Friday's Sky card from Barnsley

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 13 Jul 2007, 10:43

Been pissing down all day in South Yorkshire again...hope there's no more chaos because I'm looking forward to this bill.

Obviously intriguing top of the bill as Johanneson tries to exorcise the demons of being iced by his opponent inside a round. Rumours, as outed by Rhino, are that Carl is not 100%.

John Fewkes takes an admirable step up in class to take on talented, experienced Tontcho Tontchev. I spoke to John yesterday - "Well, it's better than these lads who fight 25 pulses in a row," says John. "Yes, well you had better not fornicate about then this time, eh?!" I retort. "I'm going to be all business". Hope so. For those who haven't seen much of him, he's a talented lad but loves doing daft stuff and can give points away because of it.

And in the battle of the enigmas, Pat Maxwell is rematched with Geard Ajetovic.

Cracking start to the weekend! Some good matches from the Mental Midget!

oliverfennell · Post by **oliverfennell** » 13 Jul 2007, 10:45

Ajetovic can get the win this time, having enjoyed some notice for it.

rhino222 · Post by **rhino222** » 13 Jul 2007, 12:54

my thoughts entirely oliver, i can see maxwell loading up early then blowing after about 5 rounds for geard to take over on points, good match up again this.

TheGoods · Post by **TheGoods** » 13 Jul 2007, 13:12

What's this about Carl not being 100%? Can anyone give me details? Am about to have a very tasty wager on him tonight. What's the beef gentlemen?

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 13 Jul 2007, 13:34

yer carl is going into the fight with 2 broken toes a broken leg and a fracture hand.

rhino222 · Post by **rhino222** » 13 Jul 2007, 13:56

REAL_DEAL wrote:yer carl is going into the fight with 2 broken toes a broken leg and a fracture hand.

shit, did you sit on him 'real-meal' ..

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 13 Jul 2007, 14:18

no did you

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 13 Jul 2007, 20:29

TheGoods wrote:What's this about Carl not being 100%? Can anyone give me details? Am about to have a very tasty wager on him tonight. What's the beef gentlemen?

Sorry mate - I heard his conditioning and everything else was terrible - but then I heard the same before the Burns fight, lumped on and got my fingers burned.

It was true then but Burns wasn't good enough to take advantage. Kirakosyan was.

Max Molyneux · Post by **Max Molyneux** » 13 Jul 2007, 20:44

Burns problem was that he couldn't hurt Carl to keep the pressure off him. Burns can keep boxers back but pressure fighters he can't.

steve689 · Post by **steve689** » 14 Jul 2007, 03:07

Rhino got it spot on it seems. As for Ajetovic good win icing Maxwell in 3, how did that one come about?

Hagler2002 · Post by **Hagler2002** » 14 Jul 2007, 03:22

TheGoods wrote:What's this about Carl not being 100%? Can anyone give me details? Am about to have a very tasty wager on him tonight

Why am I not surprised

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 14 Jul 2007, 04:43

Overall, have to say that was a cracking bill of boxing. Even the destruction of Johannsen was impressive in it's own way.

Any casual fan who watched that would certainly have been impressed by the quality of the match-ups all the way through the televised card.

I was very impressed by Fewkes. He showed a lot of maturity and purpose the way he dealt with Tonchev, and really took the fight to him from the off, rode out the rough patches in the last couple, and got a very creditable win. Liked his moves as well Fewkes, nice and mobile with a good natural rhythmn about him. Those body shots of his, almost had Tonchev on the deck as well, a few more landed in I think the 6th it was, and i think it would have been all over.

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 14 Jul 2007, 08:13

Excellent bill of boxing - really good night.

Steve - Ajetovic was brilliant. Absolutely oozes class and did the one thing he'd never done before (at least as a pro and I've seen him plenty) - he boxed at a good pace.

Maxwell did well in patches and rode some heavy shots but was under fire on the ropes when the ref jumped in. A pal of mine said he thought it was slightly premature but I thought it was OK.

Patrick, as is his wont, immediately stormed from the ring and didn't wait for the formalities.

oliverfennell · Post by **oliverfennell** » 14 Jul 2007, 08:33

Why wasn't Ajetovic-Maxwell on TV? It was a much bigger fight than either of the two they showed after Fewkes-Tontchev.

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 14 Jul 2007, 08:57

oliverfennell wrote:Why wasn't Ajetovic-Maxwell on TV? It was a much bigger fight than either of the two they showed after Fewkes-Tontchev.

It was the walkout fight. Not sure why. They absolutely raced through the bill. Christ knows what time we'd have got out if it hadn't been for the stoppages.

KO Artist · Post by **KO Artist** » 14 Jul 2007, 09:04

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Excellent bill of boxing - really good night.

Steve - Ajetovic was brilliant. Absolutely oozes class and did the one thing he'd never done before (at least as a pro and I've seen him plenty) - he boxed at a good pace.

Maxwell did well in patches and rode some heavy shots but was under fire on the ropes when the ref jumped in. A pal of mine said he thought it was slightly premature but I thought it was OK.

Patrick, as is his wont, immediately stormed from the ring and didn't wait for the formalities.

Ive been saying for years that Adjectovic is class.

I would put him in with any middleweight in Britain.

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 14 Jul 2007, 09:40

http://www.britishboxing.net/news_2515- ... -bobs.html

Few quotes and banter here from last night.

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 14 Jul 2007, 09:46

Fewkes once again demonstrated why he is one of my favourite domestic boxers to watch.. Lovely stuff.

As your quotes said Ian, I dont think he is a dirty fighter and once he adjusts to make room with his feet and not his shoulder he will have eliminated that troublesome habit from his game.

He looked bang on at 9st 9 - not bad for a ginger!

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 14 Jul 2007, 09:50

He's a canny lad, that low blow was very well timed, because he was on very unsteady legs at that point, and badly needed to get a breather.

Had Tonchev been in better shape, things could have been very difficult, but from the 6th on, you could see that he was very arm weary, and using all his experience to hang in there.

Good win, good fight, cracking bill.

More like that please!