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bripez wrote:I must admit that I had never heard of Nasser before this fight was made, but my natural thought was that I hope he beats Frankie (based purely on the fact that I don't have an allegience to either boxer and in such circumstances I usually root for the underdog).

However, after reading this thread I now hope that Frankie wins ! (fickle I know !!).

Safeerah - you are not doing your son any favours.

In my opinion you need to let your sons boxing do the talking, as your approach on this thread will not help his career.

Casio wrote:Serious question for you now Saf so please refrain from any abuse if you possibly can -

Why are you named after a Vauxhall?

safeerah wrote:

bripez wrote:I must admit that I had never heard of Nasser before this fight was made, but my natural thought was that I hope he beats Frankie (based purely on the fact that I don't have an allegience to either boxer and in such circumstances I usually root for the underdog).

However, after reading this thread I now hope that Frankie wins ! (fickle I know !!).

Safeerah - you are not doing your son any favours.

In my opinion you need to let your sons boxing do the talking, as your approach on this thread will not help his career.

I am so sorry to lose such a valuable supporter, pull the other leg, its got bells on it lol.

bripez wrote:

safeerah wrote:

bripez wrote:I must admit that I had never heard of Nasser before this fight was made, but my natural thought was that I hope he beats Frankie (based purely on the fact that I don't have an allegience to either boxer and in such circumstances I usually root for the underdog).

However, after reading this thread I now hope that Frankie wins ! (fickle I know !!).

Safeerah - you are not doing your son any favours.

In my opinion you need to let your sons boxing do the talking, as your approach on this thread will not help his career.

I am so sorry to lose such a valuable supporter, pull the other leg, its got bells on it lol.

No problem.

I would say however that for boxers in particular (who have pressure to sell tickets) that ALL supporters are valuable (unless you are deliberately going for the "people will buy tickets to see him get beat" approach ?).

Social media is a massive opportunity for boxers if used correctly - and a massive negative if used incorrectly.

I stand my original comment that in my opinion you are not doing your lad any favours.

King Geedorah wrote:Fighter: “I love the idea of using forums, Twitter and Facebook to interact with my fans, but I don’t have the time to do it.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “I’ll do it for you! I’ve lots of free time. I celebrated your ABA title win by quitting my job.”
Fighter: “Go for it, let me know what the fans say.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “Hello Internet. I am posting on behalf of X.”
Internet: “Hello. We think he’ll lose, but good luck.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “You’re all a bunch of pudenda.”
Internet: “Why are you acting like a bit of a tool and is this a reflection of your fighter? We now hope he loses.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “You’re all just jealous of my high position in Team Whoever. Wait until we win this fight, you’ll see and we’ll sit on the ring apron and call you all pudenda.”
Internet: “OK, whatever.”
Fighter: “So how is my online profile going? Am I popular?”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “Here is a list of people who hate you. I managed to print out their names, but I couldn’t get the exact quotes. I’ll sum them up for you – ‘This fighter is a pudendum and we want him to lose’. I told you not to engage with the fans. You should just engage with us, Team Whoever, and we’ll protect you from the world and the more success you have the more we’ll try to convince you that, yes, you do need someone to maintain your Facebook page, tie your shoelaces and set up your Direct Debits.”
Fighter: “Thanks! Yes, it does seem that the Internet is an awful place. And to think that when I first turned pro it was just me and trainer, now I’ve got Team Whoever to help me. I’m so blessed. Yes, yes, yes, you are worth every penny of the cash-in-hand dough you skim from my career.”
Team Whoever Member: “I hereby pledge to never let people near you for fear of them downplaying my ‘role’ and ruining my investment, sorry, our close bond. I have invested in a roll of brown paper bags.”
Fighter: “Bags? For our training gear.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “Let me worry about the bags, champ.”
Fighter: “I’m not a champ yet – I’m only 1-0 (1).”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “Politics, they’re all avoiding you. You’re already the best in the division.”
Fighter: “Wow, I feel filled with confidence now that a bloke who doesn’t know their arse from their elbow has called me champ. If I get 10-15 guys like this around me then surely I’ll feel so good that I’ll never lose a fight (even though when the first bell goes these guys disappear, the same thing happens when I drop off the radar as well – I know this because I’m a time traveller).”
…To be continued, forever.

Yes, Saaf is his trainer. I've nowt against the guy, this was just an excuse to post the long-awaited start to the Team Whoever saga.

Best of luck on the night, but I think Gavin will win this handily. Yes, I am a pudendum.

King Geedorah wrote:Fighter: “I love the idea of using forums, Twitter and Facebook to interact with my fans, but I don’t have the time to do it.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “I’ll do it for you! I’ve lots of free time. I celebrated your ABA title win by quitting my job.”
Fighter: “Go for it, let me know what the fans say.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “Hello Internet. I am posting on behalf of X.”
Internet: “Hello. We think he’ll lose, but good luck.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “You’re all a bunch of pudenda.”
Internet: “Why are you acting like a bit of a tool and is this a reflection of your fighter? We now hope he loses.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “You’re all just jealous of my high position in Team Whoever. Wait until we win this fight, you’ll see and we’ll sit on the ring apron and call you all pudenda.”
Internet: “OK, whatever.”
Fighter: “So how is my online profile going? Am I popular?”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “Here is a list of people who hate you. I managed to print out their names, but I couldn’t get the exact quotes. I’ll sum them up for you – ‘This fighter is a pudendum and we want him to lose’. I told you not to engage with the fans. You should just engage with us, Team Whoever, and we’ll protect you from the world and the more success you have the more we’ll try to convince you that, yes, you do need someone to maintain your Facebook page, tie your shoelaces and set up your Direct Debits.”
Fighter: “Thanks! Yes, it does seem that the Internet is an awful place. And to think that when I first turned pro it was just me and trainer, now I’ve got Team Whoever to help me. I’m so blessed. Yes, yes, yes, you are worth every penny of the cash-in-hand dough you skim from my career.”
Team Whoever Member: “I hereby pledge to never let people near you for fear of them downplaying my ‘role’ and ruining my investment, sorry, our close bond. I have invested in a roll of brown paper bags.”
Fighter: “Bags? For our training gear.”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “Let me worry about the bags, champ.”
Fighter: “I’m not a champ yet – I’m only 1-0 (1).”
Team Whoever Will Have Me Member: “Politics, they’re all avoiding you. You’re already the best in the division.”
Fighter: “Wow, I feel filled with confidence now that a bloke who doesn’t know their arse from their elbow has called me champ. If I get 10-15 guys like this around me then surely I’ll feel so good that I’ll never lose a fight (even though when the first bell goes these guys disappear, the same thing happens when I drop off the radar as well – I know this because I’m a time traveller).”
…To be continued, forever.

Yes, Saaf is his trainer. I've nowt against the guy, this was just an excuse to post the long-awaited start to the Team Whoever saga.

Best of luck on the night, but I think Gavin will win this handily. Yes, I am a pudendum.

Jeff Thomas wrote:6 pages- is it worth reading through or not?

safeerah wrote:bite the hand that feeds you.

safeerah wrote:

bripez wrote:I must admit that I had never heard of Nasser before this fight was made, but my natural thought was that I hope he beats Frankie (based purely on the fact that I don't have an allegience to either boxer and in such circumstances I usually root for the underdog).

However, after reading this thread I now hope that Frankie wins ! (fickle I know !!).

Safeerah - you are not doing your son any favours.

In my opinion you need to let your sons boxing do the talking, as your approach on this thread will not help his career.

I am so sorry to lose such a valuable supporter, pull the other leg, its got bells on it lol.

safeerah wrote:

mcato wrote:

safeerah wrote:Don't worry Mcato I am all business, I use this site to get interest in Nasser's fights and it works, both this site and facebook, it helped us sell a lot of tickets for the Jamie Ball fight and also attract sponsers, Nasser has around 4,000 fans on the Team Al Harbi site. Unlike someone like you who is a boxing fan and likes a bit of banter, some people come on to be nasty to other people, you have to take the rough with the smooth, some people seem to object to me as a father and trainer raising the profile of my son Nasser Al Harbi, it is a though these people have not had a proper relationship with their own father so resent father and son working in harmony relationships, I am not the only one as well who has experienced this other people in the industry have as well, does it bother me ? No, but I give as good as I get, maybe more lol. "Sheep" comes to mind, lets all hate a boxer who does not go on the forums, who most of them don't even know, who is well liked by people who have met him and complimented by people who have watched him train, spar and fight, including people in the industry, do I respect the opinions of these green eyed monsters ? No. I am very focassed, I have got Nasser in the shape of his life for this fight and we have not took the fight to lose, we expect to win, inshallah we will.

Well I think this is a good fight for Nasser as all the pressure is on the favourite. I know your out to win but even if Nasser performs well and loses he'll come out good like C Woodhouse. The only problem with high profile boxers like FG is that if he gets an oppertunity to fight for a belt he'll pull out so quick and the way some of these F....W.. bills are going nowadays you never if its on till the day of the fight. Could Nasser deal with another dissapointment of not fighting?

That's why I wondered why there has been no build up, no write ups, especially in Birmingham where both fighters are highly rated and everything Frankie does has mass media coverage, Frankie himself has not said much, which is unusual for a Birmingham match, in answer to your question, we have offers from abroad and I myself have ben asked to set up boxing academies in the UAE, boxing is going through bad times over here at the moment, Nasser has been avoided long enough now and ignored, even though he is only 22 we can't afford another dead year.

J wrote:

safeerah wrote:

bripez wrote:I must admit that I had never heard of Nasser before this fight was made, but my natural thought was that I hope he beats Frankie (based purely on the fact that I don't have an allegience to either boxer and in such circumstances I usually root for the underdog).

However, after reading this thread I now hope that Frankie wins ! (fickle I know !!).

Safeerah - you are not doing your son any favours.

In my opinion you need to let your sons boxing do the talking, as your approach on this thread will not help his career.

I am so sorry to lose such a valuable supporter, pull the other leg, its got bells on it lol.

jesus man, give it a rest.

and if you alienate any more people it adds up to more than 1.
Many of whom attend shows = not helping you sons career.

The Law wrote:I interviewed Frankie about this fight today and the article will be published on Boxrec very soon. Definitely worth a read

dondada wrote:

The Law wrote:I interviewed Frankie about this fight today and the article will be published on Boxrec very soon. Definitely worth a read

And here it is...

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2012/exclus ... r%E2%80%9D

maley1984 wrote:think this thread will hav alot more posts soon . interesting that frankie thought nasser was cut with a punch against jamie ball not a head clash. he was ringside i cudnt tell from position (is the any video clips of it). i think this fight is bubbling up nicely gunna hav to watch it i think just a shame its not in brum

safeerah wrote:

maley1984 wrote:think this thread will hav alot more posts soon . interesting that frankie thought nasser was cut with a punch against jamie ball not a head clash. he was ringside i cudnt tell from position (is the any video clips of it). i think this fight is bubbling up nicely gunna hav to watch it i think just a shame its not in brum

He is lying, he left towards the end of the 3 round, a round before the cut opened up. I have the video, in slowing it down you can see a soft punch land, then nassers comes up with no cut then the heads go together and when they come out nasser is bleeding.