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slapbangwhallop wrote:

forcefraser wrote:There was a lot of hype around Mccloskey for a while. He floored a guy who wasnt looking and then took a pasting from Prescott but was gifted a decision.

Has he actually beaten a genuinely dangerous fighter yet?

Talk about revisionism!! Haha

It's called an opinion. I dont rate him at all. He lost the Presott fight clearly for me.

Does far too little offensively.

Is the pull out against Saunders an injury?

forcefraser wrote:

slapbangwhallop wrote:

forcefraser wrote:There was a lot of hype around Mccloskey for a while. He floored a guy who wasnt looking and then took a pasting from Prescott but was gifted a decision.

Has he actually beaten a genuinely dangerous fighter yet?

Talk about revisionism!! Haha

It's called an opinion. I dont rate him at all. He lost the Presott fight clearly for me.

Does far too little offensively.

Is the pull out against Saunders an injury?

Having a differing opinion is fine. But to say he “took a pasting” of Prescott is a bit bonkers. You don’t have to rate him to see it was a close run fight. I had it a draw or one point to Prescott, however, that includes a 10-8 round to Prescott in the first which was really an illegal knockdown (forearm smash) but as that was in the first round it often gets forgotten about because of Prescott’s strong finish. So that first round was in reality a 3 point swing away from McCloskey. If that knockdown hadn’t of been counted (which it shouldn’t have) then McCloskey was well worth the victory.

McCloskey said he has a hip injury.

@ Slapbangwhallop

That`s not good news. A hip injury might be something that plagues him Barker style.

McCloskey seems like a sound bloke from the interviews and pieces done on him, but I have never taken to his style of boxing. He does not seem busy enough.

Maybe I should watch the Prescott fight again. I remember thinking Prescott got a rough deal on the cards, but it`s a while back now, so I could be mistaken.

tear up wrote:One fight I'd of loved to watch all northeast derby Glenn foot and brad get it on but won't happen now

You heard anymore on Foot's arm injury after the machete attack? Career threatening apparently.