Tony Bellew - I WANT THE FIGHT!!! - Looking a bit silly now

[Tommy Gunn13]

couldnt u see theres plenty of threads about it,why start another one

[FIGHTFANs]

Just had a tex thats what i am toolkits on his twitter

[subsy]

Of course the German deserves blame but how anyone can absolve Bellew or Warren of any blame also is beyond me. Both have lost a lot of credibility over this.

Right seems now like a shameless ploy to up the PPV numbers.

Cheap stunt.

[REAL_DEAL]

i am sure the fight will happen, be a good coming coming fight

[WelshDevil]

Who is Ben?

[freddydoesdallas]

Gutted for them both to be honest. Clev has yet another opponent and is probably completely deflated. Bellew has busted a gut and just couldn't cut anymore.

Let's hope they meet further down the line

[willardx]

No denying Bomber's got big balls. Still smells a bit fishy tho, and i feel FW has used the needle angle to flog a bit more PPV. Feel sorry for Clev, he's worked his arse off and will get no respect for the belt he would have taken off Braemer anyway, also in his head he's got another last minute stand in. Fair play to Bomber tho', no doubt at all that he's up for it

[hoot]

Partly to blame for sure. He blatantly lied about the weight and about having fulfilled all of the requirements of the BBBC to enable him to fight. That statement alone is essentially saying that the fight is certain to be on.

However, Warren is equally culpable. The guy has put on a high profile press conference which without doubt was aimed at selling any remaining tickets and getting multiple PPV buys without knowing for sure if Bellew could make the weight thus duping the fans (of which I wasn't one fortunately) into buying tickets/PPV which they would not otherwise have bought. In this situation and with the level of publicity and excitement, a compromise should have been reached in the form of a catchweight so that even if the fight was not for a world title it would at least have still been on.

It's another example of everything that is bad with British boxing and boxing in general. Lies, deceit, lack of empathy for fans and most importantly a complete insult to the intelligence of the fans.

Utter disgrace and the guy will still put this joke on PPV.

Totally agree' excellent publicity stunt from warren' for tony too.

[Asterix]

I have to disagree. I'm 100% sure that Bomber thought he would make the weight, and thought the Board would allow him to do it.

Anyone who thinks he's gone through this thinking otherwise, that he's just done it for the publicity or whatever, is way off the mark.

Only my opinion.

Ian if the rumours of 13 stone (182lb) are true then Bellew must have known good and well he could not drop 7lb in a day. Come on

That depends entirely on how much room there was for the weight to come off. If he was already dehydrated and devoid of food, you're probably right. Don't forget that little Pacquiao always used to put on over a stone from the weigh-in to the fight, though, and Bellew is much, much bigger.

[J]

No denying Bomber's got big balls. Still smells a bit fishy tho, and i feel FW has used the needle angle to flog a bit more PPV. Feel sorry for Clev, he's worked his arse off and will get no respect for the belt he would have taken off Braemer anyway, also in his head he's got another last minute stand in. Fair play to Bomber tho', no doubt at all that he's up for it

bombers balls smell fishy..must be all that sweating it off

[Asterix]

Dropping 7lbs in a day is very do able, you can take off 4lbs at least in fluids

Thing is mate, I suspect he'd already done this and more to get to 7lbs off.

[FIGHTFANs]

JUST GOT THIS OF BELLEW TWITTER
I have to say this, thank you very much 2 @DeanPowell66 for sitting and being genuinely worried for my health! He knows



how devastated I am!



IS IT TIME TO MOVE UP TO CRUISE WEIGHT TONY,

[leforge]

Who let the press conference go ahead they are to blame for lot of this!

[Asterix]

JUST GOT THIS OF BELLEW TWITTER
I have to say this, thank you very much 2 @DeanPowell66 for sitting and being genuinely worried for my health! He knows



how devastated I am!



IS IT TIME TO MOVE UP TO CRUISE WEIGHT TONY,

Why? Because he couldn't make the weight in a couple of days?

[jBacca]

Tony mentioned yesterday about Kerry Kayes being able to work wonders and gave a couple of examples - I'm sure he truly believed he could get the weight off, and the posts condemning him are daft.

[taffytoon]

Tony mentioned yesterday about Kerry Kayes being able to work wonders and gave a couple of examples - I'm sure he truly believed he could get the weight off, and the posts condemning him are daft.

[jBacca]

Tony mentioned yesterday about Kerry Kayes being able to work wonders and gave a couple of examples - I'm sure he truly believed he could get the weight off, and the posts condemning him are daft.

Ya' think Tony went into the presser knowing he couldn't make weight?

Turn it in, son.

[Andypittcov]

Tony mentioned yesterday about Kerry Kayes being able to work wonders and gave a couple of examples - I'm sure he truly believed he could get the weight off, and the posts condemning him are daft.

Audrey harrisson truly believed he would be heavyweight champion of the world and he was labelled delusional.

[jBacca]

Tony mentioned yesterday about Kerry Kayes being able to work wonders and gave a couple of examples - I'm sure he truly believed he could get the weight off, and the posts condemning him are daft.

Audrey harrisson truly believed he would be heavyweight champion of the world and he was labelled delusional.

A-Force will come again and will be heavyweight champion of the world. Believe.

[youngrell]

I'm gutted this is off but glad if it means his health stays intact.

It does stink of a ploy to seell more PPV, but anyone moaning about buying the PPV off the back of the Presser I have to ask, why on earth buy a PPV anytime before the start of the show? I always press the red button minutes before the show starts when I know the card is intact! Past experience of shows falling apart should have taught us this!!

[Chris W 1982]

It seems TaffyToon has the hump with Bellew for agreeing to an almost impossible task with WBO champion Nathan Cleverly then failing to make the weight.

Was Tony Bellew misleading when discussing his weight? Maybe, but he had a world title opportunity against a guy he genuinely dislikes and against a boxer he's certain he can beat.

Bellew ran 24 miles complete in two days and I hear from reliable sources that he was also shifting weight on the way down to London, his appearance at the now famous press conference was no publicity stunt as the pale, gaunt Bellew had made the trip down from Liverpool in the early hours with a genuine belief he would be fighting for a world title.

Taffy claims in another post that Bellew was disrespectful for lying about his weight then proceeding to call Cleverly "a f*****g rat," suppose its perfectly fine to address Bellew as "bum" then?

Bellew tried his utmost to make this fight happen but it just wasn't meant to be, hopefully his time will come again

[jizzle]

Bellew needs to remember that tweets can be viewed way back

When the fight was pulled he said he was down to 7 lbs from big numbers...

Yet, 24 hours earlier, before the fight was agreed, he had said he was sitting around relaxing at 6.5lbs off the limit...

[Chris W 1982]

Bellew needs to remember that tweets can be viewed way back

When the fight was pulled he said he was down to 7 lbs from big numbers...

Yet, 24 hours earlier, before the fight was agreed, he had said he was sitting around relaxing at 6.5lbs off the limit...

He wanted the fight and was prepared to do everything possible to get it.

[orbtastic]

Bellew needs to remember that tweets can be viewed way back

When the fight was pulled he said he was down to 7 lbs from big numbers...

Yet, 24 hours earlier, before the fight was agreed, he had said he was sitting around relaxing at 6.5lbs off the limit...

Yeah that made no sense to me.

At the press conf. he was very evasive on the weight issue and said he had done what the board asked him to do.

[DavidPayne]

Ian if the rumours of 13 stone (182lb) are true then Bellew must have known good and well he could not drop 7lb in a day. Come on

Weight loss is a weird thing mate - King G on here is the man to explain that. Even if he was a stone overweight a couple of days ago - or even yesterday - all I'm saying is I'm sure he believed in his own mind he could do it.

He's fu**ed up, for sure but I'd be amazed if there was any malice in it. I know you're mega pissed off mate, and I totally sympathise.

Ian, FW has openly stated that Tony told him he was only 4lb over the limit, this is clearly not the case, comes into the prees confrence like a mad man and then tries to get a catch weight. Sorry Pal that is not on :shame:

Bellew stated on Twitter earlier this eeek that reports he was a stone over were untrue he was 6.5 pounds over and waiting to finalise. Clearly that was bollacks.