No mate, I'm not on about the rib. That was probably OK. I mean (if you believe him) then he wasn't himself physically from the off because of having to drop a load of weight.King Geedorah wrote:I was at the fight and the funny thing about it is that his ribs looked OK when taking crunchers early doors only to start to fail him as the fight wore on and he was wore down. Like many fighters, his injury seemed to have an impact once it was clear he was out-gunned and increased steadily in severity with each passing month since the fight itself. Give it a year or two and he'll be stating that he went in there nursing a gun shot wound to the ribs.
It was the clouts to the head that did for him in the end as he took an awful lot of them as it wore on and they were extremely solid blows.
Plus Murray was told ten weeks before the fight 'Get yourself in the gym because we're going to throw this one on Buckland with a few weeks to go and give you a huge advantage'. Both guys fought to the same notice with a new name in the frame, one guy hammered the other into submission from where I was seated and perhaps Murray had a few niggles around the time but he didn't feel the need to bring them up.
I'm not slating Buckland, just giving my take from the night as it looked to me a fair win over a guy who performed well early only to be ground down fair and square.
You'll know better than me...wasn't Murray in full training for someone else? Buckland wasn't (he says).
