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bigjack wrote: ↑17 Apr 2022, 15:56
Benns career is following a similar path to Khans with a host of once half decent opponents,who are either on the slide,inactive or old,or in the case with Van Heerden,all three

tonyevs wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:11

bigjack wrote: ↑17 Apr 2022, 15:56
Benns career is following a similar path to Khans with a host of once half decent opponents,who are either on the slide,inactive or old,or in the case with Van Heerden,all three

Quite unfair on Khan that. I would say Benns career appears to be following the Naz Hamed path more ... a bunch of nobodies with padded records and then well worn fighters with a name. If Benn is given the non-punchers to walk through and feast on - then just like Naz when he stepped it up; he will most likely find himself getting a rude awakening to the game.

bigjack wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:16

tonyevs wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:11

bigjack wrote: ↑17 Apr 2022, 15:56
Benns career is following a similar path to Khans with a host of once half decent opponents,who are either on the slide,inactive or old,or in the case with Van Heerden,all three

Quite unfair on Khan that. I would say Benns career appears to be following the Naz Hamed path more ... a bunch of nobodies with padded records and then well worn fighters with a name. If Benn is given the non-punchers to walk through and feast on - then just like Naz when he stepped it up; he will most likely find himself getting a rude awakening to the game.

I'm talking about the early stages where he missed the british,euro and commonwealth route and feasted on past it, once decent names

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:41 Didn’t Khan miss the Thaxton fight after Jon won the Euro? If so that would’ve been fun. Thaxton was a tough man.

maverick23 wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:09

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:41 Didn’t Khan miss the Thaxton fight after Jon won the Euro? If so that would’ve been fun. Thaxton was a tough man.

Yep - another fight that would have been good to see. In fairness I can fully understand Khan’s team swerving that one.

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:13

maverick23 wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:09

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:41 Didn’t Khan miss the Thaxton fight after Jon won the Euro? If so that would’ve been fun. Thaxton was a tough man.

Yep - another fight that would have been good to see. In fairness I can fully understand Khan’s team swerving that one.

I seem to remember Murray was a novice when Khan was headlong on ITV so I get that one not happening.
You deffo had the likes of Thaxton and Romanov that probably should’ve happened.
Instead we got Lawton and Gomez.

Anyone remember the Gomez fight? Think it was Birmingham? Gomez could’ve won that.

maverick23 wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:21

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:13

maverick23 wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:09

Yep - another fight that would have been good to see. In fairness I can fully understand Khan’s team swerving that one.

I seem to remember Murray was a novice when Khan was headlong on ITV so I get that one not happening.
You deffo had the likes of Thaxton and Romanov that probably should’ve happened.
Instead we got Lawton and Gomez.

Anyone remember the Gomez fight? Think it was Birmingham? Gomez could’ve won that.

Yeah - it was Birmingham. I remember saying to my friends before the fight that Khan would blitz him. Gomez is too easy to hit now and will be hammered inside a couple of rounds. Instead Gomez made it a pretty tough fight and knocked Khan down in round 2.

black panther wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:22

maverick23 wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:21

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 05:13

I seem to remember Murray was a novice when Khan was headlong on ITV so I get that one not happening.
You deffo had the likes of Thaxton and Romanov that probably should’ve happened.
Instead we got Lawton and Gomez.

Anyone remember the Gomez fight? Think it was Birmingham? Gomez could’ve won that.

Yeah - it was Birmingham. I remember saying to my friends before the fight that Khan would blitz him. Gomez is too easy to hit now and will be hammered inside a couple of rounds. Instead Gomez made it a pretty tough fight and knocked Khan down in round 2.

Hurt Khan to the body too if my memory serves

bigjack wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:16

tonyevs wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:11

bigjack wrote: ↑17 Apr 2022, 15:56
Benns career is following a similar path to Khans with a host of once half decent opponents,who are either on the slide,inactive or old,or in the case with Van Heerden,all three

Quite unfair on Khan that. I would say Benns career appears to be following the Naz Hamed path more ... a bunch of nobodies with padded records and then well worn fighters with a name. If Benn is given the non-punchers to walk through and feast on - then just like Naz when he stepped it up; he will most likely find himself getting a rude awakening to the game.

I'm talking about the early stages where he missed the british,euro and commonwealth route and feasted on past it, once decent names

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 07:15

bigjack wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:16

tonyevs wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 04:11

Quite unfair on Khan that. I would say Benns career appears to be following the Naz Hamed path more ... a bunch of nobodies with padded records and then well worn fighters with a name. If Benn is given the non-punchers to walk through and feast on - then just like Naz when he stepped it up; he will most likely find himself getting a rude awakening to the game.

I'm talking about the early stages where he missed the british,euro and commonwealth route and feasted on past it, once decent names

I think he only won the commonwealth belt.

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 07:23 Benn v Essouman creates more interest here than Algieri and van Heerden did.
I work with a South African women and she had no clue who he was!
Bill it as the battle of British for the British belt and I think it does better figures on tv and tickets than van Heerden or Mo Hooker.
Hearn needs to cut the bullshit. I used to love his interviews; they were refreshing.
Now they’re mostly nonsense. Sometimes pretty insulting to the boxing fans in known.
Time for a real fight for Benn whether it’s Brook, Ava, Ortiz, TC, Spence or Ennis.
Add Kava, Essouman, McKinson, Ava, Crowley.

I’m not overly arsed about both Garcia’s or Broner. They’re done at top level.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 07:38

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 07:23 Benn v Essouman creates more interest here than Algieri and van Heerden did.
I work with a South African women and she had no clue who he was!
Bill it as the battle of British for the British belt and I think it does better figures on tv and tickets than van Heerden or Mo Hooker.
Hearn needs to cut the bullshit. I used to love his interviews; they were refreshing.
Now they’re mostly nonsense. Sometimes pretty insulting to the boxing fans in known.
Time for a real fight for Benn whether it’s Brook, Ava, Ortiz, TC, Spence or Ennis.
Add Kava, Essouman, McKinson, Ava, Crowley.

I’m not overly arsed about both Garcia’s or Broner. They’re done at top level.

i dont see how you can be so down on danny garcia. he still looked decent against spence, albeit a year and a half ago. won 3-4 rounds and never close to stopped vs a guy who is p4p top 5. he's can box, he can bang some, very tough, and is miles better than anyone benn has faced (he's stopped a couple benn opponents himself, like granados)

of course it's all moot, because regardless of what hearn says i think there's close to 0 percent chance it happens. garcia's a highly paid pbc fighter and no way would they go from all these pillow hands suddenly to a super tough proven world class fighter

mo hooker is probably next tbh

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 07:46 would you pick ekow or marku to beat garcia if they fought next?

rd350lc wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 08:01 Were there quite a few empty seats for this and I wonder what numbers Dazn subs are at in the UK ?
Obviously fast car isn't aiming at regular boxing fans because they can see through all the bull .
It's the casual market he's aiming at and looking at posts on FB etc it looks like lots are sucked in .
Maybe Benn is the real deal but how could anyone possibly know from the last 5 or 6 fights ?
If he doesn't step up soon and stop fighting shot fighters even the casual market won't be bothering .

Boxerbeetle wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 08:16

rd350lc wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 08:01 Were there quite a few empty seats for this and I wonder what numbers Dazn subs are at in the UK ?
Obviously fast car isn't aiming at regular boxing fans because they can see through all the bull .
It's the casual market he's aiming at and looking at posts on FB etc it looks like lots are sucked in .
Maybe Benn is the real deal but how could anyone possibly know from the last 5 or 6 fights ?
If he doesn't step up soon and stop fighting shot fighters even the casual market won't be bothering .

I resubbed to DAZN a couple of weeks ago. Forget about Benn, but anyone who doesn’t think the Golovkin, Taylor & Canelo fights aren’t worth £8 combined can’t be too much of a boxing fan imo.

Dioufy wrote: ↑18 Apr 2022, 08:04 Plenty of empty seats.