As we all know curtis is a poster on this forum. After seeing the highlights of his fight big respect has to go out to CURTIS.
Please think about his life choice he was a well payed footballer and he chose this sport. Hard work, miles in the car, no fat pay check each month and a total change of lifestyle.
Tonight Curtis managed to even win on 1 judges card against the only English amateur champion ever who could not even make the weight.(very poor form)
Curtis you done yourself and all those involved in your journey proud tonight.
nelsoninfour wrote:As we all know curtis is a poster on this forum. After seeing the highlights of his fight big respect has to go out to CURTIS.
Please think about his life choice he was a well payed footballer and he chose this sport. Hard work, miles in the car, no fat pay check each month and a total change of lifestyle.
Tonight Curtis managed to even win on 1 judges card against the only English amateur champion ever who could not even make the weight.(very poor form)
Curtis you done yourself and all those involved in your journey proud tonight.
Agreed and if the fight had been at 140lbs as billed then maybe Curtis could have gone one better and pulled off the victory.
I do hope Curtis uses this moral victory and performance as a platform to aim for English and British titles at 140 lbs although maybe have a rematch against Peter McDonagh first and revenge his loss like he did with Jay Morris.
nelsoninfour wrote:As we all know curtis is a poster on this forum. After seeing the highlights of his fight big respect has to go out to CURTIS.
Please think about his life choice he was a well payed footballer and he chose this sport. Hard work, miles in the car, no fat pay check each month and a total change of lifestyle.
Tonight Curtis managed to even win on 1 judges card against the only English amateur champion ever who could not even make the weight.(very poor form)
Curtis you done yourself and all those involved in your journey proud tonight.
massive respect to Curtis, superb achievement to push such an accomplished and richly experienced boxer like Frankie Gavin since he's had relatively little time in the game...hope there's a rematch
Split decision was the last result I expected, Curtis must feel some vindication after being told he was only there because of the City link and that he wouldn't win a round....
nice job
nelsoninfour wrote:As we all know curtis is a poster on this forum. After seeing the highlights of his fight big respect has to go out to CURTIS.
Please think about his life choice he was a well payed footballer and he chose this sport. Hard work, miles in the car, no fat pay check each month and a total change of lifestyle.
Tonight Curtis managed to even win on 1 judges card against the only English amateur champion ever who could not even make the weight.(very poor form)
Curtis you done yourself and all those involved in your journey proud tonight.
I said it would go past 6 rounds and tbh i thought i was being genarious, i thought someone of Frankie's class getting in against an opponent without even any Am Fights would be a walk in the Park.. Goes to show how much i know about Boxing....
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Well done, Curtis.
Also can I gave a special mention to Glyn Rhodes who has been training Curtis recently.
Strangely this result leaves the weight issue as a live issue.
Anyone who understands boxing knows that 4lbs can make a lot of difference - aside from the fact that we will probably never know Gavin's weight come fight night.
Rematch ? Don't think there's a prayer of that.
I hope that Curtis' Promotor acknowledges how well Curtis performed and gets him the oppertunties he craves.
Once again, well done Curtis.
I saw him at the Kell Brook bill and he says - "Have you seen my odds for winning this fight? I'm 100/1 to win by knockout with Stan James! I feel like ringing up and saying 'Hey, Stan, I'm not THAT bad, you know!'"
I'd like to see him get an English title shot at Bramall Lane or something like that
Deadpan I think he deserves an English title fight on the back of this performance/result..... I wouldn't object to Woodhouse against the winner of the Cook/Theophane as a voluntary defence.
Its a great story. I've always been impressed with how quickly he is learning his trade and is a fit lad. I think last night showed that he is a fighter. He has a right to object in interviewers that label him a footballer come boxer - he showed infront of a big audience, against a world class amateur that he is very much a decent boxer.
I CAN'T WAIT to see ig Gavin pops his head up back on here, Curtis took it too him and showed the differance between the pros & ams, Funtime has a style that is well suited for computer scoring.
Where as Curtis has simply got bigger nads, so well done Curtis (a moral victory but it looked like you were the winner to me) you had the eye of the tiger last night man!
Didn't see the fight as I'm on holiday but I've said for a long time that Gavin is seriously overrated. Yes, he's good technically but his lack of power will severely hamper him at anything close to world level and the fact that Warren is bringing him along so slowly shows his lack of belief that Gavin has world class potential at the moment.
All respect to Curtis and well done but if Gavin is struggling at this sort of level I'd hate to think what would happen a level above.
yes well done to him, i thought he wasn't going to get a look in at all.
He suprised me with his defense, as before i'd found him to be open to a counter when loading up his own punches, but he kept the distance right and knew when to attack.
He can definatly hold his own on the domestic front, and a challange for the British title shouldn't be far off.
well done curtis, i thought you would lose a points victory but im absolutely delighted you were so competetive, great to see you land a few big right hands too, gavin needs to get back on here and eat some humble pie, telling you you would not land any shots let alone win a round. shame we never saw the whole fight live, i bet FW is not smiling this morning, i thought barry mcguigan was bang on the money with his comments about gavin, im tired of some tv pundits licking arse to please the promoters!
no excuses this time gavin, no cold to moan about, the weight was in your favour....(for once and for the first time so far in your professional career) you were against a fighter who tried to win!!
rhino222 wrote:well done curtis, i thought you would lose a points victory but im absolutely delighted you were so competetive, great to see you land a few big right hands too, gavin needs to get back on here and eat some humble pie, telling you you would not land any shots let alone win a round. shame we never saw the whole fight live, i bet FW is not smiling this morning, i thought barry mcguigan was bang on the money with his comments about gavin, im tired of some tv pundits licking arse to please the promoters!
no excuses this time gavin, no cold to moan about, the weight was in your favour....(for once and for the first time so far in your professional career) you were against a fighter who tried to win!!
different ball game isnt it sonny!!
fair play to frankie gavin, looks like he has come on in a different thread, more respect for answering the fans than hiding, well done frankie and good luck in the future.
Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:He's one of my favourite fighters/stories.
I love him. He's funny as f*ck too.
I saw him at the Kell Brook bill and he says - "Have you seen my odds for winning this fight? I'm 100/1 to win by knockout with Stan James! I feel like ringing up and saying 'Hey, Stan, I'm not THAT bad, you know!'"
I'd like to see him get an English title shot at Bramall Lane or something like that
I only saw the highlights, but it looked like an excellent performance from Curtis. I think he surprised everyone last night - not least Frankie Gavin.
I'm made up for him, even though he didn't win it was definitely a moral victory and he should be proud of himself.
