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Karl Jade wrote:Did you expect him to be fighting for the southern area belt in his first 10 fights? Seems needlessly critical of Maloney to me. Maloney probably saw him getting consistently beaten up by McDermott in sparring and realised he had to be protected a bit.

Consistently beaten up by mcdermott how many of there sparring sessions did you attend karl and did you attend any when mcdermott was getting ready for price ? or any of the recent spares ? and with regards the southern area title larry olumamiwo got the nod to fight for it against colin kenna I would have said that at that time Tom was capable of fighting for the title

lillywhite14 wrote:I imagine big John is a fighter who looks pretty damn good in sparring at times.

The Page fight is the one where Maloney seemed to notice Tom didn't have what he was looking for.

Although I understand he did well financially from the Price fight, was it the best option for Tom to take at that time?

It wasn't the best option to take at the time but Tom was promised a quick route back if he was to lose and that just didn't

Deano s wrote:

Karl Jade wrote:Did you expect him to be fighting for the southern area belt in his first 10 fights? Seems needlessly critical of Maloney to me. Maloney probably saw him getting consistently beaten up by McDermott in sparring and realised he had to be protected a bit.

Consistently beaten up by mcdermott how many of there sparring sessions did you attend karl and did you attend any when mcdermott was getting ready for price ? or any of the recent spares ? and with regards the southern area title larry olumamiwo got the nod to fight for it against colin kenna I would have said that at that time Tom was capable of fighting for the title

Yeah as much as I think Tom has flaws that he needs to work on he's a more polished fighter than Larry in my eyes! I think Tom needs to work on his defensive skills because he gets hit a bit too much. Maybe work on feints and what have you. Im sure that already is happening though!

Lewison by stoppage/knock out.

Don Charles thinks this could be one of the heavyweight fights of the year
http://news.boxrec.com/news/2013/don-ch ... fight-year

First time on here for me, but let me tell you, one man who will be more than ready on the 7th September is "The Bomb" You wont get any dissing from this team, but what you will get is a man who is willing to fight any man in front of him if i ask him to. Champions are not made of winning everything. Tom has progressed and will continue in doing so. Pricey was red hot news till he got beat by a guy who is in no way special and now he has the job to rebuild. If you know the game then you would know that heavy weights are a little bit different to other weight categories of fighters. Just watch "The Bomb"