daviddee wrote:I think it's a difficult thing look at all the Scottish fighters going away to train in London.. 3 high profile ones.. Ricky with Tony Sims.. Charlie Flynn with Peter Sims and it's a running joke about the quiff.. Then you have Josh Taylor with Shane Mcguigan.. Then we have Ronnie Clark training in Belfast with Tony Dunlop.. What's the problem with Scottish Boxing it's certainly no lack of good trainers.. Billy Nelson and Peter Harrison are elite trainers.. Ask yourself a question why can Flynn and Collins sell 1000 tickets between them??? Thats enough to headline a very good small hall show.. Why is the small hall shows struggling in Scotland,, Simple Answer to that too many easy fights on paper.. Let's just bring in a foreign opponent and save £1000... You will lose that on ticket sales alone.. I would rather see all Scottish fights and competitive fights than some of the drivel I have needed to watch.. It's worse when people say to the promoters face it was a good show.. Be nice to promoters or you won't get fights.. If it's a terrible fight should just say.. I have seen some of the worst mismatch fights ever in pro boxing.. MTK seem to be wanting to change that so good luck to them and I hope they push this forward more..
The other reason Scottish Boxing struggles is loyalty or sorry lack of loyalty biggest bitches you will ever find are in the boxing world.. There is no loyalty from boxers to coaches right up to managers seems to be just an interest in making money and only interested in themselves.. So many people are strong outwith boxing then step into boxing then sit on the fence.. If Ricky believes Ohara would be Josh then fair play to him for not sitting on the fence.. This is a close fight that's hard to close both look very good.. Got to remember Josh was beaten by Martin J Ward twice in the amateurs so they will be very confident.. There wasn't a kick off as Josh said Cacacae would beat Clark and he was right.. Everyone is hanging on to the coat tails of Eddie Hearn wanting the crumbs from his table.. Scottish boxing should find its own way and stop begging
Charlie Flynn was training with Peter Harrison, I spoke with Peter at his gym when i was down for sparring and he said that Charlie struggled to get peace staying in Scotland and the fact he was in London where nobody recognised him walking down the street was a big part of moving coaches. I too would prefer that Scottish boxers would stay here and train with coaches they know but you know it sometimes isn't as easy to do that.
As far as I'm aware part of the McGuigans signing Josh was that he trained with Shane and you should know that as it is something very similar when Ronnie was signing with Mark Dunlop, Mark wanted Ronnie over there with his team. I understand the reasoning for this, if you are going to put your money into someone you want to see how they are progressing with someone you trust and have worked with for years.
It is part of boxing and almost any walk of life and you just have to deal with it, hopefully more Scottish lads get matched against each other and I have heard that Michael Roberts vs Stephen Tiffany has been made. Great fight imo and if we can have more like that then i'll be happy.
Ref bringing in foreigners, if the matchmaker does his job right and the managers don't just take the first crap on offer then there is a lot of worthwhile, learning fights that can be made the problem comes when managers just want knock over jobs that does the show or the fighters no good whatsoever.
