The official Cleverly v Bellew in play discussion thread

[rossij8]

This is worse than predicted, and Im not sure that was possible

Are you gutted Quigg and Smith didn't iron their opponents out in 1?

Nope, would like to see a bit more coming back from opponents

[Finn]

This is worse than predicted, and Im not sure that was possible

Are you gutted Quigg and Smith didn't iron their opponents out in 1?

Smith do alright to be fair but quigg is putting in a very poor performance. You aren't going to beat frampton being 1 dimensional and sitting on his chest throwing shots. Where the jab?

[rhino222]

what a tough tough man....I can hear quiggs voice in his interview already!!

[Glass Joe]

Mathroom didn't have the budget for any decent opponents, hindside they should of had less names and better oppoents. lets hope degale and groves don't stink the place out.

[jameswilson]

This is worse than predicted, and Im not sure that was possible

Are you gutted Quigg and Smith didn't iron their opponents out in 1?

Nope, would like to see a bit more coming back from opponents

How did you have the McDonnell fight after 6 then? To say this guy isn't throwing back, I mean he doesn't have power, are you actually facing the right way watching the Quigg fight?

[jameswilson]

Mathroom didn't have the budget for any decent opponents, hindside they should of had less names and better oppoents. lets hope degale and groves don't stink the place out.

Yeah it's rumoured Groves is being paid decent money. I would have liked to have seen him off the card with that money reinvested in the other fights.

[rhino222]

scott what??... what the hell did john macdonald just roar?

[jameswilson]

scott what??... what the hell did john macdonald just roar?

Same thing he roars when he is announcing anyone's sirname.

[handsofstone]

119-109

Apparrent pretty early that Quigg wasnt gona drop Otake,but Scott landed some hard shots to head and body that would make a lot of fighters crumble,Hidenori's one tough fellow

This cards gonna overlap the Pacquiao card at this rate

[Joellucketti]

My cousin rang me about 8 saying if he paid could he come up and watch it, I did my best to put him off and it worked lol. Hows it getting on im hearing boring so far??? Bring on next weekend

[Boxerbeetle]

Mathroom didn't have the budget for any decent opponents, hindside they should of had less names and better oppoents. lets hope degale and groves don't stink the place out.

In hindsight??? You're either taking the piss or don't follow boxing - that's been said since day one.

[jameswilson]

My cousin rang me about 8 saying if he paid could he come up and watch it, I did my best to put him off and it worked lol. Hows it getting on im hearing boring so far??? Bring on next weekend

Another one of Manchester Hitman's 40 post alter egos.

[dookus]

Also, on the "correct spelling of Otake" pedantry: Arguably there is a correct way to spell Otake in the Roman alphabet, because a) Japanese has far fewer sounds than English and, with only a couple of exceptions (e.g. the "f" in Japanese), they closely match their English equivalents; and b) there's an accepted way of transliterating Japanese words into romaji, the Hepburn romanization, which has been used for well over a century and is the accepted standard in Japan. I really should get out more but there are all these stacked boring undercards to get through first.

[punchdrunkgench]

lol hearn getting the adverts out for groves degale 2 excluisevly on payfukinperview

[handsofstone]

My mates been out and had it paused,he's just text saying he's about to start the Smith/Sjekloca fight,poor pudendum,maybe i should tell him to ffw to now

[lefty]

Also, on the "correct spelling of Otake" pedantry: Arguably there is a correct way to spell Otake in the Roman alphabet, because a) Japanese has far fewer sounds than English and, with only a couple of exceptions (e.g. the "f" in Japanese), they closely match their English equivalents; and b) there's an accepted way of transliterating Japanese words into romaji, the Hepburn romanization, which has been used for well over a century and is the accepted standard in Japan. I really should get out more but there are all these stacked boring undercards to get through first.

So is Otake the correct spelling then? lol

[ShadrachSimmo]

scott what??... what the hell did john macdonald just roar?

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiggg.....

Or something to that effect?

[jameswilson]

lol hearn getting the adverts out for groves degale 2 excluisevly on payfukinperview

Given that your mate had their first fight on payperfukinview with Nathan Cleverly vs a binman as co-headliner and all.

[Rexob]

That otakey fella was pretty tough eh!

[lefty]

This is a boring event so far. Sod paying for it lol

[witherspoon]

Sky commentating team is a joke. It was blatantly obvious that Quigg hurt his right hand early in the fight, it was plain as daylight the moment the injury occurred. It's bad enough that both commentators didn't pick that up, but Quigg didn't throw a full blooded right hand punch from about round 4 onwards and neither commentator noticed that? Come on.

[lefty]

This should be a pretty tough fight for Degale based on what ive seen of Periban upto now.

[handsofstone]

Degale/Periban no doubt will follow the tone of the night so far

Dominant but competitive yet also boring

Still a good match up for James though

[Tarkus]

The "world" champion unable to drop a Japanese tourists. On the other hand Eddie drops Rigos name as if...

[Sklar]

Wouldja?