Poorest fights to watch that happened on British soil

TheGman
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dirk2686 wrote:Another rotter: Tyson Fury v Kevin Johnson. Former wasn't remotely bothered about trying to press the action. Latter purely there to survive. Response: yawns interspersed with a few boos.
Didnt johnson say it was going to be like ward vs gatti of the heavyweights hahahaha
TheGman
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Deserter wrote:
milpool wrote:David Haye v Ismail Abdoul
Another great call. What made it worse for me was that afterwards Booth and Haye basically admitted they'd wanted him to work on his jab and get all those rounds under his belt, which was so disrespectful to those paying fans - at least step it up in the second half and go for the stoppage, even if you've purposely cruised the first half and used it as a sparring session.
I was one of those paying fans,absolute dreadful
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Derry mathews vs john simpson was a bad one,bit of a gift for derry aswell if i remember right.

Benn vs sugar boy

Any witter fight u wanna pick

Mutley vs jennings
bigjack
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without doubt it has to be Johnny Nelson v Carlos DeLeon,for those of you that missed out on that classic,you tube it one night if you are suffering from insomnia :zzz:
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thechump wrote:
Deserter wrote:
milpool wrote:David Haye v Ismail Abdoul
Another great call. What made it worse for me was that afterwards Booth and Haye basically admitted they'd wanted him to work on his jab and get all those rounds under his belt, which was so disrespectful to those paying fans - at least step it up in the second half and go for the stoppage, even if you've purposely cruised the first half and used it as a sparring session.
I was one of those paying fans,absolute dreadful

Booth has been the cause of quite a few stinkers and definitely will be the cause of some future stinkers.

Is a trainer who basically trains fighters to stink out the joint good for boxing?
physio
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I sat through sugar boy malinga v nardiello on the undercard of benn v Collins 1 and that was pretty bad.
It doesn't top nelson v de Leon though.
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Re: Poorest fights to watch that happened on British soil

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Just gonna add Joshua/Takam to this list now, to save time doing it next week.
boxingknockout
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Plenty of Eubank fights were pants...
stujones
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Reid vs Nardiello, Reid vs Silvino Branco.
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Re: Poorest fights to watch that happened on British soil

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Skelton v Julius Francis is at the top of my list.

Howard Eastman went through a phase of god awful European title defences too. One against Sergey Tatevosyan who Carl Froch ironed out in a few rounds and one against an American in his next fight (obviously not for the European title.) Two absolute stinking decision wins. I remember Jim Neilly in the commentary box was forced into lauding the way Eastman was touching gloves after every warning for holding (about 6 times a round) and again lauding and going overboard in praising Jerry Elliot for kissing Eastman on the head when the pair of them fell over whilst asphyxiating each other through holding. Come to think of it his fight with Hopkins was god awful to watch too although not on British soil. Strange for a guy who was in some really exciting fights.
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