Ted Cheeseman vs. Sergio Garcia - 2 February 2019

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Ted Cheeseman will battle Sergio Garcia for the vacant European super-welterweight belt at The O2 on February 2, live on Sky Sports.

The unbeaten 23-year-old defeated Asinia Byfield on points to claim the British title in October, and can now become European champion on an exciting bill featuring Craig Richards' grudge fight with Jake Ball and the return of Lawrence Okolie.

Londoner Cheeseman wants to settle his own feud with Liverpudlian Anthony Fowler in the future, but must firstly overcome Spaniard Garcia, who holds a 28-fight unbeaten record, and managed by Sergio Martinez.

Unbeaten cruiserweight Okolie will be back in action, with an opponent to be announced, as he seeks to continue his rise up the rankings after collecting the British and Commonwealth belts.

'Spider' Richards and Ball will finally settle their differences following the late withdrawal of 'The Blade' from a light-heavyweight fight in October.

Felix Cash also targets the Commonwealth middleweight title as the unbeaten 25-year-old takes on Nigerian Abolaji Rasheed.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Gonna be a tough one for Cheeseman.. Garcia is very experienced,

Will be exactly a year on from 'BRITISH BEEF'..

This time it's Cheeseman headlining the O2..

We saw Ritson lost at his first attempt at Euro level..

How will Ted get on?

[jamamb]

good fight, garcia has respectable ebu scene wins over real and beussire and is young and unbeaten himself

[rd350lc]

Something to look forward too

[Stuarty]

Good match up. Was hoping for Fowler but happy with this

[Andrew]

The big cheese is one of my favourite fighters domestically. Having the right fights at the right time and he just gets on with things without talking sh*t.

Unlike other fighters he doesn't have a sense of entitlement.

[KiwiRider]

Big, big love for the cheese, all the way from New Zealand.
And this fight is one of the reasons why. No mucking around for Ted. No 20 journeymen.
Grabbed the vacant WBA inter in his 13th fight. Defended it in his 14th, British in his 15th fight, and trying for the Euro against a recognised champ in his 16th outing.
This is how you win fans, just like Josh Taylor. Go hard! And we will respect you for it- even if you lose, as long as you gave it everything and learn from it.
Come on Ted!

[brilo33]

These are the fights cheese needs .Think cheese will stop him

[rhino222]

in my opinion, Cheeseman mixes it too much. sometimes you need to box smart. i think he uses the adam etches theory a bit too much. better to parry punches with your gloves than your head mr Cheeseman.

ted has a great workrate, he will need it and to become a bit more defensively savvy if he wants to beat garcia.

[thepocketrocket]

Can Sergio bring his golf clubs?

[rhino222]

Can Sergio bring his golf clubs?

you have got this humour off to a tee

[oogiebe]

Can Sergio bring his golf clubs?

you have got this humour off to a tee

LMFAO! and it's par for the course!

[KiwiRider]

in my opinion, Cheeseman mixes it too much. sometimes you need to box smart. i think he uses the adam etches theory a bit too much. better to parry punches with your gloves than your head mr Cheeseman.

ted has a great workrate, he will need it and to become a bit more defensively savvy if he wants to beat garcia.

Good points
I don't think Ted can KO Garcia, too tough and too experienced.
So making a clear points win will depend on not taking too many of Garcia's eye catching shots. I have no problem with Ted's workrate, he just needs to make Garcia miss, rather than trying to take them on the gloves. Garcia will get through a block defence and is a handy counter puncher (I've been studying what I can of him over the holidays) so this needs to be Ted's best defensive effort so far.

[rhino222]

actually its good match making, it feels like a 'pick em' but often these matches are one sided. i just cant work out which side.

[jameswilson]

Cheese man has workrate, speed and power in reasonable amounts but his defence is piss poor.

Hopefully him and his team are working hard at this as when he moves trough these levels it can come back to bite you, like with Lewis Ritson.

He’s surely gonna be a good one to bet on against Anthony Fowler tho. Fowler’s fighting journeymen and is stepping it up
Against Fitzgerald in his next fight whereas Cheeseman is having good tests fight after fight. If Cheeseman wins I can’t wait to see the odds. Hoping the bookies fall for the Team GB background.

[Skalamanga]

got a feeling Cheeseman is gona lose this one. It's at least a 50/50. I watched a couple of Garcia's fights a few months ago and he looks a future world champ to me.

[Ruthless-RKO]

got a feeling Cheeseman is gona lose this one. It's at least a 50/50. I watched a couple of Garcia's fights a few months ago and he looks a future world champ to me.

Gonna be like Ritson vs. Patera this.

at least Ritson was a proven domestic level fighter.

What has Cheeseman actually done.. Garcia is no easy pickings for the Euro belt.

[NoScoutingReports]

Be interesting to see what price the bookies open with regarding Garcia, should be a good fight this. Good to see Cheeseman pushing himself and taking risks fight on fight.

[KiwiRider]

got a feeling Cheeseman is gona lose this one. It's at least a 50/50. I watched a couple of Garcia's fights a few months ago and he looks a future world champ to me.

Gonna be like Ritson vs. Patera this.

at least Ritson was a proven domestic level fighter.

What has Cheeseman actually done.. Garcia is no easy pickings for the Euro belt.

Ill tell ya what Cheeseman has done, he has been matched fairly hard, met the challenge and improved, fight by fight.
1, took the British WW strap off Ryan (14-1) in his 8th fight by stunning KO.
2, fought an oversized and very experienced Carson Jones in just his 12th pro outing and 22 years old, and beat him convincingly.
3, Solid wins against an unbeaten Upton, and good points win against Byfield, basically cleaning out the UK WW's (who still fight domestically) and now onto the Euro.
The guy is 15-0 and 23 years old. It's a very decent achievement.
Yes this could be a step to far, but where else is he gonna go?
The commonwealth is crap, that would be a step backwards, and how much do we love boxers taking the traditional path to a world title

[KiwiRider]

For you guys who haven't seen Garcia before, here is his EBU Euro title fight. Best opponent he has fought was Beaussire- who I've never heard of

It's a decent showing.

[keirw]

Garcia looks decent. A sharp and accurate puncher with good timing and footwork.

Cheeseman will need to at his absolute best to win this, and that is exactly how it should be.

I fancy the Cheese to pull it off. He may have to walk through a few shots early to get his own body work away, but once Garcia slows down from the body attacks, Cheeseman should be able to enforce his will and win a hard fought decision.

I'm glad he is testing himself and not taking a backwards step against the completely unproven (and somewhat self entitled) Fowler

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[KiwiRider]

I expect to be disappointed with Okolie's opponent, TBA 2 weeks out has to be bad.
Anyone know?

[KiwiRider]

Getting close!


Ted's girlfriend is a hairdresser, WTF is up with his haircuts?

[TheGingerBomber]

I agree Ted has been matched extremely hard and he’s done very well. Hearn’s pushing these kids too quickly I believe, the Bellotti situation springs to mind, he’s got Buatsi and Kelly in the mind for headliners vs world level contenders by the end of the year. Unlike Joe Joyce, there is no rush for these lads, they’re kids. Sometimes you gotta protect them.

Any odds for Garcia yet?