problem this time. And the Houst has done the preview — and very good it is, too, might I say!

Yes I'd forgoten about the previous poll, and the results did seem out of whack - I doubt the bookies will be making DH favorite. True about the fighters - it's like if you ask a fighter who's the hardest puncher they've ever met -most of the time they'll pick a fighter they've beaten, rather than someone who's actually knocked them out.

Looking forward to the Houst preview. He don't often get 'em wrong !

[Glyn Leach]

The result of this fight might impact what I think Haye's chances are like, as it'll help me to see what Hayemaker's judgement is like.

Could dent the camp's confidence, Adam and David do like to think they're a step ahead of the rest. That said, it might be like when Ryan Rhodes lost for the first time, to Otis Grant, and his stablemate and friend Naz went out and smacked Kevin Kelley the next night even though he was in a state of shock because he believed his and Ryan's (Brendan Ingle) style was impossible to beat on points.

[whiskey]

I'm siding with Groves on this one.

He is being chin-checked but getting off the floor to win. His comeback fight against the African was a gimme, but he showed the flair which was lacking in the Anderson fight.

Froch uses Anderson a lot for sparring. He says he can hang with anyone - yet Groves flattened him after getting off the canvas.

Groves passed his test - and I'm yet to see Degale pass any so far. I'm not suggesting he can't but simply being realistic about his level of opposition to date and thus my siding with a more proven fighter.

His record is not as good as Georges and thus he has appeared better and more dominating than he really is.

His punching teqnique does not seem to indicate he is going to mop the floor with Groves, who himself has shown decent power and shot selection in all of his fights.

I think George is going to step up to plate in this one. And his rough rides in fights and sparring have forged a decent fighter.

[Loynesy]

Good piece, nice analysis. I should point out though that the 31 people we polled were all British trainers, it wasn't a staff poll, which the term 'Boxing Monthly's experts' might suggest.

Yes I noticed that Glyn, thought you should have polled the BM staff too, why not. I imagine you tried to get hold of Paul Smith to ask him too ? Be interesting to hear his take on it.

Looking forward to seeing more of the same for the Haye/Wlad fight - a poll like that will come down about 75-25 for Wlad I reckon. Will it be you or GH doing the preview ?

I think the angle for this one was that it was exclusively a poll of trainers, MW.

I look forward to being embarrassed in any future staff polls as I'm a terrible picker.

Harrison to beat Haye is one of my favourite Ian picks....

[57philbox]

if the piece is on george groves why is there an effing great big image of my bald patch???????

[WestEndRiot]

Cracking article that was, spot on about the power warren has to sway public opinion. For the record my money is on groves.

By the way glyn, how much longer is this issue on sale, I wanna catch the groves degale piece but haven't been able to find it.

[Glyn Leach]

Cracking article that was, spot on about the power warren has to sway public opinion. For the record my money is on groves.

By the way glyn, how much longer is this issue on sale, I wanna catch the groves degale piece but haven't been able to find it.

Next one comes out on 27th so should be on sale til then mate