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Just heard this is going ahead without the title been at stake, anyone know the reason for this.

Glover has been beating decent opposition recently. I think it would be unfair if he was not considered to be a good enough opponent to challenge for the belt by the board.

Horse wrote:Glover has been beating decent opposition recently. I think it would be unfair if he was not considered to be a good enough opponent to challenge for the belt by the board.

They were my thoughts. surely this cant be the reason though can it

rf wrote:They were my thoughts. surely this cant be the reason though can it

This is the main event of a bill to be televised on ITV4. Without this fight being for the Commonwealth title then it is a very poor main event, so I can't think of any other reason that this would not be for the Commonwealth belt.

Horse wrote:

rf wrote:They were my thoughts. surely this cant be the reason though can it

This is the main event of a bill to be televised on ITV4. Without this fight being for the Commonwealth title then it is a very poor main event, so I can't think of any other reason that this would not be for the Commonwealth belt.

huh, how does the title not being at stake make it any less of a main event?

Lenny wrote:huh, how does the title not being at stake make it any less of a main event?

What are the viewers going to think? Having a title on the line makes people more interested.

not really althogh o'donnel is a champion he still needs a few learning fights which this is

Lenny wrote:

Horse wrote:

rf wrote:They were my thoughts. surely this cant be the reason though can it

This is the main event of a bill to be televised on ITV4. Without this fight being for the Commonwealth title then it is a very poor main event, so I can't think of any other reason that this would not be for the Commonwealth belt.

huh, how does the title not being at stake make it any less of a main event?

It doesnt make it any less of a fight but wondered why Glover has not got the chance to fight for this title.

Yeah but a learning fight is pretty poor for a televised main event. The bill was poor anyway for TV, now without it being for the Commonwealth scrap its even worse.

at least glover will deffo be fighting for english title in october but its pretty shit the title isnt on the line

Did ITV mention why the title was not on the line ?

No but O'Donnell's weight was read out as 147 3/4 if I'm not mistaken, don't know if the two things were related.

DavidPayne wrote:No but O'Donnell's weight was read out as 147 3/4 if I'm not mistaken, don't know if the two things were related.

probably

Adamj1987 wrote:

DavidPayne wrote:No but O'Donnell's weight was read out as 147 3/4 if I'm not mistaken, don't know if the two things were related.

probably

I don't think it had anything to do with him being overweight since we knew the title wasn't on the line days before the weigh in

I was impressed with O'Donnell he looked very fast his combinations were classy he kept him at range and boxed well

I want to see a rematch with Watson