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stujones wrote:I'd love to know the reasoning why ITV have withdrawn.

ITV is suffering the worst financial crisis in its history and has a complete vacuum in terms of leadership (have spent five months trying to decide on a successor to Grade and still failed) and consequently no strategy.
To put things into context read this quote from The Times:

"Although ITV has stemmed the decline in its audience share, its reliance on advertising left it exposed by the recession and it recorded a £2.7 billion loss last year."

£2.7 billion!

Yes, but I imagine Hennessey is going to get a nice compensation - cause there are still fights left on the contract.

More experienced ref might have waved that off quicker, face down, not moving. stop counting.

Gotta feel sorry for Dai Davis- a big chance for a journeyman fighter, and it ended like that.

teddy007 wrote:

Tommy Gunn13 wrote:I want to see Richard Towers to see what hes like

i think hes on the bill...

Don't bother the guy is sh!t with a capital S.

Based on...?

Murray isn't the hardest person in the world to hit is he? But Thaxton is going to take some leather himself. Close fight this, but like most, I think Murray prevails.

Anyone else having problems with watching ITV4 on the net?

Won't work for me.

What a shot by Hughes! Ajisafe and Goodwin aren't impressing me much at the moment hope the main event makes up for it im sure it will

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Anyone else having problems with watching ITV4 on the net?

Won't work for me.

how you going about it Ian, is it ITV player? thats like BBC I player only works after the broadcast.... and there might be contractual problems with boxing.

yeah, not working mate

http://www.itv.com/Channels/ITV4/default.html

Same here mate. I cant get it to work on the net and my freeview box broke today so cant watch ITV4.

Does anyone know anywhere els eon the internet that might have it or post a link?

Just tuned in, this undercard fight is junk, no wonder people don't care about boxing anymore.
I would rather watch good quality competitive match ups once every two months than the junk ITV are getting fed and then in turn feeding us.
Imagine what the casual fan is thinking watching this guff?
They should give more money for KO's etc.
Thank god for fighters like Benn and Froch.

If boxing is to survive the promoters must be held accountable.

anybody picking thaxton??

doubt he is going to get a good bill for Nottingham. US TV will not show any of the undercard.

BIGMARK wrote:

Jon Saxon wrote:Just tuned in, this undercard fight is junk, no wonder people don't care about boxing anymore.
I would rather watch good quality competitive match ups once every two months than the junk ITV are getting fed and then in turn feeding us.
Imagine what the casual fan is thinking watching this guff?
They should give more money for KO's etc.
Thank god for fighters like Benn and Froch.

If boxing is to survive the promoters must be held accountable.

the Hennessy shows on ITV have been quite decent this year but now the deal coming to an end he's serving up crap on the undercard and no doubt stick his better bouts on the Froch bill a few weeks from now.

Agreed Mark, the thing is (and I hate to say it) the UFC metality of having the best match ups they can find on every card is the only way boxing will atract the casual veiwer.

Even at world level the best thing HBO came up was The Nipple Vs The Klit, I mean come on, Merchant said that "Arriola is probably the best young heavy since Riddick Bowe"??

Maurice Harris would have probaly ko'ed the big mexican, there are tons of US heavys since Bowe who are better then the nipple.

Trully said state of afairs.

BIGMARK wrote:

opticald wrote:anybody picking thaxton??

i just cant see it as his best day are behind him which is a shame as he is one of the good guys. I see THaxton making a fight of it for 3 or 4 rounds max and then Murray will take over stopping him late IMO

How confident are you in Murrays chin? I haven't seen much of him.

BIGMARK wrote:i started watching it then decided to watch the Tua fight from last night and now that's over i'm back into this terrible undercard while i wait for the main event which should be a cracker

Yeah I saw it today, Tua looked good, in fact Tua would smash the nipple.

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:

teddy007 wrote:

Tommy Gunn13 wrote:I want to see Richard Towers to see what hes like

i think hes on the bill...

Don't bother the guy is sh!t with a capital S.

Based on...?

Based on a few simple facts such as....he isn't very quick, doesn't punch hard, hasn't got good footwork and has looked below average in the fights ive seen him. I can come up with more if you like, Ian are you from Sheffield?

I think Murray will be too fit for him and outwork him until the ref stops it in the 5th. It should be a good one

When does it start?

teddy007 wrote:
Based on a few simple facts such as....he isn't very quick, doesn't punch hard, hasn't got good footwork and has looked below average in the fights ive seen him. I can come up with more if you like, Ian are you from Sheffield?

I live in Sheffield, though I'm not from here. If you're trying to imply I have some kind of bias, you're wrong.

He's a complete novice, really. Bit of a harsh assessment based on three pro fights in which he's yet to lose a round.

He punched hard enough to rock Tyson Fury to his boots in a spar.

Yeah, come up with more.

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:I live in Sheffield, though I'm not from here. If you're trying to imply I have some kind of bias, you're wrong.

He's a complete novice, really. Bit of a harsh assessment based on three pro fights in which he's yet to lose a round.

He punched hard enough to rock Tyson Fury to his boots in a spar.

Yeah, come up with more.

What were they doing in a spar together? And why did he punch Fury when they were supposed to be relaxing?

Thaxton looks very battle scarred these days.

stujones wrote:Thaxton looks very battle scarred these days.

I was just thinking the same thing

Asterix wrote:

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:I live in Sheffield, though I'm not from here. If you're trying to imply I have some kind of bias, you're wrong.

He's a complete novice, really. Bit of a harsh assessment based on three pro fights in which he's yet to lose a round.

He punched hard enough to rock Tyson Fury to his boots in a spar.

Yeah, come up with more.

What were they doing in a spar together? And why did he punch Fury when they were supposed to be relaxing?

I'm not sure what you mean by the first question. The Fury clan came over to the Ingles for an arranged spar. As for the second question...you'll have to spell that out for me. They were having a spar and Towers lamped him during it. If you have a different perspective, go for it.