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coneye wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 20:46

ashall wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 11:13

coneye wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 07:42

Should of had a proper camp in the first place , he s world champ for god sake ,

In fairness he can't help covid, a chest infection and a knee injury

Covid ,, chest infection , knee injury ,, any of the above means POSTPONENT belts on the line here not fighting for Scottish youth team , its for the undisputed ,, so any of the above ,, all 3 of the above means DEFINETE POSTPONENT , so really its if you believe it

coneye wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 20:46

ashall wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 11:13

coneye wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 07:42

Should of had a proper camp in the first place , he s world champ for god sake ,

In fairness he can't help covid, a chest infection and a knee injury

Covid ,, chest infection , knee injury ,, any of the above means POSTPONENT belts on the line here not fighting for Scottish youth team , its for the undisputed ,, so any of the above ,, all 3 of the above means DEFINETE POSTPONENT , so really its if you believe it

ashall wrote: ↑28 Jun 2022, 04:22

coneye wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 20:46

ashall wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 11:13

In fairness he can't help covid, a chest infection and a knee injury

Covid ,, chest infection , knee injury ,, any of the above means POSTPONENT belts on the line here not fighting for Scottish youth team , its for the undisputed ,, so any of the above ,, all 3 of the above means DEFINETE POSTPONENT , so really its if you believe it

They did push it back 2 months it for the knee and you can see him with the chest infection in the documentary.
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Not watched the doco , but alls i can say is in the past not once , not twice but perhaps dozens , no not dozens , but dozens and dozens of times , i've rang matchmakers promoters , and said sorry he's sick not fighting ,, This fight was for the undisputed if he went in sick , he needs to get his head read and fook off any trainer who allowed it ,, going into an undisputed champion of the world fight , the stuff dreams are made off , when your sick ,, either its totally unprofesional or total BOLLOCKS

coneye wrote: ↑28 Jun 2022, 05:33

ashall wrote: ↑28 Jun 2022, 04:22

coneye wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 20:46

Covid ,, chest infection , knee injury ,, any of the above means POSTPONENT belts on the line here not fighting for Scottish youth team , its for the undisputed ,, so any of the above ,, all 3 of the above means DEFINETE POSTPONENT , so really its if you believe it

They did push it back 2 months it for the knee and you can see him with the chest infection in the documentary.
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Not watched the doco , but alls i can say is in the past not once , not twice but perhaps dozens , no not dozens , but dozens and dozens of times , i've rang matchmakers promoters , and said sorry he's sick not fighting ,, This fight was for the undisputed if he went in sick , he needs to get his head read and fook off any trainer who allowed it ,, going into an undisputed champion of the world fight , the stuff dreams are made off , when your sick ,, either its totally unprofesional or total BOLLOCKS

It all impacted the weight cut but he obviously backed himself to win anyway. Happened plenty of times where a fighter has issues pre-fight but they back themselves to win regardless - look at Lomachenko vs Teofimo Lopez, Haye vs Bellew etc. If a fight got pulled every time a fighter had a problem fight week there'd be hardly any taking place. The Taylor documentary, filmed before the fight, shows the weight issues he had. He was sat in a hotel-room-turned-sauna wrapped in towels looking like Dot Cotton.

ashall wrote: ↑28 Jun 2022, 06:26

coneye wrote: ↑28 Jun 2022, 05:33

ashall wrote: ↑28 Jun 2022, 04:22

They did push it back 2 months it for the knee and you can see him with the chest infection in the documentary.
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Not watched the doco , but alls i can say is in the past not once , not twice but perhaps dozens , no not dozens , but dozens and dozens of times , i've rang matchmakers promoters , and said sorry he's sick not fighting ,, This fight was for the undisputed if he went in sick , he needs to get his head read and fook off any trainer who allowed it ,, going into an undisputed champion of the world fight , the stuff dreams are made off , when your sick ,, either its totally unprofesional or total BOLLOCKS

It all impacted the weight cut but he obviously backed himself to win anyway. Happened plenty of times where a fighter has issues pre-fight but they back themselves to win regardless - look at Lomachenko vs Teofimo Lopez, Haye vs Bellew etc. If a fight got pulled every time a fighter had a problem fight week there'd be hardly any taking place. The Taylor documentary, filmed before the fight, shows the weight issues he had. He was sat in a hotel-room-turned-sauna wrapped in towels looking like Dot Cotton.

Would'nt be suprised if that was norm for him making weight , and your correct a lot of fighters have niggly issues going into fights ,, without getting in too a debate or too many technical issues , slight colds snotty noses are the most common , and you would'nt pull out for them , a trainer can quite often guague it has he's peaking ,, when you train hard and get your body in peak condition it can start to affect the body , when you reach the peak , you cannott sustain that peak for long and you cannot reach it every other fight usually just a few times a year its just known has peaking ,

So therfore pulling out is not what you would do in fact you would insist it goes on but thats opposed to actually being sick , if he was sick it should be postponed its dangerous and unprofesional to put in a sick fighter ,, but its also silly to pull out a peaking fighter because he shows snotty nose signs of peaking ,

A lot of fighters also pull out with excuses because they know there opponent will be peaking for the fight , and want to change the date knowing that there opponent will lose his peak and be flat 6 weeks after , its part of the game ,

Hope that explains why i'm saying he should of pulled out IF he was sick , because being sick its dangerous fighting and unprofesional .