Round-by-Round: Brad Foster vs. Jason Cunningham - 9 October 2021

[Ruthless-RKO]

Live from Utilita Arena in Birmingham, UK.
Queensberry Promotions Present: Foster vs. Cunningham

Time: 7:30pm (UK time)
TV/Live stream: BT Sport
Time: ET | PT
TV/Live stream: | Price:

Fight Card

Card subject to change.

8 Round Super-Featherweight Contest
Nick Ball vs. Piotr Gudel

Followed by

4 Round Lightweight Contest
Amaar Akbar vs. Liam Richards

Followed by

Vacant WBC International Silver Super-Bantamweight Championship
Liam Davies vs. Dixon Flores

Followed by

British, IBF European & Commonwealth Welterweight Championship
Ekow Essuman vs. Danny Ball

Followed by

WBO Global Light-Heavyweight Championship
Callum Johnson vs. Server Emurlaev

Followed by

British, Commonwealth, IBF International & European Super-Bantamweight Championship
Brad Foster vs. Jason Cunningham

[Ruthless-RKO]

Some Decent names on this card.

Half 7..

Many May prefer to stick to DAZN.

Got a feeling this will finish late if they’re showing all the fights.

Maybe just hitting midnight.

Be a good lead in then for the PPV at 2am.

Should have slapped this on ITV. More viewers help promote the PPV as well.

[Coco]

Poor in comparison to Eddie

[peter barlow]

Frank must be upset with the WBO. The IBF and WBC trinkets are taking over

[peter barlow]

Some Decent names on this card.

Half 7..

Many May prefer to stick to DAZN.

Got a feeling this will finish late if they’re showing all the fights.

Maybe just hitting midnight.

Be a good lead in then for the PPV at 2am.

Should have slapped this on ITV. More viewers help promote the PPV as well.

I may stick it on for Shannon and McGrails fights then back to DAZN

[skanksta]

This is a good fight !

[peter barlow]

Great scrap but Essuman too good, good stoppage win for him

[MightyWarrior]

Nice guy is Essuman, is that Anthony small his coach ??

[Ruthless-RKO]

Nice guy is Essuman, is that Anthony small his coach ??

He allowed in a boxing arena?

[peter barlow]

Big John Fury and Zach Parker on commentary

[Ruthless-RKO]

When’s main event?

[Cholo_cws]

Russian looks capable so far. Could be an interesting night for Johnson if the Russian's game.

[Cholo_cws]

Johnson showing signs of being nearly spent. Will do well to hang on to this.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Johnson showing signs of being nearly spent. Will do well to hang on to this.

He’s getting old

[Cholo_cws]

IJL 99-92

[Flump]

IJL only had Johnson losing 1 round....

[Tugger28]

Thought it was an area title fight…both poor

[Ruthless-RKO]

Main event started?

[skanksta]

Jason's corner saying "and still" - will be heartbreaking when that's Brad...

[BigEars]

I only turned over to it in round 8th, but it seems the analysts on the broadcast all felt Foster should have edged it.

I can't have any sympathy for him though tbh, the level of holding he did was outrageous and should have seen him DQ'ed. Instead the referee gave him a warning he'd get a point off if he kept holding and from then on just shouted at him to stop holding and looked nervous that he'd actually be expected to do that at some point.
Typical British referee tbh, no backbone to follow up on the warning.

[handsofstone]

Essuman/Ball was a cracker while it lasted, Ball made his height and range work at times, he caught Essuman with some nice shots but Essuman put his shots together well too, there was a lot of back and forth exchanges, as soon as Essuman landed that big overhand right in the 6th it must've broke his jaw it had a noticeable effect and when Essuman poured it on the corner Ball capitulated, he knew by about the count of 3 he was done and told his corner, as I say looks a broken jaw

[maverick23]

Just finished the show.

I find John Fury a weird but entertaining pundit. He calls people bums all over the place but when he’s working for BT everyone’s a good fighter! Parker needed the microphone closer or needed to speak up.

Akbar/Richards - Akbar is naturally at least 2 divisions bigger. Should a fight like this really be on the main card? Not overly impressed with Akbar.

Essuman/Ball - good fight. Ball could have done with a little more seasoning before this. Ball clearly had an issue at the end. Broken jaw maybe - an awful lot of blood from his mouth. Essuman looked good. Be interesting to see where he goes now.

Davies/Flores - good learning fight for Davies. Flores isn’t particularly good, didn’t really come to win, but brought some decent pressure, is tough and showed that Davies doesn’t have the power he might have thought he had.

Johnson/Emurlaev - never thought I’d watch a boring Johnson fight. I had the Russian winning by 1 but it was a close fight. Ian John Lewis is a joke. As soon as I heard the score you knew it was going to Johnson. Johnson’s pressure was poor, didn’t cut off the ring properly and I thought he was outworked. He didn’t change his game plan the whole fight.

Cunningham/Foster - decent fight. I thought Cunningham nicked it but it was a close one. He’s in a great position now to earn so good money so good on him.

Fairly good show but this all FW’s putting on in October?!

[handsofstone]

Surprised to see Cunningham get that, I had Foster winning 116-112, a lot of close rounds mind, i thought he nicked a lot of the early rounds with his movement and cuter punch picking, looked to me Cunningham took too long to get going, I didn't think it was a great fight tbh, a lot of punches missed by both men and it was scrappy at times, Foster can be dirty as well and deserved the point deduction, Cunningham grew into it after middle rounds started to rough the tiring Foster up but thought Foster regrouped well down the stretch, surprised to see a UD for Cunningham but I suppose there was a lot of close rounds and tbh styles didn't gel well imo

[margaret thatcher]

ian john lewis is a shady piece of poo, what a turd covered knob he is to give the russian only 1 round